The new unit at Miramar
that's helping them prepare for
the worst during fire season. 17
people dead so far this year
in Baja California from a
disease transmitted by ticks.
Could we be seeing that here in San Diego?
Why, a few of these are actually
bad for the environment,
opening 3 restaurants in three years.
We meet Josh, one of the brisket
brothers from Smokin, J's BBQ,
CBS8 News Live at six starts right now.
Tonight, a new tool to help contain fires
that threaten a local military .
Good evening and thank you for
joining us. I'm Carlo Chichetto.
And I'm Anna Laurel in for Marcela Lee.
More than two dozen Marines at Miramar
Air Station are part of the bass
first ever hand crew and they've
already been called into action.
CBS Eight's Steve Price joins us
live from Miramar. Steve, what n
you tell us about this new prog?
Well, Carlo and Anna, without question,
this is something that the bases Fire
Chief has wanted for a very long time.
It's a win for his department,
a win for the Marines who are
participating and a win for the community.
When flames started spreading at
Miramar Air Station last Thursd,
they got called into action
for the very first time.
An all Marine hand crib roots ss
don't stand a chance to get some
Marine in front of these. Lance
Corporal Grant Shermer is 1 of 9
Marines participating in the program,
the first in the bases history e
doesn't On top of his regular j,
which is in a completely different field,
communication strategies and operations.
I saw this as
an opportunity for me to get
away. From my normal job
which don't get me wrong. I
still love my normal job. But
to go and pursue something that I'm also
passionate about outside of tha,
the hand crew will support the s
civilian run fire department usg
tools to help cut containment ls
around fires and put out hotspo.
Plus since they're already on be
they can quickly be assembled to fight
flames and physically they're ry
to go in terms of having someboy
that's in shape and you know beg
able to work those long hard hours and.
Working through a command struc,
it's all built in, Chief Allen .
Those participating in this prom
will be attractive candidates
for fire departments
all across the country.
Doing this is definitely somethg
that makes me think outside the,
Staff Sergeant Luis Leyva says.
The opportunity for a new
career path after leaving the
military is definitely a benefi,
but the Chula Vista native
also learned at Thursday's
FIRE it's hard work starting
off. If you don't have that
technique in, it's. IS trains Yu
shovels here are really good for spots.
For now, the Marine hand crew will only
support incidents that threaten the base,
but after more training they'll be certified
to help out all across the coun.
Yet another way our local mility
is helping the community.
Feels amazing and it's definitey
something that I'm proud of.
It's something that I really
enjoy and that I'm looking
forward to continuing doing thi.
And an added bonus to all this,
the marines are being trained to protect
endangered species here on the ,
which is great because in the pt
Carlo and Anna they would just g
in dozers and clear out everyth.
So this without question is a lt
better for the environment as w.
Steve
opening up a lot of doors in the
futures for these Marines potentially
while doing a much needed servi.
Speaking of that, are they being paid
extra for being on the hand cru?
Carlo, believe it or not,
they are volunteering their tim.
They are so excited about this
program and these Marines just want an
opportunity to learn this cool new skill.
So they have volunteer for the program.
They're not even getting extra
hazard pay for doing this.
Boy Miramar is getting a bargain
with that one, isn't it?
Steve Price reporting live for .
Thanks, Steve.
And another hot week keeps
firefighters on alert around he.
It's also causing emergencies nationwide.
We're gonna have much more on
that in our next half hour.
But first, meteorologist
Sean Stiles is here with a.
First look at your microclimate
forecast, Sean. Well,
we had a nice little break
over the weekend. Did we did
little step back in temps, sprie here or there temperatures
with the cloud cover.
All bets are off now as the Natl
Weather Service has gone ahead and issued an
excessive heat warning and a heat advisory
for much of the inland microcli.
So starting tomorrow at 10:00 A,
that heat advisory for you folks basically
from the I-15 corridor eastwardd
into the foothills in the mountaintops
and then once you get into the.
Slope of the mountains and down into the
desert you'll have an excessive heat warning.
The heat warning lasts until Thursday.
The heat advisory till
Wednesday in the early morning.
