Active out there. Reporter and is still very active. But just up to a few minutes ago it looks like theyre putting away the ladder truck that you see right here. They were putting out hot spots for hours. Like i said, just a few minutes ago they started wrapping things up. But there is no word yet on when this fire will be considered contained. I had never seen a city fire spread this fast before. It was amazing. Reporter huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky as flames burned six buildings in san franciscos intermission district. The flames were three times as high as the building was. I mean it was fully engulfed back there. Reporter firefighters said the fire started on erie street, the backside of a wholesaler that sells steeled fabricated building supplies. In 10 minutes the whole building was gone. Reporter bruce bartfelt tells me the business was started by his father 75 years ago. This is what it looked like before the fire. The 73yearold says he arrived to open up s
To the hospital after receiving injuries battle the fire. Our one firefighter who has injured is in stable condition and expected to be okay. Reporter by 12 30, crews had the upper happen on the fire, but not before it damaged six buildings along 14th street. A half dozen or more businesses have been impacted and some residents were displayered. Brian bart felt from bartbelt sales said when the first heard about the fire this morning, he had in idea how bad it would be until he pay rived on scene. . Rtank. Reporter while hes thankful none of his employees were injured, the building where his family target started the business more than 70 years ago appears to be a complete loss. Right now he says its simply too early to say if insurance will cover it and allow them to move on person obviously the bigtime damage, well cross that bridge when we get to it. San francisco fire said they have investigators on the scene trying to determine exactly what the cause of this fire was. They say onc
Pattern. A friend of mine brought this point up yesterday. If this were in November December january, we would have about 10 days of rain. That is true. These are little areas of low pressure that are coming in and we hope this holds as we get to the winter months, but right now it is just giving us a really stuck pattern and theres not much changing here. Cold coast, if you are in ukiah, vacaville, it is really hot. Other locations are really nice. Absolutely blocked in here with lowes about 55 and highs of 78. I cant complain about that. A little bit of northwest breeze. Fog heads back to the coast keeping them in the 60s around the bay. Inland it is 80s to near 90. These are all a little bit below average. Santa rosa, san jose, San Francisco, oakland and livermore is one above. Over to sal and we will say good morning. Thats right. Wednesday morning, steve, and the traffic is nice and boring, just the way we like it. We dont want a lot of excitement. I was told that there is some gu
Nation, testing directly happening at a transportation hub in San Francisco. They are hoping to make it as easy as possible to test members of the Latinx Community in the mission district. Again, the new testing place is at the 24th Street Mission b. A. R. T. Plaza, they will be doing testings wednesdays and fridays from 7 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Again, that starts today and will last for the next three weeks. So the goal here is to catch the virus before it continues to spread throughout the Latinx Community in the mission. These are people who are often essential workers and dont have the opportunity to take off work to wait all day to get a test. You can go to where the problem is and help test and help mitigate, then you can reduce the transmission within that same community. And thats what were trying to do. Reporter the popup testing site at the 24th Street Mission b. A. R. T. Plaza is made possible bay ucsf, b. A. R. T. And the city. The groups organizing the testing also realize
Man who made threats. He said he wanted to kill 500 not three in a reference to the number of People Killed in the gilroy shooting. He faces charges of violating a restraining order. The threats were unlawful and unacceptable and will not be tolerated. A police union raffle has come under fire. The winning prize was a semiautomatic rifle. The leaders of the union says the intend was legitimate but they have canceled the raffle. The timing is horrible and once we realized it we had to act. The poa president paul kelly doing a public mea culpa after a severe backlash to a raffle. An ad offering the chance to win this 9millimeter semiautomatic rifle if a raffle is purchased for 20. By video call the judge a former San Jose Police independent auditor said it sent shock waves through the city and beyond commonning on the heels of the mass shooting in gilroy. Suspect legan used an all style weapon to kill three. It flies in the face of everything that the Community Stands for. The union said