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
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
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, the rocky fire is bigger than the entire city of oakland. Firefighters are no closer to containing it. Good evening. The wildfire in the county now covers 54,000 acres. That is more than 84 scare miles. Tonight it is still 5 contained. Fires exploded in size if the past 24 hours partly because firefighters actually let it run towards a rugged unpopulated area to focus on saving homes. More than 6300 homes are still threatened tonight. At least two dozen have already been lost. Firefighters just setting backfires now to stop the main blaze from crossing highway 20. Some of them have been working weeks straight as california fires continue to burn out of control. When we are done with this one we will be on to the next one. Does it wear you out . Did t does, it does, yes. One firefighter said he never seen anything like it. Fastmoving flames going through thousands of acres of dry brush in three counties. Tripling in size i
Here. Well, more than 6300 structures are threatened right now in two dozen are already destroyed. Cal fire says it may take more than a week before it has this fire under control. More than 2700 firefighters from around the state are working on it right now. To the southeast and kings county, some people can go back home after firefighters secured a strong perimeter around the willow fire. Mandatory evacuation orders were lifted for one community at 9 00 last night. But theyre still in effect for several others. It is now 60 contained and you can follow the fire fight on our website. We posted an interactive map of all the fires burning across california i think oh and sorry we have some breaking news. The spokesperson over at i believe its yeah Oakland Police, they have a Police Officer who went down with a shot to the leg. Hes in surgery and lets listen in. This is still very new. Very fresh and very active investigation. What we can share with you at this time is that officers resp
Oakland police chief will be holding a News Conference about this later this morning. In the meantime, investigators are out here trying to piece together exactly what happened. Live in oakland, lisa chan, kpix 5. Thanks for the live update. The rocky fire has now grown to cover an area larger than the city of oakland. Its burning in rugged terrain just east of the community of lower lake about 20 miles north of calistoga. Now burned more than 84 square miles in three counties and just 5 contained. The fire has grown in size partly because firefighters let it burn freely in an unpopulated area so that they could focus on saving homes. Evacuees are taking what they can. Terrifying. But you just go and get everything you can. Take care of your animals and do what you can to get out of here. More than 6300 structures are threatened right now. Two dozen homes are have already been destroyed and cal fire says it may take more than a week before it has the fire under control. More than 2700