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Underground vault fire leads to explosion in SF's Pacific Heights

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:48 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Crews are responding to an underground vault fire that led to an explosion, the San Francisco Fire Department confirmed. The fire happened on the 2100 block of Pacific Avenue in the city's Pacific Heights neighborhood.A manhole cover exploded underneath a car and led to the damage of several windows in the area, according to SFFD. Citizen App video (above) shows a Tesla damaged due to the explosion.As of 9 p.m., no injuries have been reported. SFFD is asking the public to avoid the area at this time.KRON On is streaming news live now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }This story will be updated.

‘Stay weather aware’: DC region under Flood Watch Sunday as excessive rainfall is expected

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:48 GMT

Be aware! Most of the D.C. area will be under a Flood Watch and a moderate risk for excessive rainfall on Sunday. Here’s what you need you know.Flood Watch is in effect from Noon to 10 p.m. Sunday.Severe Weather Alert with potential for large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.The last Flood Watch will be in effect starting noon Sunday and extend through 10 p.m. bringing a  much more active weather pattern through the drought-stricken capital region, said 7News meteorologist Mark Peña.“A very potent storm system will bring a line of storms through the region starting from the west around 10 a.m.-11 a.m. and progressing toward the DC Metro/I-95 corridor around 1 p.m.-3 p.m. time frame. The storms are expected to be relatively slow moving prompting the threat for flash flooding,” Peña tells WTOP.Everyone is likely to see the impacts of this storm system, he added.A widespread 1 to 2 inches of rainfall is expected across the watch area, with isolated totals in excess ...

Herbers, Brady guide Fire to 1-0 victory over Nashville

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:48 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Fabian Herbers scored a first-half goal and Chris Brady made it stand up in the Chicago Fire’s 1-0 victory over Nashville SC on Saturday night.Herbers scored the lone goal when he took a pass from Maren Haile-Selassie in the 34th minute and found the net for a fourth time this season. Brady finished with two saves to earn the clean sheet for Chicago (6-7-8). Joe Willis did not make a save in goal for Nashville (11-6-5), which lost to the Fire for the first time after two victories and two draws in the first four meetings. Nashville beat Chicago 3-0 at home earlier this season.Chicago snapped a two-match losing streak at home in all competitions. The skid came after an 11-match unbeaten run at home. The Fire have not lost three straight matches at home in all competitions since the 2010 season in MLS/Super Liga play.Chicago held Nashville’s Hany Mukhtar in check. The league leader with 13 goals this season has a pair of hat tricks in his career against the ...

Betts hits MLB-record 10th leadoff homer in first half to help Dodgers rout Angels 10-5

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:48 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — All-Star Mookie Betts hit his 10th leadoff homer — most in the first half in major league history — and the Los Angeles Dodgers busted out with five homers for the second straight game to beat the slumping Angels 10-5 on Saturday night.The Dodgers head into the All-Star break a season-high 13 games over .500 with a record of 51-38, a half-game behind NL West-leading Arizona.The Angels dropped their season-high fifth straight to fall below .500 at 45-46. It was their 10th consecutive loss in the Freeway Series, the club’s longest-ever skid against the Dodgers. The Angels gave up 11 hits in an 11-4 loss Friday.Angels All-Star Shohei Ohtani hit his major league-leading 32nd homer, a 433-foot, two-run blast in the seventh. He came up a double shy of hitting for the cycle. The two-way superstar singled in the first and tripled in the third. Betts’ 408-foot solo shot, his 26th of the season, came on the second pitch of the game by Reid Detmers. Betts eclipsed the ...

Cities have long made plans for extreme heat. Are they enough in a warming world?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:48 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Natural disasters can be dramatic — barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but heat is more deadly. Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995.That July, a weeklong heat wave that hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) killed more than 700 people. Most of the deaths occurred in poor and majority Black neighborhoods, where many elderly or isolated people suffered without proper ventilation or air conditioning. Power outages from an overwhelmed grid made it all worse.Initially slow to react, Chicago has since developed emergency heat response plans that include a massive push to alert the public and then connect the most vulnerable to the help they may need. Other cities like Los Angeles, Miami and Phoenix now have “chief heat officers” to coordinate planning and response for dangerous heat. Around the world, cities and countries have adopted similar measures.But experts warn those steps might not be enough in a world that is seeing heat records con...

