Bedroom of one of the homes. Firefighters say he died of smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. But firefighters say it did start outside between the two homes where youre looking at right now with our live shot. The tree in between those two homes is some sort of a cypress tree and that tree caught fire and that helped the fire get above into the roof line area, liz. And that is what caused the fire to spread so rapidly. Once it got into the rafters and to the attic space, there was basically no slowing it down. And it did continue to burn in fact, five hours later there was a big flareup and fortunately firefighters had not left the scene and they were able to put that out. Those flames were so intense, len. Thank goodness those brave Tree Trimmers were there. They saved the day. Unbelievable. Reporter thats right. They were working nearby when no one else was around and they started knocking on doors and doing just what you would hope somebody would do to warn people to get out of the way because a fire was starting up. Brave guys there. All right, len, thank you. This is the before and after i wanted you to see. On the left there the smaller box is the fire as it just gets started shooting through the roofs of those homes and then on the right is of course the after, whats left behind. Just smoldering embers. One homeowner actually went to Great Lengths to try to save his home, thats him, youre going to see him in the middle of the screen there towards the bottom. He is on his roof look at him the inferno is raging right next door feet away from him. Kpix 5s da lin has his story. Da, we understand this man is partially blind . Reporter thats right, allen. Thats the remarkable part, as well. He is blind in one eye. But that did not stop him from jumping on top of his roof to fight approaching flames about 10 feet away close enough to nearly burn him. Now, heres chopper 5 footage showing Joseph Moreno standing on top of his roof. He used his garden hose to spray down his home as flames were burning next door. Sunnyvale firefighters screamed at him to evacuate to get down. Cops even threatened to arrest him. He ignored the orders and kept going. He believes his actions is what saved his home. I think they are stupid. They werent even putting any water on my house on my property and the flames were coming on my property. They are putting that water on the other side of the house so theres no water on my side of the house if i didnt stay and put water up, my house would have gone up, too. Thats what forced them to come to my side of the house and put water. You start water on my house or im not coming down. Not advisable by us. We dont want him to slip and fall. If that happens it takes away our resources to take care of him. Quite stupid. I wouldnt recommend doing that but i had no choice. You just felt the need to protect my property. Reporter would you do it again . Yes reporter the house is saved. Only some minor water and smoke damage. Now, before joseph hopped on his roof, he carried all four of his dogs to safety. Three of those, he says, are his guide dogs since his right eye is blind. Now, joseph has had that house for about five years. There it is. You can see the garage door open. It is intact. It is safe. He says its his first house and he was going to doing everything he could to save the house. Live in sunnyvale, im da lin, kpix 5. Now, for all the latest video and information on this fire, you can head to kpix. Com. Firefighters are on high alert in the Oakland Hills a day after putting out five suspicious brush fires. Crews walked the trails today. They are looking for hot spots and clues as to how those fires got started. Flames broke out in a wooded canyon in an area that was damaged in the 1991 firestorm. Meantime, cal fire is taking action because of the extreme fire danger from our drought. It has banned open burning on 31 million acres across the state. Cal fire has already responded to more than 2100 fires this year. That is a 70 increase over the same time last year. Campfires may be approved in designated areas. A man who pleaded guilty to threatening state senator leland yee last year is facing up to 10 years in prison. Everett basham admitted to 7 felony and 2 misdemeanor charges. Its a case that started when he wrote emails to yee back in january of 2013. After arresting him, explosive devices were found in his home. He pleaded guilty to having the explosives and making the threats. The judge says he will probably give him 10 years in prison. The teen stoleaway is telling all about his incredible journey from san jose to hawaii. He spoke exclusively to kpix 5s betty yu about what he remembered after takeoff and why he risked his life. Reporter right now yahye abdi is in a foster home and telling his story for the first time. He told me he knew exactly what he was doing when he hopped a fence at the san jose airport and jumped in the planes wheel well. Can you believe that you survived that kind of trip . Uhm, no. Reporter he is the boy who stowed away on a plane from san jose to maui hidden in the wheel well for 5 1 2 hours. For the first time, he talks about his journey using google chat. The 15yearold says he crouched down and remembers covering his ears as the plane took off. At 35,000 feet, he says he was basically sitting on the shell of the plane. It was above the clouds. I could see through the little hole. Reporter you could see the ocean and clouds below you . Yeah. Reporter was it scary . No. Reporter yahye says he regained his hearing and is okay physically. He says he passed out and didnt recall the rest of the flight. He dropped to the tarmac, he said he was dizzy, hungry, dehydrated and couldnt hear after he landed. How did you feel when you woke up . I see everything like