The battle tonight against a new set of bay area wildfires. As the air quality goes from bad. To worse. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. Im veroni surrounded on all sides, the fight against a new set of the area wildfires as the air quality goes from bad to worse. I am veronica cook. The pier fire has burned almost 300 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Alndria borba shows us why fighting the fire is so hard. Reporter the soundtrack of the Santa Cruz Mountains is this an onslaught of helicopter blades piercingly quiet. Dropping water and trying to knock down the bear fire. The fire began at night, scaring people out of their homes. I turned around and all of a sudden i saw the flames in my living room. I just saw like a light so i took my stuff and run. I got asked to leave about 1 am, 2 am and again at 3 am, 4 am. I ended up leaving at 7 am. I got my truck over there with everything i own. Reporter one of the things making this fire freight difficult is sharp cliffs and steep inclines
The pier fire has burned almost 300 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Alndria borba shows us why fighting the fire is so hard. Reporter the soundtrack of the Santa Cruz Mountains is this an onslaught of helicopter blades piercingly quiet. Dropping water and trying to knock down the bear fire. The fire began at night, scaring people out of their homes. I turned around and all of a sudden i saw the flames in my living room. I just saw like a light so i took my stuff and run. I got asked to leave about 1 am, 2 am and again at 3 am, 4 am. I ended up leaving at 7 am. I got my truck over there with everything i own. Reporter one of the things making this fire freight difficult is sharp cliffs and steep inclines everywhere you look. There are 600 firefighters on the ground cutting hand lines, but the most important work is happening in the sky. Even the command center is precariously perched on the cliffside on bear creek road. Like so many here in the Santa Cruz Mountains, crumbling and pla