From poverty to power, new California Speaker seeks Democratic caucus unity but offers few details

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:48 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas was a child growing up in California’s rural Central Coast, he watched his grandfather risk his job fighting in the farmworkers’ rights movement to bring a better life to his family and his fellow workers.A Mexican immigrant, his grandfather was the lead organizer for the United Farm Workers at the vineyard where he picked grapes. The union eventually won a labor agreement that provided farmworkers with better working conditions, higher wages and pensions: a victory that helped lift Rivas’ family out of poverty.“The one thing he always shared with me is change doesn’t just happen. You have to make it happen,” Rivas said of his grandfather.Rivas, 43, recently became California’s first speaker from a rural area in modern times, hailing from the city of Hollister where he lives with his wife and 7-year-old daughter. Rivas and his allies say his journey from an impoverished home to one of the most ...

9 missing in China landslide sparked by heavy rains amid flooding and searing temperatures

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:48 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Nine people are missing in central China after a landslide sparked by heavy rains amid flooding and searing temperatures across much of the country, authorities said Sunday.Five people were rescued from under the rubble at a highway construction site in the central province of Hubei, where the accident occurred on Saturday. Crews were still excavating in hopes of finding more survivors. Tens of thousands of people have been moved to shelters amid heavy flooding in northern, central and southeastern China. Seasonal flooding is a regular occurrence in China, but this year’s rising waters have been accompanied by unusually prolonged stretches of high temperatures.With its more than 9 million square kilometers (4 million square miles) of land area, China is being hit simultaneously this summer by heatwaves, flooding and drought. Cities have opened their air raid shelters to offer residents relief from the heat. Earlier this week, Beijing reported more than nine stra...

Colorado Rapids secure first home win of 2023 in MLS play as Drew Moor is inducted into Gallery of Honor

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:48 GMT

COMMERCE CITY — It was a gritty, come-from-behind performance by the Colorado Rapids to secure its first home win of MLS play in 2023. The team played just like the man they honored: Longtime defender Drew Moor.Moor became the seventh Rapids’ inductee into the team’s Gallery of Honor, and Braian Galván scored his first goal since August 2021 as a second half game-winner as the Burgundy Boys secured a 2-1 win over FC Dallas.Colorado (3-10-8, 17 points) was winless in its last nine matches entering Saturday and the team got its first win in just over two months.“For me, it felt like a really important moment for us as a team, because I’ve talked about confidence so much. It’s really, really great for them to put forth an effort like that, get over the hump and get the results,” Rapids head coach Robin Fraser said. “Because we’ve seen them play well throughout the year and not (be) quite as precise in both boxes as we need to be. It...

Gunman arrested for series of rifle shootings in East Los Angeles

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:48 GMT

A gunman wanted for a series of rifle shootings targeting East Los Angeles residents was arrested Saturday.At least three shootings were reported from 6:20 a.m. to 7:20 a.m. as the suspect allegedly fired randomly at victims in East L.A. and Boyle Heights.One shooting took place at the intersection of 1st and Cummings Streets around 7:20 a.m. According to Los Angeles police, a masked man armed with a rifle began firing shots before fleeing the scene in his car.An hour earlier, a male victim in his 30s was shot and left critically injured while he was walking near Mission Road and Zonal Avenue. He was also shot by a suspect with a rifle who drove off after the shooting.Another victim told KTLA he narrowly escaped being shot as he spotted a man with a rifle firing off in a Boyle Heights neighborhood. The victim said a bullet struck his vehicle just as he was pulling in to work at a construction site.A search is underway for a man suspected in a series of rifle shootings targeting the ...

911 dispatch system in Oakland fails again

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:48 GMT

(KRON) -- Issues continue to plague the city of Oakland's 911 system. After failing Thursday, the automated system failed for a second time Saturday and was down for hours. However, residents and the city's police union say the issues have been going on a lot longer than that.Adding warnings of the system's imminent collapse have been ignored. KRON4 spoke to one man who says he struggled to get through to a dispatcher when he was trying to report a dead body he found. Underground vault fire leads to explosion in SF’s Pacific Heights That man says it breaks his heart that it is this difficult to reach 911. He says it makes him sad for his city and something needs to change.There was a busy signal as Alan Liang, owner of an Oakland auto shop, tried to call 911. In September, he found a body crushed in the tow yard.He says he was placed on hold for 10 minutes. Then, he had to continue to wait."The officers didn't respond until maybe about 40 minutes later after the 911 call. So it's ...