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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 smoke and crackling flames created an orange and black backdrop for tankers fighting the massive fire yesterday. Hundreds of firefighters continue to battle the rural fire. Helicopters scooped up water each bucket holding 324 gallons. Emergency responders fear the fire would move quickly, and it did, ballooning to thousands o acres in just a matter of hours. Super dry vegetation, four years of drought. The winds keep changing direction. All of a sudden its windy and we dont have very much contain ....
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 course those planes were grounded overnight. That is standard procedure. The planes generally only go up during daylight hours. They anticipate putting them back up as soon as the sun comes out but as i mentioned, winds calm overnight and just over the last few minutes starting to pick up again. Has anything burned just yet . One out house was destroyed. And were told one home was damaged but so far, no injuries so that is very good news. Julie watts live for us in yolo county, thank you. And m ....