Mandatory evacuations. Residents have been told to get out. Campers at canyon creek have also been evacuated. Alan wang is live at the fire line with more. Reporter you can see the fire burning down the ridge toward us and the homes along this road. The good news is that the winds have died down and the humidity is up. The hope now is that firefighters can get a handle on this before it picks back up in the morning. Drought ridden trees went up like torches as the winds pushed the flames into quail canyon. They sent in this air tanker to protect about a hundred homes here. My husband was a little more calm and he is like it is not that close as you think. I dont care i want to get out of here. Three hikers were rescued. The fastmoving flames jumped the road as wildlife scampered out of the brush. Bulldozers were called in to carve out another line of defense while a farmers herd of was tell and horses were left to fend for themselves. We will let them migrate. There is a bull down ther
They had to be rescued. The fire is burning on the south side of Lake Berryessa near the boat dock. I believe we have someone on the phone with us who can give us some more information . Yes. Hello. My name is Susie Blankenship with cal fire. Hi. This is the allen martin. What can you tell us . I have it at 700 acres. Yes. I can confirm that the wildland fire is currently at 700 acres with zero percent containment. And this got started about 2 00, it was a vehicle fire that started this . It was a vehicle fire. I dont have information on how the vehicle sparked the wildland fire. But it was a vehicle accident. What can you tell me about evacuations in the area . Evacuations are in the mix canyon area for homeowners. And as you spoke of the campers in the canyon screen campground, they have been evacuated. I would assume here we are in the middle of summer those campgrounds have to be pretty packed. Well, i dont have the number of evacuations but i do know that that campground has been
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, hugs in hayward for a Police Officer shot and killed during a traffic stop. But first, we have breaking news tonight. A wild fire growing in the north bay. Now, more than 4,000 acres, the fire has been burning almost nine hours now. Cal fire throwing everything it has at this fire. We have seen dc10 making retardant drops. It is getting help from smaller planes with the aerial assault going on there. It is very rough terrain. The firefighters got a lift to the fire line from a helicopter. They are calling it the rag fire, just southeast of lake barryessa. It is spreading fast. Christin ayers has new information about the evacuation orders tonight. Christin. Reporter the latest mandatory evacuation orders are of the golden bear and quail ridge communities. That fire you see behind me is where the communities are located. What you are looking at now are essentially the remnants of what appear to be a barn fire. Looks like
Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, hugs in hayward for a Police Officer shot and killed during a traffic stop. But first, we have breaking news tonight. A wild fire growing in the north bay. Now, more than 4,000 acres, the fire has been burning almost nine hours now. Cal fire throwing everything it has at this fire. We have seen dc10 making retardant drops. It is getting help from smaller planes with the aerial assault going on there. It is very rough terrain. The firefighters got a lift to the fire line from a helicopter. They are calling it the rag fire, just southeast of lake barryessa. It is spreading fast. Christin ayers has new information about the evacuation orders tonight. Christin. Reporter the latest mandatory evacuation orders are of the golden bear and quail ridge communities. That fire you see behind me is where the communities are located. What you are looking at now are essentially the remnants of what appear to be a barn fire. Looks like
Years of drought is not helping us any. The winds keep changing and shifting direction. All of a sudden, they were, like, the winds are moving rapidly and its just we dont have very much contained and its just spreading so fast and you guys just need to leave. Reporter now, the fire threat forced cattle and horses to flee. According to cal fire, the wildfire may have been sparked by a car accident yesterday afternoon. You saw in the pictures, they were fighting the fire from the air, although of course those planes were grounded overnight. That is standard procedure. The planes generally only go up during daylight hours. They anticipate putting them back up as soon as the sun comes out but as i mentioned, winds calm overnight and just over the last few minutes starting to pick up again. Has anything burned just yet . One out house was destroyed. And were told one home was damaged but so far, no injuries so that is very good news. Julie watts live for us in yolo county, thank you. And m