Population roughly 50,000. Right here in enid, they have the Third Largest Storage Capacity for grain on the planet. But wedged in between enids silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who left his grandchildren with a very strange inheritance. My name is stuart piontek, and in 2003, my brothers and sisters and i inherited something pretty unusual from my grandfather. His name was oliver jordan, and he died at 95. He was a child of the dust bowl. Grandpa would hold on to just about everything that passed through his life, whether it was a tin can, an automobile, a piece of copper wire. And oliver jordan kept it all here. For 60 years. This salvage lot was his home, his sanctuary, his fort knox. Hi, stuart welcome to paradise. I found it the rusted old cars in this shed some of them relics of the roaring 20s are a few of the more than 200 that jordan accumulated over his lifetime. Born in 1908, jordan was raised on a wheat farm. But his real interest was that fabulous new invention
Theres a new worry for firefighters. This stt first mandatory evacuation weve had on the Northern Edge of the fire. Several Housing Developments are located there. More than 1500 firefighters from across the west are battling this fierce fire through unforgiving steep rugged hillsides. Finally, the weather is helping firefighters. We shifted a little bit. We dont have the high winds out of the north. Humidity is starting to come up a little bit and temperatures are coming down. Just keep an eye on it to get back in there. Reporter davids family has been living in this rv. Many of their animals are here, too. Firefighters told the family to leave their home on thursday as the rocky fire crew more intense. Luckily davids house survived. A scary time for you. Absolutely. You dont know how the wind has changed. Reporter the red cross evacuation shelter at Middletown High School is open with room with more. Were expecting a possibility of more if the evacuations in clear lake become mandato
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
Tonight. Right now firefighters have the fire just 5 contained. Abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard has more. Reporter the rocky fire continues to grow with a venn gans again. It shows no signs of stopping doubling in size overnight as the fire burns north, there is a huge assault in the air and from the ground to stop it. The battle lines have been drown on highway 20. These crews keeping an eye out on the hillside to the north in case embers set it on fire. Backfires are set to head off the heart of the blaze. There is so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire and they dont want that energy and heat at the road side. Reporter dave and his friends from concord panicked when they found themselves in the paths of the fire. We saw flames two ridges over. Reporter on the mad rush to get out, the rv flipped over the side of a steep road and they are stuck. Hundreds of nervous residents came to the meeting at the high school to get updated about the fire. More than 12,000 residen
Population roughly 50,000. Right here in enid, they have the Third Largest Storage Capacity for grain on the planet. But wedged in between enids silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who left his grandchildren with a very strange inheritance. My name is stuart piontek, and in 2003, my brothers and sisters and i inherited something pretty unusual from my grandfather. His name was oliver jordan, and he died at 95. He was a child of the dust bowl. Grandpa would hold on to just about everything that passed through his life, whether it was a tin can, an automobile, a piece of copper wire. And oliver jordan kept it all here. For 60 years. This salvage lot was his home, his sanctuary, his fort knox. Hi, stuart welcome to paradise. I found it the rusted old cars in this shed some of them relics of the roaring 20s are a few of the more than 200 that jordan accumulated over his lifetime. Born in 1908, jordan was raised on a wheat farm. But his real interest was that fabulous new invention