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January 4, 2023 | 8:13 p.m

Jeremy Renner was only out driving the snowplough, but was critically injured when his handyman was prevented from getting up the road by police officers, a neighbor told The Post on Wednesday.

“It’s a private road where he lives. I’ve never plowed this road before, but his maintenance guy – the California Highway Patrol – wouldn’t let him plow up the hill, so Jeremy decided to do it himself,” the 58-year-old man explained.

“When I saw Care Flight here I thought it was some idiot stuck skiing. They always make a circle here.”

But it was the 51-year-old Marvel actor who suffered “blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries” on New Year’s Day, his rep said, after the two-time Oscar nominee was run over by his own snowplow.

The neighbor, who declined to give his name, said Wednesday he believed Renner only started plowing so his family could leave their home. The neighbor cleared the area around Sunridge Court just before Renner’s freak accident, which he says helped the ambulance land and take Renner to the hospital.

Actor Jeremy Renner’s estate near Reno, Nevada.New York Post

“I plowed Sunridge just before he got injured. I guess I plowed just enough for them to get Care Flight into the Tannenbaum,” the neighbor said, referring to the Tannenbaum Event Center venue, which is less than a mile from Renner’s home.

“I just finished that, otherwise it would have snowed all over the place. I think Jeremy was trying to plunder his family because they had to leave.”

“If I had woken up an hour later, no one would have come to this or any other street,” the neighbor added.

The man’s wife told the Post her husband didn’t start work until Sunday morning to haul out a car that was stranded in the Christmas tree parking lot.

Renner was involved in the New Year’s accident, which required a flight to the hospital. Jeremy Renner

“The only reason he plowed down the tree the day Care Flight landed was because some idiot left his car in the middle of the parking lot,” said the woman, who didn’t give her name or age.

“He wanted to wait until the next day, but he decided to be a nice guy and go through with it. At the same time he came back here, Care Flight left.”

The male neighbor said he plowed the area with a bobcat while Renner used a snowplow that couldn’t handle heavy snow.

“Sno-Cats are used for grooming,” he said of the snow plow, also known as the PistenBully. “It should not be used in heavy snowfall.”

Lars Mintz, lift operator and maintenance worker at Sky Tavern ski resort, told The Post that the PistenBully used by Renner may have had a problem with the brakes.

“If it didn’t stop, it was probably due to a braking problem,” explained the 23-year-old. “You put it in park and lock the e-brake. It’s not like a gearbox – it’s a hydraulic pump that shuts off the power to move the tracks forward.”

Trail grooming equipment at a ski resort on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 near Jeremy Renner’s home in Nevada. Carl Costas for NY Post

“Maybe he forgot to put the brakes on,” Mintz said of Renner.

Mintz said he prefers to use a bobcat for snow removal, but also noted that the PistenBully is used for snow removal as well as snow removal at the ski resort.

“These things are very dangerous,” he said of the PistenBully. “This is the first time I’ve heard from Jeremy Renner as a person.”

The ‘Avengers’ and ‘Bourne Legacy’ star is in critical but stable condition. More details from an 911 call log showed that the right side of Renner’s chest collapsed and his torso was crushed under the nearly 14,500-pound plow, according to TMZ.

The entrance to Renner’s Nevada home. Carl Costas for NY Post

He shared a photo from his hospital bed Tuesday night with a badly bruised face.

“Thank you everyone for your kind words,” Renner wrote in the caption. “I’m too confused to type now. But I send you all my love.”

Renner shared a photo of himself in the hospital after a snow plow accident on his Instagram account ZUMAPRESS.com

Renner is known in the area for being neighborly and has been clearing snow regularly for many years.

Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said during a Tuesday news conference that Renner’s PistenBully “got stuck” when Renner tried to “salvage” and “retrieve” the vehicle. [it] To move.”

Although he was successful, he was next to the machine talking to a family member when the snowplow started moving, the sheriff said.

“In order to stop the rolling PistenBully, Mr. Renner tried[ed] “I have to climb back into the driver’s seat of the PistenBully,” said Balaam. “According to our investigations, Mr. Renner is at this point [was] run over.”

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• MLB traditionalists aren’t happy with the Giants’ neglecting for baseball’s unwritten rules
• San Francisco doesn’t care, they’re more interested in winning
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The San Francisco Giants have been taking some heat from baseball traditionalists.

