Firefighters have heir hands full with a huge fire at a pallet factory. Firefighters are having to dodge exploding propane tanks thats battle flames. Several trucks and camper shells have been destroyed. The fire is burning in Sonoma County near the intersection of highways 12 and 121. Ama good evening. Im ama daetz. Well monitor both fires. First a check on the weather in those areas where the fires are burning, meteorologist leigh glaser is here. Leigh you probably noticed, special level the diablo fire, most of the smoke is going up in a column because theres not a lot of wind out there, live doppler 7hd showing you where the fog is, helped to cool many locations, but well show you that fog bank moving through the golden gate. Up towards the schellville fire, current readings, 85 degrees. Winds there out of the southwest at 10 milesperhour. But lets take a look at the conditions at the diablo fire. Temperature on the ground near 98 degrees, relative humidity, dry. And winds at 10 mi
100 structures are threatened and those homes have been evacuated. We have Live Team Coverage starting with Terry Mcsweeney live on the fire lines for you. Reporter one minute the flames were up the mountain, then came strong gusts of wind and suddenly they were all the way down to Morgan Territory road. Morgan territory road is a fire break. It has to be held. Firefighters scrambled to stop the flames. Kevin lewis lives on that road and was not waiting for the order. We are on our way up. Last night i was up watching the spurs and stuff keeping an eye on it seeing where it was going to go. I saw this flare up and told the family that were going out. If the house burns down, whatever. Reporter 700 fiveday forecasts are battling the morgan fire and dozens of them quickly set up posts trying to contain it. Thousands of acres have burned and hundreds more went up tonight. We are expecting we will be losing about 6 to 8,000 acres. Reporter at the clayton fire station the problem was not fi
Sonoma county. We have Live Team Coverage from both fires as crews battle hot weather conditions to put out the flames. The fire in Contra Costa County spread to at least 400 acres. Right now its burning near clayton in mt. Diablo state park. Lillian kim has a look. Theres a thick layer of smoke over mt. Diablo. All the activities on the other side of th rim. Flames have moved south and thatshere there is an evacuati order. This started at 1 00 p. M. On the northeast side of the mountain, three miles south of downtown clayton. No reports of injuries but so far 400 acres have bned and 250 firefighters ve been called to work this fire. An immedia evacuation has been ordered for oak hill lane at curry canyon road. Residents ve been told toll evacuate to diablo view school in clayton. Residents on Morgan Territory road have not been told to leave their homes. The flames are moving a. From that area. But nobody is takingnything for grants. Its lky, theres no opinion, but its that manzanita
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News. There was a major new innovation shown off by apple advancing smart phones today reporter the iphone 5 s is built with finger print Recognition Technology the home button doubles as a reporter so no pass word needed, your finger print unlocks the phone. Reporter that is a first of its of kind. I demod that feature it worked perfectly it was really cool. The iphone 5 s will be the standard 199 pricetag. It hits the market on september 20th. Reporter stay tuned to kron coming up at 8pm tonight we will have more from apples big event reporter gabe slate kron 4 news pam more big news. Pam now to the mount diablo fire. This is a live picture. Here is the very latest. It has burned more than 32 Hundred Acres. And is now 45percent contained. Right now 75 buildings are threatened by the flames. Mandatory evacuations remain in effect in some neighborhoods. At this hour more than 700 firefighters and support crew are on the scene. Three have been hurt none seriously tonight our Live Team C