Neighbors described this rodeo fire that broke out near highway 80 incoming skyway just before 2 oclock monday afternoon. What began as 2 small fires quickly merged into one in burned 230 acres because of strong winds wind at least one of the fires to get away from us and it burned past fortunately. They burn past all the petrochemical infrastructure. You can see behind me and also thankfully burn past a quite a few houses in north circular is. And headed out into the wilderness area thats bounded by interstate 80 on this side. Coming skyway to the north and highway 4 to the south and to the east as steve hill with Contra Costa County fire explains the wind fueled this fire but also push it away from homes nearby. Neighbors off california street say they could see the smoke and flames from their backyards. I saw the live this hour that some houses are probably getting like a 100 yards out a fire. So there are some neighborhoods neighbors back as were worried about it thankfully. No one
Cornelia and also fairfield some very gusty winds this afternoon. We have some 30 mile an hour gusts just in the last 3 hours here and still in the court is some of those to 22 Miles Per Hour right now as you make your way into fremont well we had windy conditions in the afternoon. Although those start to calm down a little bit now as theyre dropping down to 7, 8, Miles Per Hour. But were going to see more of that smoke continue to filter into places Like Union City fremont this fire continues tonight and into hayward so certainly by tomorrow morning. The smell of smoke in and around this area, those winds start to calm down nothing really to mix out some of that smoke for the south theyre also going to be dealing with some smoke, theres fire starting yesterday this the crews fire c gilroy here the winds not that strong this afternoon, although you get up in the Mountain Range is certainly in the Higher Elevations you generally get some stronger winds to whip around the fire and thats
United play as a violence prevention and use Development Group based in soma lives by each day. And over the last 2 weeks. They focus their efforts on delivering supplies to communities that have been hit hard by the coronavirus we feel that we love giving back to the community were trying to bring everybody getting keep everybody safe it follows ferguson is a volunteer at united plans on monday they handed out Hand Sanitizer and face masks to those in the bayview Hunters Point area of the city. The group joined by San Francisco supervisor matt haney also distributed supplies to the tenor line when we get the gear to hand and face masks and attend a lawn on it or not governor rock yesterday look 1000 people showed up in a town one area. Receiving senate adding base pets. In a tweet on monday supervisor haney again address the needs of his district and others that are underserved in the city. A new map of covid19 cases by zip code shows those testing positive are more likely to be peopl
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