The communityies are now under a mandatory evacuation order. Theres a lot of homes right where that fire is. Reporter bill peck is watching the flames burn toward his neighborhood. Its unbelievable that you know, it could the fire could spread that fast. Peck evacuated his home. Now all he can do is hope the Fire Fighters can save it. Cal fire says its a challenging fight. The terrain, limited roads, the access is difficult here. A lot a lot of dried grass. Moving horses is never fast. That was what was really scary. We watched it burn down the hill. We watched it go chunk after chunk after chunk. Theyll have to wait out the fire fight in a pasture. All sarah dicken sop can do is hope bow will be okay. That orange glow is in the sky tonight. Jean, thank you. We wish all of these people the best of luck in these overnight hours. The smoke can be seen from fairfield to sacramento. We could be doing this for several days. Its still going strong that fire, again, to the northeast of napa a
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
Francisco. We have some closures though for the fires. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Two big wildfires are burning in rugged terrain this morning in northern california. The kyburz fire started yesterday afternoon in the El Dorado National forest closing a major link to lake tahoe. The wragg fire has been burke for nearly two days in napa and yolo counties. Heres a look at where its burning on the Southeast Side of Lake Berryessa west of the town of winters. Anne makovec is at a cal fire staging area in vacaville. Good morning. Reporter they just moved the command post here to vacaville because this fire has been moving to the south. The good news is that it has been moving away from a lot of the homes that have been threatened. So far, though, the fire has burned about 10. 5 square miles. Here are the numbers. 6900 acres have burned. It is now 15 contained. 1372 firefighters are work to put this out. Cal fire did lift mandatory evacuation orders for the Golden Bear Communit
Animal Evacuation Center located nearby. Theres so many ranches up in this area with cows, horses, you name it. So there are a lot of people and animals displaced this morning. As for the cause of the fire, preliminary reports say it might have been from a vehicle accident. But they are still working on that. We are going to get an update on where this fire is, what kind of progress they would make overnight at 7 00 this morning. Right now live in vaccination, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Thanks, anne. To the east a wildfire is burning in the sierra and forced the closure of highway 50 in both directions. The highway is closed right now from Pollock Pines to meyers. The flames broke out near kyburz in the whitehall area of the American River inside the El Dorado National forest. That fire is 100 acres 5 contained. A passenger in the car captured the moments after the flames broke out yesterday afternoon. And more than 200 fires are fighting the flames from the ground and the air. They say ste
Neighborhood the Golden Bear Community last evening. The fire burning away from those homes thanks to calmer winds yesterday. Its in a remote area. The terrain is so rugged fire crews are not going to bring in heavy equipment and they have to build containment lines by hand. We dont have to worry about homes threatened but its going to be ugly terrain trying to get in there. Reporter mandatory evacuations are still in effect for the quail ridge and the canyon creek area. The red cross has an Evacuation Center set up at the Winters Community center. We stayed until, um, the flames were out the back window. They were 30 feet tall at that point. Thats when i decided, we need to go. Reporter there is a large animal Evacuation Center as well located nearby. Theres a lot of ranches in this area with cows, horses, you name it. We are going to hear from some of those people still under evacuation orders coming up in the next halfhour. As for the cause of the fire, still under investigation. Pr