Reporter more evacuations. It is heading toward highway 20 and if flames jump over the road, it could threaten the community of clear lake oaks. There is a heavy bay area presence helping fight this fire. They posted this photo of firefighters at the scene. San francisco deployed five engines. Two in lake county. Now an Evacuation Center has been set up at Middletown High School to help people with tho where else to go. Right now there are almost 7,000 firefighters battling to 14 large wild fires here in california. Dave and pam back to you. Also a grass fire tore through a mobile Home Community in the delta destroying homes and cars. It started in an area known as pirates layer marina. That is south of the city of isleton. That fire started in brush and trees behind the Mobile Home Park and strong winds fanned the flames. Several mobile homes were destroyed. Six others damaged. Look at those pictures. The weather is a big part of all of this and everybody is focused on Steve Paulson w
7 00. Its friday. July 31st. Im gasia mikaelian. Hey. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets check our weather and traffic and Steve Paulson has a lot to talk about. I think some areas will get rain here. We have some sunbreaks but theres a lot of tropical clouds moving up this way. We have the big fog bank but we start off with some sun. But i think the cloud cover makes it up to lake county. We dont want the lightning but well take the rain. Theres also a howling breeze. Look at this, just near hollister, decent line. Heading right toward gilroy, i would think in the Santa Clara Valley in the next couple of hours. I think thats a sign of things to come. But some of that is already moving toward parts of napa county, lake county, into tomorrow. So possibility of thundershowers. I know the lightning is not good. A low offshore. A lot of cloud cover, were in line. 60s on the temps. A lot of 60s with low clouds and a just a screaming delta breeze. That all equals a cooler pattern today. Highs
Afternoon. We want to let foe people know where the evacuations are taking place, especially for the viewers who are affected by this. Now, the newest order is for the Jerusalem Valley area east of sodo a creek. Its closed from spruce grove road. Bonham record, quarter horse lane mustang court, bronco court, sunset court and Morgan Valley east are where the mandatory evacuations are. The latest, its moving north and pushing toward highway 20. Crews have established a hard line to prevent it from jumping the road. Three homes have been destroyed along with several out buildings where mainly where the fire is believed to have started. About 450 homes remain threatened. The intensify that the fire is bushing, were trying to get ahead of the fire, and that once we get a chance to relax and get back in there and see what damage has been done well have a better count. Calfire says they are concerned if this fire moves in the northwest direction but they are ready for it. In the meantime, the
Cristina rendon is live at the bay bridge toll plaza with more. Reporter heather, we are seeing traffic, but its no different than any other saturday when people are trying to get into the city, so this is typical right now, but there is an increase in ridership on the ferries. The weekend weve been warned about is here. Barts closure of the transbay tube means many are finding an alternative mode of transportation. Its why the San Francisco bay doubled routes, already seeing a 24 increase in ridership compared to a normal weekend day and a 6 increase on the route between vallejo and San Francisco. Its working quite well. We have four boats in constant operation at alamedaoakland service. We have three boats on the vallejo service. Reporter they have been at capacity on nearly every ferry leaving the east bay, and with that comes long lines. It hasnt been too bad. I mean, its a longer wait than expected. Weve been here about an hour and 15 minutes. Reporter one family visiting from out
Permanent solution but many argue it shouldnt have taken a tragedy. We need to protect our our residents, but at the same time, we need that make sure that the codes are in force by the property. Have you made that happen . Whats happening in the economic crisis, we laid off a good number of police officers, firefighters and inspectors. We need to grow back that number. Reporter complaints include permitting prices, bureaucracy in the planning and Building Department and timing. Why now . Its because of this horrible tragedy that everyone is putting up, you know, protective barriers. Reporter when the city sets the date for that meeting, you can count on channel 5 to be there to bring you the very latest because this is a story thats not going to be going away anytime soon. Live in oakland, emily turner, kpix 5. In a very practical level it wont be easy to bring other converted warehouses up to code. New at 6 00, kpix 5s da lin in oakland with the look at the obstacles which can be for