Dozen homes and forced people to evacuate. Shifting winds are not helping matters. Nbc has the latest now from clear lake. Slide it from the side and bring it to me. Fighting fire with fire. Early this morning firefighters taking advantage in the change in the winds to burn a stretch along a california highway on their own terms. This is highway 20 right here. Can you see the fires tc burning. And that dry brush is a major concern. And the concern is that embers from the dry brush will fly across and hit all of the dry brush here. This whole area is a tinder box. For hours, back burning continued all it create a fire break. It is very important to create a buffer where fire cannot get in. If we create a large buffer between this road and the fire front then we accomplished our goal. With you this massive fire remains unpredictable. Last night enormous frames the rocky fire doubling in size since ye9 ning more than 6,000 structures. Sarah workman is one of the 12,000 people forced to ev
With a cloud of smoke. Scary pictures. Good evening, im Katie Marzullo. The rocky fire has now burned 47,000 acres. It has destroyed at least 24 homes, 26 outbuildings have also been destroyed. 6300 homes are in danger and right now firefighters have the fire just five percent contained. Cornell bernard is live from lower lake with a look at the response. Cornell . Reporter this fire is now burning across three counties tonight, believe it another nor. Lake county, colusa county, and yuba county, this the newest worry. In the last hour, the fire has burned across this ridge. Its moving to the northwest. Just an incredible shot here tonight. Caltrans just informed us, because of the fires approach in the western direction it will close highway 53 in the next 30 minutes through lower lake, as a precaution. He rocky fire continues to grow with aa vengeance. The blaze shows no signs of stop, almost doubling in size overnight. As the fire burns north theres a huge assault in the air and fro
County Health Officials put out advisories warning people who are sensitive to smoke to stay inside. Most people, though, were not affected. Hazmat team went to check it out and make sure everything was okay. Everything dissipated just about an hour ago. And, this is what it looked like earlier when the fire first erupted. This photo from twitter shows flames and a thick black cloud of smoke rising into the sky as people look up. No word yet on the cause of the fire and again it is all clear now. Another whale is washed up on the bay area shoreline. This time a carcus that looks like a humpback has been found in pacifica. That is not far from muscle rock park. We are live tonight. Reporter a lot of people here at Pacific Manor beach taking the hike down to the sand to get a look and get a close look at that. People are taking pictures over there right now getting a close look at that humpback whale. A team was there dissecting it. They just recently a couple minutes ago packed up and m
Lock the door and window. Thats the warning tonight from Alameda Police after girl was sexually assaulted in her own home. Now the city sense of security is shaken and police say the suspect has been breaking in homes for months. Police say this is the man suspected of breaking into homes over the past few month open the west side of alameda. Thats where alan is live tonight where there are extra patrol right now. Alan . Reporter yes. 6 breakins so far on this west side of town dan and amma. These are called hot prowl cases because the victims have been home each time. Which is scary but now he has sexually assaulted a young girl and police are afraid bees to strike again. He had just again to bed after finishing his shift as clerk at the roadway inn when man climbs through the window of his motel apartment. The night clerk caught him in the act on surveillance camera and scared him off. Scary because first time in my life that someone got 52 my room at midnight. Reporter sthains accid
Children sleep train child your ticket to a better nights sleep lock the door and window. Thats the warning tonight from Alameda Police after girl was sexually assaulted in her own home. Now the city sense of security is shaken and police say the suspect has been breaking in homes for months. Police say this is the man suspected of breaking into homes over the past few month open the west side of alameda. Thats where alan is live tonight where there are extra patrol right now. Alan . Reporter yes. 6 breakins so far on this west side of town dan and amma. These are called hot prowl cases because the victims have been home each time. Which is scary but now he has sexually assaulted a young girl and police are afraid bees to strike again. He had just again to bed after finishing his shift as clerk at the roadway inn when man climbs through the window of his motel apartment. The night clerk caught him in the act on surveillance camera and scared him off. Scary because first time in my life