He leaves behind his wife and two young children. He is the son of a retired firefighter. He started the Fire Department since 2007. He was most recently assigned to station three in the tenderloin the busiest in San Francisco. This is a very trying time as jason was wellliked in our department. Reporter the San Francisco Firefighters Union said our hearts go out to his family and loved ones especially his two young children. Firefighters mourn the loss of our brother and we are committed to doing everything in our power to support the cortez family in the days months and years to come. This is the first onduty depth of the San Francisco Fire Department since 2017 when the battalion chief died in his office after returning from a call. In 2011 two firefighters died after a house fire. Todays death will be investigated by cal osha. Was this the kind of training that just happens every year for firefighters . Cortez was obviously an experience firefighter. Is this something they train in
Its burned 2700 acres near lake hennessey, east of st. Helena. From sky fox, you can see several fires up in napa county. Actually, we just read that, so lets move on here to our next story. Hundreds of firefighters are battling these fires in extremely hot conditions. Ktvus rob roth tells us with so many fires burning, crews are being stretched then. Reporter cal fire calls the three most serious fires burning in the north bay, the complex fires including the hennessey fire, the gamble, and the 1510. About 400 people said Evacuation Orders wednesday tuesday to low along with those from yesterday. Just as i picked the cat up, lightning struck. Reporter but this man who lives on lower Childs Valley road where the hennessey fire looms above hasnt left yet. Its a very stressful time right now. Our house is just a couple of hundred yards from here, and it doesnt look good. Reporter firefighters say lightning strikes are responsible for these fires. This video was taken by a photographer la
Reporter the suspect stabbed the victim repeatedly in the neck before fleeing the train. Humphrey who is legally deaf and uses a wheelchair said she acted instinctively. I jumped down from the chair and came around to a position where i had good leverage to be able to put pressure on his wounds. I was asking him so you like the raiders . Because he had a raiders shirt and hat. Are you planning on going to any games . Who is the woman with the tattoo on your arms . Reporter williams died and the situation was chaotic but humphreys chose not to panic and kept her cool. If you have a choice you can choose that this sucks , but getting upset and freaking out will not accomplish anything. Reporter sophia said this experience confirmed for her that she indeed does want to pursue nursing as a career. The man charged in the fatal stabbing of mia wilson is scheduled to go on trial in january. John lee cowell entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. He is charged in the death of wilso
Already pulling out of sonoma county, santa rosa and it continues to sink south and east throughout your morning. 7 00 this morning, were looking at 50s and rain. By noontime, were cloudy, mid50s and isolated showers. By the afternoon, well see upper 50s, its dry, dry through your evening. A bigger storm heads our way midweek. Sue . Yeah, we do have standing water and solo spinouts. Look at the bay bridge camera. No metering lights yet. Minor delays on your approach to the tolls on 580. In the maze theres reports of an accident that may be slowing things. Well check back on that. Overall, we have slowing out of the central valley. Rain represented by the green and fog by the orange on your map. Well check over with this accident in San Francisco. Northbound 280 cesar chavez, theyre expecting lanes to be open any time now. Theyre doing round robins here as well. Chp is not affected. You can see that its green and getting by. Headon collision on highway 1 well talk about in a couple minu
Mateo and santa cruz area. I dont think that was supposed to happen. 60s and 70s inland but it wont help it will be warm with 90s up to 100 as the warmup continues. Originally we were 72 in the city but now that there is fog i might make that 72 but inland warming up to the 90s near 100 for some. 75 in San Francisco. The record high 87 from 1943 so you will be near average today. Not a lot of fog north of Half Moon Bay but there is some. Again this will only be confined to parts of the coast but there is plenty in san mateo and santa cruz, 54, 56, 57 for water temperatures. Onshore and offshore most locations are shown easterly breeze but it is not that strong so it is a fight between the two. These and 60s for your temperatures, many 40s. Healdsburg at 50, winsor 49, these are very cool temperatures. 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s but inland they should be warming up near 100. 7 02 how about the traffic . It is slow on the sonoma grade. I hope it will clear up because normally we dont have slo