Tonight 6300 homes are in harms way. Cornell bernard is live in lower lake. A lot of worried people out there tonight. Reporter folks are so worried tonight. Many are trying to remain calm, but take a look at this. Scenes like this are certainly not helping with that at all. This is just incredible. He rocky fire has crossed this ridge in the last ten minutes, moving to the northwest, and an intense air assault is underway. With tankers dropping water and fire retardant on this fastmoving blaze. Far from here the fire continues to march north with a vengeance. 2,000 firefighters from across the state trying to prevent this intense blaze from jumping highway 20. So far that battleline has not been crossed. Backfires have been set to prevent the spread. Hundreds of worried results needed more information and went to a Community Meeting at Lower Lake High School to get updates from calfire on this blaze. So far there is no word when evacuate residents can return home, and others are wonde
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
Challenge. It could be worse. Right now the Thunderstorm Risk has eased, winds not as strong as they were yesterday and even the temperature of 93 degrees is a little bit cooler than it was on saturday. Well, just minutes ago a Health Advisory was lifted for the Community Rodeo after a flair up at the refinery. A witness tweeted this photo shortly after. You see there is no Public Health hazard. Two Armed Robbers are on the loose tonight after using a machete to attack a person. The victim says two men got out of an old colored vuv and came after them. They took a cell phone and threatened to use the machete on them if they did not turn over more. All the guy had was a phone they took off. Still on track to reopen the cross over tracks near west oakland. In the meantime, b. A. R. T has been offering a bus bridge to help riders get across the area. They are telling people to stay home and avoid the traffic all together. 2530 fewer folks here and a 50 reduction, we have more buses than w