Lillian kim is live now with the latest for us. Reporter this is one of the road closures set up in the clover dale area. Up that road is where firefighters are battling flames. It started on the 1300 block of big guyers road. So far, 500 acres have burned, 36 homes have been evacuated since flames broke out this morning. Its unclear how the fire started. Crews seem to be gaining the upper hand. They say they were aggressive with air attacks from the beginning. Th that seems to have slowed things down. Low humidity and high temperatures make conditions ripe for a fire, which has made for the people who live in this area. Because i had a dream last night that the house burned down. Ive been around the valley fire and the clayton fire. Its scary when you see it at your back door. It was gusty. That seeps to have calmed down which is helping firefighters. We still are not out of the wootds wi woods with how dry it is. Its really dry out there. Reporter cal fire says the overnight hours wi
It was gusty. That seeps to have calmed down which is helping firefighters. We still are not out of the wootds wi woods with how dry it is. Its really dry out there. Reporter cal fire says the overnight hours will be a telltale sign. More than 200 firefighters have been called in. Lillian, thank you. Be the first to know when news breaks with the abc7 news app. Download and enable push alerts. It was a hot day, perfect for cooling off in a fountain. These kids beat the heat at the plaza spray ground. People soaked in the sun and good tunes at the eat real festival. Taking a live look at our san jose cam. Temperatures soared throughout the bay area. For more, we go to our meteorologist. We saw triple digits today. Thats right or close to it. Right up on top of mount tam, 99. Theres nothing, indicating no fog. Right here, this is representative of the wind flow, flowing from east to west. Its the smoke plume from sawmill fire where its 92 right now, relative humidity has come up from 18