Car Burglars Working Double Shifts – Including This Guy In San Ramon
We’re receiving multiple reports of car burglaries throughout the 24/680 in recent days, with multiple thefts taking place in specific parking lots and others in more out of the way locations – trailheads are a favorite ’cause they know you’ll be gone for a bit and away from your car. We’ve written about this and…
What Smoke?
Hazardous air conditions appear to be with us for a while until our grasslands stop burning and those offshore winds crank up again. Local hardware stores report a rush on for masks, respirators, and window sealant as our neighbors search for ways to protect themselves from this nasty air. It’s bad, though we cannot moan…
Chunky Air Quality, Other-Worldly Sunrises: It’s A New Day In Moraga Saturday
Skies, dark and heavy with soot and smoke, have turned daylight to night in the fire zone – and given our air a reddish, Martian tinge the last couple of days. Moragan Greg Fulcher was up and about early and captured this shot of our sunrise, shot from a ridge at 7:05 a.m.
Driver Injured In Pleasant Hill Crash Monday
A driver transitioning from Pleasant Hill Road to northbound Taylor Boulevard lost control and struck a tree in the median a little after 4 p.m. Monday. Emergency responders got the call for help at 4:11 p.m. The driver was trapped in the wreckage and needed to be extricated by firefighters. There was no immediate word…
The Shopping List – What Local Thieves Are Taking
We’ve written about this so much now it seems redundant and boring and, well, we’re just not so we’ll let the picture tell the story – this being Labor Day and all. Officers in San Ramon stopped a car for a minor traffic infraction Sunday, determined the driver was on active probation and then –…
Smoked Cat, A Little Nervous, But Alive…
If you read us you know we enjoy a good news photo when one presents itself. They are hard to get and take skill to make. Our digital comrades at East County Today snagged this one as a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District firefighter trundled a soggy feline out of a burning home on…
Shot Of Friday’s 3-Alarm Fire In Martinez – Shot From Horseback – Captures Our Attention
We get a lot of reader photos here at NEWS24/680 – some of them funny, some of them dramatic, some with great big thumbs over the camera lens – all of them of interest to us as they’re capturing a moment in our collective timelines. They don’t all have to be perfectly focused and composed.…
Area Flags Come Down To Half Staff As Shasta County Fire Claims Lives
Flags at local fire stations and civic building have been ordered flown at half staff Friday as wildfires burning in Northern California claimed the lives of two firefighters and are showing no sign of slowing down. The Carr Fire in Shasta County has so far burned 44,450 acres of timber and has blown through neighborhoods…
Meet BadA** Bob From Walnut Creek – Snake Hunter
Those of you who have been owned by a cat you allowed outdoors know they are often fond of bringing things back to share with you – sometimes really creepy things. Meet Bob of Walnut Creek. He lives with his human servants on a property at the base of Mt. Diablo and, apparently, the location…
Snapped: Reader Photos Of Street Crime Capturing The Moment
We’ve addressed the issue of petty theft tying up resources and leading to street arrests in the 24/680 recently, with readers offering photos and unintentionally funny accounts of police activity often as it rolls over them. It’s difficult enough to get a focused, well-composed photograph of your cat or favorite potted plant, but street crime…