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But we start with the two major fires burning in the region. The Arrow fire in Calaveras County near Coop Polis is now 20% contained after burning more than 5000 acres. And in Koos County, the site's fire has burned more than 10,000 acres and is just 15%. We have live team coverage tonight. Meteorologist Carly Gomez has the latest on fire. Weather conditions are been in R is following the progress of the sites fire, but we start with ABC tens DE to be live in Calaveras County right now and de lots of progress in the firefight there. Absolutely. Laura, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a jump in those containment numbers that you just mentioned because everything pretty much looks like this right now. Sure. There are still a few smoky hot spots, but the majority of the hill side in the county looks like this black ash. Plus we've been seen consistent steady water drops all afternoon across highway for really contributing to this firefight. Fire crews fighting the Arrow fire that broke out Monday afternoon in the area that it's burning. It was really receptive to fast growth burning in a lot of grassy area. And so it grew to a size of more than 5000 acres very quickly overnight. They have been able to slow the spread of the fire and they've had some good success bringing in crews from as far as San Diego and Sis counties to fight the aero fire near Copper Poos. In Calaveras county, 370 personnel, 43 engines and 49,000 gallons of fire retardant dropped so far, painting the trees along highway four pink. The fact that we have three significant fires going on, you know, within a couple of hours of here definitely does affect the ability for any single fire to get the resources. So far, three structures have been destroyed and one damage flames turning the hillsides black. But for second generation Calaveras cattle farmers, the wooster brothers, all the grass that burned was feed for their cattle. People want four winners got ahead of the fire and pushed him the other way ahead of the fire down to what we hope was safer country turned out to be because they stopped the fire before they got to where we put the cattle. The wooster brothers had 80 cows and calves and a handful of bulls. They aren't sure how many made it out. Now. They have to try and find feed for the cattle probably until about March. Not feeling very lucky about anything except that our house is saved and the Krs and, and everybody's safe. I'm happy about all that from there on. I go downhill real fast and I want you to take a look at this view we have right now. This is the next water drop that's going to be coming in to deal with those smoky hot spots on the hillside. This is the type of aircraft that we've been seeing. We haven't seen any of the larger 737 tankers. Not at this fire yet. The smaller aircraft just moments away from not to drop that water on the hillside as we take a look. This is on the opposite side of highway four as we see just a little bit of smoke left remaining in the green brush and here goes the water drop from CAL fire. You can also see just the line of pink retarded in the background as they dropped 49,000 gallons of pink retarded so far cal fire saying they're really trying to get full containment on this fire before the temperatures drop to those triple digits later this week reporting live in Cal County ABC 10 LA. Yeah, we just saw it live there on TV. Then attacking that fire from the air with that water from the sky. Lots of good news, Devin the winds of calm fire. The firefighters have made some massive progress in containment. They to be live with the latest on the air of fire. Thank you.
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Channel: ABC10
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Length: 4min 0sec (240 seconds)
Published: Tue Jun 18 2024
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