Excelsior Fire: Evacuation orders lifted for residents in the area, parts of Jackson Road closed

THIS IS BREAKING NEWS. THAT BREAKING NEWS OUT OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY, WHERE WE’RE CURRENTLY FOLLOWING A LARGE VEGETATION FIRE. LIVECOPTER THREE OVERHEAD RIGHT NOW TO GET US AN AERIAL VIEW. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. WE JUST GOT THIS INTO OUR NEWSROOM. WE RIGHT NOW KNOW THE ACREAGE IS SITTING AT 686 ACRES. THIS JUST STARTED BEFORE NOON TODAY. THIS LARGE VEGETATION FIRE STARTING AT EXCELSIOR AND JACKSON ROAD DIRECTLY SOUTH OF MATHER, STARTING, LIKE I SAID, JUST BEFORE NOON AND WE CAN SEE THAT THERE’S A CEMETERY DIRK VERDOORN AND I WERE JUST TALKING. WE FOUND THAT THIS WAS A MUSLIM CEMETERY IN THAT AREA, AND IT’S JUST EXPLODED IN THE LAST HOUR OR SO. CAL FIRE AND SACRAMENTO METRO FIRE BOTH RESPONDING WITH AIRCRAFT AND GROUND RESPONSE. NOW, WE DO HAVE IT CONFIRMED THAT EVACUATIONS ARE UNDERWAY, THAT PERS SACRAMENTO METRO FIRE. THEY SAID EVACUATIONS ARE ALL HOMES FROM EXCELSIOR TO SUNRISE ALONG JACKSON ROAD. AN ADVISORY ALONG FLORIN BETWEEN EXCELSIOR AND SUNRISE AND JACKSON IS SHUT DOWN BETWEEN EXCELSIOR AND SUNRISE. NOW, IF WE GO TO OUR GROUND CREW, OUR PHOTOJOURNALIST JACK NOONAN IS ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW. HE IS AT EAGLE’S NEST IN JACKSON ROAD. AND THIS NEAR THAT CEMETERY AREA, AND HE’S JUST SHOWING US THAT CHARRED MARK RIGHT THERE FROM THE AERIAL POINT, WE COULD ACTUALLY SEE THAT THERE WERE DOZERS THAT WERE MAKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THIS VERY DRY GRASS THAT WE’RE EXPERIENCING IN THIS AREA, A METRO FIRE STATION IS ACTUALLY RIGHT ON EXCELSIOR ROAD. SO VERY STRATEGICALLY PLACE. BUT THIS AREA JUST VERY DRY AND VERY SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS TYPE OF FIRE. IF WE GO BACK UP TO LIVECOPTER3 RIGHT NOW FOR ANOTHER AERIAL VIEW, WE’VE SEEN LOTS OF FIRE RETARDANT DROPS. YOU CAN SEE THOSE LINES IN THE TOP OF YOUR SCREEN. IF WE ZOOM IN, YOU CAN SEE JUST THAT SMOKE BILLOWING FROM THE AREA. WE HAVE VIEWERS FROM ACROSS OUR VIEWING AREA, FROM AMADOR COUNTY TO SACRAMENTO COUNTY. EVERYONE CAN SEE THIS LARGE PLUME. YOU CAN SEE FLAMES. THAT LINE RIGHT THERE AND TRUCKS WORKING TO PUT THOSE LINES DOWN AND GET THAT FLAME OUT. NOW, I’D LIKE TO BRING IN DIRK VERDOORN JUST DIRK ARE WE PRIMED FOR THIS TODAY? BECAUSE THIS IS A RED FLAG DAY, CORRECT? YEAH. IT IS, AND WE HAVE VERY DRY CONDITIONS. LET’S GO AHEAD AND TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE WEATHER. THE LOCATION OF WHERE THIS IS. WE CAN GO AHEAD AND LOOK AT DOPPLER RADAR. AND YOU CAN SEE THE LOCATION HERE ALONG JACKSON HIGHWAY. HIGHWAY 16. AGAIN THIS IS SOUTH OF RANCHO CORDOVA. IT’S TO THE WEST OF SLOUGHHOUSE AND TO THE EAST OF SACRAMENTO AGAIN, JUST SOUTH OF MATHER AIRFIELD. AND CURRENT