Along crews road and oak Spring Circle just north of gilroy that fire has grown out of 1500 acres and is only 15 contained and on the right thats the park fire. It was sparked off yesterday early in the morning near morgan hill. Actually blew up overnight in a park fire has now grown to 4 a 340 acres at 70 contained. So they have made some progress in all the evacuations near morgan hill have been lifted. The same cant be said for the crews though in gilroy at the fire there evacuations are still in place and that fire has already burned down to structures kron fours gayle ong has the latest from the fire line. The crews fire is burning on steep terrain and the winds are not could shes a bit thick black smoke and the huge flames firefighters responded to a structure fire in the area crews road and oak Spring Circle to structures have been destroyed one man lost his boat Maggie Swanton lives in the area, the flames where the house was burning were over the trees you could see it above t
15 contained right now or i should say on the right side of the park fire thats the other one that sparked early yesterday morning at morgan hill actually. Saturday night. Park fire has burned more than 340 acres now 70 contained so theyre making some progress on that fact all evacuation orders have been lifted near morgan hill. But the evacuations are still in place in gilroy lets go there now kron fours will tran. Has the very latest will. Daria more specifically the evacuation orders are forking out a road in fact the only people out here are firefighters and the media we have to drive through a barrier just to get to this location you can see what the fire did right behind me when it broke out. Yesterday afternoon still burning out of control because its only approximately 15 contained and were still waiting to hear from cal fire for some new numbers. There has been more firefighters thrown at this look at that the bottom of the hill james and aerial look at that cal fire vehicle r
Im on 152 east pacheco path. You can get an idea of where this is. Behind me here is the new front line of this fire. You can see them about an hour ago attacking it from the air, dropping water and fire retardant. Lets show you some video that we shot just a little while ago. You can see flames shooting up the steep terrain. The cal fire has expanded to 2,000 acres with 20 containment and the blaze began yesterday afternoon on cruz road. Then the wind whipped it up and 25 homes had to be evacuated. We have also learned that late into the night there was a massive effort to round up and evacuate horses and cattle and exotic animals from the fire zone. But then the fire moved so quickly, were told the ranchers were running out of time and options. They were just going ahead and just opening their gates and cutting their fences because what are you supposed to do when that fire was moving so fast . I think when it grew, when it went from 600 acres to 1,000 acres like that. Reporter now,
North of gilroy its 15 contained. And then theres the park fire which was sparked late saturday night in morgan hill and its burned 340 acres. The good news is 70 contained and all evacuations were lifted in morgan hill but lets go back to the other fire because that one still has evacuations in place in gilroy and kron fours will tran has been monitoring whats going on there will house the fire fight going. The firefight continues and will continue for the next several days in fact the wind is starting to pick up the just had to change a shift. Now that the sun is clearly above us we can clearly see what it did to this hillside in what the firefighters try to do to make sure that the fire did not spread look at that red on the hillside thats the retardant that was dropped from the air drops yesterday this a good chance they could do it again its still smoldering. This is can ya to road this is an area where they preemptively evacuated people. This is not like a neighborhood they used
80s inland and its a very nice monday here in the bay area. We have some whale news for will watchers. A blue whale was spotted off the coast of pacific grove. A videographer captured these images yesterday. It is the first blue whale sighting of the year. I know that getting those pictures, for a lot of people was really exciting. Lets bring in allie and gus. I know many people are taking times off today and trying to do things they can safely do. I note during the pandemic many of us felt like we could not go out. But now our bosses here are seeing to take a moment for yourselves. It does wonders for your Money Mental Health and your overall treatment of each other. I know allie, we love our work and we feel necessary but just a day or two away can work wonders. Absolutely. Especially when a lot of the news is pretty heavy and serious. It is important to disengage for a while. And we have had gorgeous weather in the area. The fog has been absent and it is nice to get a break from tha