require the companies to provide a lot of the defensible space around those wells. so often, you re just going to have a well on a pad that is surrounded just by dirt with no vegetation. all right. what happened. i know you have a big job this morning. thank you so much, taking some time to talk to us. hopefully, we ll get some updates throughout the morning. best of luck to you and the crews there. stay safe. thank you, kristi. thank you, bye. he said that, that fire moved quickly. we re fighting to get a hand him on it. still to come this hour on new day, less than a mile away the iraqi military have a visual on isis fighters in ramadi. will they be able to take back control of this strategic city? plus, the queen of pop entangled in an international custody battle. the fight to get her son back. also developing, a suspicious
we lost everything. my child didn t get 18 christmas items. you feel for these people. a mississippi family woke up christmas morning a home of ten years ruined, completely flooded. with two feet of water inside a lot of southern states have been drenched. some thoughts getting ten or more inches of rain. we will keep you updated on the weather story. it is certainly severe and dangerous. also take a look at this, the atf have been call in to investigate, after a vicious fire destroyed a mosque in texas. eight firefighters, the fire appeared to have multiple points of entry, but it s too soon to determine the cause. in southern california, take a look at some of the pictures we re getting in here a. wildfire forces officials to
highway 101. there is a lot of drilling. there are a lot of oil wells. the structures that come along with that sort of operation. but we do have 30 to 35 homes in the beach area that are currently under a mandatory evacuation and are threatened. and we have a number of homes in areas under a vomtary evacuation. the big factor is which what i is this wind going to pan out? when the sun comes up, if it heads out of the south southwest, it can proceed this fire back towards the north. ten we have a lot of structures. in another area we will be able bypass on the 101 it can create an issue. you mentioned the second oil wells. did they pose any particular threat, advanced threat? it s something we ll consider, but we haven t seen any problems yet. most of those oil wells we
the pacific coast highway, near ventura both shut down. firefighters there working to battle an uncontained 900-acre fire that is north of the city, but this thing is growing rapidly. under mandatory evacuation right now. the barria beach community under voluntary evacuation. a short time ago i spoke with the ventura county fire department, and he talked about the biggest challenges they re having right now fighting this fire. there are multiple forces coming together here. and as you know, we ve had a very exceptional drought here in california. so these fields are very, very dry. we haven t had any rain, significant rain, to speak of so far this year. and this area is now under a wind advisory, and we ve had gusts up to 47 to 50 miles an hour in the area. so we have been challenged in every area on this incident.