CONDITIONS. WE HAVE NORTHWEST WINDS BLOWING AT ABOUT 14MPH. SO THAT’S A PRETTY DECENT WIND GUSTING UP TO 17MPH. THESE ARE THE READINGS FROM MATHER AIRFIELD. AND SO AGAIN IT’S JUST RIGHT TO THE SOUTH OF THERE. YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE RUNWAY A LITTLE BIT TO THE NORTH ABOVE THE BANNER. BUT HUMIDITY AND THIS IS THE THING THAT’S IMPORTANT HERE. IT’S VERY DRY. WE’RE AT 15% HUMIDITY. AND THAT’S TYPICALLY WHAT WE SEE WHEN WE GET THESE NORTH WINDS. IT DRIES THINGS OUT AND MAKES IT SO MUCH EASIER FOR THE FIRE TO START. BUT THEN ALSO WITH THE WINDS AND THE DRY CONDITIONS, IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR THE FIRE TO SPREAD. SO AS WE ZOOM IN A LITTLE BIT CLOSER, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THIS AREA THAT’S IMPACTED BY IT. HERE’S EAGLE’S NEST ROAD. WE CAN SEE THE FLAMES ARE IN THAT AREA. THIS IS WHERE WE HAVE THE THE CEMETERY RIGHT IN HERE. SO THIS IS WHERE THE CEMETERY IS KIND OF CENTERED. YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THAT CROSS PATTERN AND THE FIELD WHERE THEY HAVE THEIR MARKERS. BUT THIS IS THE AREA WHERE WE’RE DEALING WITH THE FIRE. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE THE AMOUNT OF SMOKE, LOOK FOR THE AREAS WHERE YOU HAVE THE MOST SMOKE COMING UP. THAT’S WHERE YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE THE MOST ACTIVE FLAMES. AND SO YOU SEE THAT THIS GRASS IS PUTTING OUT PRETTY GOOD AMOUNT OF SMOKE. IS THIS THESE FLAMES ARE MOVING ALONG OVER THAT GRASSY AREA AT A PRETTY GOOD CLIP. UM, THE WINDS AGAIN PUSHING THE SMOKE TO THE SOUTH AND TO THE EAST AGAIN, WINDS ARE COMING FROM THE NORTHWEST, PUSHING THAT SMOKE OFF TO THE SOUTH AND TO THE EAST. AND THAT’S THE DIRECTION THAT MOST OF THE FIRE IS GOING TO BE GOING. AS THOSE WINDS PUSH THOSE FLAMES ALONG. IT’S BEEN INTERESTING TO SEE AS THEY FIGHT THIS, THAT THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET AROUND IT. THERE WAS A BULLDOZER THAT WE WERE WATCHING EARLIER THAT WAS SETTING UP A LINE TO TRY TO SLOW THINGS DOWN. AND THE GOOD NEWS IS, I THINK IF YOU ARE ABLE TO GET A LINE AROUND THIS, YOU CAN SEE THE ROADS. I DON’T THINK IT’S JUMPING THE ROADS TOO MUCH. AGAIN, IF YOU GET AROUND IT, IT LOOKS LIKE IT’S GOING TO BE ABLE TO CONTAIN IT PRETTY GOOD. IT LOOKED LIKE IN SOME OF THE OTHER SHOTS WE HAD EARLIER, THAT IT DID MAKE ITS WAY INTO SOME SPOTS WHERE THERE WAS MAYBE SOME GRASSY AREAS OF YARDS. YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE TO THE NORTH OR JUST TO THE TOP OF YOUR SCREEN, IT LOOKS LIKE. YEAH, THERE WERE SOME AREAS THAT GOT CHARRED. YOU CAN SEE TO THE RIGHT THERE WHERE THE CEMETERY IS. THAT’S WHERE THERE’S A CHARRED AREA. BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE THE AREA WHERE THE GRAVES ARE, EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE. AND SO RIGHT