Theres no exact number on the number of people evacuated. This ballooned up to 25,000 acres in a few hours. We know several neighborhoods evacuated. The valley fire tearing through the town of middletown. Thats in lake county. Houses are on fire. Jackie sissel is live from middletown. I cant imagine what people are looking at out there right now. It has to be frightening. Reporter it is frightening, scott. Whole streets are on fire right now. Im sitting on highway 29. I can tell you that it is nothing but fire on all sides of highway 29. Huge chunks of downtown middletown on fire. That includes dozens and dozens of home and structures. You can probably hear in the background that hissing hissing sound. Ive seen already 2 dozen homes on fire. Ive been in the business for 25 year. Ive never seen a firestorm like this that has affected such a huge part of the community. Fires are also to the west and the east. Its nothing but a glow and a huge plume of smoke billows over lake county. Once again, you can hear the hissing in the background. Thats a gas line thats rupturing out here. Homes continue to explode. Firefighters have their hands full. Unfortunately, this fire continues to rage out of control. There isnt much that the firefighters can do. The wind is pretty strong up here right now. Theres so much land on fire, firefighters are basically standing by and watching these wildfires burn because theyre nothing they can do. Scott . Reporter youre hearing propane tanks exploding as you said. Is there any indication that someone has been injured as a result of this . Reporter i dont know if anybody has been hurt in this. I was coming up on 29th. Hundreds if not thousands of cars were streaming down the mountain, all those mass evacuations. Hopefully most people did get out this is a very rural area in middletown. It is a town, but still up in a rural area. A lot of these homes, their main source of gas is propane. So you have all of these propane tanks, all these dairy farms, a lot of rural area up here. So these people rely on propane tank preponderates fires are raging out of control, then they hit the propane tanks and makes it that much worse. Fingers crossed that everyone has gotten out. Its a sight i have never seen before, so many homes burning at one time. Thank you for the pictures up there. Be safe out there. Well check back in with you, jackie. Cecil, bringing you those pictures. Well see if we can give you an idea on how quickly this thing spread today. It started up here neither town of cobb, which is by glen brook up here. It just went straight down to middletown. Thats about 9 miles. I did the math there. This thing very quick very hot, and moving very raply right now scary stuff to say the least. Weve also been getting a flood of twitter pics into the newsroom. People are showing what theyre seeing on twitter. Ive seen this come in from the strip mall. Look at all of that smoke billowing into the air. With all of the homes on fire and all of evacuation with the smoke and people breathing that in, that will be a concern as well. This courtesy of nicole89 on twitter. No containment on this fire on the valley fire right now. Theyre really struggling with it, going on into the night, continuing to grope continuing to get worse. And theres really nothing people can do except watch their homes burn. Alicia . Do we know if firefighters have a number on containment . 0 containment right now. They havent even released a containment number because this fire has burn sod rapidly, they cant get a handle on it. Cal fire tell mess theyre attacking this thing with everything theyve got. Theyve raised their number from 133 firefighters to over 200 in the last couple of hours and still not putting a dent into it yet. Hopefully as nightfalls, conditions will get better and they can get containment on this thing and get a fire burning around it. Keep us updated. We have Team Coverage of the fire Brian Van Aiken has been tracking the fire conditions. Will firefighters see any relief any time soon . We do have the winds beginning to calm down. The temperatures are dropping. Humidity is rising. But so far today, the weather has been terrible for firefighting. Weve had strong winds and very dry air and very hot air too. The humidity was down to 33 . Thats bone dry conditions. Winds autoof winds out of the west at 19 miles an hour. This hurricane is producing a few sprinkles in some locations. Most of it is not reaching the ground. This will not help with the fire conditions. What will help is increased humidity coming in as well as some more cooling coming for tomorrow. Heres a look at the radar. We have a weather system moving from the south. Alicia . We first told you about the valley fire through a mobile push alert. Download the kron 4 mobile app for more. Coming up, a raging fire in lake county is growing rapidly and continues to threaten homes. New information in the hunt for freeway shooter in arizona. Why the person of interest interest is no longer a prime suspect. And only one person survives a plane crash in foggy conditions. Among the dead in the dlummian mountains been in the columbian mountains, a prominent hollywood stunt pilot. A plane flying from columbia crashed on monday as it was carrying actors from a tom cruise film. Among the 2 kills is tom kerw initiation, who provide sweeping earl shots for tvs and movies. Tom cruise was not on the crash. There are no details yet on what caused the crash. Coming up, the valley fire in lake county continues to burn out of control. Well have an update. Plus, tennis pro james blake may sue the city of new york after he was detained by a Police Officer. Hear what he has to say ahead. Great change comes from doing the right thing. Like the radical idea that health isnt an industry. Its a cause. So we do things differently. We combine care and coverage. And believe prevention is the most powerful of cures. So forgive us for not going with the flow. We just think the flow should go with us. Which makes us rebels with one cause. Your health. We continue to follow breaking news out of lake county where the valley fire has scorched more than 25,000 acres. People are being evacuated out of their homes. Several neighborhoods near middletown. Weve seen houses out mr. On fire. We spoke to one gentleman who sat there and all he could do was watch his parents business go up in flames. Take a listen to this. You all right . Yeah, everythings okay. This is my parents business. But there are some people that lost their houses. Were just lucky its not our moment. How bad is it out here . You cant even see the mountains anymore it was on top of mountains this morning. Its like a disaster movie. So those people right there just getting out of the way and staying as safe as they