They started the air attack, the first drop was half an hour ago. The front page of the chronicle said, catching a break from the fires, then you wake up this morning to a new fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I hope that the weather helps out. Definitely, the timing on the new fire is similar to what we saw in the north bay, flames there started 10 00 sunday night and crews had their hands tied until the next day to get the air drops going. Lets show you where the new fire is burning, it started started as a house fire near 35 in the Boulder Creek area in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Authorities set up to Evacuation Centers, one at Boulder Creek Elementary School. The other, aid fire house in felton, christian has been monitoring the progress made by crews this morning. Reporter a lot of new information, first lets take a live look, its difficult to see through the smoke but it appears that the firefighters are trying to make a stand to save a home op the rim line, we have seen a number
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Christien, as dawn has broken, we are getting a much better look at the area that is burning. Reporter absolutely. That is exactly what firefighters are looking for at this point in time. The bear fire 0 containment. Estimated around 125 acres. Now that the sun is starting to come up, the heat is starting to warm up, and that smoke now started to go higher and higher airborne, this fire very, very large. And at this point unchecked. There are at least three crews back there fighting this fire. Fire crews tell me that they believe they have enough crews here on scene. Theyre working to bring more crews in as the day progresses. Lets see how the fire progressed overnight. It started around 10 30 last night with a fire at a home. That fire then spread to some of the nearby wildland. Firefighters were called to that structure fire. Again, 10 30 last night. Now estimated at 125 acres. Santa cruz county emergency officials sent out a reverse 911 call to residents living within four miles of
Trees nearby. Christien kafton a standing by to give us a look at the efforts to get the fire out. Reporter in the last couple of minutes we saw massive flames. You can see that cal fire helicopter bringing water to the scene. Crews are working to get containment as quickly as possible. Moments ago we saw massive flames on the north east flank of the fire. We can show you what it looks like from above and you can see how big these claims are at how quickly they are moving. In the time we have been sitting here, who watch them creep across to the east. Officials say now that four structures have burned. They are also saying this is a very smoky and hazy fire. Fire crews are battling from the ground and the air. They have managed to get about 5 containment. After sunrise cal fire crews were able to get their first view of the bear fire. At last report it scorched 152 acres of steep and rugged terrain. Remote, stay pariente. Steep bahrain terrain. We do have those issues. Steep terrain, a
County sheriffs, we needed to evacuate. Reporter the bear fire went on to consume hundreds of acres in dry brush and steep terrain torching trees, four structures and threatening 150 more. So for our area, this is it. This is basically with all the winds and all the dry weather that we have been having, its just been accumulating and accumulating. Reporter once the light came up, cal fire launched an air attack. Nine helicopters conducted a seemingly nonstop attack, crisscrossing the sky, hoping to put out flames in deep brush. Its burning near crest tree farms on the road where people are keeping a close eye on the firefight. The way we have seen fires go up here, were pretty nervous. If the winds kick up tonight, it could be here in half an hour. So hopefully somebody will wake me up. Reporter and this is some video taken by the Santa Cruz County Sheriffs Office which shows the steep terrain where the flames are moving through. I want to bring you back out live. The firefighters are