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right now at 10, a brush fire burns through several acres threatening a maryland neighborhoo what sparked it and what firefighters want you to know.n. it's hard times for a hard times cafe, a hacker attack has shut u the restaurant down. there's absolutely nothing youab canso do about it unless you pay the ransom that they ask for.sk what the owners are doing to to protect its customers.usto and our first look of incredible video of a driver's scary fall a off a parking garage. your news starts right now. we thank you for joining usg us tonight, i'm tony perkins. per >> and i'm sarah simmons in for shawn. > we begin in montgomery county firefighters spent several hourh batting brush fires. one of the files scoured several acres in germantown. fox5's teisha lewis is life at station 34 in germantown where firefighters recently returned c from batting the fires. t >>report:

firefighters returned just a a short time ago. today was a red flag day. da that means that winds were highi and humidity was low. those are ripe conditions for brush fires.ire now, thankfully no one was was injured and there was not significant property damage dam beyond a few sheds, but even so this brush fire was dangerouslyo close to one home and the owner says that it was a discarded cigarette butt that could be tot blame. it was a line of fire that came up the hill here and was coming right towards the house. today was a red flag day, that means wins were high again and humidity was low, now it was a dramatic evening for william web and his family. he says he's lived here nearly 40 years and the last brush fire was about 15 years ago, but ago nothing like this. montgomery county fire

rescue says the call came in reporting the brush fire shortlh after 4 this afternoon. firefighters spent hours fighting it.t. sky fox capture images from above showing several acreage burning. just yesterday firefighters inhr howard county were batting a similar scene. several fires prompted road closures and rail did i place. they were along the howard, and ruin del and baltimore counts. again, today was a red flag day. there are things that you need to know and hear to help us break it all down and discuss what you need to know to prevent fires is peak bear injera. p thanks for joining us life. li what should we do. >>reporter: the windsç are sta a little gusty and we've been pretty busy today. as you mentioned,

materials was most likely the li cause of the fire here in the germantown area.ge be careful with discarding your smoking materials. mat make sure they're completely distinguished. don't throw them out a wind on.d be careful park a car. make sure you don't park it on a high grass or something. no open flames of any kind. don't burn any brush or campfires, trash.s, also use caution if you're going to be using your charcoal grill or gas grill. we prefer that you didn't do that in weather conditions likek this. also, if you're operating anyg kind of motorized such as an atv or lawnmower, anything like that, anything that could give i off a spark could also prove toe be a pretty dangerous situatione in weather conditions like li today. i think the last advice that yoh gave us, that's a surprise like that. you said lawnmowers and also atv vehicle also because they have e those sparks that can prompt a r brush fire. the winds are a big

they can get up to 25 miles an hour or higher on these red flal days and that helps the brush te fire spread quickly, which is what we don't want. wan teisha lewis, fox5 local new. > thank you very much. mu speaking of those winds, they've been with us all day. we want to check in with mike thomas now to see when they might subside.ubsi hey mike.y >> the bad new is that the winds won't be subsiding.ubsi it's going to be pretty breezy b over the night hours. ho the cold front will help reduced the risk for the fires. let's go over the things youhin need to know about fire weather. these are the conditions thats make fire weather very ripe. dry vegetation is number one.on we have had a dry month of march so far. only three-quarters of an inch of rain in the month. typically we measure about three inches. we have not had rain since lastt weekend. the vegetation is dry. we had the warm temperatures war today president.

what is not humid and sticky out. and then, of course, the breezy conditions. as teisha hinted at, these fireh don't start themselves. often it's a human cause with campfires or cigarette buds.uds. mother nature can help out witht lightning at times. tim we had no lightning anywhereigh near the area today. winds remained breezy 15 miles an hour out of the south andout they're going to remain breezy. changes on the way with the cold front. i'll have much more details and your full forecast coming your way in just a about it.t. > thanks. >> an emotional memorial today for a prince george's county police officer killed in the line of duty. friends, family and fellow officers contained a viewing for jacai colson in beltsvilleelts today. detective colson was killed earlier this month when he was s hit by friendly fire during a shooting outside the district three police station. sta his father about his son outside the funeral

