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
Oakland police chief will be holding a News Conference about this later this morning. In the meantime, investigators are out here trying to piece together exactly what happened. Live in oakland, lisa chan, kpix 5. Thanks for the live update. The rocky fire has now grown to cover an area larger than the city of oakland. Its burning in rugged terrain just east of the community of lower lake about 20 miles north of calistoga. Now burned more than 84 square miles in three counties and just 5 contained. The fire has grown in size partly because firefighters let it burn freely in an unpopulated area so that they could focus on saving homes. Evacuees are taking what they can. Terrifying. But you just go and get everything you can. Take care of your animals and do what you can to get out of here. More than 6300 structures are threatened right now. Two dozen homes are have already been destroyed and cal fire says it may take more than a week before it has the fire under control. More than 2700
Highway 20s been shut down both directions. The fire is only getting worse. The fire is only 5 percent contained right now. All those people evacuate from the homes. Vicki Us Forest Service Officials Say an autopsy is scheduled this week. To determine the cause of death of a firefighter killed at engine captain david ruhls autopsy will include lab tests that may take up to five weeks for the results. Officials say ruhl was in a car thursday. Fighting the blaze when they lost contact with him. Helping firefighters in california. Kron 4s brian van aken has been tracking the fires. Reporter theres a lot of dry conditions lots of sunshine. Sundays weather will feature widespread morning fog and some drizzle at times. The fog will clear bayside around noon. It will be sunny and breezy for the afternoon with mild temperatures in the 60s at the coast, 70s bayside and for the southbay vicki for the latest information of the rocky fire and other wildfires in california. Just its all on kron4dot
Cal fire says thousands more homes are in the path of that fire. That fire broke out just about 4 days ago and residents in the clear lake area searching for answers at a Community Meeting set up by emergency officials responding to this blaze. Noel walker joins us. Reporter were near highway 53. What im looking back at this did not look like that a couple of hours ago. We had to go quite a bit up further highway 27 to see the smoke and flames. They are visible from our position. 20 minutes ago someone from caltrans told me they are getting ready to close highway 53 because the fire is so close. They have been doing water drops in this area nonstop trying to get a handle on this fire. The rocky fire has done nothing since it started wednesday afternoon but grow, not just a little, overnight the flames chewed through more than 20,000 acres doubling its size to more than 47,000 acres in just a five hour period. Unprecedented in cal fires experience. The fire has extreme amount of energy
Backing up to the building. Bundles of copper piping 3,000 worth loaded on the pickup as calmly as if it were a home depot. In less than 5 minutes, the public drives away with one man still in the bed securing the load. Employees working the night shift can be seen making the rounds but it was too late. The thieves were already gone. We are dumbfounded. They are bold enough to walk through the front gate through the front door with all the cameras up. Reporter adam says the video shows where security needs to be beefed up. Late at night. So they are working on the trucks and heavy machinery in the back of the yard. Reporter the gates are not always locked. They are not. They are turning the video over to police who will investigated with the benefits of the suspects pictures, their vehicle and license plate. In san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. A strong message today from governor jerry brown regarding the california wildfires. The governor says we need more resources. A real wakeup call