Of the road man to dev moving a burning quickly. We have had a photographer on the scene overnight gathering that video and getting the stories and spoke with folks burned trying to escape the fire and heard people gathering the belongings, taking photographs of the inside and outside and belongings to document what they have in case there is any damage from this fire. It is important to note that this all stems from the lightning that we had a couple days ago, that lightning struck some very dry brush creating this fire and thats where we are right now. Take a listen to someone working to escape this fire here in ive never evacuated before. But why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and fast and winds probably 45 miles per hour. Reporter and i can tell you the smoke out here very, very heavy. You cant see the flames. They look like fire flies in the distance but that fire still burning out here smoke very thick. There are cars covered with ash and looks like 5,000 outages a
High winds brought down a large eucalyptus tree that snapped and brought down three power poles. Its affecting about 400 customers at indiana and santa clara streets and making matters worse, theres been no water because the nearby water station has no electricity. We got to try to buy food. Weve got to try to get a room. We cant stay here like this. Its brought in occasional crews to expedite repairs. More than 150,000 customers lost power since the first storm friday. Here are the current outage numbers. Most of the trouble is now in the north bay. They had to bring out the heavy equipment today to clean up a big mud slide in santa cruz. Tons of mud a tree, power line all came down across that road. Highway 9 near waterman gap is expected to remain closed until tomorrow morning. Kpix 5s devon in santa cruz with the latest for us. All afternoon weve seen cars come up to the intersection behind me and have to make a detour because of those road closure signs and people who live in this
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