Reporter for most people in the neighborhood, the smoke and Evacuation Order were reason enough to leave. 90 of our road is left there is only me and two other people. The kids are kind of freaking out. Reporter but there was also reason to stay. There was a guy arrested in front of his house wondering about looters. Reporter what would it take for you to move . Ill move when looters dont have a chance to leave my place. Reporter staying means watching the fight one pass at a time. He is shooting it. Reporter it also means watching the wind and the smoke and knowing when its time to get out. Thats it. Just stay calm and cool and know when to leave. Reporter wilson walker, kpix five 5. More stories as flames raced toward residents. We came across a couple that loaded everything they could grab and left their home behind. You have your dog in your lap and youve got to go. What do you grab . I could see the flames and smoke. You dont want to leave until you have to. Reporter among the devastation in downtown lower lake, an office for habitat for humanity. The group was helping people who lost their homes last year. Kpix 5 reporter alndria borba on the fire left behind. Reporter its never really hit this close to home. If you want to know where firefighters made a stand during last ands firestorm through Historic Downtown lower lake, look at the side of hollys repair. Its scorched but not gone. It got part of the building. The inside looks good. Reporter amanda holly works at her Family Business and says she doesnt recognize second street, now an apocalyptic charred landscape. That was a Historic Building and now its gone. I feel bad. There was a shop behind the building and i feel bad for him because his house was back there, his shop was back there. Now, he has nothing. His older so he cant even start over. Reporter the business has some losses, a customer truck, a car being fixed up as a surprise, and this tractor. That tractor belongs to the high school. We were doing work on it. Reporter very few people in lower lake wont feel the wrath of the flames. Somehow we feel lucky. My brother was here all night putting out spot fires in the backyard. Reporter and sitting outside, this dog. It appears she ran from the inferno all night. She was licking her feet like she was running and they were hurting. I have it posted on the internet trying to figure out whose dog it is. I feel bad. She looks like she has been running around for a long time. Reporter we want to give you some perspective about how close the fire came. Take a look right over here right across the street. That is what i was what is left of Historic Downtown lower lake. We want to give you another perspective of how the fire burned. This map shows you an overview of the town. One of the hotspots yesterday burned just east of lower lake high school. Intense flames jumped from home to home. Miles away, a home on the top of a hillside didnt stand a chance when the fire consumed the top of this ridgeline. By the afternoon, the landscape had completely changed. This is just one street, on the left where homes soared and on the right, just blocks of ashes. More than 1600 firefighters are trying to tame the clayton fire, coming from many different departments in an urgent effort to limit distraction. Jessica florez joins us to show us some of the people who have been working hard on the fire lines. Reporter right now, we are standing on top of a hill that has been completely charred. This area is where we have Vantage Point of where the firefight is going on. You can see a helicopter skipping low into the creek to get water and drop it off onto the flames if there are any. There is a bunch of hotspots. You can see the smoke and i can tell you its been an intense fight all day. Helicopters scooped up water from nearby creeks one after the other. Air tankers part of retardant from above. Crews in the air and on the ground, trying to stop the fires march into homes and businesses pick we continue to worry about the homes threatened by this fire. Even though we are not seeing the same amount of smoke and fire intensity around the city like yesterday, we dont want a repeat. Unfortunately, mother maker Mother Nature took the upper hand. Reporter more than 1000 firefighters working to contain the flames that ripped through at least 4000 acres, burning dozens of buildings and forcing thousands from their homes. Humidity in the teens, triple digit temperatures, gusty winds and drought conditions. The grass, the brush, the trees, they are tender and ready to burn. Reporter you can see the thick smoke behind me. Its moving west, closer to clearlake. Clearlake resident geraldine is packed up and ready to go. Assuming something happens, you saw black smoke went up. Reporter still, they are counting their blessings. All that can be replaced. Reporter but they are also counting the minutes, unlike their neighbors to the south of lower lake. They had time to prepare. We were just waiting for the time when we could get back into the house and start life over again. I have faith in our firefighters. Thank you. Reporter you can see the firefight continuing through the night. Those evacuations in lower lake still in place and for parts of clearlake. The fire is still under investigation. Jessica florez, kpix 5. Our mobile weather lab is out tracking conditions. Paul has the latest fire forecast. Reporter the kpix mobile weather lab is finding increasingly breezy conditions this afternoon with wind gusts up to 20 Miles Per Hour. We are about four with wind gusts up to 20 Miles Per Hour. We are about 4 miles from the fire. We can take the weather to any location and this weather collection data, we can find with the mobile weather lab is showing temperatures up to if not hitting 1000 today. Relative humidity between 10 and 15 and the breeze on the increase. That makes a bad multidrought situation worse for starting