San francisco. Flames jumped highway 20 igniting fires across the highway north of clear lake and closing in on two more communities. Residents have had evacuated before but it is scary because of the winds. Officials say they have fought seen this type of fire behavior in decades. We are standing this one police for five minutes and i felt wind from every single direction during the five minutes. There wasnt even any fire in the area. This is the first time i am feeling afraid i could lose my house. Two dozen homes have been destroyed. The fire is only 12 percent contained. Our reporter will have a report from lake county next half hour. The fire has brought out the best in people, the Hidden Valley Lake Community association is providing free water and power hookup for those in r. Vs running from the flames. Others are taking care of animals. 17alpacas were rot in from jerusalem area. They came to us on wednesday in the middle of the night and we have been housing them since that tim
Reporter firefighters call this a plumedriven fire meaning theyre fueling the burn. It falls down and spreads the fire in all kinds of directions. That creates all kinds of challenges. Reporter there was a bit of good news today. Firefighters say cooler temperatures and calmer winds slowed the spread of the fire. But at this point, thats little consolation. 60,000acre fire, with the conditions that it meets, those things only help but just a little bit. Reporter joining the effort today, the air force reserves. This morning deploying two c130s to our region joining more than a dozen other air tankers and helicopters, all to bolster thousands of firefighters on the ground who spent the last five days working for some progress. Reporter cal fire says in that new area where the fire jumped, there are some homes, though most of it is uninhabited land. However, there is a lot of really dry brush, fuel for those flames. Report live in lakeport ian cole nbc bay area news. Thank you, ian. Fire
Here. 7 00. Good morning to you. Welcome to mornings on 2. Its tuesday, august 4th. Im gasia mikaelian. Is you are you are back. Thats right. Im dave clark. Lets get to steve paulson. A lot going on. A couple of upper 40s. Cobb mountain 49. The humidity is higher as well. Those are good signs. We have some low clouds around. Nothing compared to yesterday. Its the high and midlevel clouds. First of all, our source from clearlake is chloe. Currently, 58, partly cloudy. A 4mile breeze. I think they go partly sunny to cloudy. Humidity, 92 , way up there 50, 51, 81 humidity. Kelsey still, 51. Hawmed is higher. The temperatures are lower. Thats good. I think the cloud cover will help as well. We dont want lightning strikes. But well get the cloud cover. There could be a few showers especially to the north. Clouds are on the increase and they are coming off whats Tropical Storm guillermo sending in a lot of cloud cover. There is a little system grabbing ahold of some of that. Thats whats movi
Roadwork at the highrise to the end of the bridge westbound 92 causing minor delays. They are painting the bridge so keep that in mind as you head out. More than 1,000 firefighters are battling the massive bluecut fire in San Bernardino. We now know its burning nearly 40 square miles. This is video from overnight where you can see still there are massive flames. Authorities say they arent sure how many homes have been destroyed but they expect a large number. Tom waite is wrightwood with the latest. Reporter the inferno raged on for a second night in San Bernardino county. Fire crews are paying attention to the ski town of wrightwood where flames are inching closer to homes. Hopefully, these guys will take care of it and then we can be safe because we have no place to go. Reporter its burned thousands of acres and destroyed many homes in the town of feel lynn. The homeowner able to return home yesterday to find his dogs safe and his property still standing. All these houses across the
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Right now fires are burning from one end of california to the other. The worst of them northwest of sacramento, where at least 24 homes are destroyed. 6,000 structures are threatened. And 13,000 people have been urged to gather up their belongings and head to safety. In all an incredible 9,000 firefighters are working more than 20 fires across the state. But the socalled rocky fire has proven the most dangerous and confounding, tripling in size over the weekend. Nbcs joe fryer is there with the latest. Reporter good evening, lester. You can see we are surrounded by smoke from the rocky fire. 2,500 firefighters are now on the ground here, and weve heard from veterans whove been doing this 10, 20, even 30 years who say they have never seen a fire behave like this one. The villain of Northern California is a massive agile wildfire that refuses to be contained. Conditions that w