this is a hero inside here. ever since he was born, never any trouble to us. he was the kind of kid and youno man that any parent would be par proud of, any brother would be r proud of and any, you know, --n, he's just that type of young man. > a vug will also be held w tomorrow in upper marlboro followed by colson's funeral. he will be buried on monday in o his home state of pennsylvania. we have developing news tonightw from belgium. prosecutors say police have decontained six people in connection with tuesday's deadle attack in brussels. officers are continuing to to conduct raids in neighborhoods i where isis sympathizes may be hauled up. authorities say they are now now looking for a second man whoho escaped tuesday's acan that. the government release a sketch this evening. here it is.s. >> the government and the t competent authorities will doie their utmost to shed light on both these attacks and related events. > late this evening, belgium bl authorities slightly lowered thl threat level in the

they say another attack is is possible. and we're told belgium officials were warned about one of the suicide boomers.oom turkish officials say they th warned the netherlands and belgium about he are program what car way avenues he was was departed last june. he was caught trying to cross into situate require a from turkey. we turn to paris where french fr officials say they've thwarted a potential material strike.ntia investigators say the plot was o in an advanced stage. this afternoon's raid took place in the northern part of paris. a early reports indicate there is no immediate connection knownn between today's plot and the attacks launched against brussels this week or paris last november. > the washington wizards areng poised to soon have a new a practice facilities on the othee side of the river. but one local politician wantsoi to make sure the district dis doesn't pay a penny more

the city has agreed to. fox5's marina maracco is life from the verizon center where the wizards currently play and practice. >>reporter: hey there. today's meeting was pretty contention. more than 40 people signed up to actually testify before this be panel tonight and it did get get heated at times. council member at large he lisa setter man says she wants on cap the spending on how much the district can spend on the practice facility. the district has already agreed to fork over $50 million inllio taxpayer funds for the facilitya s. silverman says she doesn't oppose a 5,000 seat aremember a, but she says she wants to make n sure the city doesn't get stuck paying for the over run cost. we are making a $50 million investment in the wizards' practice facility and, in fact, we're making a much larger investment in the st. elizabeth that wil

retail. i am fully for those efforts. i want to make sure that the th investment we make has a great r return. a great return for ward l and aa great return for our city. the proposal has support from fo several other council members which means, now the contract gets delayed until april 7. mayor bowser has said that she pecks the construction for thiss site which will happen near st. elizabeth's hospital to be to complete sometime in 2018. i life from the verizon center, marina maracco, fox5 local newsw > it is hard times for hard times cafe in maryland. the restaurant is closed becauso of a hacker attack. the co-owner tells us what wha happened and if past customers are at risk. take a look at this, a car takes a scary four-story drive off of a parking garage. can you believe someone actually survived that. stay with us, fox5 local news as 10 will be right back. .

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> get a mr. at this. g this is one of my biggest fearst check out whaty happened in baltimore last week. a woman's car plunges fourplun stories from a parking garage and lands on the sidewalk there. miraculously she walked away from this crash.rash the driver, 23 year old lindsay cook was attempting to park, buk hit the accelerator instead off the brake.rake went right through the wall. her car crashed through thehrou concrete barrier of the garage f and landed on the pavement blow. firefighters were able to pulll her to safety again. she was not seriously hurt. > new at 10, fairfax county police need your help to findo this man. are shaw james.e sh he is suspected of firing shots in a springfield neighborhoodgho last saturday. last night police were patrolling outside of his home when they spotted three men go inside the house. moments later officers heard gue shots and the three men left and drove off in two separate

police pulled one car over and found two men with gunshotuns wounds.wo investigators say it appears the shooting was accidental. meantime the other car hit the police crewser and officers decontained that man. police in the district and prince george's county say they've got their man, richardha butler the third is accused ofcs firing a begun at a car in the 6700 block of melon street yesterday. police in the area scram bled for cover. one want crashed into another car trying to ainvolved the cheh as. butler was arrested on the scene. police say she was actuallyas wanted foray temperatured murder and sexual assault in princesa george's countyul county. he was in court and is expectede to be ex try dated. > concerns of safety at george mason university. police are investigating a paira of sexual assaults. two students say they were raped on different incidents oncide different days this week. this comes just

students were criminally charged after police discovered drugsgs and bomb-making materials in aas dorm on campus. some students are angry saying the university didn't send alerts fast enough. when it comes to a situation where you're finding materialsin ondi campus that could put people's lives in danger then there needs to be more immediate notification. if something like that happened i with want to be alerted so i'm aware of my surrenderrings.gs. thomas longo says securitye alerts were sent out on the sexual assault case he when investigate os reached theeac proper stage in their probe to do so. he say the bomb alerts were not sentinel fox5 reported the casee because police say there was no medicine threat to students on campus. a popular rockville restaurantet is closed tonight after hackers took control of their computer system and demanded ransom. owners of the hard times calfalf say says that system alsoalso controlled its payrolls

