REMAIN IN EFFECT. MELANIE. WELL, WE'RE RIGHT ON HIGHWAY FOUR, RIGHT NOW AT THE TURNOFF TO COPPEROPOLIS AND JUST A LITTLE BIT WEST OF WHERE WE ARE IS A ROADBLOCK WHERE LOTS OF EVACUEES ARE STILL THIS MORNING WAITING TO HEAR WHEN THEY MAY BE ABLE TO COME BACK HOME. AND YESTERDAY, KCRA THREE SPOKE WITH A COUPLE OF THOSE EVACUEES AS WELL. WE GOT TO CATCH UP WITH SOME OF THEM AT A NEARBY GAS STATION. KCRA THREE ALSO SPOKE WITH A MAN BY THE NAME OF GREG URETA. HE WAS WORKING AT HIS SHOP IN COPPEROPOLIS ON MONDAY AFTERNOON WHEN HE SAW THAT BIG CLOUD OF SMOKE MOVING TOWARD HIM. HE'S ONE OF SEVERAL COPPEROPOLIS RESIDENTS WHOSE HOMES AND BUSINESSES WERE THREATENED BY THE ARROW FIRE ON MONDAY, AND HE DESCRIBED WHAT IT WAS LIKE SEEING THAT FIRE ON THE APPROACH. WHAT WE WERE KEEPING OUR EYES OUT FOR IS THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE EMBERS THAT WERE FALLING AND THE WIND WOULD JUST TAKE THEM. AND, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH WE SAW THE SMOKE AND THE FLAMES BACK THERE, ALL OF A SUDDEN WE WOULD SEE A SPOT LIGHT UP ON THE ON THE RIDGE OVER THERE. SO, SO AS OF LAST CHECK, CAL FIRE REPORTING THAT THREE STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED AND ONE STRUCTURE HAS DAMAGED. IT'S UNCLEAR EXACTLY WHAT TYPES OF STRUCTURES THOSE ARE. CAL FIRE HAS A SPECIAL CREW THAT GOES OUT AND ASSESSES THE DAMAGE, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT ALSO THIS MORNING TO NOTE WHAT HAS BEEN SAVED. WE DROVE AROUND THE FIRE ZONE QUITE A BIT YESTERDAY AND WHAT WE SAW ARE CAL FIRE RIGS PARKED AT NUMEROUS HOMES THAT ARE STILL STANDING THIS MORNING, EVEN THOUGH THE FIRE MIGHT HAVE BURNED RIGHT UP TO THE PROPERTY LINE, THE HOMES ARE OKAY AND INTACT BECAUSE OF THE HARD WORK OF THOSE FIRE CREWS THAT ARE OUT HERE REPORTING LIVE IN COPPEROPOLIS. MELANIE WINGO KCRA THREE NEWS. ALL RIGHT, MELANIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. LIVE REPORT. AND EVACUATION CENTERS HAVE BEEN SET UP FOR BOTH PEOPLE AS WELL AS ANIMALS. THERE IS ONE AT MARK TWAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN ANGELS CAMP, ANOTHER AT THE SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS. VALLEY SPRINGS VETERANS HALL CAN ALSO ACCOMMODATE EVACUEES IN NEED OF A PLACE TO STAY WHILE THEY WAIT FOR EVACUATION ORDERS TO BE LIFTED. WE HAVE THE LATEST EVACUATION INFORMATION SCROLLING AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN THROUGHOUT THE NEWSCAST THIS MORNING, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THESE FIRES BOTH ON AIR AND ONLINE, TO GET THE VERY LATEST UPDATE, BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD THE KCRA 3 APP,
