On the side of highway 128. The video was shot at 3 00 the same time that the fire started. And evacuation from is at the winters Country Center with a Large Animal Evacuation Center is open in winter along county road 31. That information is posted at abc7news. Com. Stay with abc7 for updates on the fire throughout this newscast with coverage continuing right new twitter atthistime. Othernews,haywardpolicewill ho ld an oakland man 21 i custody in connection with the Fatal Shooting after police officer. We are at Hayward Police headquarters with the story. Janet . We are expecting to learn more information at 10 00 a. M. When police hold the News Conference. You can see that the growing number of flowers and candles showing a community and the Police Department mourning the loss of Sergeant Scott lunger. Candles are at the police station, as well flowers at the scene where he was fatally shot during a traffic stop yesterday morning. What we have learned about Scott Bertics he is consid
20 Miles Per Hour. Now a check on the only commute. Leyla . We will start in the north bay, taking out 101 to san rafael pushing to 580 with traffic light and accident free so far this morning. Coming up to the Golden Gate Bridge, check it out the truck is making its way to the north end of the bridge to expand southbound lanes. Head to the far righthand side in the northbound or southbound traffic and 45 minutes from tracy to dublin but Everything Else is running at close to posted speed. Thank you leyla. 500 firefighters are battling the fire that is just spreading near Lake Berryessa in 14 hours since breaking out. It has moved quickly burning at least 6,000 acres since yesterday afternoon around 3 00. More than 500 firefighters on the scene and it is only a percent contained. Others are on way from as far away as san diego threat being 200 structures and an outbuilding has been destroyed and a home has been damaged. We bring in the north bay incident management team. Good morning,
You can see the huge flames. Fires are affecting three counties napa and county. Amy . This is 6,000 acres and we are watching it grow. We have seen some flares. Can up over the hillside and now it is very smoky. It has been very busy. We are watching from pleasanton valley road. It is very smoky. And still. No wind. That is an advantage right now. Look at this video fire has already destroyed one build asking we have video of that happening, it was an outhouse or a shed. A home has been damaged. 100 are threatened. We have video of the fire we shot moments ago on the hillside we are standing in front of. Usually you see fire lie down overnight. Not this. It is still raining. Year, it was really picking up because of the winds. They were whipping it along. They are worried about that today. They have thrown a lost manpower at this. You will see the numbers go up. We dont physically put the numbers assign until they arrive but there were significant orders for resources to this incident
This is what they are working in. Look how scattered the homes are they are trying to protect. It is not like it is a neat row of homes. They are all throughout the canyon very far apart from each other. About 200 are threatened. They have evacuated them. They hope to lift the evacuation soon. They say that they will not make a prediction for today because the fire is unpredictable and kept them busy overnight. Look how lively this fire was overnight. This is usually the time when fire takes a break and lies down for a bit but not this year. The fires this year are from time to time more active at night not just because the fuels of dryer but last night it stayed fairly warm. The strike team from marin county arrived at midnight had to jump into a firefight. As we were to deploy it jumped to the other line. They needed engines and we were at the bottom the road and they redeployed us. They found this building onnear with an old car and two other buildings were threatened. They got it k
Kari hall has the wind conditions they have to battle but we begin with stephanie. Whats the progress out there . Scott and kris we expect good progress. The winds dont seem as strong as yesterday, but were awaiting for the update. I spoke with the haffner family. They were told yet not to worry. By 8 00 think saw an orange glow over the ridge north. You can see the land completely blackened behind me. Got up close to their property right up to their fence. I looked up there, and fire was over the ridge. Reporter it wasnt just a surprise to them it surprised firefighters too. They said everything was south of us should be fine. The next thing we know we fire to the ridge to the north of us. I was thinking we need to get them off the property. Reporter its been a tough firefights. The terrain and few roads have complicated the fight. Copped biened with the erratic winds notorious in the area. Blisters couldnt believe the wind. They were probablying burn ago average of 2 feet off the gro