Massive so. Even though theyve been at it for about 7 hours. Its a little more than 50 contained. So theyre half way there. But Officials Say whats encouraging is that the fire hasnt grown in about 4 hours. 360 acres on fire. And about 200 firefighters from across the east bay working feverishly to put it out. The fire started around 2 40 this afternoon and burned quickly. Kevin martin witness once the fire gets, once you think it stopped it just comes right back up. It came up in 5 different places. I hear helicopters flying over my house. I went in the middle of street. I saw a fire, came over here. All of the sudden the whole field looked like a pit of hell. Smoke everywhere you can barely see blue. Thats how much smoke there was. It was just straight black. Tony perez witness we looked in the backyard. We had definitely seen the smoke in the backyard and uh, we came down the street. And uh at first it was just a small fire and it definitely picked up fast because of the valley and
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