Neighborhood in fairfield today that went up in flames this afternoon. Sevel homes have been destroyed in what appears t be a string of spot fires along interstate 80. Good evening, everybody, im larry beil. A im carolyn johnson. The started as a grass fire, first reported after 3 30 this afternoon, near interstate 80 but quickly spread through the adjacent neighborhood and destroyed several homes. Within a half hour, sky 7 was the scene. It was clear this was no ordinary vegetation blaze. Flames spread across the stretcof homes along the freeway. We saw several homes live, engued in flames, we can tell you five, possibly six homes were damaged or destroyed. Now 50 others have been evacuated includin an Apartment Building on north texas street. And an Evacuation Center has been established for all of the people who had to leave the neighborhood. W have a view of the fire ght. The roarer newspaper shared us this video using tout video sharing app. Crews fought the fire using ladder crews, you can see the concerned neighbors looking on as firefhters rushed to the scene of basicallevery time they turned anotherire was breaking out. Travis air force base sent crews to help battle this, they do now have four units on the scene. We have a view to share with you this, is from one ecuee leaving the neighborhood here. Many peopl are on the scene just saying they werent that close, they uld smell it. This is video with the smoke the distance, fire trucks on the scene. Flames shooting out from that house there. Really just terrifying. We want to take you back from a live look. Wow, what adifference just hours have made. Firefighters have made progress on thisnow we see this plume of smoke. Les bring in captain bobby silva. Fit thanks for joining us. I know over the past couple hours a challenging afternoon. Describe wha youncountered when you came on the scene. We got on the scene there was a small roadside grass fire that quickly spre to seven alarms. It was 40 acres and we have two complete houses are lost tee other houses are insolved with various insolve frmt minor to major. Were doing overhaul on that. There are no active fire lines as we can tell from no active fire lines just doing p up for the homes that are on fire. Yes. There are still homes on fire then . More tha ones weve been able to sto that is there are two lossesijvn and there is three homes that havearious involvement that were trying to get under control. Several agencies are responding into the area and are trying to take care that have. We should point out ages right now are taped from earlier this afternoon. And sky shows us how difficult is wasnx . R. You had the hillside on fire as well multiple homes as well. Just challenging with winds like it s once those fires gt going skm how dry sit this seasonmz , tends to move quickl. Just to give perspective, what do you do when youre on the ground . And you turn to your left and think youve got a hoe or situation under control. That goes up, seems like at r a fire breaking out in front of you, behind you. The wind squirreling. Swirling. How do you deal with that . We train often in these situations and try to use all of the resources we need. We have good resources for mutual aid. They tryo get as many resources to get it done as we can. Did you have issues getting mutual aid . Did you have good response . That was a ncern but they were great and helped out. And they responded quickly. How concerned were you that you might not be able to stop the fires from spreading from home to home because it seemed for a while was scarey and happen hazard. How worried were you this would coget out of hand . Yes. Its quite a scary situation when youre not sure where the sfir going and rely on training to get it done. And as far as evacuations were most people willing to get out . Yes. The Police Department was able to do evacuations forus. Interest tl was in issue there. And grabbed belongs. One thi we did notice is ho close homes are together so it must ve been terrifying for neighbor thats caught fire. A lot of neighbors in the area with trying to keep the fire at bay. Was it enough too do the job . Right now we have 200 firefighters that are on scene in resources were quick, swift. Captain, thank yovery much for the time we appreciate the information and challenging after the in for your are guys today fairfield, thank you ain. Thank you. We are getting pictures for you from our viewers this is e fairfield fire through our you reports site. This was sent to us anonymously. Hat is where it began just after 3 30 in the afternoon. Two homes then, the mostserious damage you can see videotape now of the firefighters trying to deal with hom after home threatened by the fire. If you have videos of pictures youd tlik share with us you can do so and you can also e mail yourideo and pictures to you reports at kgotv. Com we have this information for you on our web site. Okay. Now lets bring in jesus revelar your forced out of the home is my understanding where are you now . Im across the street at a church. Were you part of the apartment complex evacuated . Yes. Describe for us wha. D when you did you know you needed to get out . Were yo told by police . Did you have a good sense from smoke in the air and perhaps flames you can see . Just walk us through it. I was not 2349 apartment when they revacaited everything everybody. Ways getting off shift i callednto the street there was already about six officers preventing from people enteri the apartment compx telling us keep driving. There is a entire parking lot full of smoke. And now, i can still smell everybody like its nearby do you know people that lived in the homes threatened . Some of which went up in flames . As far as i se theyre talking to officers sun of our pormt were off fire its just behind our complex. Firefighters