Intensive the wind unfortunately blowing straight at us it just kind of worked its way up and all that smoke could be making its way to southern nevada. In a live report we have the latest on the blue cut fire burning out of control and containment efforts this morning. Pts is hiring. All the details, on todays job fair. Welcome back to fox5 news this morning im maria silva. And im dave hall. We are following breaking news on the bluecut fire. Right now the wildfire is growing like crazy as it chews through heavy brush in San Bernardino county. The fire, which started Tuesday Morning has already forced more than 82thousand evacuations. We have Team Coverage on the cajon pass fire this morning. Discuss air quality and road closures related to the fire. But first. Mike doria joins us live from the scene of the fire on the eye15 near hisperia. Where a state of emergency is in place. Mike were learning that the extremly hot, dry conditions are making the battle mike were conditions are mak
They have been fighting this since just before 11 am yesterday. Back then it was just 2 acres. But it has been growing at a staggering rate. Officials are estimating more than 34thousand homes and more than 82 thousand people are now under evacuation orders. Not only do we have all the latest information on the fire we are also the only local station in california in the middle of the action. 13 action News Reporter mahsa saiedi is live, near the 15 mahsa is live along 15 past main street thursday but due to the wildfire near the cajon pass, smoke and haze will stay in the valley. Mountains will be effected by the smoke the most; into unhealthy levels for children, the elderly and people with respiratory issues. We could at times see these level through the rest of the week. Weather will be quite settled through the week and weekend. Highs will be near normal the next few days with overnight lows near the seasonal temperatures as well. If it was not for the haze we would have clear ski
It is extremely hot outside. Because of that, calfire says they are going to have a tough time fighting this fire. In a few moments we will have a live report from San Bernardino county. Right now we want to take you to some live pictures there from this fire. You can see that structure right there has been destroyed. Its one of several that have been consumed. Yeah, we dont have a firm count exactly how many structures have been burned. 24 hours ago, cristina, we had live pictures of homes and buildings being burned by this fire. 1300 personnel. We saw an air tanker. The air attack very important today. Obviously still very dangerous fire conditions there . Have you noticed the fires that are breaking out, the humungous ones are in the south. Thats a function of the drought. El nino did not deliver at all this past winter. So the explosive growth. Of course, the weather conditions a big factor. Also the drought. Extremely dry. Taking a look at the temperature pattern out there and the
Meteorologist ted pretty shows us how the fire will be affecting our air quality in the valley. But first Miguel Martinez valle show us the damage the fire has already caused. The out of control brush fire has prompted a state of emergency, massive evacuations, and many road closures. Were about a half mile away from where Fire Fighters are still combating the growing flames. We were there earlier and as your about to see the fire destroyed everything in its path. The devastation continues in Southern California as the blue cut fire spreads rapidly over cajon pass. Gary sigler, retired fire fighter one of the largest fires ive lot of fires down on cajon pass when i was with the department for those living in the area the way the flames spread from a few acres to more than 15 thousand in a matter of hours caught them off guard. Jason akins, lives in the area the smoke just got more and more intensive the wind unfortunately blowing straight at us it just kind of worked its way up and as
Blue cut fires have been names of fires in the past, actually just recently, because once a fire truck arrives, they say whats this fire going to be named, so they can alert. This is the blue cut fires. I want to toss it over to carla, our meteorologist in the Weather Center who is going to talk about how the weather conditions have impacted Southern California and caused these wildfires. Its that time we have dry conditions. We have southwesterly winds and very hot temperatures which do not help firefighting efforts and the wind could help some of that fire to spread along with the dry conditions. Now, here is where the fire is located. Mind you, its about 200 miles from las vegas. Its a little bit more. So if the smoke did get here, were talking about maybe a day or so before it does arrive into the las vegas area. Sp were definitely this that breezy category. Heres the concern, southwesterly winds in henderson, this is what were going to see for the rest of tonight and into tomorrow