sales. the owner says he has no other choice but to close and protect his customers. >>reporter: this restaurant is really living up to its name this equal woo. hard times cafe in rockville hak had to turn away countless customers. > co-owner bob howard says somehow online crooks got into his computer system. when the computers were fired u a few days ago, a message was sent to pay up. we have been compromised byompr something known as ransom wearrs where they basically encrypt all your files and basically enclose your computer system so it can't operate. howard refused to pavement instead he closed the front door and decided to pay a computer team to replace all the computers. he also contacted the fbi whoho said this happens more than youu think.th basically it shute down my operation, but i did not want ti i pennsylvania the ransom.

news. > the owner says this is the only hard times cafe restaurant with this problem. he doesn't believe any creditan card information was takenas t because he says it's not stored. he says he will not reopen untie the computer is save for customers to use their crediteir cards without concern.o > some very sad news to reportt tonight. hollywood is mourn the suddend loss of comedian gary sandly.ary i went to the bank earlierarli today. have you gotten your free pen yet? these are free. > that was a clip from sunshine link's first appearance on theae tonight show with johnny carson. shank link first made his name as a comic, but he's best known for the it's gary's show and the gay shank link show. > that's from its its gary shank link show. he guyed suddenly at a loss ge

he had reportedly been in good health h. the cause of death was not been release. he was just 66 years old. apparently he was with friendsrn yesterday, fine and even earlyal this morning was fine. > they don't know what theow w cause of death is. i'll tell you what, if you never saw the larry sanders show that was a brilliant satire of hollywood and talk shows and all of that. >> he was a funny guy. > robert griffin iii has foundf a newfi home. new tonight, the former skins quarterback talks about his if you about your with his new team. we have to remind you to send us your fox5 tbt.5 this is a picture when i was ons in the mornings of allison seymour when she dressed up as me for halloween.all >> it was funny. > you were there.here >> yeah. we'll be right back. .

> it is official, robert o griffin iii has a new team. road did i logan, you're here with the latest. >> tony, it is over. you can stop calling. >> and crying.ryin he's not coming back.k. i wish him well. i do wish him well. i believe most fans do wish him well. it will be tough with where he's going. >> it is going to be tough for him with their history. >> rg3's time in washington itai was like a comet.omet it burned sobriety early to then not taking a single snap in the 2015 season and now he's gone. today robert griffin iii end entered a two-year deal with the cleveland browns.and multiple

knowledge griffin says helefin expects to start in cleveland. he will compete with a quarterback with the secondthe overall pick in the draft. he went nine and six in his sent lating rookie campaign. he has been in a tail spin sincn a torn acl suffered in 2012. he's griffin on the opportunityt to resurrect his career with the browns. it's a beautiful game that weat play. it's a privilege to play the game and how much you thattiveht to love the game to go through some of the understand and downd that are presented to you in the nfl. i'm looking forward to a lot more and growing with cleveland and my teammates to do somethine special in cleveland. > to add to the intrigue, thetr browns are actually coming to fed ex field this fall so robert griffin iii will potentially bee starting against the redskins.sn now, i want to know what your reaction would be. do you think

or maybe booed. >> both. > i hope mostly cheers. i hope so as well. i put out a twitter poll, a little over 200 votes and aboutt 68 percent of the people that voted said they would cheer him. you know, only a few, about a third. >> they'll cheer him, but if hee has a great game and shows he's the old rg3 again.gain >> they'll be so mad.. > when i put that out some fans said i hope he comes bang and shows them. >> some people think he got a raw deal.deal i don't think that's the case,a, but some fans do believe that and so they want him to show ou against the redskins. i think it's like the alfred morris sort of thing. >> you can't do anything about jug your knee how many times.e you can't put hihom out there. it happens.happ >> it was a crazy situation hera and there

and drama.ram > we wish him luck. > up next, survivors tell us about their frantic escape fromm this fast moving fire that tore through several townhomes.

