Rail station at san carlos street and alma den boulevard when investigators say a man took off. These are shots of police cars responding to the scene. Authorities say the suspects shot at officers who then returned fire. Officials tell us the suspect then carjacked a vehicle, of investigators say they tried to to run over an officer. It ended in branham lane when the spec crashed into another car where he was captured. Two people inside the car were taken to the hospital but are expected to survive. The suspect was also taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries and will be charged with attempted homicide on an officer. Authorities say the suspects injuries were not caused by gunfire. Developing news in the south bay, san jose firefighters are at the scene of a three an alarm fire in the vista point area. Flames ignited just after 3 00 this morning. Fire dispatch tells abc 7 news the house is roughly 7,000 square feet and is still under construction. The cause of the fire
Tonight 6300 homes are in harms way. Cornell bernard is live in lower lake. A lot of worried people out there tonight. Reporter folks are so worried tonight. Many are trying to remain calm, but take a look at this. Scenes like this are certainly not helping with that at all. This is just incredible. He rocky fire has crossed this ridge in the last ten minutes, moving to the northwest, and an intense air assault is underway. With tankers dropping water and fire retardant on this fastmoving blaze. Far from here the fire continues to march north with a vengeance. 2,000 firefighters from across the state trying to prevent this intense blaze from jumping highway 20. So far that battleline has not been crossed. Backfires have been set to prevent the spread. Hundreds of worried results needed more information and went to a Community Meeting at Lower Lake High School to get updates from calfire on this blaze. So far there is no word when evacuate residents can return home, and others are wonde
He rocky fire continues to grow with aa vengeance. The blaze shows no signs of stop, almost doubling in size overnight. As the fire burns north theres a huge assault in the air and from the ground to stop it. The battle lines for the fire have been drawn on highway 20. They dont want the fire to jump the road. These crews keeping an eye out on the hillside to the north, in kasembers set it on fire. Bass fires are being backfires are being set. Theres so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire, and we dont want that energy and heat right at the roadside. This camper and his friends from concord panishinged when they found themselves in the path of the fire. 8 00 at night we saw flames on two ridges over so we decided to get out. In mad rush to get out their rv flipped over the side of a steep road and now theyre stuck. When the wind switched to the east. How much nervous residents came to this meeting to get update about the fire. More than 12,000 residents remain out of their
Th this is abc7 news. There is so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire. The rocky fire is burning hot and intense tonight forcing more evacuations. Good evening, everyone. The rocky fire in lake county continues to grow. It has burned nearly 85 square miles and has become the largest fire ever in lake county. And it has spread to yolo and coluuso counties. 3,000 firefighters are battling the fire and it is only 5 contained. Sergio is live with the latest. Sergio . Katie, tonight we found a hill so we could watch the fire line in the distance. It is something we notice a lot of the residents near clear lake doing. A lot of people are evacuated and they say they have things packed just in case they have to leave. At sunset crews started backfires to cut a fire line along this ridge which is only a couple miles away from the town of clear lake. We are afraid it will jump that ridge and come down. It is really close. It is and out back it is nothing but grass. Gail and lots of
Reporter the Santa Clara County Fire Department has sent 27 firefighters to the rocky fire, and they have been tasked with structure defense, protecting homes. In addition, two strike teams made of up fighters from several south bay cities including san jose have been sent to the rocky fire. Crews are launching an aggressive air attack using California National guard air tankers. Firefighters are also burning out areas ahead of the fire to help stop the flames from moving so quickly. Last night, we burned out much of the grass so that by the time the actual wildfire burns there, we have a much larger yeah irto make a stand. Our goal last night was to hold this fire below highway 20 and to the west of highway 16. We were successful at that. Reporter still, despite the efforts, the rocky fire grew 20,000 acres in just a fivehour period last night. Firefighters say they expect to see cooler temperatures moving forward, but the big problem remains tinder dry brush in that region west of sa