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
Evacuated because of the remote location. The closest road is about a mile from the fire so crews have had to hike in. A plan chief says hes confident they can get the fire under control soon. What were doing about it we have some engine crews that are cutting their way into the fire right now with hand tools and saws. We have hand crews coming in this evening which will assist them and our plan is to put a fire line around the fire tonight using those resources and eventually put a hose lay around it and extinguish the fire. The fire was first reported about 9 20 last night. 75 firefighters are now working on it, coming from ross valley, belleinas, nevadao and cal fire. The fires so difficult to deal with because of the dry conditions. Unfortunately that continues. But it is beautiful outside. A live look at the bay bridge, a lot of colors for our sunrise this morning. Cold temperatures, though, in some spots, below freezing in santa rosa right now, 44 in oakland, 50 degrees in the ci
This is kpix5 news. Warm and dry. And with fires sparking around the state, there has been plenty of talk about the drought. Now it is going to be official. Andria borba is live. Reporter yes, it appears that governor jerry brown will make this announcement here at 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. While the rain waiting game continues, things are getting drier but the will he or wont he game of drought declaration by jerry brown appears to be being put out of its misery. This is brown last week. Dont think that a paper from the Governors Office is going to affect the rain. Reporter but it will affect water consumption. Rationing from your toilet flush to irrigation. This is Northern California in january. Wild fires in the delta and grass fires in the first month of the year put firefighters that are usually out of work back in for a fire season that never stopped. Some counties are one step of the governor. At marin, pumping at phoenix lake. The drought declaration has already dropped and
In the future will rationing be mandatory. we remind string the situation and were planning an eventuality of the drought in case things dont improve will be at the ready. To do what is needed to meet our water needs and for our customers. San Francisco Public Utility Commission says that these tips for conserving water are to enough water while brushing. Use a berlin suppose. To clean the driveway. for more tips you can visit our web site. the area count of california that is now an extreme drought. this image was released it shows more than half of the state that in the dark red color and extreme drought areas include the bay area. This is just last week is only a quarter of the sheiks dealing with the job. None were not at exceptional drought yet. does not allow us know where a lot of our water comes from. Snowpack from one year ago january 2013. Now check out this year. Almost no snow on the ground. But the difference now. The snowpack is 17 more than normal this year were partly p
Good evening. While they blew up suddenly and out of nowhere, they were not unexpected. Southern california has been under a red flag warning, meaning hot and dry and windy and favorable wildfire conditions. And tonight theyre in the middle of an allout fight there. The picture from space shows the smoke plume where the winds blow to the west, down the dry hill sides, away from the land, out over the water. 3700 homes are under evacuation warnings, and over 1700 acres have burned, including several homes. A several hundred firefighters are on the job tonight. It is where we begin tonight, nbcs Miguel Almaguer is in glendora, california, where three arrests have been made in connection with this fire. Miguel, good evening. Reporter brian, good good evening. Police say they took three men into custody after they started an illegal campfire. Five people have been injured, at least five homes have been destroyed. You may be able to see the smoke behind me. Thats because this blaze is only