Evacuations here. At last check the fire is 50 contained. Evacuees are encouraged to meet at st. Monicas church on camino pablo. Is another gathering area at the safeway on moraga way and people are advised to take essential items. Lock your windows and doors when you leave as well. This fire comes as pg e shut off power earlier in the night but this time we cannot confirm how the fire started. The Emergency Management coordinator for the Fire District joins us on the phone. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Tell us what you can pick we understand its a burning away from st. Marys. The town as well at this point. Reporter good morning. The fire is not near st. Marys college. Its actually burning behind homes adjacent to sanders drive and merrill ct. We have 100 150 contains. Making good progress. We have a dozer on the scene. We have units from all around contra costa. And our partners some cal fire are here in force. We are making good progress. When the sun comes up containm
Of that mountain that looked like it was acting as a fire break which helped slow the progress of this fire compared to 45 minutes ago. This is good news because they are homes closer to the daly city side of the mountain. Despite that, voluntary evacuations have been ordered. Acreage, 15 or 20 acres. No official word yet. Wind has been a huge story in the bay area this week. The red flag warning is up and running for tomorrow. Meteorologist mark tamayo joins us now. Some people were seeing wind. There is a dry winton place and its it defined wind direction coming out of the east and northeast. Im sure the fire crews are seeing that on the map. As a result this a good strategy to contain this in the short term. There is the mapping system. You can see wind coming in out of the easiest off of the bay. Typically a normal summer day we will talk about a wind coming in from this direction but as you know this has been a fire weather pattern with offshore wind setting up. Here is an idea of
It hit the San Mateo County coast, something that took them by surprise. Christie smith, it wasnt a big quake, but was it enough to rattle some nerves . We spoke with people here in pacifica and some of them said it sounded like a car hitting the building and some of them went out and figured out it was what they thought, an earthquake. I thought first of all, you know, someone hit my store. At this liquor store in pacifica, the store made a quick exit after the shaking. I was just scared and i see other people went out, you know, and theyre asking each other whats going on. Bottles waddled, but nothing broke. A magnitude 3. 5 earthquake hit west of colma at 8 41 this morning. Ity shakithe shaking was felt iy pa parts of the bay area. It was near the san andre as. He says they usually expect this type of activity further inland. . It was a little unusual for us. It was what we would expect and its near enough to the san andre as that it does make sense maria torres was home getting rea
Weve learned this is not just one fire, but a combination of six fires that started shortly before 2 00 this afternoon. So far 138 acres have burned along calaveras and felter roads. Right now the fire is 40 contained and it is not burning in a heavily populated area and no buildings have burned. The fire is near Calaveras Reservoir and calaveras road is now closed and this afternoon cal fire made air drops and we saw a lot of pink retardant covering many of the roads. Crews are also using dozers and other equipment to help them cut fire lines in this area which has very steep terrain. Weve also seen a lot of water tanker trucks heading to the fire which is a remote area. Now fortunately right now the winds are mild. So again, heat, steep terrain. Thesethe firefighters right now. The cause of this fire is under nvestigation and fire crews here allignto the morning to keep an eye on this fire. Again, its at 40 containment. Reporting live in milpitas, marianne favro. Thats not the only f
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