Sites Fire in Colusa County: Evacuations remain amid 15,000 acre wildfire | Latest

Well now to the sites, fire in Colusa County, it's already burned 10,000 acres in just 24 hours. ABC D's Brandon Vitamin is on the fire lines and spoke to people who spent the night trying to save their homes. This fire blew up huge because of the high wind we had and also the big dry grass crop we've got going on this stuff burns like tissue paper and allows the fire to run really quickly. It's why we have multiple heads burning on the site's fire right now as it's making its way up over the tops of hills, down through the valleys in Colusa County, threatening places like Leesville woke up at three to my daughter screaming, looked out the window and we had fire to the west and fire to the north. Slim is one of a handful of people who lives in Leesville. His family has the old 18 hundreds hotel from the stage coach days built in 1874 8 kids raid in there. His family had a scary night with that 3 a.m. wake up. But fortunately, fire crews were able to light a back burn surround all of the properties here in Leesville with black and keep any of them from burning anything you want to say to the fire crews. Thanks a lot guys and God bless you all. Air tankers are working this fire, especially trying to hit some of the hottest areas and the most difficult to reach parts of the flame front. But most of the work in the hills of Colusa County is being done this way. We've seen dozens of dozers being offloaded here, cutting down to bare mineral earth, making new fire line trying to help firefighters get containment on the site's fire which is burning up fuel. Yes, but it's not just fuel for a fire. This is fuel for cows. This is ranching country one rancher we talked to said it's been really hard out here with all of the drought and now with so much of the food burned up. He's thinking about selling his herd in Colusa County, Brandon Ritman, ABC 10 News.

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Length: 1min 48sec (108 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 18 2024