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Hillside in fairfield go up in flames. Good evening, i am julie haener. It spread to 60 acres before the firefighters were able to get it under control. It is one of several fires burning around the bay area. They continued to fight a much larger fire it has been burning since yesterday and it is east of gilroy. Amber is in fairfield and the flames got close to some of those homes. It is scary for people of this neighborhood. Reporter many refused to leave telling me that they wanted to stay behind to make sure that did everything they could to protect their homes, the whole hill was on fire. The help over there, the one next to the houses. Reporter it broke out 4 30 , monday afternoon in the cordelia area for frilled, people did hose down the grass to protect the property and there was a mandatory order to evacuate 30 homes. It was terrifying. We didnt know it to do, you know . We were scrambling around. Reporter a resident shared these photos with us as the fire moved towards home an ....