Reporter but it will affect water consumption, likely rationing from your toilet flush to a farmer irrigating crops. The reality is that this is Northern California in january. Wildfires in the delta. In San Mateo County grassfires in the first month of the year put out using cal fire firefighters normally out of work right now suddenly called into service over a fire season that never ended. Definitely not expecting rain anytime soon. If theres anything we are expecting, its to fight more fires. Reporter some counties are one step ahead of the governor in marin pumping at phoenix lake, in Mendocino County the drought declaration already dropped and Governor Brown appears appeared to play catch up. Not today but were certainly getting ready. Reporter andria borba, kpix 5. The governors announcement is planned at his office in San Francisco at 9 00. And some developing news down in Southern California where a wildfire that started less than 24 hours ago has stopped spreading. Cbs report
Captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for friday, january 17th, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, this morning firefighters battling a dangerous wildfire east of los angeles are making progress. The fire destroyed five homes and forced nearly 4,000 people to evacuate. Red flag warnings will remain in effect until later today, but for now the santa ana winds that pushed the flames early yesterday has subsided. The fire is 30 contained this morning. Its one of several burning in the state which is suffering through a severe drought. Teri okita is at the Fire Command Center in irwindale early this morning. Good morning, teri. Reporter good morning, annemarie. I spoke with the fire inspector. He says things have burned down quite a bit which is good news, however, theyre still monitoring closely the worrisome unpredictable santa ana winds this morning. High winds whipping through the San Gabriel Mountains burning 30
Couple of minutes. But first developing overnight, fire crews managed to stop a wildfire from spreading in l. A. County. Despite harsh windy conditions, the colby fire is now 30 contained. Flames have charred at least 1700 acres since yesterday morning. Five homes are now piles of rubble. The focus now is putting out hot spots 25 miles east of downtown l. A. Near the city of glendora and making sure flames dont spread to nearby communities. Cbs reporter teri okita tells us what crews are doing to get the upper hand. Terry. Reporter hi, michelle. Good morning. Well, we are going to get some more updated information in about an hour and a half from a Public Information officer from the l. A. Fire department. We are at the command center right now and about 10 miles down the road to the east of us is the city of glendora, the hardest hit by the wildfires. City officials have declared a state of emergency there. They are hoping to get federal funding to help those people who were evacuated
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