Abc7 news starts right now with live breaking news. Tonight a major break in the lake county fire. It is my pleasure to announce the arrest of Damon Anthony pashil. Leads to relief. Now they have a long battle ahead. Good evening. Im dan ashley. He is damon pashil jievment he was booked on 17 counts of arson for fires in lake county including the 4,000 acre clayton fire. His charges will likely be enhanced because homes have been destroyed. He has been arrested a dozen times before mostly for parole vie layings, mostly weapons and drug charges. Katie was at the emotional meeting where investigators announced the arrest. She is there live. Katie . Ama and dan, the fire lines are holding tonight and the fire is mostly contained in an area that is outside of town and they will be staying at the twin pine casinos. Tonight is full of cheers and tears. On 17 counts of arson. It is hard to look at that man and know he caused all of this. Especially i have very dear friends who have helped me
Are okay and animals, Everything Else is rebuildable. This family lives just a few blocks from downtown lower lake, here, home after home is gone. Jose alvardo moved to win chester just months ago. Judging from what you can see, what do you think . It looks like my house is gone. This area is bone dry and there are significant fires in the area. Reporter families are evacuated and they, and their animals are safe. They have no idea whether their house, near Anderson Marsh is standing. I heard it was moving away from Anderson Marsh but winds can change at any point. And this is the activity we have seen. These are the homes that burned here, this is a fire crew from east bay regional park. Weve seen all kinds of crews up here, trying to help out. This is to make sure there are no flare ups. Tonight there will be two Community Meetings, one as we speak in kelseyville and another in middletown. Theyre trying to keep people up to date and they cant let folks in until this fire take a look
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I got my animals. I got me and my wife and our child out. Im just worried about our home. Block after block destroyed. 175 buildings gone. Lost in the flames. That doesnt count the human toll. Dont know if its burned or not. Just homing its not. That was everything. I just hope that everybody is okay. Reporter but there will be some relief. Late today the governor issued state of emergency for lake county. Good evening im dan. Amma is off tonight. 1500 homes still at risk of burning down. Fire broke out on saturday evening at this by the town of lower lake. Thats where most of the homes burned in fact. Laura anthony spent the day with evacuee wondering if the homes are still standing. I just hope that everybody is okay. Reporter he hasnt seen his ho3iuz yet but pretty good idea what happened to it. Given it was right in the middle of this. On sunday. All of a sudden at 10 30 sirens started to go off and helicopters and flames and planes and everybody got really serious really quick. Re
Weapons and drug charges. Katie was at the emotional meeting where investigators announced the arrest. She is there live. Katie . Ama and dan, the fire lines are holding tonight and the fire is mostly contained in an area that is outside of town and they will be staying at the twin pine casinos. Tonight is full of cheers and tears. On 17 counts of arson. It is hard to look at that man and know he caused all of this. Especially i have very dear friends who have helped me a lot and they lost everything. Andrea feels like so many do. Love and anger and a lot of relief. He is responsible. Bernice laceys house survived and she learned it at the community meeting. I feel grateful. While others wait. They sparked the clayton fire near Clayton Creek road east of highway 29. 179 structures were destroyed. He is suspected it for other fires dating back a year and a half. We have a Great Community and everybody steps up really good. With his arrest people say they will sleep easier tonight even i