30yearold hispanic man. Police expect this area around the Wells Fargo Bank to be closed for several more hours. Tiffany wilson, abc 7 news. Great information. Thank you. Now, we are staying on top of this breaking news on the abc 7 news app. You can download it on your mobile device and enable push alerts. In other news six people including two children were hurt after a violent crash near San Francisco Golden Gate Park this morning. The acura rolled over and m mercedes slammed into a rail. The Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office says the vehicle was involved in a collision before it caught fire. The sheriff, chp are investigating. Officer andrew cam larry lost his Life Christmas eve when his patrol car was hit by a suspected drunk driver. Nbcs coronal bernard was at att todays memorial. Reporter hundreds of Law Enforcement officers some as far away as colorado and texas came to honor a chp officer, a man who loved his job. Whether its to help a motorist, issue a citation to a speeding
Tell this is still a very active scene. Investigators have been here for hours. The Intern Police chief said this started when a woman drove to the bank to get money outside the atm. She immediately called 911 and officers quickly surrounded the area. Police say the suspect was pacing, acting very agitated and refusing to cooperate. Some of those officers recognized the suspect. In fact theyve known him since he was a child and asked him repeatedly to drop his gun. After a few minutes the suspect instead took a combative stance. He stopped, pointed it at the officers and shot in the Office Officers direction. The officers immediately returned fire. It escalated very quickly. Reporter none of the officers were injured. Police say the suspect was a 30yearold hispanic man. Police expect this area around the Wells Fargo Bank to be closed for several more hours. Tiffany wilson, abc 7 news. Great information. Thank you. Now, we are staying on top of this breaking news on the abc 7 news app.
I do want to go to some of the video because i was up on that hill earlier this evening and if it werent for the cell signal, wed be going live up there right now. You can see those flames and just how close they were to some of the homes earlier this afternoon, at one point between 30 to 50 feet from those homes on woodley place, but they have since dissipated at this point and even gone in the other direction a bit and the good news this evening is the fact the wind is not nearly as strong as it was earlier this afternoon in this area. Most of the people have been evacuated from here. I mean it was a mandatory evacuation. I did talk with a couple people who chose not to leave despite that mandatory evacuation. They advised us get out now and i said we will be ready to go if we think were in jeopardy and they were insistent and we said, you know, bear with us. We want to stay as long as we can. Its really sad. Its so sad. We love oakmont. Weve been here for almost 20 years. We really
All right. As sundown approaches and those worry. It certainly does. When you look on the hillside, i can zoom in right underneath. You can see one of the houses that is very, very close to that smoke. That is the closest home to this big black smoke there is a hope that that breeze dies down and does not turn into an all out wind like we saw a couple of nights ago. We will be in touch with you. In the Oakmont Community. We will be back with you shortly. Utter devastation. That is that many evacuees are returning to find. Some homes are reduced to rubble, as we have been showing you. Live in santa rosa again in one of those neighborhoods. Justine . Reporter right now we are in pham Fountain Grove. Another hot spot just popped up. This fire crew just rolled in a second ago. We are right off Fountain Grove parkway on hadley hill. This home is still standing. Firefighters just saw flames coming up from the garden. They pulled out their hoses, their rakes, and they are now working to try t
Cruises a the two alarm fire burned three cars and extra resources were brought in to extinguish the flames. No reports of injuries or damage at this time. Thousands of firefighters are on the front lines of battling the wine country wildfires. One of the biggest concerns is a fire that burned over 47,000 acres and is 25 contained. This fire blew up on two fronts overnight friday with gusty wind pushing it to the eastern edge of the city of sonoma and the Santa Rosa Oakmont neighborhood to the north. We are live this morning as firefighters start another day of battling the flames. What is the latest . Reporter one of the battles they lost here is behind me. This area was evacuated very early yesterday morning. One of those frantic evacuations where we have seen deputy is going door to door. The property behind me, destroyed. A burnt out vehicle. Behind it, a tree still on fire right now. Likely, now that the sun is coming up, the air attacks can begin again. The fire has been spreadin