Hells Gate Drive News Today

Cooler. the winds will settle down a little bit. that will hold for much of the day. that will give the fire fighters much-needed rest. we were caught the fascination yesterday afternoon as we watch the firefighters on the front lines go head-to-head behind the wall of fire thats coming down a mountain ridge. the relentless waves of fire erupted here along hells gate drive. you can see how these low-level trees and the dry brush just had the fuel. in a matter of seconds, the flames devoured all ...

And they are trying to create a back wall of flames. what you cant see through the wall of smoke is that the fire that has rolled over a small mountaintop has rolled over in the last hour and barreling towards where we are, and the winds are the starting to move it to the left of the screen over here, and what they are afraid of the you will follow me over here is this highway over here, and they are afraid that the flames will jump over this highway and light the other side on fire. there is an...

Theres another fire a few miles away and they are afraid that they would end up merging and creating a super fire, if you will. theres a real intense effort to get this situation stopped at this brink. ironically enough, this roadway is called hells gate drive and leads to the kingdom lake. these firefighters have been really intense. its about to get real ugly here and were seeing it firsthand and very up close as the fire has been rolling off the back part of that ledge and has now come down t...

Fire. what is the end goal? >> well, this road is called hells gate drive and if you follow it up here, it takes you to an area that we were trying to get into which was hit hard yesterday afternoon, and excuse me, we are starting to get a lot of the embers landing on us here. >> careful. >> but the road takes you up to southern edge of possum kingdom lake, and it has beautiful homes and recreational lake that a lot of people enjoy since we are relatively close to the west side of ft. worth, tex...