{"id":12377,"date":"2016-09-27T05:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T05:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=12377"},"modified":"2016-09-27T05:46:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T05:46:49","slug":"550-acre-fire-in-santa-cruz-mountains-prompts-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/550-acre-fire-in-santa-cruz-mountains-prompts-evacuations.html","title":{"rendered":"550 Acre Fire in Santa Cruz Mountains Prompts Evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">550-Acre Fire in Santa Cruz Mountains Prompts Evacuations, Threatens 300 Structures<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>550-Acre Fire in Santa Cruz Mountains Prompts Evacuations, Threatens 300 Structures<\/strong> : Cal Fire crews aggressively responded to a fast-moving vegetation fire burning on the Loma Prieta ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which prompted evacuations, destroyed one structure and charred at least 550 acres, with the potential to burn 1,000 acres by Monday night, fire officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">At least 300 structures are threatened by the fire, which is in proximity to television towers. Evacuations are in effect along Summit, Mount Madonna and Croy Ridge roads. About 300 people have evacuated the area, Cal Fire said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=394891351&#038;videoID=WgvbYDAa_Up2&#038;origin=nbcbayarea.com&#038;sec=news&#038;subsec=local&#038;width=600&#038;height=360\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Santa Clara County residents described seeing a plume of smoke resembling a volcano from their homes and backyards. Footage from the NBC Bay Area chopper, which was the first to arrive at the scene, showed fire crews and a DC-10 tanker using retardant to control the fire.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> According to CalFire, 200 firefighters from multiple agencies were on scene, and the fire was 5 percent contained by late Monday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">An evacuation center was set up Monday at Soquel High School, 401 Old San Jose Road in Soquel, for those who needed shelter. But the Red Cross said it was searching for another location because the school was set to close at 11 p.m., and school would be in session Tuesday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> The blaze, which has been named the Loma Fire, is in the area of Loma Prieta and Loma Chiquita roads, west of Morgan Hill, and is spreading at a rapid rate in the southeast direction toward open space, Cal Fire said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> The fire can also be seen from as far away as Monterey, according to residents in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=394882181&#038;videoID=AbZL7TX_hDen&#038;origin=nbcbayarea.com&#038;sec=news&#038;subsec=local&#038;width=600&#038;height=360\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Ben Brown, who was tweeting photos of the fire from his living room in the north end of Scotts Valley, said he watched the fire grow really rapidly in the first half-hour. \u201cIt\u2019s not at a threatening distance. I can only see smoke but I\u2019m keeping a close eye on it.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Jacquie Heffner, who lives in the San Jose foothills, said she could see a lot of smoke from Santa Teresa Boulevard and Dunn Avenue. \u201cWe\u2019re one hill away as the crow flies. The end of my street goes into the foothills. I can smell the fire a little bit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Dozens of South Bay residents tweeted photos of the fire from their evening commute home. A time-lapse video of the fire showed white smoke from the fire quickly turning dark black, and then a fiery red around 5:30 p.m.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Monday, a Spare the Air day in the Bay Area, was an exceptionally hot day in the South Bay, with temperatures rising to 100 degrees in some parts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">NBC Bay Area&#8217;s Gonzalo Rojas contributed to this report.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Cal Fire crews continue to battle 300-acre fire burning in Santa Cruz Mountains. 300 structures threatened. <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mcILVKI8FC\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/mcILVKI8FC<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iRGu6Pw56c\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iRGu6Pw56c<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u2014 NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcbayarea\/status\/780556685114904576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">26 September 2016<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Photo of <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LomaFire?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LomaFire<\/a> in <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SantaCruz?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SantaCruz<\/a> mountains from a viewer who flew into <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlySJC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FlySJC<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kYwPnZSfR9\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/kYwPnZSfR9<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5nO5IJktpA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5nO5IJktpA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u2014 NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcbayarea\/status\/780557347567665161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">26 September 2016<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ICYMI?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ICYMI<\/a> here&#8217;s Loma Prieta fire weather &amp; latest facts as hot 90\u00b0 continues to fan the flames: More LIVE <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcbayarea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nbcbayarea<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LomaFire?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LomaFire<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5BzYtRhM8d\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5BzYtRhM8d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u2014 Jeff Ranieri (@JeffRanieri) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffRanieri\/status\/780557550546583557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">26 September 2016<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Big fire rigs look small as they head into <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SantaCruz?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SantaCruz<\/a> Mts Fire which continues to grow. <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vj5GFU36oC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vj5GFU36oC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u2014 RobertHanda (@RHandaNBC) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RHandaNBC\/status\/780545551888633856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">26 September 2016<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Source<\/strong> : http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Cal-Fire-Responding-to-Fire-in-Santa-Cruz-Mountains-394872431.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/550-acre-fire-in-santa-cruz-mountains-prompts-evacuations.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>550-Acre Fire in Santa Cruz Mountains Prompts Evacuations, Threatens 300 Structures 550-Acre Fire in Santa Cruz Mountains Prompts Evacuations, Threatens 300 Structures : Cal Fire crews aggressively responded to a fast-moving vegetation fire burning on the Loma Prieta ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which prompted evacuations, destroyed one structure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7423,7427,6452,7426,7428,7424,7425],"class_list":["post-12377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-550-acre-fire","tag-croy-ridge-roads","tag-local-news","tag-mount-madonna","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-santa-cruz-mountains","tag-threatens-300-structures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}