Cornelia and also fairfield some very gusty winds this afternoon. We have some 30 mile an hour gusts just in the last 3 hours here and still in the court is some of those to 22 Miles Per Hour right now as you make your way into fremont well we had windy conditions in the afternoon. Although those start to calm down a little bit now as theyre dropping down to 7, 8, Miles Per Hour. But were going to see more of that smoke continue to filter into places Like Union City fremont this fire continues tonight and into hayward so certainly by tomorrow morning. The smell of smoke in and around this area, those winds start to calm down nothing really to mix out some of that smoke for the south theyre also going to be dealing with some smoke, theres fire starting yesterday this the crews fire c gilroy here the winds not that strong this afternoon, although you get up in the Mountain Range is certainly in the Higher Elevations you generally get some stronger winds to whip around the fire and thats
Firefighters spent the day and evening busy fighting flames all across the bay area. A vigil here in richmond to honor murdered soldier Vanessa Guillen, and to fight back against Sexual Violence in the military. Confusion over restrictions and reopening plans. Business owners in the south bay are demanding answers. This breezy and cooler weather wont last much longer. Were tracking warmer weather on the horizon. Well have the details in the accuweather forecast. Abc7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. After a long weekend, bay area firefighters just are not getting a break tonight. Theyre already dealing with two fires in the south bay, and we saw multiple fires break out this afternoon. Some were smallhi oers raced dangerously close to homes and forced people to grab what they could and evacuate just in case. We counted at least eight fires today, and some are still going, including one in fairfield. Thats where
But i want to go off and show you what it looks like on the hillside. These are lights that had just been turned on in the last five minutes or so. You could see those crews up on the hillside, closely monitoring this situation as i speak to make sure hot spots dont spark up. Flames shooting into the air in fairfield on monday. One of many fires to burn across the area. I thought the house was going to burn down. Reporter so did many others, as strong winds fueled these flames. Got very close. You can see the flames were literally in their backyard. As i am talking to them, i see the flames come over the top of the hill. Reporter chris engle turning on the sprinklers and life. In fairfield, 30 homes were evacuated and it was just one of many spots where fire put people and their homes in in rodeo, an frightening situation. The wind is going that way from left to right direction. Reporter flames tore through 230 acres of land near the interstate and forced many out of their homes. Just
All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get some news this morning in the south bay, the cruise fires burned 5400 acres in Santa Clara County. Cal fire says its now about 20 contained and evacuations are still in place this morning. And the fire has destroyed 2 buildings and one person was hurt kron fours dan thorn has more. Flames chewing through thousands of acres as firefighters battled the crews fire. The dry brush crackling for a second day as the wildfire threatened homes and forced evacuations along kenyada road for this man thankfully his rural ranch home was spared. I was relieved, i was i was only able to make it up last night and i was able to tell couple the neighbors that there are places where intact. The house and the horses were protected from the ground and from the air fire retardant dropped from above even covered some of his animals by horses got red said i have read horses, so thats thats an experience because the flames spread so quickly, hundreds of firefighters from a
Were looking out for 90s though theyll be a couple of them the next couple of days. But really the wine shares come this weekend back to you. All right, thank you dave will happening now firefighters in the east bay are continuing to monitor hot spots on a wildfire. The group 230 acres and threatened homes before it was finally contained kron 4 s Taylor Bisacky has more from rodeo. I like to let the black. Some local neighbors described this rodeo fire that broke out near highway 80 incoming skyway just before 2 oclock monday afternoon. What began as 2 small fires quickly merged into one in burned 230 acres because of strong winds wind at least one of the fires to get away from us and it burned past fortunately. They burn past all the petrochemical infrastructure. You can see behind me and also thankfully burn quite a few houses in north circular is. And headed out into the wilderness area thats bounded by interstate 80 on this side. Coming skyway to the north and highway 4 to the sout