Building a better bay area, this is abc7 news. Firefighters had their hands full last night due to illegal fireworks, from fires to one crew even having Bottle Rockets shot at its truck as it responded to a call. Im j. R. Stone. Eric thomas has the night off. Im dion lim. Its been no Holiday Weekend for bay area firefighters. They have been racing to keep up with the hundreds of fires in our region, mostly started by illegal fireworks. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard joins us live in san pablo with more on this story. Cornell . Dion, very scary night for firefighters no, professional Fireworks Shows in the bay area last night, but lots of amateur ones, just ask any firefighter. Many started firesis o in san pablo. The firework debris is just feet away. Fireworks lit up the skies over San Francisco on july 4th, but its a show firefighters didnt want to see. Illegal fireworks caused large grass fires like this one near hunters point, and this fire less than a mile away. We were virtua
Afternoon and quickly grew to 600 acres. Thats according to the latest update from the santa clara unit cal fire. About an hour ago, evacuations are also under place along all of kenyatta road. At least four helicopters are working at keeping this fire at a moderate spread. Where were standing, were a little bit southwest of where the fire is burning. The wind seems to be blowing the fire east and growing that way, but not too long ago another layer of smoke a little bit west of where that big one where you can see the big one is started. Doesnt look like the fire is going away any time too soon. And were keeping a close eye on it, terry. Were live here near gilroy. Ginger, nbc bay area news. Ginger, thanks very much. Heres another live look at the cruz fire burning near gilroy. You can see from the wildfire camera all the smoke. Again, so far at least 600 acres have burned. Were going to continue to update you on this fire on air and our digital platforms as well. Download our free nb
San Francisco Police are investigating after a 6yearold boy was fatally shot while watching fireworks. This man was arrested after allegedly pulling a gun on a man supporting a black lives matter mural in martinez. After a warm weekend we are tracking cooler and breezy weather tomorrow. Well have the details in the accu weather forecast. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Right away to th u s news. A man arrested after allegedly pulling a gun on a black lives matter supporter in martinez. Good evening and thanks for joining us. The confrontation happened as a group was watching over a black lives matter mural that had been vandalized yesterday. Abc 7 news has the latest video youll see only on abc 7. An arrest was made moments after a driver allegedly yelled, all lives matter, and pulled a gun on a member of a crowd watching over a black lives matter mural in martinez. He rolled by us and yelled at, you know, everybody, and flipped us off. So i got on my skateboard just kind of foll
Over there you see that big plume of smoke right above my shoulder, its still a very active fire fight the challenge with this fire is a hot dry conditions. The crews fire is burning on steep terrain and the winds are not helping aid could shes a bit thick black smoke and the huge flames firefighters responded to a structure fire in the area crews road and oak Spring Circle flames were first reported around 2 oclock this afternoon and this fire has quickly grown to more than 1300 acres to structures have been destroyed one man lost his boat Maggie Swanton lives in the area the flames where the house was burning were over the trees you could see it above the trees and the line the fire line was real big. From the air. On the ground firefighters worked to put out the flames. Theyre currently working on structure protection and theyre trying to keep the fire from crossing kenyada road and the entire road kenyada road has been evacuated at this point. And it just a short time ago i got mor
Will have more on the San Francisco fire in a moment. I am frank mallicoat. Good morning i am allie rasmus but we have rosemary wrestle with us to give us a check on our weekend weather. It is going to be one for most of us this weekend. So becky has a notable warmup. We are waking up with mostly sunny skies, just a little bit a patchy fog along the coastline. Temperature will take a notable jump today. Getting alive look over areas of the golden gate bridge. If you look to the flag on the right side the wins are, and light. We are looking at temperatures well into the 70s, even mid 80s expected for inland cities today. The warming trend continues on sunday when are in land cities get very close to 90 degrees. It looks like memorial day monday will be even hotter than that. Temperatures are expected to peak in the mid to upper 90s before this warming trend is over. Details what you can expect r e up with just a bit but with the in San Francisco. The Early Morning fouralarm fire not too