Contain the fire. Hundreds are evacuating as the fire continues to spread. The plume of smoke can be seen blowing into nevada. Thu thousands of firefighters are woorking the line. We have a look at what it means for crews. Reporter when thousands of homes are threatened by a Massive Wildfire and the whole town of mariposa is under evacuation orders, help is needed. Dozens of firefighters from santa clara Fire Agencies answered the call and headed to the fire outside of yosemite. They face a stiffer challenge. Youre talking about large stands of dead trees that will never come back. Big timber field source. Reporter 48 firefighters and ten engines from santa clara fire, san jose, mountain view, santa clara, morgan hill make up the three strike teams. The firefighters staying behind are working extra hard during fire season. We send 40 out. That leaves 40 spots at home that have to be filled. Lots of time its filled with overtime. People are working extra days. They are here back at home
Traffic cameras there. And it looked like in things are brightening up. This particular view from our kpix 5 studios from the port of oakland, its getting darker. How about this view . We climb on top of sutro tower. [ foghorn sound effect ] we look towards the Salesforce Tower. [ foghorn sound effect ] we have layers of cloud and fog,49 santa rosa 59 oakland, mostly cloudy skies for everyone. Temperatures across the bay area spot on with the clearing. 60s beaches. 70s, 80s peninsula. 80s around the dollar is valley through the 70s to the low 90s east of the bay. North bay with sunshine, back to stinson beach, in the 60s to the 80s. Full forecast is coming up. A Massive Wildfire burning near yosemite has exploded in size since it started on sunday. Kpix 5s jackie ward joins now with the allout evident to get it under control. Reporter the video we are getting from the scene is staggering. Already the fire has scorched 39 square miles and is threatening 1500 homes. That fire is burning
This far. 20 years ago there was one that made it all the way to bear valley and they stopped it there but these winds are totally different this year and theres a lot of fuel. This fire started sunday afternoon. There are now 700 firefighters on the front lines, including a strike team from San Francisco. So far the flames have destroyed one structure and damaged a second. The good news though, no reports of any injuries. Earlier tonight we spoke to jesse figueroa, the owner of a market in the Small Community of greeley hill. Hes also an Emergency Responder and he told us about the evacuations. Im Operations Manager for Mercy Medical transportation which is the ambulance provider in mariposa and everyone, the employees, theyre being evacuated and we had four ambulances staffed today which we normally only have three, just trying to get people moved out, helping the hospital. Everyone is trying to help out to get everyone out of here. Smoke from the fire can be clearly seen in the Yose
Surprised that this happened. Now you could see the tall flames from ignacio valley road. 7 engines arrived and police were escorting people out of the condo. The crews needed to knockdown the fire fast since many were sleeping at this hour. Neighbors say there has been multiple problems at this condo and the police have been called on several occasions. One woman who says shes on a Neighborhood Association board but didnt want to be identified said the family in the upstairs unit was evicted. Last night she was supposed to leave. She was supposed to move, and it was the day she was supposed to be out so i find it very interesting that the house is on fire. Now, the cause of the fire is still under investigation. We did talk to Walnut Creek Police who say they are not investigating this fire. We have three phone calls in Contra Costa Office and the fire marshals office, but we havent heard anything back. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time. We do know that the red cross is he
Security guard is out of a job all because of a fight over a stolen backpack. It was all captured on cell phone video. This is cell phone video of a fight that has cost a Security Guard her job. It broke out on the third deck during last nights game between the as and the giants, the opener of the bay bridge series. You can see a female Security Guard wearing a black jacket who appears to be hitting a female fan and grabbing her hair. There also appears to be a second Security Guard involved in the fight at one point. Other guards step in. Witnesses told ktvu that the fans were rowdy and were heckling the Security Guard. At one point one of the guards came back and flipped off the crowd. A fan threw a beer at the guard. In another video you can see Police Officers responding. The Department Says the fight was over a backpack stolen from another Security Guard. It was later recovered with some items still missing. Ktvu has confirmed this Security Guard seen here was involved in the figh