The fifth month of the year has begun and this is what you need to know about what happened this first week of May.
These are the local news from May 2 to May 6, 2022.
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More than 150 people, including students and school staff KIPP Excellence Community Prep in Redwood City, were left without power on Monday, May 2, following a fire involving some power lines at the school.
At about 10:30 a.m. Monday, fire crews arrived at the public school, located at 2950 Fair Oaks Ave., where they found downed power lines and a power pole on fire, so they evacuated due to smoke.
Firefighters later put out the fire, cleared the area and students and staff were finally able to return to the classrooms.
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No one was injured in a two-story Victorian-style house fire Monday morning in Redwood City that prompted a temporary road closure along Middlefield Road.
The road was closed between Beech Street and Cassia Street near downtown for approximately two hours while fire crews investigated the incident.
Crews extinguished the fire, which caused some damage to the building. No one was injured or displaced during the blaze.
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A 13-year-old boy suffered life-threatening injuries when someone punched him and knocked him to the ground Monday afternoon in San Francisco's Mission Dolores neighborhood, police said.
The attack was reported at 2:52 p.m. in the 400 block of Church Street, where investigators say someone approached the teen, punched him in the face and then threw him to the ground before running away. The victim was taken to a hospital and no arrests have been made.
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An anti-abortion activist was taken into custody Tuesday morning after climbing the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco.
The man, who identified himself on social media as Maison Des Champs and calls himself “Pro Life Spiderman,” was arrested after scaling the skyscraper in the 400 block of Mission Street while livestreaming his efforts.
The suspect climbed to the top of the building, where authorities were already waiting to arrest him and charge him with at least trespassing. The alleged intruder wrote on his website that he aims to raise $1 million for anti-abortion charities.
The incident came a day after a report about a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.
Groups opposed to the possible rollback of abortion rights planned their own action in San Francisco later Tuesday with a 5 p.m. rally at the Federal Building.
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Sigmund Stern Grove's Concert Meadow in San Francisco will reopen in time for the 85th annual Stern Grove Festival concert series that begins next month, after closing last August due to a water main break that flooded the site, city officials announced Tuesday.
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San Mateo County health officials reported Tuesday that COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have increased over the past month, but they are not overly concerned.
Marc Meulman, director of public health, policy and planning for San Mateo County Health, said the county's seven-day average case rate was 34.5 cases per 100,000 residents, up from 12 per 100,000 a month ago.
However, he noted that the level of transmission of the virus is similar to that experienced in the summer of 2021, although, due to the great enthusiasm for the use of the vaccine and boosters, hospitalization levels are much lower.
As of Monday, there were 21 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the county, which continues to have one of the highest testing rates in the state.
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A mountain lion was spotted Thursday night in unincorporated Ladera in San Mateo County, according to a county sheriff's spokesman. The cougar was spotted around 10:30 p.m. on a resident's home security surveillance system in the 800 block of La Mesa Drive.
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