From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Now a knight tense time says firefighters in oakland have been busy late this afternoon and tonight feverish lee working to get control of this brush fire. That burned dangerously close to homes and drivers along 5. 80. Thankfully, nobody was injured tonight and the damage appears to be minor good evening, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis took more than 50 firefighters to answer the call and although the fire is contained tonight, its still a very active scene for us taylor sackey joins us now shes. Live in oakland where crews are still working to make sure hot spots still flare up. Taylor this was really scary. Earlier today, gran, yes again lot of these neighbors, a large scale scare because the fire was getting close. But thankfully, we know now that that fire is contained and you can actually see behind me that many of these firefighters are packing up in this intersectio
Rest of us is cause for concern for people who live along this stretch of the Delaware River but many neighbors here tell us as long as the nearby canal doesnt flood, they feel relatively safe. You can get a pinch point up in yardley where the yardley inn is. Floods there and down here and sort of creates an island so the last time it happened i think it was 06 im not sure but we were mandatory evacuated. Reporter so far the canal has not flooded and flooding from the river has been relatively minor. The problem that has developed here is quite simply an ice jam and that forces the current to accumulate in isolated areas. So far the worst of it is here at the intersection of river road and ferry road in lower makefield and so local officials are urging commuters to avoid the area. At this time the river continues to be ice dammed along the calhoun street bridge zero the river is unpredictable. The water could still rise a little bit or even some ice flows could come up on the red way.
Where the water is at. Hey, the ice is on top and the water is still there. Its pretty bad. Pretty bad. Reporter bill knows what has many in awe right now, could become a serious flood threat. He lives two blocks from the river on the morrisville side and remembers the 1999 freeze see. We walked down and saw chunks of ice the size of volkswagen buses. Reporter the roads are closed indifferently due to roads iced over and south of trenton a day ahead of the governors swearing in tuesday. Hopefully the off day saves and it doesnt go too too far. Theres Higher Ground on this side and i know theyre more worried about downtown area. Theyre worried about young people venturing onto the ice which could prove to be a dangerous if not deadly decision. Ive seen it worse. Definitely seen it worse. This is never as bad as spring flooding. Reporter take a look. These are the road closures and this is on the morrisville side. There are homes stretched out that way and it is prone to flooding in the
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