In a blowout win over the Padres on Tuesday, San Francisco players and management opted to neglect some of the sport’s “unwritten rules” in an attempt to gain an advantage for games later in the series.

The most egregious offense was a sixth inning bunt-for-base hit by Mauricio Dubon with the Giants leading the game by nine runs. San Diego Padres manager Bob Melvin didn’t take kindly to what he views as bad sportsmanship.

San Francisco Manager Gabe Kapler Responds

Giants manager Gabe Kapler sees no issue with the bunt, or a variety of other incidents that happened throughout the game.

The San Francisco leader also mentions a second inning steal by Steven Duggar with his team leading 10-1. Check out his postgame comments below.

“I fully support both of those decisions. I support the decision that Duggar made, also support the decision that Dubon made to bunt right there. Our goal is not exclusively to win one game in a series, it’s to try to win the entire series.

“Sometimes that means trying to get a little deeper into the opposition’s pen, and I understand that many teams don’t love that strategy. And I get why… It’s not to be disrespectful in any way… It’s the best way to try and win a series.

“If other clubs decide they want to do the same thing to us, we won’t have any issue with it.”

He’s got a point.

Working the opposition’s pitching staff deeper into games can be key to winning a three- or four-game series. And let’s get real, these are professional players. As Kapler notes, it’s not meant to hurt anyone’s feelings, it’s about getting as many wins as possible.

Giants Players Have Embraced This Strategy

Kapler mentions that his team talked about the strategy prior to the year. His players seem to share the same sentiment.

#SFGiants are fully behind their strategy to pile on.

Joc Pederson: “If you don’t like it, play better.”

Alex Cobb: “We know they’re not going to be happy. And that’s OK.”

Dubon: “We’re trying to win a series. I’m not trying to disrespect anybody.”https://t.co/HyC1voJ13W

— Evan Webeck (@EvanWebeck) April 13, 2022

Dubon, specifically, was asked about the bunt after the game. He mirrored what was said by his team’s manager.

It will undoubtedly rub more opponents the wrong way moving forward, but don’t expect the Giants to change their line of thinking. San Francisco won their first series of the season using these tactics. They’ll try to pick up another series win in the finale versus San Diego.

As long as it continues to work, they won’t care what their opponents think.

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ABC7 news reporter Luz Pena spoke to victims who fled through their windows onto a fire escape and took action to help others.

In the Sierra Madre Apartments in San Francisco’s tenderloin, the flames moved rapidly from the 4th to the 6th floor, threatening at least 60 residents who were just waking up.

“I couldn’t see anything because the smoke rose in my face and the smoke was very strong. So what did you do? I immediately closed the door and tried to escape,” said Yohana Romero from San Francisco.

On the 6th floor, two floors above what is considered the epicenter of the fire, resident Yohana Romero ran back to her apartment and grabbed what was closest to her.

“My cell phone and my charger, that’s it. This is my work stuff and my glasses,” said Romero, adding, “I’ve lost everything.”

Romero escaped through her living room window onto a fire escape. On the way down, she saw her elderly neighbors calling for help.

“They are super old and I don’t know how when I saw his window they had heavy smoke outside and I said ‘Oh my god’,” said Romero.

On the side of the building, firefighters rescue at least 20 residents and several pets. The San Francisco Fire confirmed that 15 residents were slightly injured and 60 were displaced. SFFD thanks San Francisco police officers who came first and saved lives when the flames broke out. One officer sustained life-threatening injuries.

“This is a building that offers supportive living space. Mostly seniors. There are also a few families in the building. It was a terrible scene this morning, but luckily everyone got out safely, ”said Matt Haney, San Francisco supervisor.

As the investigation begins to find the cause, Supervisor Matt Haney is working with the Red Cross to find shelter for the displaced.

“The fire displaced people from 44 units. We have about 60 people and this was a TNDC housing project, so they are working on finding empty units so people can be moved to other accommodation, ”said Donna Logan, American Red Cross Disaster Action Team Leader.

Yohana Romero is glad that she trusted the fire alarm this time and escaped in time.

Luz Pena: “You thought this was a false alarm because you heard the fire alarm before?”

Yohana Romero: “Before, many times. Usually I open the door and nothing happened, but this time it was terrible.”

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