yellow. I was going to go back [ indiscernible ] [ inaudible ] reporter now he says he is okay physically. He says he ran away from his santa clara home in april because he was unhappy. The somali immigrant said it had nothing to do with his troubles at school. What do you want people to know about why you did what you did . I only did it because i didnt want to live with my stepmom. Second of all, i wanted to find my mom. I havent even her since i was young. Reporter he said he hasnt seen his birth mom since he was 7 years old and desperately misses her. She lives in a refugee camp in ethiopia. He spoke to her for the first time yesterday on the phone. I would tell her that i want her to live with me in america. Reporter he says getting on the closest plane going west was his only option and says the airport didnt make it very hard. If they had a [ indiscernible ] or something i wouldnt have gone through there. So [ indiscernible ] reporter did you just hop a fence, it was that easy . Yeah. At the make it easy for me because i was short. Reporter these days, he is spending his time doing normal teenager things. I have been going to the Movie Theater and playing videogames. Reporter he said he planned to run away for some time but has advice for anyone who is thinking about breaching security. They shouldnt run away because sometimes they will end up dying. Reporter well, yahye says he wants to join the army after he finishes high school. But he will start his junior year in a few months far away from california. He plans on moving in with a relative in minnesota soon. Wow. Now, he has been in foster care since he got back from hawaii. Has he seen his family . Reporter he says he just saw his father yesterday but he hasnt had a lot of contact with his family. He has not been back to his santa clara home and says he doesnt want to. Instead, he spent the past month and a half living with foster family. Well talk about what he is doing today something he hasnt done since returning from hawaii. Thats coming up at 6 00. Sounds like they made it pretty easy for him. Busted for running a stop sign. I was a dead stop. This driver said the cops got it wrong. How justice was served thanks to a dashcam. Buy a fishfriendly home. The extreme makeover planned for one bay area community. How it could save an endangered species. It is amazing what happens as soon as the onshore flow goes away. We had 70s yesterday. We had widespread 90s today. 94 today in pittsburg. Find out whats coming up next weatherwise in about 10 minutes. I really dont care about the outcome. I just want to have fun. Sounds like a typical 6th grader. 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The sitting down and talking to members of congress and basically saying, lets look at the options . Well, senator, its only late if you suggest that we could have stopped it in some way. The militants known as isis have taken numerous cities in the northern part of the country. And there is a battle going on for iraqs Largest Oil Refinery which is about 140 miles north of baghdad. General motors has been hit with a 10 billion lawsuit over its recalls. It comes as the companys ceo was once again being grilled before lawmakers in washington. Its difficult to announce so many recalls but its absolutely the right thing to do. Mary barra was asked why it took more than 10 years for gm to recall vehicles with faulty ignition switches. The problems are blamed for at least 13 deaths. She was questioned about internal emails from 2005 where an employee questioned the ignition switch problem with the chevy impala. So when was the recall for the 06 impala announced . Do you know . I believe that was part of two days ago. Monday. Now, behind barra at todays hearing People Holding up pictures of loved ones who died in crashes. Gm is working on a compensation fund. Well, forget sex scandals or bribery. Its a bag of dog poop that brought down this california mayor up this other trying to push him down to you. A kitten hails a cab. How the driver finally learned he had a stowaway in the end gin. ,,, what are you up to . Just playing hide the cheddar. Can i play . Its more of a one person kind of game. I won. Tillamook cheese slices, tastes better because its made better. Female announcer then dont miss sleep trains 4th of july sale. . Right now at sleep train, save 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. Plus, pay no interest for 36 months on tempurpedic and serta icomfort. Big savings and interestfree financing . These deals arent just hot. Theyre explosive dont miss sleep trains 4th of july sale. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep threatened coho salmon. It involve there is a radical new idea that could help protect threatened coho salmon involving buying up homes by a creek in san geronimo valley. Kpix 5 reporter don ford on how that could help. Yeah, we got coho salmon the ones that hatched this winter. Reporter todd styner is an environmentalist on a mission. He wants to establish a land trust. We are trying to protect the most important run of coho salmon in california. Reporter some homes he thinks are too close to the creek. He wants his group to buy them, restore the banks and resell the houses but theres a catch. The land stays in the nonprofit and its protected. The house belongs to the person who buys it. Reporter thats going to cost a lot of money, says peggy stewart, who sits on the san geronimo valley stewards board. She responds, why not use that money for owner assisted grants to work on making improvements for coho . At the moment, there are few houses for sale along the creek and the whole idea is still just an idea. He says he needs at least a Million Dollars of seed money to get it off the ground. Don ford, kpix 5. Spawn says they