can be. Firefighters are not getting any help with the wind or the conditions. The containment is at 0 right now. Theres no containment on this fire. So many homes destroyed, so much fire up in the air, scott, what resources are firefighters throwing at this . They threw about 130 boots on the ground and an air tanker at first. Theyve since upped that to well over 200. They are trying to attack this thing so that the best they can is on the way. Cooler temperatures are coming in for the next few days. Not enough to help with the fire situation. The winds are still continuing for tonight. Winds are picking up across the entire bay area. Its been good news in as much as its cooled temperatures down with the big rush of ocean air coming in. Temperatures have dropped by as much as 20 to 25 degrees. The wind gusts have contributed to the rapid expansion of this fire. Tonight, some strong winds overhead from some remnants of a hurricane. Tomorrow, well have sunshine into the afternoon. For monday, as the tail end of this weather system pull ace cross the bay area, there may be an isolated shower. Temperatures about the same as we had today, but with the additional sunshine, it will be warmer in the best east bay valley. Low 80s in south bay. 70s by the bay. For monday, some clouds in the morning. There could be that passing shower. For tuesday, low clouds in the morning with slow clearing and much cooler for the afternoon hours. Were getting some air coming in from the gulf of alaska. Only 60s and 70s for tuesday afternoon. For wednesday, there is a weather system coming from the gulf of alaska that will increase clouds on wednesday night, bring in the possibility of some light rain on thursday morning. The fire is still going on. Alicia . Are seniors at section 8 in one east bay Apartment Community being forced out of their home . Thats the predicament one mother says her mother is faced with. She shares her flight in tonights my kron 4 story. Reporter Heritage Park apartment. Advertised as Senior Living at its beeps. Its not fair. Reporter not so much, says cathy walker, whose 73yearold mother has lived here for 15 years. For years, walker says her mom has been slowly priced out, and in april, it jumped up to where its unaffordable. It will be about 1200 for a new apartment. Last year it was 12 want 79. So they take her percentage now and add 79. This year they were going raise her to 1369. Hi her talk to the office at Heritage Park and they lowered to t to 1339, but shes shes still having to pay the 139 extra that section 8 is not goirchg. Theres an ethical issue with it. Reporter how many section 8 residents live here . At one point, there were 36. Reporter a explosionperson says the new rent and sex section 8 plan were approved by the Housing Authority of the city of livermore. If you have a story you would like to share with once head to our website. There, you can submit your story under the my kron 4 story tab. Its at kron4. Com. New droplet developments in the hunt for the arizona freeway shooter. Police say the person of interest detained yesterday is not a prime suspect in the information. S this comes after 2 week of at least 11 vehiclessing with being hit with bullets or project tills. Were calling him a personal of interest, but we really wanted to talk to him about a lot of thing. Its fair to say this will probably come pup but we basically want to spend some time with him and find out what he knows. Center interstate 10 has become a target zone for a serial shooter or shooters. Theyve hit all times of day and night with no apparent pat person authorities are encouraging the public throw main vigilant. James blake may sue the city of new york after being detained by a Police Officer on wednesday. Today, he says it depends on what the city does to make it right. As andy rose reports, blake wants to see changes in the Way Police Deal with the public. It still strikes a nerve. Reporter james blake say its frustrating to watch the surveillance vid imroapt former tennis star says he has an attorney but hasnt decided if hell sue the city of new york. If we come up with solutions, we dont have to court go to court. If they dont do enough to make this right, we may need to do a lawsuit. Reporter this Surveillance Video shows blake casually standing outside a New York Hotel when undercover officer james frascatori rushes him and tags him to the ground. Cop were investigating credit card fraud. Blake says its an unnecessary use of force. It doesnt make sense when youre investigating a non violent crime, a supposedly non violent criminal that isnt running and isnt showing any sign of resisting. Its really unnecessary. Reporter frascatori has been placed on desk duty. Both William Bratten and mayor bill deblasio apologized. Thats nice, but theres 5 civilian complaints as well. Im sure those 5 people havent gotten a call. There needs to be a an act of apology to all of the people that dont have the same stature i have. A fire in lake county continues to burn out of control, scorching thousands of acres. Coming up next, well have an update. Hey let me help with that. Oh, thank you introducing the oneandonly Volkswagen Golf sportwagen. The sportier utility vehicle. Because at t and directv are offering yesterdays technology, today. Tv from space. [whispered] space as long as its not too rainy. [whispered] rainy or windy. [whispered] windy or there isnt a branch in the way. [whispered] branchy welcome to the moment no ones been waiting for. The Fastest Internet and the best tv experience is already here with x1. Only from xfinity. [is the staying awake part. T challeng gun shot your day sleep train has your ticket to a better nights sleep. 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Although were cooling things down, the bad news is the winds will still be a big factor and humidity very low. Tomorrow, look for temperatures in the 70s by the bay, 80s in the south bay, 90s in inland spots including lake county, so not good news for the wildfire locations. It is not. Get the latest news at kron4. Com or download one of our mobile apps. Well see you tomorrow morning. [suspenseful music] [suspenseful music] [male narrator] child abduction by a parent or Family Member is a crime. Get involved. If you have any information concerning a missing or abducted child, plea call 1800222find or contact your locallaw. You might be the one who saves a childs life and their future. Groom to the rescue. Somebody call 911. Coming out of his wedding toast to save a choking guest. Who would have guessed on their special day, this would have happened. Then. What happens the diagnosis . Youre fat. The new tv show creating a storm. The only thing fatter than you are your lies. 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