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Burning southeast of the lake and west of the town of winters in both napa and yolo counties. Cal fire says 380 firefighters are working on it right now. Julie watts reports. Reporter good morning. Yeah, the evacuation area for this fire is growing. Currently hundreds of homes are threatened by these flames. You can see the road is closed behind us leading up to these areas. Firefighters facing unpredictable winds, difficult terrain and because of the drought, its also bone dry. Now, billowing s...

Years of drought is not helping us any. The winds keep changing and shifting direction. All of a sudden, they were, like, the winds are moving rapidly and its just we dont have very much contained and its just spreading so fast and you guys just need to leave. Reporter now, the fire threat forced cattle and horses to flee. According to cal fire, the wildfire may have been sparked by a car accident yesterday afternoon. You saw in the pictures, they were fighting the fire from the air, although of...

Terrain and, of course, because of the drought its bone dry. Billowing smoke and crackling flames created an orange and black backdrop for tankers fighting the massive fire. A dc10 has been dropping retardant along with hundreds of firefighters who have been battling this hard to reach fire tearing across this rural section of northern california. Helicopters scooped up water one bucket at a time each holding 324 gallons. Emergency responders feared the fire would move quickly. And it did balloo...

Flames burned trees down. Im maria medina. Hi, everyone. Im frank mallicoat. Lets get right out to kpix 5 reporter da lin, who joins us live from the Evacuation Center in winters. Da. Reporter yeah, frank. The red cross has about a handful of people here at the Evacuation Center in winters and many more came here for food and water. Now, heres the latest from cal fire. They just had a press conference about 20 minutes ago. This fire destroyed one home, outbuilding and damaged one home. The reaso...

Involved in the shooting has died from injuries he was taken to the hospitalwe do not know the general of the also was taken to the hospital by ambulance that officer has died ulcer the gender is not being released nor the officers named i can tell you all sources have also told us that the suspect was injured in a gunbattle the officer checked herself into hey what hospital to of course any time someone checks himself and to the hospital they have to let the authorities in made the arrest in th...

Model for young officers to Senior Officers creek he was that guy he was technically aware and experienced. He was smart. He was skeptical. He truly represent what we do every day in this line of work this is a dangerous job and a sergeant knew that it was a dangerous job he brought resources to work everyday and mentored everyone every single day in the organization. Reporter this is video of the pickup truck that was pulled over. We also received word in the last hour that the suspect, has bee...

Catherine tonight ordinary citizens are showing their support it hurts me so bad catherine a warrior. A leader. And an ideal officer. Thats how Hayward Sergeant scott lunger is being remembered tonight. Catherine the 48 year old father routine traffic stop. Catherine tonight we have Team Coverage on the shooting. male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Catherine kron4s scott rates has new information on the suspect arrested in the shooting. And jeff bush is live...

Year if you are an month ran awesome upper 70s to may be near 80 but it will be is up for seven is this morning were with a to low clouds for patchy fog and drizzle. Michelle apon mid to upper 50s across the north bay we have similar systems inland was also the star this money may want to grab the jacket is one to wake up and head into lunch hour this afternoon with those temperatures warming up into mid70s for the location by the afternoon of 7 its a 5 00 on the drive home and on the seventh fo...

Reporter highway 120 is close to the area right now. And the area around there is under mandatory evacuations. Three hikers had to be airlifted out of the area being tracked from the flames. Darya the problem here is that gusty wind. mark you can see the helicopter trying to navigate through the gusty winds. The reason may have to do this is because the terrain is so steep they can gather machinery there. Humidity is pushing the 100 percent mark. Those gusty conditions of 20 mi. Per hour are exp...

Reporter good afternoon to you. Well, the captain, the Police Captain who held a Police Conference said hes a close, personal friend of Sergeant Scott lunger, the officer who was shot and skilled this morning and killed. He said the department is devastated but thankful for the support theyve received from others. This is a very devastating and dark day for the community of hayward, the Hayward Police department, the family of the department and the men and women of Law Enforcement. Reporter thi...