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Coverage. We are on highway 128. The fire is behind us, about 20 minutes behind us. We had to come out just to file this report for you. This has been an unusual report. Lets begin with more video from sky 7. Its not off that firefighters know how and when a blaze starts, but theres not much doubt about this one. About 6 30 this morning, 20 different lightning strikes. One person told me the big one shook the ground. He said it sounded like an explosion and saw flames almost immediately. Its burning in steep terrain. By 10 00 a. M. , they begun evacuating residents. Cal fire reports by 2 30, 70 acres had been burned. Now over a thousand acres have been burned. The lucky part right now at least, is the wind is down. That said, we still dont know how many structures have burned, if any. We do know that some are threatened. There was one house we looked at high up a steep road. Flames on the hillside moving in. Cal fire had moved in. We left at that point, but cal fire was going to try to
Santacruz-countyCaliforniaUnited-statesMexicoAlabamaSonoma-countySacramentoNapa-countyAlcatrazSanta-cruz-countyMorgan-hillSan-franciscoA speech ro speech roateep ro. So its a tough fight in there. A fight evolving situation. As far as the evacuees are concerned, theyre getting out of here. Theyre going to the Cross Walk Community church in napa. They are getting information there. So this fire continues to burn, sparked by lightning. Were hoping we dont get wind, and cal fire, as of now, is still saying zero containment. Were hoping that changes sometime soon. From napa county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. Wayne, let me ask you about the evacuees for a minute. Better safe than sorry. Anyone decided not to evacuate . Reporter dan, im sorry for the threesecond delay, but that has to do with where were at in our signal. Yes, there are people in there who have stayed. Most of them have left. If you go through the area and look at the gates, there are these tags, they say evacuate. We saw chp going in there, knocking on doors, making sure people were gone. I saw two people who stayed behind. The owner of the house, trying to
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