Kelley Park

San Jose firefighters early Tuesday morning responded a series of spot fires that has been intentionally set at Kelley Park, just south of Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, according to the fire department. Bob Redell reports.

San Jose firefighters early Tuesday morning responded a series of spot fires believed to be intentionally set at Kelley Park, just south of Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, according to the fire department.

San Jose firefighters extinguished a 2-acre vegetation fire near Kelley Park on Monday afternoon.

VivaCalle San Jose will close downtown streets Sunday for an annual recreation event with biking, music, games, donations and performances.

With the Fourth of July holiday just about one week away, emergency officials in the South Bay are reminding festive folks to play it safe when it comes to fireworks.

An estimated 14,000 people were evacuated by this week’s historic San Jose floods, and people who live in the Nordale neighborhood near Kelley Park have been among the hardest hit.

Several homeless people were rescued after being trapped by rising flood waters in the South Bay.

For the second day in a row, a torrent of water on Sunday flowed over the Anderson Reservoir spillway, marking a phenomenon that hadn’t happened for 11 years until this weekend.

The Anderson Reservoir, which has hovered around 99 percent of its maximum capacity for the past few days, began to spill early Saturday morning.

The Anderson Reservoir is said to be at 99 percent of its maximum capacity and on Thursday it stoked flooding fears in the South Bay.

Rising water filling up Santa Clara County’s Anderson Reservoir, which was 99.3 percent full as of Wednesday, is expected to flow over the dam’s spillway as a result of this week’s impending storms.