Night in these steep canyons, we have an access issues and as you can see behind me theres steep and rugged terrain. Reporter about 125 acres have burned and they say about 150 residences have been evacuated. The santa cruz Sheriffs Department is going door to door trying to get people out. They say there are about 150 of those homes that they are trying to get to to get out of the area those are mandatory evacuations this he also you say if anybody is in the peripheral area of this fire, las couple brass area is part of the place that has been evacuated as well. If you are not in the evacuation area but if you feel unsafe and then theyre saying go ahead and leave the area. There are road blocks out here on highway 9 and also on bear creek road. You can get out on highway 9, they stopped that construction so people can leave but if you do leave they are not letting people up into the area. They want to make sure they dont have to do evacuations again. You can see that the fire is sitti
New 10acre fire near bear creek road. Residents are being evacuated. A center is open at Boulder Creek Elementary School located at 400 west loehmann creek. Several roads in the area are closed. Sandra osborne will have live updates coming up. Firefighters are gaining ground against the wine country wildfires. But flames from the nuns fire is keeping them busy between dropping water and digging containment lines. The flames are now burning behind a wellknown winery in napa county. Kpix 5s joe vazquez shows us how crews what they are doing to contain them. Reporter you can see the orange glow from zinfandel and throughout the valley. A contractor is delivering water to firefighters, crashed through a railing and was killed when his tanker rolled over. Officials arent saying what caused the crash. The oakville grade is very steep and Officials Say the contractors, like others, was exhausted. Everyone is tired. Theres no break since last sunday night. Reporter the California National guar
Tweet. They were saying, quote, firefighters on scene of vegetation fire Bear Creek Canyon road evacuations are in place for deer creek road, rones road, dons road, lost valley road, favre ridge and oakridge. If you feel youre in danger, leave the area if its safe to do so, hashtag bearfire. Road closures and evacuations are in place for a reason. Just to respect our road closures. Cal fire is working hard to deal with the fire. Were working hard to secure the area. Reporter a live look out here, you can see the flames going up the hill. They are saying at least 100 acres are considered threatened at this point in time. There is an Evacuation Center at Boulder Creek elementary school. We are seeing quite a bit of ash falling on us. One neighbor is afraid embers will spread across bear creek road. Well update you with the latest with this fire. But for now, reporting live in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Sandra Osborne, kpix 5. Now to the latest on the situation in wine country. Crews final
Vegetation around it. Right now evacuation orders are in place. They use reverse 911 calls to warn residents. Cal fire also tweeting saying reporter one woman evacuated to los gatos was worried for her pets and neighbors. Yeah. I have pets all my neighbors have pets. One of my neighbors has some young kids. So they got out right away. The neighbor has some antique cars and stuff but he pulled those out. Back out here live throughout the morning we have been watching these flames again going from the left side of the screen to the right side trees just bursting into flames with dry conditions. I have a few new updates from cal fire. They are saying one inmate firefighter was treated for smoke inhalation. Also two Evacuation Centers are open right now for any residents. You can go to Boulder Creek Elementary School and lakeside Elementary School in los gatos. Once the sun comes up they will be doing aerial attacks to get the flames under control. Its at 0 containment. Live from the Santa
Now. Sky 7 flew over the Santa Cruz Mountains to give us a better idea of what firefighters are up against. Take a look, sky map 7 on sky 7 shows you dawns road right there, in fact, the different roads surrounded by smoke in the middle of that thick forest. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller is live in the Santa Cruz Mountains where he just got an update from cal fire officials. Matt . Reporter kristen, the battle continues on. I got the update from cal fire. They say the fire 152 acres and 5 contained. The flames are moving slowly here in the Bear Creek Canyon behind me. There is a lot of smoke here. Its tough to breathe. Tough to see. And its having a big impact on cal fires ability to fight the flames from above. Playing a big role, wed like to have a lot more aircraft on it but because of the safety issues because the smoke is down, really hovered down into it, we have to limit our aircraft. Reporter cal fire had six aircraft on order. Because of the smoke, theyre och only using thre