cindy bartoo lives nearest the fire.cindy bartoo/lives nearest to fire "...i'm at work and my neighbor sends me a picture of a wall of flame over my house..."on the neighborhood side, the fire was consuming a thick hedge of ivy growing on the soundwall. on the other side, where the fire started, is a homeless camp. the off ramp was shutdown as the flames burned trees, dry vegetation and pretty much everything in the camp says batallion chief darren wallace.batt. chief darren wallace/san jose fire dept. ".....you have everything here, nylon tents ,paper products, cooking gear. open flames, dry grass, it's just a recipe for fire..."a recipe for disaster says cindy bartoo who put up a ladder for me to seeover the wall behind here home and into the camp where she says trash has been piling up for months. cindy bartoo "....my house could have caught on fire and i have animals that were stuck in their and might have burned to death...."fires like are not uncommon as both the city and caltrans have been sweeping such camps all summer only to see them return. residents here says they have made

cindy bartoo "....my house could have caught on fire and i have animals that were stuck in their anded to death...."fires like are not uncommon as both the city and caltrans have been sweeping such camps all summer only to see them return. residents say this was a fire waiting to happen.mike forensich/neighbor "....there was a little maintenance shed on the other side and they got in there and set up a refridgerator and tapped into the electricity..."in san jose rob fladeboe kron4news (pam) (pam) new details in alameda county ... hopyard road in pleasanton is back open .. that's after a mountain lion was hunkered down in the area... the animal has been caught. it happened in the area of 3825- hopyard road... these are pictures tweeted by the alameda county sheriff's department .. officers say, they used night vision cameras to see the thermal image of the mountain lion. deputies say, wildlife experts helped them remove the animal safely... (ken)new tonight at ten- a bear is on the move in san francisco. the 35- foot tall polar bear standing along san francisco's embardacero will be r