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Nearly 12 hours after a fire ripped through an Historic Church and it could impact a big weekend in thec east bay. Now tonight firefighters remain fire. People heading to uc berkeleys homecoming fes tiffties are being worned about warned about oad closures. We have Live Team Coverage for you tonight and we begin with reaction from Church Leaders worried about that very÷u famou church. Reporter they certainly for reasons the firefighters will be here throughout the night to make sure there are no flairups here at the First Congressional Church of berkeley. On the outside in th q part i looks...

I guess maybe this is more a question to the mayors budget office. You may not know but in terms of facilities and wifi we purportedly have it in this building and its horrible and just like the Market Street wifi is horrible and so many of the city provided Wifi Networks are in inadequate and at least we have it and it works sometimes and i guess more of a question for d tbut a broader question. I mean city facilities we should have free Wifi Everywhere but particularly in city facilities. If we cant put it in our own facilities how do we roll it out to the whole city . I dont know if you can...

Of paused . We have not been funded to keep up with that plan but we do have commitments from the Mayors Office that for example we have asked to play catch up and asked for 50 million to get to where we need to get. There are standards that we should adhere to that the National Fire Protection Agency calls for. And we have rigs on the streets beyond what the guidelines say should be used as a front line apparatus. We were given 50 million and we were given the information and only 17 million is in the budget for fleet so the 50 million request is unreasonable and we get that but the good news...

Last time we checked we had 34 of the uniform work force live here in the city with a large percentage of the other living in the greater bay area the nine bay area counties and some live outside the limits but its not as many more than i would like but not as many as you would think and on the recruitment piece i appreciate the question. Last year we asked for a single function person in uniform just to deal with recruitment and there was a position funded and although i think the tide maybe turning and i find the value of having a person. They have a recruitment unit. We have a few people tr...

Differently that can actually strengthen our ability to our people that are closer to San Francisco or in San Francisco . Thank you for the question and i do always feel its value added to have someone that lives the bay area, maybe not the city. I know when we do rl drills and recall drills and do them annually and we have robust procedures and not have everybody come back at one time but respond in a manageable way if you will, so a couple things. What i am hearing is proximity. Although we cannot dictate where someone lives. Its against the law. We did make modifications to the schedule sev...