a fire and having the fire grow over time. Certainly a fire has started here. Let me show you the forecast moving forward. Our wind profile the next 24 hours is a steady, sustained wind from the southeast pushing smoke and fire to the northwest. Thats about 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Within the fire zone, its so hot, it can accentuate those winds. We saw some gusts in excess of 30 or 40 Miles Per Hour in the fire zone. Widescale now for lower lake and clearlake over the next two days, sunny and 980 tomorrow. Sunny and 990 on wednesday. With temperatures that high and humidity low, the bad fire situation will stay poor for at least the next 48 hours. Later this week, an increase of ocean breeze and humidity. We are still at 950 currently. Its hot and dry and tough for anybody trying to fight a fire that is 4000 acres and growing. Ill be back with your entire forecast in about 10 days. Bay area Law Enforcement officers are trying to prevent looting, which is always a concern with a big evacuation. Firefighters have been heading north from many bay area departments. A group of nearly 2 dozen left yesterday in five of fire engines. Contra costa county is sending two engines and more firefighters are coming from navarro, and san mateo. Many are focused on defending homes. Stay with kpix for the latest on the clayton fire. We will have much more coming up in our next half hour. Firefighters certainly taking no chances in the hills. Brush ignited at about noon today. A Quick Response contained it to just two acres but there are homes in the area and homes likely caused anxious minutes for homeowners. Back to school day for some in the bay area. Why some local School Districts are still having trouble finding teachers coming up. It hasnt even been a year but the super bowl could be coming back to the bay area. The new plan and what would be different next time. And the new, unusual statue getting a lot of second looks near an east bay bart station. To host another super bowl. But as kpix 5s phil matier te the bay area got rave reviews for super bowl 50. The 49ers are making a push to host another super bowl. As kpix 5 tells us, the next time, its going to be a bit if rent. Reporter that seems to be the feeling at city hall. Just recently, the Host Committee released a new report showing San Francisco and the bay area got a whopping 240 million extra from visitors. They are not talking about the money spent in the bay area but outofstate money that came into hotels, restaurants, various other activities. The idea is to bring it back but like veronica noted, this time some differences. First, we talked with the Super Bowl Committee and heres what they had to say the entire bay area gravitated to this event. That was not lost on the nfl and the owners of the 49ers. Obviously, the opportunity is to host another one. The next window would be in 20222023. Santa clara got 100 cents on the dollar for their Police Overtime for cleaning etc. San francisco got virtually zero. If they want to bring the super bowl back, great but we should get 100 reimbursement. Reporter what the supervisor is talking about is cost of security in the wake of San Bernardino and paris. Costs doubled from 5 million 9 million and he would want the super bowl to pick up the tab rather than the city. The deal is, however, that super bowl Host Committees and not the nfl covers those expenses and the nfl and other cities havent made a move to cover them and i doubt they will back here in San Francisco. Whether this kickoff gets to the goal line remains to be seen but once again, we are in the move for a bid for the big one. And we can end one rumor about the next super bowl. Singer adele has said no to performing in the halftime show but the nfl and pepsi both said they never asked. At a concert in los angeles over the weekend, the singer told fans she turned down an offer to take the stage in houston in february. While both pepsi and the nfl are fans of hers, the company has released a statement saying they talked to a lot of artists about the halftime show but never extended an invitation to adele. A suspected serial bank robber has been caught in San Francisco according to the fbi. He is called the dreaded bandit because he wears a dreadlocked wig and a mask during robberies. He is known for takeover style robberies using a revolver or semiautomatic distal. He started in april. The last two robberies in june and july. No word on his identity or the circumstances around his arrest. A woman hit by a large tree branch in San Francisco is in stable condition with serious injuries. The 100 pound branch fell on her from a pine tree about 50 feet up, hitting her in the head as she was watching her children in Washington Square park. The supervisor who represents the area is asking questions about how the city managers trees in the parks. This isnt the first time with had this happen. Weve had a woman killed. We have 175,000 trees in our system and 20 to 30 people in various treatment. We could always use more races more resources. The wreck program says the tree was last assessed six years ago. Students in many parts of the bay area went back to school but a lot of districts are facing eight shortage of qualified teachers. Kitco on some of the length kip go kip do on some of the links they are going to fill those positions. Reporter bay area School Districts are battling for teachers, which in what amounts to a money water. Would you go as far as to say these are blooming times for teachers . Definitely. Reporter Marisa Hanson is the president of the Teachers Association in san jose and says statewide, we are short of about 10,000 teachers. Www. Editjoin. Org cells shows dozens of openings. Districts are offering big incentives. Oakland unified has a 1000 signing bonus for special ed teacher and the east union has a 2500 signing bonus for certain positions. In