> this is fox5 local news at 10. recapping tonight's top stories. in montgomery county, firefighters spent hours batting a brush fire. it scorched several acres near brick and brunt roads in germantown. luckily no one was hurt and there was no significant damage. today was a red flag day, meaning it was dry and ready, making conditions ripe for brush fires. prosecutors in brussels say they decontained six people inle connection with tuesday's deadld attack in brussels. officers are continuing to makee razor where isis sympathize estimate be hauled up. one man was spotted

airport, the other at the subway station. i was a final goodbye for a fallen prince george's countync police officer.po a public viewing was held todayo for jacai colson in beltsville. his funeral will be heldd tomorrow. colson was accidentally shot ant killed earlier this month by a fellow officer during a beguna e fight outside police headquarters. and now we do turn to princetu george's county when anrn whe investigation is underway tonder figure out what caused a massivv fire overnight in brandywine. six townhomes were damaged andnd tonight more than a dozen people and three pets are out of or ior their homes. fox5's's alexandra limon has more. i looked out of my window and i saw the house next to me was ini flames. i immediately went and got my parents out of the house ando when i came outside the two units was up in flames. after ten minutes i got out of my house, our house went up inn flames. these photos show how the flamem ripped through the set of townhouses in brandywine. some

cracking and popping from the p fire and realized what was happening. they sprung into action helpingp family members get out and thenn making sure neighbors were aware. by the time we had to run out wt had to run out the front door. the fire was shooting throughrog the roof and we had to literallr run through the front door. when i went to move my car i started blowing my horn hoping everybody who was in the houses would wake up.up. the prince george's county fire department says more than 100 firefighters especially hedspe fight this three-alarm fire. but crews had to deal with the broken fire hydrant whichir delayed their efforts in knocking down the flames. from the ground to the roof, lightly fire property ground to the roof of all of those four units. ultimately those four units have been destroyed. > alexandra limon, fox5 local news. and we're told the firecaused a mi

well, maybe a done deal, but critics of the especially son merger deal says the customers will be the ones to lose out. o district regulators approved the merger yesterday. the deal creates the largest publicly held company in the country. it will effect 2 million pepco customers in the mid-atlantictic region including 800,000 people in d.c. and maryland. customers will likely see a rate increase as early ass this summer. things got personal in the raiss for the white house today. gop candidates ted cruz and donald trump continued to trade shots. cruz had some choice words after the billionaire insulted hisis wife. it's not easy to tick me off. i don't get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. >> donald

coward but leave heidi alone. a picture t is worth a thousand word. earlier today the trump campaign defense offed the photo retreat. this was shot by an anti trump cam page. they won't go out and condemn and also ask to stand down and cyst and desist this super pack. with a two-week lull inin primaries and polls showing the cruz/trump raise tightening. trump skipped it today and spena the time mocking. >> what would your message besae for ted cruz. >> have a little bit of selfself relit. ted cruz is not my favorite byar any means. with the wisconsin primary set for april 5, governor scott walker is heading to a crust endorsement last

the latest shows crews in thein lead to trump 35. kayak at 19 percent is using this new ap to tout his underdog status. john kayak never gives up. when he lost his parents a drunk driver he had to carry on. for those dismayed for those who would seek the highest office in the land, you might relate it tr a us inic critic. some day i hope to meet you. when that happens you'll get a new nose, a lot of beef stake and perhaps a supporter blow. in washington, doug mcelroy.celr > emory university says nono further action will be taken inn a graffiti action at the school. >> someone wrote trump 2016 on the campus.ampu the graffiti sparked a protest who said the

frightened and concerned.once one student said he received death threats following the protea. tonight the university hasn't a suspect.su >> it's weird to hear suspect in terms of someone writing trumptm 2016. > in chalk.> >> in chalk. > coming up next, wait l untilu you see what a flight attend ann tried to bring on plane. >> a l local woman is trying to do something at this year's summer olympics that has never been done before in us history. her investor is coming up. drivers getting kicked in the gas. the national average for a regular unleaded now above two bucks a l gal. we haven't seen prices that higt since end of last year and weree up more than 30 cents in the past month. people are still out there buying some files. putting us on pace for the second sales for the year. to wall re

points, but the do you finishing down for the week.ee remember, the market is closed for good friday. meantime it got a little cheaper to borrow money for a new home. the average fixed rate mortgage ticking down slightly to 3.7 percent. we have been moving higher over the past three years.ears > that's business. i'm charles painç.

