Francisco. We want to get more now, though, on that accident that happened today during a Training Exercise. Lets bring in henry lee with more on what we know. As you said, this is an outpouring of respect honoring a firefighter who gave his life protecting the city that he loved. Reporter a somer gathering at San Francisco General Hospital. Firefighter jason cortez died during a training incident a few blocks away. We can confirm this was at training incident. Reporter it happened at 10 00 in the morning in the initialen district. He was treated there and taken to the hospital. Unfortunately shortly before 11 00 this morning, jason succumbed to his injuries. Reporter the Fire Department would not discuss what led to his death. The circumstances under investigation. Immediately after the incident, firefighters converged on the hospital. There they stood at attention and saluted during a somber procession. Cortez was 42 and leaves behind his wife and two young children. She the son of a
Of something wrong came mid morning. We had the report of 16 firefighters that were possibly exposed to Carbon Monoxide. Reporter the firefighters were assigned to the glass fire, but werent actively fighting flames when they fell ill. At an offsite location from the base camp unrelated to the fire area. Reporter they were taken to the fair grounds and were examined on site. Of those 16 firefighters, one firefighter was transferred to a local hospital for further evaluation, and all of the other firefighters have been released back to duty. Reporter investigators are trying to determine what sickened the firefighters including the source of any Carbon Monoxide. The victims were part of the same group of firefighters. It was an Engine Strike Team assigned to the incident. So a group of five fire engines with 16 personnel on it. Reporter firefighters are usually the ones responding to Carbon Monoxide which is known as the silent kill person symptoms include nausea, headache, and confusio
Distance between them, Vice President mike pence and senators Kamala Harris went head to head. They tablgd several issues, including Climate Change, covid, and the economy. He tassed a tax bill benefitting the biggest corporations of america leading to a two trillion dollar deficit that the American People will have to pay for. President trump and i will keep america growing. The the. We have Team Coverage tonight with a local look at the matchup between pence and harris. Abc7news contributor phil mather is here. Good evening. This was a 90minute debate that truly felt like a deekt unlike last weeks chaotic deekt. The debate covered a range of topics as you mentioned, starting with the issue of coronavirus. This debate is happening amid an outbreak at the white house. The two opponents sparred over the approach to handling this pandemic. President donald trump did what no other american president had ever done. That was he suspended all travel from china. Whatever the Vice President s
To participate in a president ial debate. Now, President Trump and joe biden are locked in a different debate on when to move the event. I heard that the commission a little while ago changed the debate style and its not acceptable to us. This is the interview that set off a morning of chaos over the second president ial debate scheduled for october 15th. The commission on president ial debates announced theyll make even in normal times. A change to the format and make our Frontline Health care workers. It virtual to protect the health and safety for all those and when these heroes lack the resources they need, that risky job gets ten times harder. Involved. And President Trump went on to prop fifteen makes corporations pay their fair share. Fox business to say its a to invest in our communities, waste of time. Im not going to waste and in our clinics, in the essential workers who treat everyone they cup you off whenever they rich, poor, and inbetween. Want. The president is recovering
On law local Law Enforcement. The sheriff called wednesdays attack and ambush and deputies respbles Police Department. Rve images in the area. This was an ambush he intended for officers to come out of the Police Department and it did not unfold in seconds as we you heard from my timeline. It occurred over a period of time and it is obvious the suspect was intending to arm to kill Law Enforcement. Reporter the suspect may be linked to the death of a homeless man who was killed near the paso robles train station and shot at force close range. A motive for the attacks is not known. The part board of supervisors is expected to approve a balanced budget later this month after later cuts. The budget for the fiscal year 2021 was presented at a meeting. Ridership is down 7 from where it was before, even after restrictions are lifted. Part expects ridership to hover around 30 . The agency is made 190 million in cuts since the shelter in place began and spending 44 million in response to covid1