the fire started in castaic. in the early evening. you could see the flames from the freeway. it came real close to a county animal shelter, but none of the animals had to be evacuated. firefighters are still keeping an eye on it, looking for signs of any flare ups. at least 50 acres burned. well. one year ago. people in south lake tahoe we're cautiously watching the cows or fire is a grew towards highway 50. now they're looking back on what they learned from what happened last year and scenes from the destruction of grizzly flats played out. some residents of lake tahoe say they didn't think the fire would make it all the way to the lake. but two weeks later claims reached echo summit and people who evacuated we're stuck in this bumper to bumper traffic police chief says because they issued the evacuation order early enough, they actually had time to get people out of there. you know, the traffic jam is what got all the attention. um uh, but i think really, um it went off as planned, and people were so patient and it was, you know, 2.5 hours of wait time to get through all th

news, major brush fire burning right now along i five and that stretch of freeway shut down near castaicifornia, current temperature close degrees and relative humidity down at 13% extremely dry. and of course, the underlying challenge with everything, of course, is the ongoing drought. we'll have more updates throughout the afternoon and evening hours for our weather. we started warm up to today and that warm up will continue into your thursday, so these are all kind of step by step warmups, setting us up for the big event this weekend. take a look at the highs from the this afternoon bottom row the top row showing you the projected numbers for tomorrow and the hotspots tomorrow. for your thursday will be close to 100 degrees. but once again that real heat stretch the intense part of our this next event for the inland spots that's going to move in this weekend, afford a heat stretch saturday, sunday, monday and into tuesday, the hottest locations could be run 108 109 degrees. now the one thing we really have to keep an eye on is the onshore breeze, so we definitely know it's gonna be ve

started in castaic. in the early evening. see the flames from the freeway that fire came real close to the county animal shelter, but no animals were evacuated. the firefighters are still out there this morning, making sure there are no flare ups at least 50 acres burned. but when the sun comes up, they will have a better idea of how much has burned. one year after that, keldorf fire forced the evacuation of south lake tahoe. people who live in that area, remembering those frightening hours as they rushed to escape the flames. reporter lee symmetry spoke with the south lake tahoe police chief about the lifesaving lessons that were learned. the fire pushed east along highway 50. no one thought it would get here. everybody thought that we would be fine. it took about two weeks for flames to forge forward to echo summit while down below. officials urged people in south lake tahoe to evacuate. benoit says she'll never forget it. that's scary. so it's um. it's forever in my heart along with everyone else. she was stuck in the bump