> this is like a scene from a movie. a jet blue flight attendantatte tried to sneak more than 730 pounds of cocaine through lax. but she was selected for a random screening so she took off. she has now turned herself in.i. marcia reynolds appeared in federal court.l co she is facing charges with drug possession. the amount of

had could have a street value as high as $3 million. > a georgia p man is walkingn s across the country to honor hisr late sister who died a drug overdose. bramble is his name. he hopes to walk to san francisco. he hopes to safe lives by by sharing his sister's story. she died from a mixture of drugs, including heroin. today her brother walked through parts of berryville, virginia and tomorrow he'll traveling through the city of winchester. > tonight at 11, acres bettyett white is being sueded by a former employee. a woman who worked for white fow more than 20 years says she was grossly under paid.gros now she wants to see the money. > plus we've learned that hackers try to tap into the

healthcare. golf website hundreds of times. was any of your personalerso information compromised? we ar checking in on the eaglets that hatched at last week at thehe national arboretum. more on this adorable video and on their progress at 11.

welcome what, i'm brody logan., when a lot of people think about fencing, they think about the pictures, three mess contact tears, evenç some star wars lit safer lights. fencing is more than something o you see in the movies. one local fencer's skill mightit make you not think of the local screenings but of gold. in 92 years of olympic fencing,e an american woman has never mete tucked away in the corner of a silver springs industrial plaza trains a young woman who couldho be the first to wear the stars and

there are big p moments where i'm like am i actually good, p i really good p? >> oh, she's good. > 0 year old amanda sir could he is currently the number one ranked junior fencer in the united states. and is training for her final junior world championship next x week in france. she's a very big girl and she compensated with fantastic technique, great foot work and great operational thinking.

there's an art to like tricking the person, which is my favority part of fencing. you set them up so you can tricc them and do exactly what you want.wa do you need a minute. the sir coast are a family of fencers. both of her amanda fenced in college. her dad coaches at the naval academy. and her two sisters fence. she fenced her way into a scholarship at notre dame. i had a boy try to flirt with me by like you're so on point. i've never heard that one before, ever. > boys should watch out, amanda might not look it, but she's intense. one coach said her yell after winning a match is like a lions protecting her cubs. she even intimidated a male teammate. >> he's 6, 3, 64 and i'm justi'm

amanda's skill has taken her all over the globe. she has her sites set on tokyo. >> she can do whatever she wants.wa goal is the olympics.olym she doesn't want to win gold for her own wheat 's box. she wants to win gold for herer father. to be able to hear the national anthem. my dad is in the military and it's always member so much and m me representing my country and have it be played would be amazing. >> she's a phenomenal young woman and she's so talented. > she's a warrior. >> she's an assassin. it's unbelievable to much what.c i took her on and at her speed -- >> she took you on.n. >> she took me down.down it was no contest. is it a mask.mask >> it's a mask.t's you are very protected, but herself is so

that is the one that team usasa wears. she'll be the at the junior world championships and she's the favored to take home gold. she won gold at the junior olympics last year and then ishn hoping to make the olympic team in 2020 in tokyo. >> best wishes. > also great stuff, weather out there today. it's been wonderful and beforead we talk about that we want to take a look at the cute littletl panda enjoying a bubble bath at the national zoo. zoo officials tweeted out the video and is telling us tan tann is enjoying the spring-like weather. he is the male panda and he is giant and he can't fit in his bath. he'll turn 19 -- wait 19. 19 months maybe. someone tell us please.lea >> he's old enough that he can't fit in his

>> you think they'd afford thehe pool. >> get him a bigger bucket. cute video.ideo looking gorgeous with all thisll great weather we've been havingg are the cherry blossoms which were just hitting peak bloom. we thought it would be yesterday, but it was today. they're gorgeous every time they come out this time of year. i was able to make it down thisn yesterday and see them. it's worth seeing even for someone who grew up here i try to avoid it just because of the crowds, but then once you getyou down there it's just so beautiful. it overtakes you in the moment. speaking of which, morning crew was down there today. an absolutely picture perfectct day to be down there and seeings the cherry blossoms. temperatures were rather warm. tomorrow if you want to see them, not so good in the early morning. by the time we get in the afternoon, conditions should

70s degrees, by 6:00, 65-degrees. here's your highs for today. i was great, 77-degrees at allal the major airports at reagan, dulles and bwi. 77-degrees, very pleasant afternoon. temperatures still mild. lots of 70s knowledge, winchester, gaithersburg, here in d.c. down to 66. near the water a little cooler 58. winds caused some problems with the brush fires. they'll remain gusty tomorrow as well. 30 for frederick. 23 for dulles. nothing reported at d.c. but we have had gusts at times up and over 30 miles an hour.les that will be the case once again afternoon. generally clear skies. all ahead of a cold front as we head through the course of thehe day tomorrow. tomorrow morning is when you mor have to watch out for

