It lasts least another day or so. Well also take a look at your beach forecast, while it is going to be quite warm, it will be one place to go to get some relief from the heat this afternoon. Your giants and radars forecast also coming up later. All right. Back to the news this morning. Firefighters slowly getting containment on the valley fire thats burning in lake county. That has been burning more than a week and the People Living in the area now being able to return home. It has scorched more than 74,000acres. It is now 50 contained. Eightyfive homes have been destroyed. More than 7,000 have been threatened. Ed to people evacuated from the Hidden Valley lake area, will be allowed home to view the fire damage. Butt canyon road also will be allowed back. We are expecting a update coming up. Only 20,000 evacuees were permitted back up to the valley view fire. After a week, people are finally able to see the damage the fire had done. Everything is just gone. Its the worst thing that i
A lot of very distraught people out here. Red cross is out here. They told the family they would be able to put them up in a hotel for three days. There are obviously several other people out here trying to find shelter and replace the things that they lost out here. This is a very small community. Its very tight. Coming back here, as you can tell behind meet winds are blowing pretty hard right now. A lot more than they were at 1 30. In fact, at last check they were about 30 Miles Per Hour out here. So even though they have it under control they have to worry about embers blowing. This one blew about half a mile from the original point and started that one. Now theyre trying to stop any spot fires that might pop up. Allen wang. Another fire is burning in sacramento. Huge plumes of smoke are filling the sky near cal expo. At one point firefighters say flames reached 200 feet in the air. The grandstand where tonights fireworks performance is scheduled has been evacuated. No structures ha
Gathered behind me in the distance. Details are very limited. We have video taken from early when bart Officials Say this started at 9 30. They got a call indicating a person was trapped under a train. We have since learned it is a minor. However, it is officially unclear how that person ended up on the tracks. Here is what witnesses told abc7. We got out we saw in the back of the train there were people, my god, look down here, and there was a child, i dont know if it was child, but a girl, a girl had jumped and you could hear her screaming she needed help. Bart police and the Fire Department are at seen investigating. Bart is downing around trains at truth veil and have established a bus route. Hopefully in the next 30 minutes we will learn more details. Now, again, service at san lenadro is halted as authorities try to figure out what has happened. Another accident involving mass transit claims the life of a person in San Francisco this morning. This accident happened after 6 00 whe
Delta. You can see the devastation here. Firefighters have just gotten the blaze under control tonight. Good evening, im erik thomas. And im anna dates. Abc 7 News Reporter allen long has the very latest. Reporter you can see behind me theyre just now putting out the remnants of this fire. Its still burning very hot back there. But they say its under control. They finally got it under control about an hour ago. But the Solano County Sheriffs Department says it destroyed eight homes before they stopped it. This is the eighth home destroyed by this fire. It is still burning out there, but firefighters say the flames have reached all the way to the river so it no longer poses a threat. Now, the fire actually started after embers from the first one in collinsville blew about a half mile east of here. This is a Small Community across the San Joaquin River from pittsburg. It broke out around 1 30 and destroyed several homes and collinsville road. The winds were blowing at more than 20 Miles
Another sunny day today with light breeze around the bay. Temperatures well above average from the upper 60s around the bay to near 70 inland. A little cooler at the coast, though. We could see some fog and that will allow for a cool down for some of you for the second half of the weekend. And you probably heard about it by now, transitioning to a welt pattern come next week. I will have the details in a few minutes. Katie. Thank goodness. Developing news out of the east bay. Repairs are underway after a bart train jumped the tracks. It happened last night at 6 30 at the concord station. Both lines on the pittsburgh bayfield line were blocked yesterday. Repairs are expected to last through today and there is travel offered for people offer in that direction. We have more from concord. Reporter the bart train derailed just after 6 30 at the height of the evening commute and its going to take a long time to get trains running through here again. We will not have bart service past the Ple