are using this to keep the fire from spreading. Yes. Another vantage point. Any word on when you might alwed back to your apartment . I just spoke with an officer asking when well allowed to go n they said about 45 hins theyre going to evaluate and let us know if theyre going to allow us to enter or contue waiting. Any difficulty breathing at all . Given the thick smoke we saw earlier in the day . Earlier it was a little irritating to the the throat. Right now, its contained i guess there is not as much smoke. The wind is nd of helpingq6c. We appreciate the time. Hopefully youll be able to return to your home. We appreciate the time you spept with u describing the ene. And of course were staying on top of the fire as well as one burning near yosemite, the rim fireell have a live update from th fireire when for over 60,000 california foster children, extra curricular activities help provide a sense of identity and a path to success. Joining the soccer team. Getting help with math. Going to prom. I want to learn to swim. Its hard to feel normal, when you cant do the normal things. To help, sleep train is collecting donations for the extra activities that, for most kids, are a normal part of growing up. Not everyone can be a foster parent. But anyone can help a foster child. Now the massive rim fire has grown to become the seventh largest in state history. Its sead across 30,000 acres and the flames have now reached Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Two groves of giant sequoias do replainaine threatened bit fire. Firefighters estimate they vit 0 contained. Abc 7 news is near the fire line was the latest for us. The beat goes on here, theyre trying to makeure houses stay safe behind me, one of the sever helicopters have been stopping getting fire retardantn these giant bags rg then, ey take off and dump retardand on fire areas or buffer zes. These cranes contain about 2000 to owe 3,000 gallons of fire retardant. And will keep going. Ash has hit Hetch Hetchy Reservoir which is th main inking supply and smoke has closed schools in tuolumne county. Groveland is near the area, there are still concerns. Schools in the area weregq[z closed yesterday and today, and parents just got word there will be no classes for the week. The massive fire enveloped much of the valley. Really smoke qlee. Because there is lots of smoke everywhere. Safety because ofms÷ the smog and smoke haseen terrible here. Imure theyre worried about children, especially that have prits tori problem autos rim fire is dropping ash on the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. The city says water is withdrawn 260 feet heading down these large lnes on the way to the bay area. Water department was draining water from the hetch hetchy before the fire but is now taking more and storing it, destroying 100 structures so far stressing out anyone who owns propertin the fire phone. I drove sundayot up here but its pretty apprehensive knowing so otsdz are not too good but its a relief getting there seeing the flaistill there. The cost now hit 27 mill skbrin heading upwd. In yosemite, 20,000 acres burned but to put that into perspective its a small silver of the park. Thank you. Air quality as a result of the fire continues to be a major problem we have a live look at lake tahoe fm our camera. And you can see skies are still hazey. Spencer christian is here now and spence yes, it appears weather is starting to cooperate. Winds light out of the southwest seven mis per hour. No strong gusts at the moment. So we havent had weather factors yet lets take a loo outside in the bay ar. Live view looking west at very impressive lookinmarine layer now. 61 degrees in san fransco. 80 inedwood city. 76 loss gat yo. S another live view from our mount tam cam. You can see marine layer is shallow. 82 degrees now in santa rosa. 75 novato. 83 fairfield. Concord, livermore 80 degrees. Another live view looking west you can see marine layer hasnt reached very much well see areas of fog near the coast and bay. Mild to wrm next two days and then a cooler pattern jelting in for labor day wkend. Temperatures down tomorrow, but not a significant dramatic change then, overnight well see aas of low clouds and tomorrow, sunn skies, in the south bay hi temperatures from about 79 in santa clara to 83 in morgan hill. Peninsula, highs 75 in san mateo. And 79 Mountain View mild on the coast. Downtown tomorrow 68egrees up in the north bay highs from 82 in santa rosa t 83 then 87 in clear lake. East bayighs reaching 72 in oakland tomorrow. Inland east bay warm, but not hot. Highs of 88 in walnut creek and faireld. 86 in concord here is the accuweather forecast. Two more wild to warm days, then a warm up a couple degrees friday to 90 inland then well have a drop off in temperatures saturday and sunday. Labor day looks like sunday but suier, warmer weather in again, tuesday. Terrific, thank you. When we come back at 6 00 alan wong on the scene the site of this fire that San Francisco china twon association and Asian Americans challenge that law, they argued banning shark fins discriminated ainst chinese americans. Its popular chinese soup ingredient. California passed a w because 73 million sharkser year are killed just for their fins. Ask there is more still come on abc 7 news at 6 00 we want to take you tloif breaking news fairfield. You can see firefighters still pouring water on the scen here. 