showers and maybe a rumble of thunder. 6:00 a.m., scattered showers.how that's some heavy rain and again possible ad rumble of hundred dollars deer if there's enough o energy in the atmosphere. once the cold front slidesront through we start to get the clearing in the afternoon hours and then i think you're good to go. 5:00 tomorrow night looks very nice but we'll have to watch ouc for the breezies. what about the weekend? it it looks fantastic. that means cooler air coming out n out of canada. that's going to help keep theeep temperatures in the 60s by 70s. the high pressure slides off the coast. that brings us near 70. i think we'll top out in the upper 60s. here is the forecast. 63-degrees on saturday.atu lots of sunshine. sunday 68-degrees. once again we'll start the day off with a good amount of sun, but by the time we get to the afternoon hours, more clouds starting to come into the

tour. here's your seven day forecast, 71 tomorrow, showers, maybe a rumble of thunder by the morning hours. by the time we get to the morning, sun comes back. weekend looks fantastic. what doesn't look fantastic is monday for the easter egg role. it looks like a good chance of rain. caitlyn is supposed to report life. > i did that for many, manymany years. >> yes, you did can. lots of fun. > fox5 is one on one with theit new wonder woman. that's coming up next. always forgettingç your grocery list? smarter mat can help, put your ketchup, your milk on the app and then when you're at thee store you'll know when it's time to stock up. i'm laura evans. see you next time in the fast lane.

but wonder woman has finally made her way to the big screen. this time around the a.m. zone and principle princess is played by could you goodell. in all accounts she steels the show. fox5's kevin mccarthy sits downr with the little known actress to talk about her big role. >> i have to ask can you, when you block doom's day's with the shield, how do they do that? >> well, its was shot in different parts.ts. lots of wind machines, lots of them. and i was wired. we had to do our wire gig.. so i was pulled back with the wires.wire and it was super intensive because the wind was super strong.st so it literally was fighting against the wind.d. it was just fun. you've obviously been in action films before,

difference in shooting with someone like justin line ande then moving on, do you utilize anything from the fast setsast here. >> to be honest, not really.ally fast and furious was such an amazing experience for me and i really, really enjoyed a working with the family because that's how -- they're literally like family.fami but i feel like this movie is different, the agenda is different.di yes, it has the same involve.vov both of them are huge.ge. bat man versus superman and thee fast and furious franchise iss huge, but in this movie it feels like the jenga was different.as i was good against evil and so many different values. we know wonder woman from the l comix we've seen her on screense before. i'm wondering, what is somethini that you added into her which is not in the script or the comic books or anything, something that

>> you bring yourself to every role, but at the end of the ithaca are day for me it was important that she was not going to be goody two shoes.oes. i wanted her to have the smirk. you're messing with me. i wanted her to have this attitude, this cool attitude. you did an amazing job. >> thank you so much for the interview. >> that was a fun interview. > i can't believe it took thiss long to get wonder woman to the big screen. it's like every little l girl's fantasy to be wonder woman. >> hopefully she'll get her own movie after this. >> hopefully. > stay with us. sta the news at 11 starts right now. this is fox5 local news at 11. right now at 11, brush fires creep dangerously close to homes in germantown and the weather

as you know, only you can prevent forest fires and we'll tell you how. as license popular localense restaurant is held by cyber thieves there's word that hackers also targeted a websitet that holds the information ofmai millions of people. are you at risk? plus as the wizards plan for a new practice facility. >> what a great move.e. >> there's concern that d.c. residents could get stuck with a could he last al bill. fox5 news at 11 starts right now. we thank you for joining us tonight, i'm tony perkins andd i'm sarah simmons in for shawnor yancy. a scary scene today in montgomery county, two separate brush fires inched close tolos home. teisha a lewis is life with the threat the fires pose to neighbors and mike thomas is here to explain what sparked the dangerous conditions. we begin with teisha lewis in germantown. well, tony we're here across the street from fire station 34atio where firefighters returnedfigh tonight after spending most

the night trying to put this fire out. today was a red flag day. that means that winds are high and humidity is low and as you mentioned, those are ripe conditions for brush fires. thankfully, no one was hurt.t. property damage was minimal, just a few sheds were destroyed. we did speak with an owner whosr home was dangerously close to this brush fire and he tells us that a discarded cigarette butt may be to blame. all right. we spoke with will with yam webw and right now it was a dramaticç evening for william web and his family. web says that he has lived in his home nearly 40 years and the last brush fire happened 15ppen years ago.year but nothing like this. montgomery county fire and