Are. There are 250 firefighters on the job here and more on the way. And still this fire is only 5 contained at this hour. As bad as conditions are, only one home, one structure has been lost and it was an uninhabited home. Look at this video on the ground. We shot this just within the last hour. You can see the darkened hills dotted with hotspots and flames. And there are several homes and ranches in these hills and they were threatened. The fire burning up to them, but they were saved. The residents that were already evacuated. The fire had burned up, but we have operations the way we attack that and where the fire burns up and we bump it off of the structures and bump the fire around the structures. Crews did a very good job on that. On top of the dry grass and the wind, the geography is a problem as well. There are steep hills in this area. The fire chief tells me thats how the fire is able to race up and down them. Crews will be on the scene all fight. They are continuing with str
Investigators believe the flames overtook their vehicle after they got into a crash. We are trained to do a job, and, uhm, you know, theres just times, um, when, you know, some things go bad, but but the fight still has to go on. Thousands of people have been evacuated. Firefighters are battling another group of fires burning to the east of twist. President obama directed federal funds to help out in the firefight across the state of washington. Fire crews will get relief thanks to military troops stepping in to lend a hand today. You can either pull it over your head and get down on the ground get your feet in. Thats the training. Teams of soldiers training yesterday and many are already joining crews on the front lines. By this weekend, the 200 active duty soldiers will be deployed up and down the west coast of virginia. New this morning a group of mosquitos tested positive for west nile virus in martinez. Mosquitos also tested positive in oakley. So far no humans have contracted the
Pacifica. 65 oakland, 61 vallejo. 58 napa. 58 fairfield. And a look at what to expect throughout the day again a cloudy start from coastal drizzle but afternoon sun for most. Again your good news, gianna, High Temperatures are seasonal and mild. Your full forecast in just a bit. Right now crews are battling a wildfire burning out of control east of livermore. Kpix 5s anne makovec joins us live with the very latest on firefighters progress. Good morning. Reporter good morning. They have been working throughout the night to try to strengthen their containment lines around the fire. Take a look at the flames we caught yesterday. This fire broke out at about 2 30 and grew very quickly. It is now 2500 acres. It is only 5 contained. Firefighters will get a better handle of exactly what kind of containment they have once the sun is up. It is burning on both sides of tesla road between livermore and tracy. If you are familiar with the areas the carnegie motocross park was evacuated. One buildi
National attention. Here at the live desk were getting word the government is taking over metro safety and what it means for your next metro ride. It didnt last long but if you got caught up you know it was hard. Heres what it looked like in downtown d. C. Heavy rain in the distance behind the dome. It captured rolling in a wall of rain in and out in less than 45 minutes. Everything is moving out. Doug, whats moving in for the weekend . A cold wecht. Some of you getting into the 30s for the first time. Lets take a look and show you the radar over the last 36 hours. Really once it made its way toward leesburg it really blew up down through metro maryland. A lot of lightning coming out of this, a lot of heb rain in a very short amount of time. The front, you can see it all the way down toward the south here. In behind it we do have that cooler air thats making its way in right now. You will notice the difference on a saturday. Much cooler on saturday. Cold tomorrow night. I do mean cold.
Percent. And some 2hundred homes have been evacuated. Kron4s jr stone explains why this fire has been so challenging for crews on the front line. Flames shooting into the air in northern napa county and parts of lake county. Firefighters have now been fighting these flames for more than 24 hours and they are still dealing with challenges. The heat, the low humidity, the fuel bed is so dry. Temperatures wednesday reached into the upper 90s. As i drove along butts canyon road in napa county it was hard to see at times because of all the smoke. Really the topography. If you go you can see that it is straight up and downheavy rocks so its the firefighters having the instability platforms to work fromyou have the dozers trying to climb that rock. It gets to be very dangerous. So far no one has been hurt but 9 structures including 2 residences have burned to the ground. Those with cal fire arent sure if anyone had been living in those homes. Firefighters have been fighting on the ground. And