will be calling their list of salmon angels hoping to get the needed money. Time is running out on a deal for the biggest expansion of Yosemite National park in 75 years. The National Park service has been offered the chance to buy 1500 acres on the parks western edge but the congressman from that area is blocking the bill in the house to buy the land. The republican says he doesnt trust the National Park service. House leaders say they will not vote to expand the park because of mcclintocks stance. The small Nonprofit Group that owns one of the sites will have to sell the land if theres no deal by the end of the year. San jose is eyeing a ballot measure to raise the sales tax. Voters will be getting phone calls asking if they would like to support a tax of up to a half a cent or increase the marijuana shop tax. If the results are encouraging the city could put the tax on the november ballot. If passed it could give the city money for fire staffing or extending the library hours. A pennsylvania driver said the cops had it all wrong when he was cited for running a stop sign. Luckily for him, it was all caught on tape. This is the video from the dashcam in randys car. Watch as he pulled up to the stop sign, stops and pulls away. As he drives away he is pulled over by two Police Officers and one gives him a 127 ticket. Stop for that stop sign. I have seen cars not stop here but when i went to a complete stop, i shouldnt have been the one getting the ticket for that. The police chief has since watched the video and is withdrawing the ticket. Its the video that ended a political career. A Southern California mayor who admitted to tossing a bag of dog poop on a political opponents walkway has resigned. The Surveillance Video went viral last week. In his resignation letter, san moreno mayor Dennis Kneier says his actions were inconsiderate and disrespectful and embarrassing to himself and the city. Kneier will stay on the city council. Bay area golf phenom is about to compete in this years u. S. Womens open at 11 years old. Lucy li is the youngest player ever to qualify for the tournament. Heres what she had to say about her big opportunity. Its Pretty Amazing but, uhm, i dont really i try not to think about it. Im just another player trying to do the best i can. I just want to go out there and have fun and play the best i can and i really dont care about the outcome. I just want to have fun and learn. Taking it one hole at a time. Lucy is from Redwood Shores near belmont. They tee off at pinehurst. She is in 6th grade. Cool and collected. So incredible. So articulate and poised. And great golfer. Great attitude. You say she is only 11 and see her swing, thats not an 11 yearold swing. Warm around here today, huh . All we do is eliminate the onshore flow and everything changes. You went from the 70s to the 90s like that inland. You went from the 50s to the 70s near the water. Just like that. All we did was cut off the flow from the ocean for one day. Look at the result. Its 82 right now in oakland. 87 in livermore. 85 in san jose. 86 in santa rosa. Its not record setting heat but it sure is warmer than the past couple of days. The fiveday trend at the Oakland Airport sunday, monday we were down in the mid60s. Windy, as well. We climbed back up 8 degrees yesterday added 9 more today. 82 the high so far. So certainly some changes in the air because we didnt have the air coming from the pacific ocean. Overnight tonight, the nights around here are the great equalizer. We all cool down to relatively the same temperature. Oakland 54, Mountain View 55, San Francisco 53. And napa 52 degrees for your low overnight tonight. So High Pressure built in quickly. That low we have been talking about for the past couple of days churning up rain as far south as albuquerque new mexico. Thats moving away. That ridge of High Pressure for one they kind of popped almost right over top of us eliminating that onshore flow for the better part of 24 hours and you felt the result outside today. It was warm to hot. Well, that High Pressure ridge will now retreat a bit bringing back a light onshore flow. So its slightly stronger than today. And that in my opinion is actually the sweet spot. We wont be hot starting tomorrow. We wont see widespread cloud cover all day long. It will be pleasant. You will hear this word pleasant, temperatures pleasant, weather pleasant all the way through the weekend. Its only wednesday but we are looking toward the weekend and not much change once we hit tomorrow. A little bit of fog late but another mainly clear evening. The fog will not roll in until after midnight if at all. It wont be as warm tomorrow as the onshore flow comes back and the weekend will be, im saying it again, pleasant. 83 concord tomorrow. San jose 81. Cooler than today but exactly where we should be. Cupertino youre going to hit 80. Mountain view 77. Hayward sunshine 72. Slightly cooler for Pleasant Hill and san ramon low to mid 80s instead of the 90s like today. Alameda will hit 69 degrees. San rafael 78. Cloverdale tomorrow sunshine, you will remain in the 90s. Look at this great weather as we head toward the weekend. Mid80s inland. Mid to upper 60s near the bay. Low 60s at the coast. Everybody hanging out where they should be. No fog all day long. Make plans to do something outside. I dont know what it is, outdoors. Very pleasant forecast. Pleasant. Its a pleasant word to say. Thanks, paul. Terrific. Now he is coming up this other while im trying to push him down to you. A little amazing. A little kitten trapped in a taxicabs engine got the ride of its life in san diego. The driver didnt know it until he stopped to drop off a fare. The little cat was stuck for hours until a Good Samaritan finally got him out through a wheel well. Oh. And he looks perfect. Animal Se