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This . As you can see the fire is fairly actively burning and the winds are causing it to pickup. This is not unusual for this mountain this early in the morning. It is just showing the potential we have out here. There is a lot of unburned file and the mountain has not burned for many, many years. We have very hot temperatures in the last few days. We have very low humidity. All of those factors contribute to this. This site looks. Our apologies for Audio Program with amy hollyfield. We will go back to amy but, first, we go to pictures of what is going on. You can see the hotspots burning rig...

The ground and from the air. Reporter by nightfall with over 800 acres burned, it is still hard to tell who is winning this firefight, man or mother nature. The fire started right here with, you know, a lot of fuel, a lot of potential for rapid spread because of slope. Reporter monday afternoon mount diablo erupted in flames looking more like a volcano with a huge plume of smoke in the air and 50 to 75 homes on the ground in the fires path starting on sunday afternoon those residents told to lock unand leave immediately. Especially on Morgan Territory road they have a long way to go for Fire P...

Makes it a lot harder to burn. Their interest and helicopters and airplanes during the middle of the day to day or with more equipment to battle this bright blaze. Reporter he is telling me how crucial this is a water drop are trying to put out the diablo fire. Usually a hundred and 50 to 200 ft. Above the trees. So i see a lot of different pockets. Reporter so you are looking at video at what his helicopter looks like. Depending on how things look like but it carries about 100 gal. Of water and he needs to figure out where and diablo he is allowed to dip his bucket and appeared he could drop ...

Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield. Amy . Kristen, we have a visual update. Look at the images. This fire is huge. Usually you will see fires calm down overnight but this is still very active and raging this morning. It was a busy night for firefighters and still going strong. They still up there on the republican trying to make progress. This started at 1 30 yesterday afternoon along the east side of mt. Diablo. It forced people to evacuate from their homes in clayton. Crews worked hard in the hot afternoon and were hoping the cool of night would help them make progress. Temperatures usually g...

They say they have a lot of work. They still want to build eight miles of fire line around the fire. They say it is about 10 percent contained. It started at 1 30 yesterday afternoon along Morgan Territory road on the east side of mt. Diablo near clayton. The vegetation there is very dry and discussion susceptible to fire. This spread in a hurry. It destroys one outbuilding but they kept it from reaching hopes. They have told some people in clayton they do need testify need to evacuate. One firefighter hurt his foot but is expected to be okay. It is not a bun. It is steep terrain. 300 firefigh...