Creek. Matt keller is headedo scene. He is on the phone. Right now he is in Scotts Valley. Tell us about this area that you are heading to. Are there many people who live in this evacuation zone . Well, it is a remote area, and the roads up here are thats the thing. When you hear about evacuations up here, the biggest concern is that there are a lot of, like, onelane roads up here, and a lot of Construction Since the flooding of last year, and there were a lot of mud slides and if you are driving in the Santa Cruz Mountains, you will be dealing with construction, and thats when a lot of construction crews are working. So that could be a big concern. So with evacuations kind of i think all on our minds with everything that happened up there in the north bay, those are such extreme conditions, but up here in the middle of the night, thats a concern because people with sleeping. This fire started at 11 00 last night. People were sleeping when this fire started when getting to homes and kn
School in Boulder Creek. Thats where evacuees are already heading, we are told there are 150 so far, that fire they have knocked on some doors, theyre trying to get people out and get them to that school. The wind is a concern this morning. If there are any out there, lets check in with mike nicco on the forecast. Jessica, reggie, that was a good if there are any winds out there, that was a good statement there, jessica. Hi, everybody, let me start off by saying this is not and will not be a repeat of what we dealt with in the north bay. We just do not have the environmental weather or wind conditions to do it. Right now there are no wind, but the temperature up at about 1600 to 1800 feet its 69 degrees, a little warm, humidity is about 23 so it is bone dry out there. What youre seeing right now is this is a chimney kind of fire. It is climbing up the valley walls due to the chimney effect because the hot air rises and as the hot air rises it dries out the registration above it and tha
Christien, as dawn has broken, we are getting a much better look at the area that is burning. Reporter absolutely. That is exactly what firefighters are looking for at this point in time. The bear fire 0 containment. Estimated around 125 acres. Now that the sun is starting to come up, the heat is starting to warm up, and that smoke now started to go higher and higher airborne, this fire very, very large. And at this point unchecked. There are at least three crews back there fighting this fire. Fire crews tell me that they believe they have enough crews here on scene. Theyre working to bring more crews in as the day progresses. Lets see how the fire progressed overnight. It started around 10 30 last night with a fire at a home. That fire then spread to some of the nearby wildland. Firefighters were called to that structure fire. Again, 10 30 last night. Now estimated at 125 acres. Santa cruz county emergency officials sent out a reverse 911 call to residents living within four miles of
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Social media pages, we are putting out those updates. Right now, we are just letting the firefighters do their job. This is fortunate for us that this is mostly hilly grassland area, not really surrounded by a lot of homes but there are homes on the east side of dublin that could be affected. So were very fortunate the weather has been decent and we have a lot of resources that were putting on the fire. But mostly its the terrain this is a grass fire, grassfires are much more manageable than heavy brush fires. Sergeant, can you talk about the evacuation . Do you know how many people roughly have been effected and why there were evacuations . It looks like the fire is blowing away from the homes. Its unpredictable so in an abundance of caution we want to do everything right. Some of the people that have been displaced, hundreds of people, we have opened up the Community Resource center and a Reunification Center here at the dublin wave off central park way. So families are encouraged to