Creek. Matt keller is headedo scene. He is on the phone. Right now he is in Scotts Valley. Tell us about this area that you are heading to. Are there many people who live in this evacuation zone . Well, it is a remote area, and the roads up here are thats the thing. When you hear about evacuations up here, the biggest concern is that there are a lot of, like, onelane roads up here, and a lot of Construction Since the flooding of last year, and there were a lot of mud slides and if you are driving in the Santa Cruz Mountains, you will be dealing with construction, and thats when a lot of construction crews are working. So that could be a big concern. So with evacuations kind of i think all on our minds with everything that happened up there in the north bay, those are such extreme conditions, but up here in the middle of the night, thats a concern because people with sleeping. This fire started at 11 00 last night. People were sleeping when this fire started when getting to homes and kn
School in Boulder Creek. Thats where evacuees are already heading, we are told there are 150 so far, that fire they have knocked on some doors, theyre trying to get people out and get them to that school. The wind is a concern this morning. If there are any out there, lets check in with mike nicco on the forecast. Jessica, reggie, that was a good if there are any winds out there, that was a good statement there, jessica. Hi, everybody, let me start off by saying this is not and will not be a repeat of what we dealt with in the north bay. We just do not have the environmental weather or wind conditions to do it. Right now there are no wind, but the temperature up at about 1600 to 1800 feet its 69 degrees, a little warm, humidity is about 23 so it is bone dry out there. What youre seeing right now is this is a chimney kind of fire. It is climbing up the valley walls due to the chimney effect because the hot air rises and as the hot air rises it dries out the registration above it and tha
Creek road. Right now, evacuees are gathering at Boulder Creek elementary school. We have one crew at the makeshift shelter. You see the live photo of that right now. The mandatory Evacuation Order is affecting more than 100 people. All of them had to leave their homes in a scramble in the middle of the night. Again, looking live at one of the Evacuation Centers, Boulder Creek elementary school. Firefighters are telling people whose homes are not under mandatory evacuation they should leave if they feel they are in danger. Very important, do not wait for an official order. Leave if you feel unsafe. Boulder Creek Elementary School is the designated elementary school. Some folks arrived there around 2 00 this morning. A friend came banging, saying, the sheriff is here. Saying, the sheriff is here . I didnt do anything wrong. Honest. The people here that, you know, are welcoming. Very nice man set up a chair over here because he said it was the warmer part of the room. Being an old lady,
Night in these steep canyons, we have an access issues and as you can see behind me theres steep and rugged terrain. Reporter about 125 acres have burned and they say about 150 residences have been evacuated. The santa cruz Sheriffs Department is going door to door trying to get people out. They say there are about 150 of those homes that they are trying to get to to get out of the area those are mandatory evacuations this he also you say if anybody is in the peripheral area of this fire, las couple brass area is part of the place that has been evacuated as well. If you are not in the evacuation area but if you feel unsafe and then theyre saying go ahead and leave the area. There are road blocks out here on highway 9 and also on bear creek road. You can get out on highway 9, they stopped that construction so people can leave but if you do leave they are not letting people up into the area. They want to make sure they dont have to do evacuations again. You can see that the fire is sitti
Burning southwest of saratoga and los gatos and north of ben lowman. We want to look at where that fire started. The flames sprung up overnight at deer creek road and bear creek road. We have people calling into the news room. Evacuees are gathering at Boulder Creek Elementary School. We did talk with the School District leader. They are ready for as many people as need to arrive there. At this point, they have 1015 people there. Those mandatory evacuation orders are affecting more than 100 people. All of them had to leave their homes in the middle of the night. Firefighters are telling people whose homes are not under the mandatory evacuation orders to leave if they feel they are in danger. If you see smoke or flames, dont be told to get out. The Elementary School is the designated shelter. A friend came, too. He said the sheriff is here. I didnt do anything wrong, honest. People here that, you know, welcomed me. Very nice men. Set up chairs, put me over here because it was the warmes