Called in around 5 45 p. M. , and was well underway with flames shooting out of the multistory Apartment Building under construction in the 2000 block of University Avenue near shattuck. A nearby restaurant worker watch build inning get swallowed up in flames shortly after the fire broke out. The fire flames, too much fire flames, middle part of the building. Its, like, going higher and higher. The entire middle of the building was up in flames. Reporter mutual aid from at least half a dozen departments were called in to help wrest the flames down. We saw a bunch of firefighters coming down the street, blearing away, and we looked out, and it looked like just the top of the billing was on fire for a minute. Reporter firefighters garden evacuating businesses. We had fire threatening the buildings around it, multiple apartments and businesses, all of which have been evacuated. Reporter unable to again access inside, firefighters were forced to play defense, attacking the flames from outs
From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. With Contra Costa County back in the most restrictive purple covid tier, the. Countys Coronavirus Task force is reminding businesses to follow Health Orders to try to prevent the spread of the virus. As we say good evening welcome into kron 4 news at night everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis as kron fours gayle ong reports for us tonight, the county has received over 100. Covid related complaints in just the past 10 days she joins us now live in walnut creek with some details on this scale. The task force has been responding to complaints since midmarch and so far theyve received a total of 900 covid related complaints rather and theyve been educating businesses but theyre still rising cases. Prompting additional restrictions. A lot of people were seen as a people not wearing their mask. When theyre at the business. Or to employees of a business not wearing a mask and that is part of the reason why Contra Costa Cou
Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
City leaders encourage everybody to get tested tonight. There is a catch. Thanks for joining us. Everybody at 10 im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus some people say everybody get tested and then its ok if everybody congregate but there is a testing shortage and city leaders tonight are asking people not to use these government operated covid testing sites. Before their thanksgiving travel or gathering plans. They say these resources are for essential workers at people who have symptoms or believe they were exposed to covid yeah, one of those government operated sites is on the embarcadero and thats where we find kron 4 Taylor Bisacky she joins us now live with more. About the citys message. Sign here behind me says appointment only and at last check appointments here are booked up through december second at put that in perspective this site typically tests about 1700 people a day so this is obviously raising concerns for the people that need the tests most the city is now emphasizing
Man who spent almost half his life with the fire department. Oakland firefighters saluting one of their own wednesday may. To sean lafons flag draped casket left senate medical center. Dozens of Police Motorcycles and fire engines hopping escort his body. The procession passing city hall and several fire stations, ending in a chapel of the chimes, funeral home and oakland am aware an American Flag was hoisted by trucks. Laughing, just 42 years old. They died as if it was cardiac arrest. I was hopeful in getting the news five hours later that he passed away when the cardiologist came back to speak to the family and myself, it was pretty knee buckling. We are struggling, coping, grieving. Reporter intern fire chief Melinda Drayton new sean lafons entire 20 year career with oakland fire. He turned to me early in his career when he made the decision to promote. Reporter a decision made out of love and passion for the fire service and oakland. Last year he was promoted to interim assistant