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
Are there. An urgent plea from police after a 6 yearold boy is killed on july 4th what we know about the investigation tonight good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news today. We have a team of reporters following these fires across the bay area we begin in the east bay where a fire burned close to homes in rodeo and thats where we have kron 4 status aqi joining us live with the very latest on that fire taylor. Welcome though wind is still picking up a little bit here today, the wind played a huge role and how this fire behaved and where it moved today earlier it started out as 2 smaller fires, but ultimately merge into one as the winds picked up now thankfully though the one good thing about the wind is that it pushed the fire away from homes, nearby and instead pushed the fire into the wilderness area you see here behind me. Now you can see that that areas no longer smoking like it was just hours ago. If you take a look at this video from e
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
All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get some news this morning in the south bay, the cruise fires burned 5400 acres in Santa Clara County. Cal fire says its now about 20 contained and evacuations are still in place this morning. And the fire has destroyed 2 buildings and one person was hurt kron fours dan thorn has more. Flames chewing through thousands of acres as firefighters battled the crews fire. The dry brush crackling for a second day as the wildfire threatened homes and forced evacuations along kenyada road for this man thankfully his rural ranch home was spared. I was relieved, i was i was only able to make it up last night and i was able to tell couple the neighbors that there are places where intact. The house and the horses were protected from the ground and from the air fire retardant dropped from above even covered some of his animals by horses got red said i have read horses, so thats thats an experience because the flames spread so quickly, hundreds of firefighters from a
Have become a secret ticket to germany. What are you looking for exactly . To see whether it is sealed or if the seal is broken. If its not sealed or the seal is broken, well take a closer look and open it up. Reporter the officers focus on containers and truck trailers. There are lots of hollow spaces for stowaways between the containers. But its an extremely dangerous way to travel. They squeeze under the train. Theyre used to it. Back home its more common to hang onto a train than to get a seat. Reporter police dont find any stowaways. After half an hour, the train is cleared for its onward journey. German police have stepped up Freight Train searches. The officers on the ground get air support from a helicopter equipped with a thermal imaging camera. Argus 610, we have a detection at the center of the train, behind a car. Looks like a person is sitting on the bumper. Reporter two africans hoped to make it into germany under the cover of darkness. 7 00 a. M. At raubling near rosenhe