Frantic evacuations and rescues as fast-moving fire destroys homes overnight on march toward Vacaville
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The CZU August Lightning Complex
Summary
A group of fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties ignited early Wednesday, exploding to 10,000 acres and forcing 22,000 people from their homes.There have been nearly 11,000 lighting strikes in California over the past three days often unaccompanied by rain, and temperatures reaching highs rarely seen in the region.Fire officials in Vacaville ordered evacuations for all residents of Pleasants Valley Road and all connecting streets and English Hills Road as walls of fire surged across roadways early Wednesday. The Solano County Sheriff’s Department ordered evacuations for residents west of Blue Ridge Road to I-505 in Vacaville and north of Cherry Glen Road to Highway 128.The Vacaville Fire District later said that the fire had entered Gibson Canyon, and that all of Solar Hills and Gibson Canyon Road area are under evacuation.And at 11 a.m., Cal Fire issued an evacuation order for Highway 121 (Monticello Road) from Wooden Valley Road to Vichy Ave.Emergency radio dispatches suggested firefighters were rescuing victims, including some with burns.The I-80 freeway remained open, though the fire was inching down the hillside toward it shortly after 6 a.m. The air was thick with smoke and clumps of ash just west of Vacaville, where the fire is beginning to encroach.Many evacuees fled with only their nightclothes, forced to rush from their homes with only minutes to spare.Jerry Shirar, 74, gathered with a handful of evacuees and media crews on a small patch of land near an orchard on Peña Adobe Road, east of the freeway.
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