Still out of control right now. It has already destroyed one building and the crews expect to battle the flames all night and into tomorrow. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. The fires burning near tesla road south of the altamont pass. We take a look. We start with katie who is live in livermore. Katie . Dan and ama, this fire has burned 2500 acres so far and it is expected to grow. It is a winddriven fire and it is very windy in this area, and there is plenty of this, tall, dry grass and that is fuel. If you look at this varied yow shot earlier video shot earlier, you can get a real feel for how large this fire is and how mass 7 the flames are. There are 250 firefighters on the job here and more on the way. And still this fire is only 5 contained at this hour. As bad as conditions are, only one home, one structure has been lost and it was an uninhabited home. Look at this video on the ground. We shot this just within the last hour. You can see the darkened hills dotted with
Still out of control right now. It has already destroyed one building and the crews expect to battle the flames all night and into tomorrow. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. The fires burning near tesla road south of the altamont pass. We take a look. We start with katie who is live in livermore. Katie . Dan and ama, this fire has burned 2500 acres so far and it is expected to grow. It is a winddriven fire and it is very windy in this area, and there is plenty of this, tall, dry grass and that is fuel. If you look at this varied yow shot earlier video shot earlier, you can get a real feel for how large this fire is and how mass 7 the flames are. There are 250 firefighters on the job here and more on the way. And still this fire is only 5 contained at this hour. As bad as conditions are, only one home, one structure has been lost and it was an uninhabited home. Look at this video on the ground. We shot this just within the last hour. You can see the darkened hills dotted with
Turning from grass to also some oaks that could be burning and, of course, the likelihood of some of the embers going from oak tree to oak tree is definitely with us and you can see how much smoke is putting out at the current hour with how dry the fuels are right now. Its already, again, up to nearly 500 acres. We likely could see this grow to 1,000, maybe even 2,000 acres just because of our drought thats in place. Winds right now out of west southwest at 15 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Temperature of 79 and humidity at 45 , and we want to focus on the winds again because the fire heres downtown livermore just to put it into perspective. Fire is well, well over in this location. I dont see anything that would be changing the direction of the wind that were dealing with right now. It still looks to come out of the west tonight. That would keep the smoke away from livermore, but if youre doing any traveling on interstate 580, maybe even the 205 tonight, thats where you could be impacted by th
In the hills. The smoke came and the fire chief said is its time to evacuate, ten minutes. Ten minutes is not long when you have to save animals. We got 16 horses out. Luckily, luckily we have plenty of riggs. Good friends that came and family and they all rushed in when they saw smoke coming from the hills. By 9 00 tonight, some 2500 Hundred Acres burned and 250 firefighters on the front lines. Trying to get ahead of the fire. Back there, you have seen a couple of structures that are burned and the crews were able to take three of them. But one structure burned. We did lose one uninhabited structure and saved other structures. Aggressive fire, and fast offing. Its wind driven. And topography driven as well. Thats the worst kind of fire to fight, crews let some of the trees burn. The Rodriguez Family is grateful to have a home to sleep in tonight. They saved our house. Reporter you guys, its so windy out here. Its kind of hard to hear you and its really hard to stand. And its cold. Ach
And four others injured yesterday in central washington, when winds shifted near the towns of twisp and winthrop. Authorities say the firefighters were involved in a vehicle accident when the fire overtook them. Governor washington jay incheslee tweeting my heart breaks over the loss of life in the twisp fire. And with more on the dangers fire crews are facing, heres nbc National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer. 400,000 acres lost so far. The Smoke Jumpers are here. This, a rare look at these elite fearless firefighters. Dropping into rugged terrain nearly impossible to reach by land. 20,000 pounds of cargo, unloaded. In oregon, at least 36 homes destroyed. Hundreds more threatened across the region. All we got to do is drop a little match and poof, were all living in a tinder box. In these conditions, flames can spread at 30 miles per hour. California now reporting two to 300 new fires a week. In washington state, 200 Army Soldiers got a crash course on fighting fires resources are stra