Before he died and were waiting now for a live update from officials so we can get some more information on exactly how he died because officials are not saying how he was injured. But they are remembering him as a beloved veteran of the department. This very trying time as jason was well liked department. And they fought their about it. Starting in 2007 working mostly its a supporting recently attending the fire academy. Graduating as a firefighter paramedic. Assigned to the busiest station in america station number 3. And that every one of san cortez leaves behind a wife and 2 children firefighters are expected to hold a procession later this afternoon from the hospital to the San Francisco medical Examiners Office and theyll be doing that in his honor with a large gathering. This is a developing story were working to get more details and kron fours teresa stasio is following it for us. Shell have the latest information later tonight on kron 4 news at 5 in the meantime you can always
Absolutely. I understand that most workers are also categorized as essential workers, but at the moment, a lot of our buildings are still closed. How has your staff been redeployed to help out during the pandemic . There are 100 people assigned as Emergency Operations centres. They have worked on everything ranging from finance and logistics to accounting, to a communications. We have also had some of our staff been reassigned where we had people who were working within the bureau and we had them redeployed within the street cleaning groups. We are trying to solve problems as best we can. Some city interior painters would normally be working inside city buildings and have been repurposed to work outside and remove graffiti. Yeah, and that really and that is also a good example of trying to find ways that we can use those same individuals, those same skill sets but use them in a way that is safe. The one thing we have learned throughout this process with covid and shelter in place is th
Welcome back on 4 is your local election headquarters and were now just a half hour away from the first and only Vice President ial debate tonight Vice President mike pence and Vice President ial candidate senator Kamala Harris will be debating at the university of utah in Salt Lake City as an added safety precaution there will be plexiglass barriers between the candidates and the moderator and unlike last weeks debate between joe biden and President Trump the candidates will be more than 12 feet apart and sitting instead of standing. It is among the most anticipated vp debates arguably ever and senator harris and Vice President pence have been gearing up for a while from 4 Sanaz Tahernia talked to a political expert about tonights debate in he has she has more on what we can expect. The stage is sense for the first and only Vice President ial debate. Vice president mike pence and senator Kamala Harris, well go head to head in a debate thats expected to be like no other. Its an electio
Good news containment is up to 62 . Crews expect to fully contain the fire by the 20th of this month. The glass fire has destroyed more than 600 homes and still threatens more than 13,000 structures. Many people like the ole has family there still just picking up the pieces and as kron fours taylor sackey tells us now the family still has not been able to return to their home to actually see the destruction for themselves, but. They say they hope to salvage whatever Little Things they can. The only his family lived in this Deer Park Community for 40 years for their kids its the place where they grew up in shared many memories, right now im on their property standing in one of the 2 homes. This is the smaller one in can see here behind me this fire just completely tore through the area. Now only charred appliances are Still Standing that moment there that sick to your stomach, youre so scared. Yeah. And theres like one spotted fire and then there was 3 and suddenly there was just the wa
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital earlier tonight, good evening, everybody thanks for being here 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the accident took place at the departments training yard. An investigation into what happened is now underway or kron fours terisa stasio has details. The fire chief was visibly shaken as she talked about losing this firefighter. She also talked about how the Department Needs to be strong right now during this very sad time we lost a young man named jason cortez who has a wife. And 2 little kids as a father. Retired from the San Francisco Fire Department. All of them are grieving. As is. This Fire Department family. A somber San Francisco fire chief Janine Nicholson reflecting on losing one of their own. In a horrible accident. It was around 10 00am wednesday at the Training Facility on 19th and fulsome fire Officials Say the court has got injured he was rushed to the sucker berg San Francisco General Hospital. A short distance away whe