Aircraft are dropping water and flame retardant to stop the spread of the flames in simi valley. It is close to the Ronald Reagan president ial library and crews are working to protect the complex which is closed for the day. The fire has forced mandatory evacuations and closed multiple School Districts flamed by the strong santa ana winds. A stretch of highway 23 remains closed and in addition to fighting the flames, look here. Crews had to deal with this. About a dozen horses got loose in the area this morning. Fortunate some ranchers stepped in to help wrangle them. No word on how they got out. Miguel almaguer is on the scene with more. Reporter these are the dangerous conditions firefighters are facing on the frontlines. The flame driven by the wind. It is fairly contained right now. There is no homes on the top of this ridge but later on this afternoon there is fear that a small ember from a fire like this one could easily travel a mile away and ignite a new fire. You could see th
Out the door on this thursday morning skies are noticeably hazier to this morning were going to see air quality not quite as clear as it was yesterday for many parts of the bay. Freeze warnings in effect right now for parts of marine sonoma and napa counties due to those chilly temperatures up in the north bay. Temperatures in a range of 30s 40s to 50s with our chilliest of areas being double in at 37 napa right there with you fairfield at 33 right now in petaluma at 34 degrees. So a lot of spots, especially the further north you get are starting off with some frigid conditions from the 40s and 5th 35th ease and 50s where we are right now to some 70s this afternoon a really comfortable day ahead, mild temperatures, some hazy skies at times but overall big improvements from where we have been robin all right. Thank you john, the victim back up here at the bay bridge toll plaza. Traffic stacking up quickly and im losing my voice to all make it through this report though he was heading in
Reporter mel knee woodrow in middle town. Most residents have not been allowed here and you can see why. This home, totally destroyed. All thats left standing here is really a swing set. But as we pan around, another street just directly or rather another home just directly across the street has been okay. This is what it looks like not far from Middletown Community United Methodist church. Homes in ashes. It survived the 1918 fire of middle town that took out all of downtown. So, 97 years later, it also survived. Our faith gives us strength to get over these tough times. Chp says this driver from Hidden Valley became verbally combative with firefighters in middle town because they didnt save his friends home. Law enforcemented officers escorted the man out. A much different scenario from the largely faithdriven community that has taken this in stride. Lake county, theres, you know, a big indian background here. And then, of course, urban hot springs is here so it is a spirituallybased
Fire. One person unaccounted for tonight. Identity of the new fire victims have yet to be confirmed but the Lake County Sheriffs Office is presume that go they are leonard nevt former Police Reporter for the San Jose Mercury news. Body found near the burned car in the Anderson Springs area and 65yearold bruce burns whose sisterinlaw says he may have been asleep as fair came racing toward his familys recycle yard. More now from janet who spoke to friend of if his. Beautiful man. Do anything for anybody. Dave clark is not only mourning the death of his friend 65yearold bruce burns but hes feeling deep guilt for not being able to do more to save his life. He just didnt make it out. And my heart really hurts because i was right there by it and i had to make the decision to good to my grandkids evacuate them. Clark says by the time he tried to good back to help the roads were blocked. Burns body was found yesterday in Hidden Valley. Clark says burns was having car trouble and couldnt make i
Quickly spreading fear in the structure corridor christopher been such an order for nearby site of the hose bulldozers there the china great fire lines residents hosing down their Property Line and keep this thing from spreading he seemed tired the intense fire ball right there a concern, russian workers grabbed to try to help firefighters before they arrived. The pools to escorts really nice neighborhood right there again this is martinas south of martinez. Grant had alamo would kick started us in the middle part of the afternoon. That is a home of easily destroyed flames in helping them as the house was burning additional issues with spread to grass and nearby trees but how many homes are in that area. Fortunate only one house was lost in this one if youre familiar with alamo this was in the area of low over a new road and river drive fell injuries reported in any of these fires thats the good news but as you saw at fairfield situation that was very much ongoing unfortunately this an