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During bay bridge closure bart will be running serve overnight from 14 station autos we cant run more frequently its excel tap skeletal staffing. The ferry su sood ridership jump to 20,000 per day, and adding service with that scenario in mind. Acransit will only take passengers as far as east bay barttation. For us, its simple, our service is predicated on having a bridge. There is a possibility that new bridge could open before its scheduled for a 5 00 a. M. Tuesday, but. We havent closed the bridge yet. So we dont know h quickly construction is going to move along. We dont want pele planning routes based on what what if n nair yes. With only hours remaining bay area residents are coming to Treasure Island cameras in hand to say goodbye. And to caure final moment autos shes witnessing this being built for her li. And she. , its amazing and shell barely remember, i think the old bridge this will be long gone when shes a driver. Diane was 10 when the loma prieta earthquake set in motion events leading to the bridge skme. Her brother brght their 1yearolds to get a snap shot ofist bri its gone. Iill miss it. I experienced my firstob crossing that bridge. By first car accident. The new bridge will have oulders, so hopefully when there is a car accide it wont back up tffic as it does now. For more on labor day closure weekend schedule you can go to our web site. Haej yes,thank you. The first day closure isnt until thursday, you might want to avoid the bridge tomorrow, th is a live picture right now that shows you just what traffic is typically like at this time of the day. Anthose cars on the left side of the screen making a slow crawl to the lower deck of the bay bridge right now. And tomorrowight it wont be an option. Thtime draws near, we expect that tbe really jam packed if you do choose to drive down load your wa skpe. App. And well be able to show at you you can do later in this newscast we have aink to the construction camera so you can follow progress and well have links major transit agencies includi bart. And well notify you on twitr just as soon as the bridge opens. An update now on breaking news in fairfield. A huge fire burned five houses forcing dozens from their homes. We are live at north tas street where some people are are gatherg. This is a church where all evacuees were staged. We understand they just led redents and tenants back in. A lot of them walked in to that street andeighborhood but oneesident apartment understands it my cousin woke my boyfriend and kids up and said that they we evacuating and telling everyone ty had to get out fast. Did youee hochls on fire . Yes. Ere is a lot of black smoke and police just telling everyone have you to move fast because it was 100 feet from the Apartment Building. Y can hear it . Seecbb r it . 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For those of us who will be stuck in traffic at least well be sunny out. Right . That is righ. Mild too warm, live doppler 7 shows mainly sunny skies we do have low clouds and fog and it mild to warm. Tomorrow, mainly warm look for highs to chico and sacramento 101. 93 yosemite. A chance of isolated sthorms lets get down to the bay area. Mainly sunny skie temperatures low to mid60s on the coast. Well see mid to uppe 70s around the bay and upper 80s in warmest locations here is the accuweather forecast. Mild to warm cooling down over the weekend. Looks like its going to mild, pleasant and dry. Thank you. Sportis coming up next. For over 60,000 california foster children, extra curricular activities help provide a sense of identity and a path to success. Joining the soccer team. Getting help with math. Going to prom. I want to learn to swim. Its hard to feel normal, when you cant do the normal things. To help, sleep train is collecting donations for the extra activities that, for most kids, are a normal part of growing up. Not everyone can be a foster parent. But anyone can help a foster child. As from detroit,tommy malyob owe malone and in the third rbi double brand yn moss able to score. Fifth inning moss rain coming down hammers the chase to left center gets out of here numb 22 on the year. Xhh then seth smith goes deep in the sixth. A tarp comes out, currently a 63 lead in the 6th fwheer a rain delay. Giants in colorado here starteit would have a Rocky Mountain high. See ya. Next batter ndoval, dead center back to back jackknifes up after a inning. Well have highlights for you. Niners rolling dice eric read replacing dshawn goldso. A rookie like eric, can cost you a game or two early on. Where if a veteran is leaving another safety position, is he up for the challenge. Ija 9kee things, everybody is doing the same thing i say it all the time. Just Getting Better all the time. Setting a goal for the day and. Now vikings still fuming over a shot block right here on starting defensive tackle. Women yims didt see it coming. Saying niners coacuhop defended his guy today. Hoor is an unfortunate play. I dont think there was mace. 49ers put five players on the nine footbl injury list. Mario manning has been unabl to perform list all cannot practice until after week six. Miles buress on the unable to perform lists9 marin catholic. Hes ahead ofhe third and is ready to rollou know, im not worried or nervous o anything like that. I get the ball to the right players, be a good leader stay in motion and calm and stable and steady. And and u. S. Open day two, Roger Fedderer in unfamiliar territory seeing his seventh this year. Worked out of trouble in the third on match point moving out. That is abc 7 sports report and of course, our first after the game saturday night. And we want to udate you now in breaking news in the north bay. Live to sky 7 h fire crews have the fire in fairfid pretty much out right now. Some people evacuated are being let back into the neighborhood. Police and fire determining minutes ago it was safe to go back nchl well hear from homeowners coming up tonight at 9 00. But that does itor this edition of abc 7 news. Thanks for joining us. For all ofs here, have a good night. 97 male announcer in new york citys war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the major case squad. These are their stories