Mind blowing. Reporter grind bartfelt said when he first heard about the fire this morning, he had no idea how bath it would be until 4th arrived on scene. High heart sunk add i saw our building up in flames when i turned the corner. Reporter he building where his family started the business more than 70 years ago appears to be a complete loss. While he hopes insurance will allow them to carry on, right now he says its simply too early to say. When the dust clears, the smoke clears, so to speak, you know, what the obviously big time damage, you know, well cross that bridge when we get to it. Reporter and lieutenant Jonathan Baxter from San Francisco fire is on scene briefing us with the latest developments. Well go to that live right now. That firefighter has recent by released from the Trauma Center and is going to be okay. We have the three displaced residents, as well as an unaccounted number of employees from the established businesses that are affected from this fire. Our Fire Dep
Alarm fire started at the rear of that mans building. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Tonight, new information about what may have happened. Ktvu has learned fryer crews were called out to extinguish a mattress fire at the rear of the big building on 14th street between south bend as an fulsome. The mattress fire was out 11 30 last night. The big fire broke out around 6 30 this morning. Live coverage now from ktvus amber lee. Our cruise still pouring water onto that fire . Reporter this is a very active seen behind me. We can see firefighters using huge trucks to put out hot spots. The fire did apartment tells me 160 firefighters were here at the peak in 20 remain here tonight. At this point, the fire is still not contained. Ive 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 Francisco zenner mission district. One who had to evacuate said it
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
Forecast. Who came in . The guy at the castle. Pam and dave, i know he likes the weather. You approve as i agree with you. If it is too hot, theres not much that you can do this time of year. Once you get back to september, antioch and brentwood, theres a ways to go. We have another months ago. Fog, low clouds, temperatures are cool on the coast. It is warm to hot and then. Temperatures are below average, to a few degrees above. The breeze picks off. 50s for temperatures, 62 in san jose. 53 and santa rosa, one of the coolest cities. Here is the temperature change, cooler for some. No change at all for most. Concorde is 1, san jose is 2. The fog heads back to the coast. Temperatures are near average, a little bit below for most except livermore. Over to sal, on a wednesday. He tells us that things are good. Traffic is good. Steve, good morning to you. We are off to a nice start on this wednesday. You can see the bay bridge, i can show it to you here. It is moving along nicely. Ancis lit