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It was a horrendous fire. Reporter leonard and his wife know all too well how quickly a fire can ignite. They lost their long time home two months ago in an electrical fire. We lost everything, everything, all our clothes, everything. The only thing we had was the clothes on our back. Were only one call away from a tragic event happening, so were on borrowed time. Reporter east Contra Costa County says theyre faced with so many fire emergencies they cant keep up. The Fire District covers 250 miles, more than 120,000 residents yet it has just three fire stations. Only nine firefighters are on d...

And the wind speed is above the Oakland Hills and above the caldecott, its 28 miles perhour, and 24 at las trampas, mount saint helena, 10 in mount diablo, 16 and not as bad as yesterday. The Oakland Hills were rocking yesterday and only one site is this morning, 29. 31 at fairfield, some cool readings with a freeze warning to the north going until 9 00 and probably not too many 20s but some are at 30, 31 and 32 degrees. 60s and 70s on the forecast highs and it will stay a little bit above with the direction offshore and not as robust. The humidity is going up and yesterday it was bone dry and...

It is halloween. Rain or shine, is one of those days you go out there and try to get all the candy you can when you are a child. I remember a few years ago, i swear it was dumping rain. And in 3 hours or so, but i know my children and i were out there charging the streets knocking on doors scaring anyone we could to get as much candy as possible. Mike, you dont have to worry about that tonight. You can just wear a light jacket. Before we get our halloween forecast come some good news coming out of santa rosa. Thats where the kincade fire is 60 contained. Best halloween ever our power is on, my...

Which starts with a 48 hour notification. And then, we have a 24hour notification. Then i believe we go down to four hours . Is that correct . And, should things change, we will give notifications right up to the event. But, we have a plan and thats why as i said, we need peoples contact information. We use the files that we have. Starts at 48 hours. Goes through social media. Tweets, emails. Phone calls. With customers who identify as medical baseline. A rate classification. They have some equipment in their homes that take power. With those customers, we will do informative contact. We will ...

Middle school. If you are in danger, dont wait. Evacuate. All others please avoid these areas to allow First Responders access. Another fire burning in east concord county rig contra costa county. Severely fast winds and tinder dry conditions toward the summer lake park subdivision. Homes and Mobile Home Park is being threatened. More information on the vicinity of Bethel Island and cypress roads in oakley. Task forces have been dispatched and the contra costa Fire District is asking to avoid that. Sorry. Moving on to this video you can see well peo a in the dark and so theyve been trying to p...