concord, a special ed teacher can get 5000. To get that first payment as soon as you start working as a bump is something people are excited about. Reporter san jose unified has made an effort to recruit creatively. There is a 7 signing bonus for this year only and a salary match for lateral transfers. They have lifted the capellan transferable years. Whats more, a buddy system to peer staffers with new applicants so they dont slip through the cracks. So it works . I would say so. Were close to 100 staff in the school year which is unprecedented. Reporter the general consensus here is these Cash Incentives are great at getting people in the door but to keep them from leaving, its about salary, benefits, and corporate culture. Lets get you back to paul with our wildfire forecast. Paul . Reporter its still hot and dry. The mobile weather lab is bringing the weather collection to the fire scene. We are just one ridge from the clayton fire. Still hot out here. I know we are sitting in the low 60s with microclimates in the bay area. 90 Miles Per Hour 90 miles out of San Francisco its 94. 80. That relative humidity is not helping the firefight at all because of a dew point only sitting at 400. We are hot and dry over a multiyear period. That has led to problems last summer and once again this summer in lake county. Folks appear love some of that ocean breeze. Look at that live picture with the fog effect low cover rolling in. Its 620 in half moon bay. Only 640 in san jose. Thats wildly comfortable. We did see some upper 80s and low 90s including livermore with a high of 890. Giants baseball tonight. Ryan vogelson pitching for the pirates. First pitch at 7 15 pm. Clear, cloudy and humid with a 58 degree first pitch temperature. The reason the wind kicked up so much yesterday was a week area of low pressure to the north. Its not that big of a deal but if you are fighting a fire, its a huge deal and we saw that wind increase yesterday. A different low pressure area will pass over the north over the next couple days to decrease temperatures but not until friday. Highs tomorrow, a high of 940. Santa rosa, 850 tomorrow. San rafael 840, oakland and fremont in the comfortable 70s. San francisco with morning fog and 65 degree high. The warmest days will be tomorrow and wednesday. Low to mid 90s inland but look at the coast. Right around 600 with modest cooling thursday, friday and into the weekend with highs in the upper 80s and low 90s. Upper 60s near the bay. A ridge directly west of lower lake and to the southwest of clearlake, the Vantage Point is beautiful. What we are seeing is a lack of flames but we see four different helicopters at times and four different airplanes dropping both water and fire retardant on the ridge you are looking at on your television screen. In some areas, you can see a reddish pink color. Thats not normal. That is fire retardant being dropped on the ridgetop in an effort to prevent the fire from spreading off that ridge and over to the other side. They are working hard trying to keep this fire in check. Its only 5 contained and the humidity is at 15 with an air temp teacher of 80 temperature of 850. The fire continues to spread and we are hearing more and more stories of the Community Coming together. Coming up, how strangers are helping families who lost everything. And public art for public indecency . The new bay area sculptures some say is not appropriate. scal good day, mlady i am sircanalot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. Wake up those eggs with glorious spam see what spam can do. At spam. Com taking shape. The 55foot tall art work is going up on the brand new san leandro up. On the brand new san leandro tech campus. Thats near the bart station and where three. New Office Buildings will open later this year. Kpix 5 reporter devin fehley on why not everyone is a new statue is taking shape. The 55 foot tall art pieces going up on the san leandro tech campus near the bart station and were three new Office Buildings will open later this year. Kpix five devin fehely on why not everyone is excited for the big unveiling. Reporter shes got a nice pair of legs, we can safely say. But its the rest of the beauty that is likely to elicit mixed reviews and questions about what constitutes appropriately public art. Some people dont want to see nobody naked, not even the birds. Reporter the statue in all of its 50 feet of glory is as William Echols put it, naked. A nude female form of a graceful dancers body, arms outstretched skyward. It debuted at burning man three years ago and some think its a welcome addition. I didnt think of it as offensive because its just a woman posing that happens to be naked. Reporter the city required the display are to include public art of their choosing. Since the design was unveiled, city manager chris rapado says support has outnumbered opponents 2 to 1. There is a birth of representation of women in the Tech Industry and this will hopefully start to flash attention. Reporter the rest of the sculpture will arrive in mid october, likely swathed in the same greetings and opposition. The artist is obviously extremely talented. Im not sure if its appropriate for public display. It might be better suited for a museum so people can decide if thats something way something they want their children to see. In the next halfhour, if its free is usually too good to be true. The ticket fair glitch that for once is not your problem. Live on the front lines as the clayton fire continues to spread, threatening more homes and businesses. , state of emergency for the clayton fire in lake county. Flames appear our top story at 6 30 pm, Governor Brown has issued a state of emergency for the clayton fire in lake county. Flames appear to have died down but firefighters are taking advantage by strengthening containment lines, dropping water and flame retardant in case it flares up again. Chris martine