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Reporter from a distance mandy thought she was look at a bonfire. 911 asked if it was the size of a football field and at that point it was. And at that point, it just started getting bigger, really fast. Reporter alarmingly fast. Within just a few hours, the flames would consume 2500 acres in rural pope valley fueled by grass, trees and rocky terrain left desiccated by a punishing drought. This firefighters told us is not your typical july wildfire. We are seeing fires that we would see later in the year. Hot conditions, low humidity, strong winds and fires will burn faster than this one. Reporter an aggressive unpredictable intensity that firefighters have been struggling for hours to try to control. Heres one of the unique problems firefighters are dealing with, spot fires like this hopping all along the hillside. They are sporadic and when they come together they create larger fires causing this particular fire to spread fast. And firefighters say this is just the beginning. Wildfi
Percent. And some 2hundred homes have been evacuated. Kron4s jr stone explains why this fire has been so challenging for crews on the front line. Flames shooting into the air in northern napa county and parts of lake county. Firefighters have now been fighting these flames for more than 24 hours and they are still dealing with challenges. The heat, the low humidity, the fuel bed is so dry. Temperatures wednesday reached into the upper 90s. As i drove along butts canyon road in napa county it was hard to see at times because of all the smoke. Really the topography. If you go you can see that it is straight up and downheavy rocks so its the firefighters having the instability platforms to work fromyou have the dozers trying to climb that rock. It gets to be very dangerous. So far no one has been hurt but 9 structures including 2 residences have burned to the ground. Those with cal fire arent sure if anyone had been living in those homes. Firefighters have been fighting on the ground. And
Again, she mentioned the mandatory Evacuations Ordered by cal fire, of butts canyon north, north to have snell valley road, the estates area at the end of snell valley road is under evacuation orders and two Evacuation Centers set up, at Hope Valley School and middletown high school. And were live, and youre miles away from the fire, but you can smell the smoke. The good news here, is you cannot actually smell the smoke. We are west of the fire here, but you can easily see how much smoke is put out by this fire. Were miles from the fire lines here, at hunt and railroad avenues, the fire is blown away from this direction. I talked to our meteorologist, and she said, north by northeast winds, blowing 5 to 15 Miles Per Hour, and it appears thats the case. Its blowing the smoke from this fire in that north, northeast direction and away from the heavily Populated Areas here. On the other side of the fire is lake berry, and thats an area thats not heavily populated, and here in calistoga, th
Out. Good afternoon. Im happen 4th of july. Im mike me pack. Alameda put on a 4th of july parade this morning. Thousands of people lined et streets the streets. Mean have been coming to the annual event for years. I think awesome. This is our entire neighborhood. We come here every year. Afterwards we have a big block party. Alameda has more than 174 float and and in redwood city, there was an annual pancake breakfast, they served pancake, sausage, orange juice and coffee and had 650 pound of pancake mix, 25 gallons of syrup and 50 pounds each of coffee and orange juice. You come to the fire juice and theres opportunity to see some of the firefighters, see some of the Fire Equipment and then afterwards get to watch the parade. The firefighters say they are proud the entire breakfast was green and generate ed no waste. Lets go now to rosemary who is monitoring your 4th of july conditions. Take a look at this beautiful shot behind me. Wow. Goodlooking day. For most, it feels pretty good