Workic fast to stop the spread of the quick moving fire. The flames have burned more than 4500 acres and counting. Local state and federal crews are continuing to arrive as the blaze travels through the Mariposa County foothills. All that extra rain brought more fuel for us. The governor declared a state of emergency just days after the flames sparked up and quickly exploded inside. Thousands of structures are threatened while some have been reduced to rubble. Residents are evacuating as the fire inches closer. Fire Officials Say the dry conditions and tough terrain are helping the fire grow. The fires going to be challenging but we have now upgraded in terms of resources. We hope to make more progress today. Thousands are without power. They say hundreds of power polls are damaged. They briefly lost power on tuesday and many of the power polls that service the park are being threatened. Were still seeing intermittent power outage which is to be expected. Its prompted road closures nor
Our nbc bay area sky ranger was first on the scene. This is in lafayette, not far from st. Marys college. Terry mcsweeney with some answers. And whats happening there . After six hours of searching they had cleared this area immediately off the road and basically a vertical drop about 40 feet down the side of this hill side. Search and rescue crews are at the bottom of the canyon looking for the missing driver. A ups delivery truck towed back up to the road it went off of late this afternoon. The man behind the wheel, 44yearold salazar of fair field not inside and nowhere to be found, even though hes the one who called 911 to report the crash. The driver had called in and said he needed assistance. The address was a little bit different than where were at. Reporter but just like that the drivers phone died. Lafayette Police Called in drones with infrared helicopters. As with well as skil60 members the search and rescue team to scour the terrain. Most loikely he got out of te vehicle an
Quickly throughout the south bay. In some cases the rumor is out pacing the facts. I say theyve been around u. S. A. , thats it. Theyre scaring people and luring children into the woods. Reporter this store says they havent seen a spike in sales of clown masks but expect the pace to pick up with all the attention on creepy clowns. He says dont bring them to school. If you bring in a costume where it covers your identity, my primary responsibility is to make sure the staff and students and anyone on the campus is safe and if i cant recognize who you are, thats not okay. Reporter antioch are also seeing the threats. And several School District across the bay area are beginning to send warning letters. Thanks. Want to show you have something sent to us by a viewer. She live as few blocks from a San Jose School and noticed to her what looked like a clown outside her home. It raltled her so much and they saw it was a mannequin. They say the driver wasnt breaking any laws but considering eve
From the east bay hill camera it is fuzzy but you can see all the way to San Francisco, 48 to 60 and milder this morning, 57 at the coast to 65 inland by noon and 58 to 71, cooler today. We will take a look at neighbor temperatures coming up next. Yes, same in the traffic department, we had dense fog that we were dealing with for the commute yesterday morning. And our emeryville camera, westbound 80 was totallying sod in and we could not see the headlights. Today not the case, we can see the traffic filling in, no major blocking issues and off to a quiet start. The only delay is westbound 580 tracy to dublin in the yellow at 41 minutes southbound 680 okay from the trivalley and northbound 85 from the so the bay looking okay. We will look at mass transit next. We are staying on top of the developing news in san jose, where a man died in a lowests parking lot at ritter park ride after 10 30 and the victim was unconscious next to a car. He died a short time later. Police have not said how
Your next eight hours puts us at 62 weather and by 11. We will have some rain. Lets take a look at the big stories we are following. Breaking news out of the east bay. Three Police Officers to get to the hospital after they get sick from toxic fumes. We will go live in personal disparate with details of the story. Good morning, well. Reporter good morning, james. It happened right here in the parking lot at a Shopping Complex off of a be in weight. The freeway is right next to me. They were called to the scene late last night to check out this pickup truck. Let me show you the video. There was a pickup truck in the parking lot. Inside that pickup truck, 5 gallons of each, 7 pints of ammonia ended accidentally spilled inside the pickup truck call the Police Officers did not know that and they didnt go the gravity of the situation, so when they checked out the pickup truck, he got a little too close, briefed in all the fumes that the two chemicals combined when they created with combined