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They started the air attack, the first drop was half an hour ago. The front page of the chronicle said, catching a break from the fires, then you wake up this morning to a new fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I hope that the weather helps out. Definitely, the timing on the new fire is similar to what we saw in the north bay, flames there started 10 00 sunday night and crews had their hands tied until the next day to get the air drops going. Lets show you where the new fire is burning, it started started as a house fire near 35 in the Boulder Creek area in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Authorities...

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 mo...

Vegetation fire around 2 00 this afternoon and grew. Spreading out over hilly terrain as the winds picked up. The mandatory evacuations followed. At the time the folks leaving homes thought it looked dire. Here is what they had to say. It looked a lot closer than i think it was. It was a little hard to tell. But definitely very scarey. To hear the helicopters, and in two minutes i have seen like six fire trucks coming from all over, not just dublin but you can see them but basically smoke. Reporter the fire chief says some of the area drops helped in all of this. In fact they had dozens of cre...

No delays as you head northbound on 87. We are tracking a few cars backing up over at the bay bridge toll plaza. Nothing major. You have about a 10minute ride from the maze into San Francisco. Michelle. A new set of wildfires is keeping bay area crews busy in some difficult terrain. Kpix 5s andria borba breaks down why the bear fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains is proving tough to contain. Reporter the sound in the Santa Cruz Mountains is this, an on s. W. A. T. Of helicopters piercing the quiet, dropping water and trying to knock down the bear fire. The fire began at night scaring people out o...

And some people say they just dont want to come back. So thats tough for them, but some families do want to come back, so thats another story coming up at 6 00. Well talk about the long term plans of some of the neighbors who do plan to rebuild, how theyre going to rebuild. In the meantime these folks basically have until 5 00 right now to basically finish up. So the police will actually come here within the next couple minutes to wrap folks and get them to finish up for today. They can return tomorrow morning at 10 00 and continue to go through the debris. I know when i was up there last week...