Under mandatory evacuation orders. The good news, in just the past hour, we have noticed less smoke coming from the fire zone. Heres new video still pockets of there are still many pockets of intense flames. You can still see black smoke mixed in with the thick white smoke coming from these areas but again, it looks like crews are making some progress. Cal fire dc10 has joined the firefight. Earlier chopper 5 spotted that plane dropping retardant made a couple of passes. Cal fire using two planes and three helicopters in its aerial attack. Our crews spotted one of those choppers refilling its water tank as helicopter crews making use of small lakes around the mountain to fight the flames. The fear started near Morgan Territory road yesterday afternoon and as we said a minute ago homes on several nearby roads are under mandatory evacuation. Kpix 5 reporter ryan takeo is live in clayton and tells us crews are starting to gain some ground. Ryan. Reporter theres much less smoke than earlie
State park. Cal fire bringing in the big gun here at this dc10 swooped low over the fire zone to make several passes dropping retardant on the flames below. Cal fire is also using other air tankers, three helicopters pouring water on the flames. And if you probably have seen around the bay area, the fire is filling the skies with smoke. Thats not fog youre looking at there. This view from chopper 5 showing the smoke for miles. Linda yee on the bad air and changes in daily routines. Reporter a smoky brown haze settled over parts of contra costa and alameda counties. Some said it was enough to drive them indoors. You could just notice it from in blackhawk the smoke coming over and we started smelling it so went inside. Reporter the air quality district issued a smoke advisory. The pollution levels moderate. But for the Dublin School district it was enough to cancel p. E. And lunch outdoors. I have asthma so it was getting to me a little bit. But as the day progressed it was fading. Repor
Retardant. Cal fire suing other tankers and three helicopters pouring water on the flames. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran is with firefighters in dublin this morning. Cate. Reporter michelle, as you have learned, the morgan fire tripled in size burning about 3,700 acres, 20 containment. There have been 700 firefighters on the line and still this morning, 100 homes evacuated but there is some good news and for that im joined with cal fire spokesman dennis rain. Thank you for joining us. Good morning. Reporter i understand you guys made a lot of progress last night despite these bigger numbers. Yeah. Yesterday afternoon we had a little bit of wind, last night things settled down. The humidities came up so we made a lot of progress last night. Things are looking better that n yesterday at this time. Reporter any changes in store for this morning as you guys are prepared to go back out there and fight these flames again . We have more lines so we are going to connect them and up our contain
Mens u. S. Open tennis champion. Reporter from across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on kpix 5 news this morning. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com your realtime captioner linda Marie Macdonald. Good morning. It is tuesday, september 10. Good to have you with us. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Time now is 6 01. We are just hours away from a big announcement from apple. The company is expected to announce two new models of its iphone. And an earlymorning fire berkeley prompted evacuation. The twoalarm fire happened on oregon and telegraph streets at an apartment building. The morgan hill fire on mount diablo is still burning. The fire is 20 contained this morning. Mount diablo state park is still closed because of the fire. Kpix 5s cate caugiran is with the firefighters at their base camp in dublin this morning. Cate. Reporter michelle, we can see that the new round of firefighters are getting ready for the day actually getting the
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