Thick black smoke bill rowin into the sky. Some prepared to evacuate. Marianne favro has the story. Reporter you can see here where the fire burned in grassy area. It even scorched this power pole. This fire was right next to highway 4 over here. It caused major delays. With high winds fanning flames and thick dark smoke rising into the sky ask, crews battle the fire in pits bugging from many directions. Mary kept her eyes trained on the smoke. It was really nasty. It looked like oil smoke. It was really thick and billowing and kept billowing. Reporter the fire grew to three alarms with about 100 firefighters responding. Thats when mary gay started preparing to evacuate. Gathering up belongings. My birth certificates, Important Documents that are kind of irreplaceable. Reporter firefighters say the fire started in a homeless encampment around 2 30 this afternoon and quickly spread to elite roofing supply company. A very intensifier in a confined area. Bounded on one side by highway 4 w