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
He rocky fire continues to grow with aa vengeance. The blaze shows no signs of stop, almost doubling in size overnight. As the fire burns north theres a huge assault in the air and from the ground to stop it. The battle lines for the fire have been drawn on highway 20. They dont want the fire to jump the road. These crews keeping an eye out on the hillside to the north, in kasembers set it on fire. Bass fires are being backfires are being set. Theres so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire, and we dont want that energy and heat right at the roadside. This camper and his friends from concord panishinged when they found themselves in the path of the fire. 8 00 at night we saw flames on two ridges over so we decided to get out. In mad rush to get out their rv flipped over the side of a steep road and now theyre stuck. When the wind switched to the east. How much nervous residents came to this meeting to get update about the fire. More than 12,000 residents remain out of their
Th this is abc7 news. There is so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire. The rocky fire is burning hot and intense tonight forcing more evacuations. Good evening, everyone. The rocky fire in lake county continues to grow. It has burned nearly 85 square miles and has become the largest fire ever in lake county. And it has spread to yolo and coluuso counties. 3,000 firefighters are battling the fire and it is only 5 contained. Sergio is live with the latest. Sergio . Katie, tonight we found a hill so we could watch the fire line in the distance. It is something we notice a lot of the residents near clear lake doing. A lot of people are evacuated and they say they have things packed just in case they have to leave. At sunset crews started backfires to cut a fire line along this ridge which is only a couple miles away from the town of clear lake. We are afraid it will jump that ridge and come down. It is really close. It is and out back it is nothing but grass. Gail and lots of
With a cloud of smoke. Scary pictures. Good evening, im Katie Marzullo. The rocky fire has now burned 47,000 acres. It has destroyed at least 24 homes, 26 outbuildings have also been destroyed. 6300 homes are in danger and right now firefighters have the fire just five percent contained. Cornell bernard is live from lower lake with a look at the response. Cornell . Reporter this fire is now burning across three counties tonight, believe it another nor. Lake county, colusa county, and yuba county, this the newest worry. In the last hour, the fire has burned across this ridge. Its moving to the northwest. Just an incredible shot here tonight. Caltrans just informed us, because of the fires approach in the western direction it will close highway 53 in the next 30 minutes through lower lake, as a precaution. He rocky fire continues to grow with aa vengeance. The blaze shows no signs of stop, almost doubling in size overnight. As the fire burns north theres a huge assault in the air and fro