Fresh on their minds, cal fire did not hesitate to evacuate 150 families nearby. The next morning, literally, in bear creek itself, it was a severe mix of destruction. On one side, a picturesque Santa Cruz Mountain scene. On the other, a wildfire burning out of control. Todays forecast was about as good as it gets. Short of it actually raining. Calm winds, cool temperatures, and high humidity kept the flames low and slow. With the flames creeping along the ground, the strategy here in this canyon is to let it burn all the way to the waters edge, then all the way to the manmade fire. With fire advancing into their backyards, neighbors who at first ignored the mandatory Evacuation Order are finally going. What are you saying to people who say that youre crazy and stupid for being here . Well, thats a good question. Are we crazy and stupid . Reporter up the hill at high point along bear creek road, crews are preparing for battle just in case. Brian garehans vehicles are loaded up, and rea
County sheriffs, we needed to evacuate. Reporter the bear fire went on to consume hundreds of acres in dry brush and steep terrain torching trees, four structures and threatening 150 more. So for our area, this is it. This is basically with all the winds and all the dry weather that we have been having, its just been accumulating and accumulating. Reporter once the light came up, cal fire launched an air attack. Nine helicopters conducted a seemingly nonstop attack, crisscrossing the sky, hoping to put out flames in deep brush. Its burning near crest tree farms on the road where people are keeping a close eye on the firefight. The way we have seen fires go up here, were pretty nervous. If the winds kick up tonight, it could be here in half an hour. So hopefully somebody will wake me up. Reporter and this is some video taken by the Santa Cruz County Sheriffs Office which shows the steep terrain where the flames are moving through. I want to bring you back out live. The firefighters are
Social media pages, we are putting out those updates. Right now, we are just letting the firefighters do their job. This is fortunate for us that this is mostly hilly grassland area, not really surrounded by a lot of homes but there are homes on the east side of dublin that could be affected. So were very fortunate the weather has been decent and we have a lot of resources that were putting on the fire. But mostly its the terrain this is a grass fire, grassfires are much more manageable than heavy brush fires. Sergeant, can you talk about the evacuation . Do you know how many people roughly have been effected and why there were evacuations . It looks like the fire is blowing away from the homes. Its unpredictable so in an abundance of caution we want to do everything right. Some of the people that have been displaced, hundreds of people, we have opened up the Community Resource center and a Reunification Center here at the dublin wave off central park way. So families are encouraged to
Vegetation fire around 2 00 this afternoon and grew. Spreading out over hilly terrain as the winds picked up. The mandatory evacuations followed. At the time the folks leaving homes thought it looked dire. Here is what they had to say. It looked a lot closer than i think it was. It was a little hard to tell. But definitely very scarey. To hear the helicopters, and in two minutes i have seen like six fire trucks coming from all over, not just dublin but you can see them but basically smoke. Reporter the fire chief says some of the area drops helped in all of this. In fact they had dozens of crews on the ground and that really helped, the people power if getting it again 75 containment at this point. We are told the crews stay in place for several hours and some overnight to make sure they keep it contained and folks can stay in homes. Live in dublin roz plater nbc bay area news. Thank you roz. The Santa Cruz Mountain firefighters preparing for a long night. Tough terrain battling the be
Homes. Cal fire did not hesitate to evacuate 150 families nearby. Here on the southern flank the next morning, it was a surreal mix of peace and destruction. One side a picturesque Santa Cruz Mountain scene. The other, the wildfire burning out of control. Todays forecast for the Santa Cruz Mountains was about as good as it gets short of it actually raining. Calm winds, Cool Temperatures and high humidity kept the flames low and slow. With the flames creechg along the ground creeping along the ground, the strategy in this canyon is let it burn to the water edge and then to the manmade fire break and watch as it snuffs itself out. The fire dancing into their backyards, neighbors who at first ignored the mandatory Evacuation Order are finally going. What do you say to people who say you are crazy and stupid for being here . Well, let me see. Thats a good question. Are we crazy or stupid . Up the hill at a high point along bear creek road, crews are clearing brush and preparing for battle