is one of two homes burned. i m standing in the living room. the owner gave us a tour a little while ago. this is the living room, this is the kitchen. you can see from the condition of the appliances that this is an extremely hot and fast-moving fire. looks like the fire tool survived. reporter: the family here with their house built 52 years ago, the house gone, one of two structures in the canyon in pope valley. doesn t look very good. i built this house with my dad, me and my brothers and my dad in 1962. a lot of memories here. and it looks like they re all gone. reporter: while peter looks at the rubble, his wife, christine, took pictures of the site where her husband s father is buried just up the hill from the house. the house and the 250 acres around it has been in the anderson family for more than a half century. they re not sure now if they will rebuild. any thoughts about what happens next? we re just going to move on. love will get you a long ways. rep
saying his company replaced 60 or 70 sewer lines with homeowners using a city program that ended in 2010. that was around the same time heper says she denner herrera was given a report of the findings. he closed the investigation and subsequently fired her. . i was shocked i can t say how shocked. the city attorney s office released a statement reading in part these are baseless allegations of wrong doing from a disgrunteled former employee. i am not disgrunteled i m saddened that he did this and that i had to take this step. she wants an independent investigation and her job back. the city has 45 days to respond. if they don t settle, the attorney says they re prepared to sue. in san francisco, tiffany wilson, abc7 news. and an 11-year-old boy expected to survive after being shot in the chest in antioch in an apartment complex at i and west 8th street. that is where abc7 reporter vic lee joins us live with the latest. this is river town place the apartment comm
dublin where fireworks are legal but some communities don t have them legal. tiffany? reporter: that s right, a lot of communities don t allow people to set off fireworks, but here in dublin they re inviting folks to come over. here behind me we re in one of four city parks. dublin says come on over and set off your fireworks safely. it s a soundtrack of the fourth of july, but some neighborhoods are in silence. livermore outlaws fireworks. dublin is the exception. we have to go here and go to this county and set them off. reporter: they said even though they re not legal where they live, they ll set them off at home. i didn t buy anything super radical. hopefully i m not going to get in trouble. reporter: her grandson peyton plans on lighting his first sparkler today. a big deal for a little kid. are you excited? yeah. reporter: for other families, the risk isn t worth it. it can be 500 to $1,000 for breaking the law. make sure you know your city laws. if the
uncovered corruption that cost taxpayers millions of dollars her reward, she says she was fired. good evening, i m dan ashley. tiffany wilson is live with this remarkable story. tiffany? well, dan, joanne heper says she uncovered $10 million wornl of claims the city should not have paid out. she wants to see an independent investigation to see if kickbacks were going to the city attorney after spending her career uncovering corruption on behalf of taxpayers joanne heper never imagined she d become a whistle blower. i was looking into over $10 million the city had paid out in last ten years for privately owned stores supposedly damaged by the roots of city trees. heper says she saw redóoó fl. and i a sauls statements and things that didn t make sense. she says the alleged worked like this. plumbers would go to the homes and tell the owners to file a claim, take the money from the city and give it to the plumber to install the sewer. it s outrageous we re paying
at eleven. hurricane arthur is getting bigger by the hour. gaining strength and speed, arthur is hugging the north carolina coast. it is already a category- two hurricane with winds at 100- miles per hour. we have team coverage with chief meteorologist jacqueline bennett. but first. polo sandoval has more on how people are bracing for the storm. six people in oakland are without a home tonight, following an apartment fire. just before eight o clock this evening. fire crews responded to reports of heavy smoke and flames coming from an apartment building on the 35-hundred block of brighton avenue. the flames were under control within a half hour. and, residents credit fire crews for their quick response. neighbors reported hearing what sounded like an explosion coming from the building, shortly before it caught fire. it was a big boom. the whole building shook and i live across the street from them, but it just at first, it was like a big pressure coming out, you can fee