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NBC 7's Omari Fleming has the latest from the scene. Based on the size of the building, the amount of fire damage and the injuries to the firefighters, the ATF was tapped last week by the Chula Vista Fire Department to help with the investigation into the fire’s origin and cause. The ATF – with 20 additional investigators – began processing the scene on Jan. 28. Investigators determined the fire started on the second floor of Active Footwear. People were inside when it sparked at around 5:40 p.m. that day, but they all managed to escape safely. The CVFD said high winds blowing th...

Shared housing makes jails and prisons especially susceptible to the spread of COVID-19. Credit: Megan Wood Author: Mary Plummer | inewsource, Sofía Mejías-Pascoe | inewsource Published: 12:46 PM PST January 29, 2021 Updated: 12:56 PM PST January 29, 2021 CALIFORNIA, USA — COVID-19 cases in California prisons and jails began to dramatically surge late last year, but there is no way to get an accurate picture of the pandemic inside these facilities because officials use different approaches to count in-custody deaths tied to the coronavirus. ...

BAJA CALIFORNIA —  Mexican authorities on Tuesday announced the arrest of a suspect in the slayings last summer of two San Diego retirees whose bodies were found dumped in a well in Baja California. Ian Hirschsohn, a 78-year-old Solana Beach resident, and Kathy Harvey, a 73-year-old Tierrasanta resident, were stabbed to death, likely in late August, while asleep in bed at Hirschsohn’s longtime vacation home in El Socorrito, a tiny beach town about 130 miles south of Ensenada, according to prosecutors and the victim’s families. The Baja California Attorney General’s office released...

Updated on January 20, 2021 at 6:54 pm NBC Universal, Inc. There is no perfect time for a pandemic. However, there is a perfect time to open a new hospital. Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center opened the Ocean View Tower in January 2020. It was the first new hospital in San Diego’s South Bay in more than 40 years. The coronavirus pandemic shut down California less than two months later. “The last 10 months have been rough,” exclaimed Sharp lead nurse Alfonso Valdez. The Ocean View Tower at @sharphealthcare in @thinkchulavista opened at the right time one year ago. @nbcsandiego at 4:30 and ...

Print Midafternoon, one of the three intensive care patients assigned to nurse Jim Hayes was doing well enough that they were ready to transfer to a room with a lower level of care. But that did not mean there would be much time with the other two patients. “Within another hour and a half or so, I’ll get an admission,” Hayes said. “There are five people in the ER right now who are waiting to come up here, and there are no beds.” This moment, he said Thursday afternoon, can be the most dangerous. His full attention would soon be required to admit his next patient, making sure that i...