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Nbc bay area news starts now. The valley fire continues to rage this evening. The latest from calfire says it about 50 contained and some of those who live in hardhit middleton came home for the very first time today. A week after the fire broke out incredible rescue stories continue to come out of there. It is slow going for these folks heading back to see what is left of their homes. Reporter yes, terry, peggy, look as we just said, we have some people leaving the fair grounds and going back home after the evacuation orders are lifted. We were there today, people said they were kind of their second family, some good acts, a story last night of a 93yearold woman and her dog saved by a gay warden, here is her family posting messages. Thank you, ryan. Thanks for everybody. Some good stuff there, yet, Catherine Ray who uses a wheelchair had fallen asleep as the fire hit her neighborhood. But she was found in time to be carried to safety. Moments later flames reached her house, all happen
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Probably gone. Reporter others are looking for friends, concerned about who left behind. Its not the normal business that, you know, as if it was down. Reporter a rancher says he was forced to leave his home. He waits on highway 49 looking over the animals he couldnt get out. The mamas wont leave with the babies. They guard and protected the babies. They were saying at the baseball diamond and that once it hits this dry grass it would be on top of us. Reporter the fire has burned 50,000 acres so far. Cal fire says even more evacuations will be likely before the day is done. Like the rest of california, the brush in Calaveras County and amador county, they are very dry because of the drought. Youre looking at live pictures now. Firefighters say this fire has the potential to be a major disaster. Late late this afternoon the lawmakers passed the right to die legislation after emotional lobbying by the family of Brittany Maynard the woman had brain cancer who moved to oregon so she could
In middletown this morning with the very latest. Anne. Reporter people who lost pets may be here to try to care for them or see if they are around. Other ones who are going to be allowed back today they have to have an escort by a sheriffs officer and unfortunately a lot of these people are going to come home to see scenes like this. They are only allowed to come for 15 minutes at a time. Several people unaccounted for this morning that lived around this area including this man leonard neft. He last spoke to his family saturday as the fire raged near his home in anderson springs. He told his wife he didnt feel threatened. Authorities found his burned out car last night on a road that he might have tried to use as an escape route. This fire has so far burned 67,000 acres. This morning, 9,000 homes are still threatened. Almost 600 homes have burned down. Hundreds of other buildings destroyed. And this morning, 13,000 people are still under evacuation orders. Some were able to return to t