NOW THEY’RE JUST TRYING TO WORK TO CONTROL THAT. SO THAT’S WHAT’S GOING ON AS FAR AS THE WEATHER IS CONCERNED AND WHERE WE’RE DEALING WITH THESE FLAMES AT THIS POINT. AARON. AND THANK YOU, DIRK. I WOULD LIKE TO JUST REPEAT RIGHT NOW THAT THE EVACUATIONS THAT ARE IN PLACE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST JOINING US NOW, THIS IS ACCORDING TO SACRAMENTO METRO FIRE. EVACUATIONS ARE ALL HOMES FROM EXCELSIOR TO SUNRISE ALONG JACKSON ROAD. ADVISORIES ALONG FLORIN BETWEEN EXCELSIOR AND SUNRISE. AND JACKSON IS SHUT DOWN BETWEEN EXCELSIOR AND SUNRISE. RIGHT NOW, YOU’RE TAKING A LIVE LOOK FROM THE GROUND. AND NOW THE AERIAL VIEW THAT WAS JUST EAGLE’S NEST AND JACKSON ROAD AND THIS FROM OUR LIVECOPTER3 OVERHEAD. THAT BOTTOM LINE ACROSS YOUR SCREEN IS GOING TO BE UPDATED WITH THE ACREAGE. THE LAST UPDATE WE GOT FROM FIRE CREWS, IT IS SITTING AT 686 ACRES. THIS HAPPENING WITHIN THE LAST I WOULD SAY HOUR, HOUR AND 50 MINUTES. SO ABOUT 300 PLUS ACRES AN HOUR. AND WE’RE WATCHING CREWS ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW TRYING TO SET DOWN LINES AND JUST STOP ANY FORWARD PROGRESS AS MORE DEVELOPMENTS COME, WE WILL BRING YOU THOSE LIVE WILL PART WITH YOU WITH THIS LIVE PICTURE. WOW. LOOK AT ALL OF THAT FLAME. JUST EATING THROUGH THAT VERY DRY GRASS AGAIN. DIRK VERDOORN SAYING THAT WE HAVE VERY LOW HUMIDITY AT THIS POINT, 15% WAS WHAT HE NOTED. 686 ACRES, EVACUATIONS RIGHT NOW IN PLACE, FIGHTING A LARGE VEGETATION FIRE IN SACRAMENTO COUNTY. THIS ALONG EXCELSIOR AND JACKSON ROAD, FORCING EVACUATIONS. THIS SOUTH OF MATHER. FOR THOSE FAMILIAR WITH THIS AREA FORCING EVACUATIONS AND YOU’RE TAKING A LI

Excelsior Fire: Evacuation orders lifted for residents in the area, parts of Jackson Road closed

Updated: 4:10 PM PDT Jun 16, 2024

People in the area of a large vegetation fire in Sacramento were evacuated on Sunday, officials said. The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said an evacuation order was in place from Excelsior Road to Sunrise Boulevard along Jackson Road due to the fire. That evacuation order was lifted around 4 p.m.Jackson Road has been shut down in the area. According to Cal Fire, 800 acres have burned so far. LiveCopter3 is flying over the fire and a KCRA 3 photographer is at the scene gathering more information.

People in the area of a large vegetation fire in Sacramento were evacuated on Sunday, officials said.

The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said an evacuation order was in place from Excelsior Road to Sunrise Boulevard along Jackson Road due to the fire. That evacuation order was lifted around 4 p.m.

Jackson Road has been shut down in the area.

According to Cal Fire, 800 acres have burned so far.

LiveCopter3 is flying over the fire and a KCRA 3 photographer is at the scene gathering more information.