The bay area on high alert. Early this evening 8 homes destroyed near the sacramento delta. Its in solano couldnt. Devastation from sky 7 hd. Firefighters say the blaze is now under control. As we said 8 homes destroyed. And we can show you the eighth home that was destroyed firefighters say the flames burned all the way to the river where it no longer pose a threat. Fire started from ember from another fair about half mile away. One residents says her husband tried to fight it off with a garden hose but the wind was blowing hard. Not much of a chance with the wind out here blowing. Like i say we were grabbing World Trade Center hoses and neighbors grabbing water hoses. Fire extinguisher as fast as fast fire was spreading. Very far from a lot of our fire stations but as soon as the call came in we were rolling. We have more on today fire on 7 news at 11 00 over on channel 7. Another fire broke out this one in sacramento huge plume of smoke filled the sky near cal expo. At one point fir
Is standing after just these few hours of fire. This was, sadly, one of the iconic, crushingly sad images of the day. The spire of the church, made of oak, was under renovation, more on that later, when the fire at the base just became too much for the supporting timbers, and it went down. On the lefthand side of your screen is the current live picture and there are many things to point out about it. Number one, you see one socalled master stream from the paris City Fire Department trying its best to suppress the flames from inside the carcass of the church. And paris firefighters are going at it steadily from all angles around this building. Periodically we see a shoot of new smoke and sparks from inside the structure. And we can only imagine what that means. At this hour, 10 00 in paris, 4 00 on the east coast, the effort is nothing short of trying to save the remaining structure. That picture right there, they have an exposure fire going on in one of the stone columns. A Stone Build