Oakland Hills Fire. Evacuations ordered
Oakland Hills Fire. Evacuations ordered
Evacuations have been ordered for a 4-alarm brush fire burning dangerously close to homes in Oakland.
Reminder, if you live in the Oakland Berkeley Hills, Nixle AC Alerts are your friends. A shocking amount of people in the area still don’t have these enabled.
This is the first line of communication from the Fire dept about fires, evacuation zones, red flag warnings, road closures, etc.
Fire's still active but forward progress has been stopped. Some houses were burned, no injuries reported. This fire was potentially very dangerous. Thank you Cal Fire, Oakland FD, and everyone who pitched in!
Forward progress stopped at 4pm, all air support was released before sunset, but evacuation orders have still not been lifted and the satellite is showing lots of heat as well. Thanks to massive effort only 2 homes were damaged, one of which is the presumed source of the fire. Really amazing work by NorCal firefighters from like a dozen different jurisdictions!
Edit: this is a good time to recommend the Watch Duty app: it notified me before Nixle and has a really easily usable map. This incident can be tracked at: https://share.watchduty.org/i/36560
Can we make Eucalyptus trees straight up illegal in Oakland? They caused all of the spread for the fire.
This is the City of Oakland.
We have issued an Evacuation Order There is an EVACUATION ORDER from Mountain Bvld to Campus Drive.
These zones must EVACUATE NOW: OKL-E203, OKL-E176. People in these zones are in IMMEDIATE DANGER. This is a lawful order to leave now. These zones are now closed to public access.
See Real-time Evacuation Map: https://community.zonehaven.com/
LEAVE NOW. DO NOT WAIT:
Bring all people and pets with you.
Bring only essential items and medications.
Lock your doors when you leave.
TAKE ONE VEHICLE. This will help keep roadways open for responders.
BE READY TO WALK OUT in case roadways become blocked.
DO NOT CALL 9-1-1 for evacuation instructions. For updates monitor:
Real-time Evacuation Map: https://community.zonehaven.com/ AC Alert/Nixle: Phone, email, and https://twitter.com/alamedacoalertRadio: KQED 88.5 FM, KCBS 740 AM, KGO 810 AM, KNBR 680 AM