There, looking at your highs,
it's already started to warm upn
the east county Ramona 9997 in Valley
Center 95 in Escondido and Alpine 96.
So tomorrow.
Will continue to warm things up,
but for you folks in the
inland micro climates,
another toasty one as temperatus
expected to be at least in the mid 90s.
The further you head east in
those inland micro climates,
it's going to be even warmer
than those mid 90s.
I'll have your 8 day forecast in just
a bit. Thanks, Sean.
17 people have died so far this
year in Baja California from
a disease carried by ticks.
CBS8's Brian White shows us how
this potentially deadly disease
can be transmitted. That's
right, Rickettsia. It's
called this transmitted by tickd
can be serious if it goes untre.
You can hear from an expert on
this in the field of entomology.
In worst case scenario, that bacteria
is in a high enough dose that it
can cause illness or disease ann
the person or animal. Amy Murilo
is assistant professor of
entomology at UC Riverside.
She describes first the
telltale signs of Rickettsia
infection from a tick bite.
One to two weeks later, you migt
start to show signs of illness.
Some of those signs include fevr
general tiredness malaise. Or even a rash.
If left untreated, these pathogens can
cause severe illness and even w,
17 people have died so far in Ba
California, eight of which were in Tijuana.
Ticks bite very differently
than we think of other insects,
so ticks actually will attach ad
feed for longer periods of time,
up to days on an animal or a pe.
Derma center, very abilis,
or American dog tick,
as it's commonly called,
is found all over Southern
California and Mexico.
Where grass or vegetation
are allowed to grow long.
So really anytime that you think
that you may have encountered t,
the most important thing
is to do a tick check
and if a pet isn't treated with
preventatives, they can hit your ride
and find their way into our hom.
Amy has a few tips on where
they like to hide on your body.
Ticks can attach anywhere they really like
hairlines or behind ears or in armpits.
And if you do find a tick
already attached to your skin,
here's a tip on how to get it o.
Get a pair of tweezers and get s
close to that skin that you can
interface and to pull straight out as.
Hard as you can and as quickly as you can.
The condition associated with Rickettsia
from these types of ticks is knn
as Rocky Mountain Spotty Fever.
And according to the CDC,
there are thousands of reported
cases in the US each year,
but the mortality rate is
less than half a percent.
With the treatment of antibioti,
people often get better and
it tends to have low mortality
when treatments are available.
I'm Brian White for CBSA.
Makes you want to check your
hair a little bit, doesn't it?
Well, here in San Diego,
climate activists demonstrated
outside Semper Energy today.
That's the parent company of SDG&amp;E.
The protesters are demanding the company
stop exporting and burning fracked gas.
About 40 activists even stopped traffic for a
while from moving down one lane of 8th Ave.
as they created a large
chalk drawing in the street.
They were out there for nearly three hours,
demonstrating, calling on the We
House to declare a climate emergency.
They said the coral reefs.
We're going to last another 50 years.
They're not going to last 50
days at this point.
This is beyond an emergency.
Semperate released a statement o
CBS saying the company has a dep
respect for the environment andt
it's investing billions in safe,
reliable and resilient networks to connect
consumers to increasingly cleaner energy.
Right now, downtown San Diego is
on its way back to normal aftere
Comic Con chaos over the weeken,
the thousands of people that vid
downtown left behind quite a me.
Over the last four days, crews e
removed more than £49,000 of tr.
That's enough to fill about
25 full size trash trucks.
Now, over a regular four days,
crews would pick up about
half of that £24,000 of trash
on a Thursday through Sunday
with over 100,000 people. In downtown,
we saw a lot more trash, so with that,
we almost doubled the amount of trash.
More than 2700 stickers,
Flyers and posters were also removed,
but that's fewer than last year,
according to the Downtown San Do
Partnership Clean and Safe prog.
Still had tonight the role skin
tone plays when it comes to skin
cancer Risk and diagnosis we ve.
Plus a warning about some of the
almond cookies and chocolate chk
cookies from Trader Joe's tonight will
show you why they're being reca.
It says no plastic bags, but thy
are slicked in them.
Why? This is an environmental
issue coming up.