the house is located on corbitt. this is called the upper neighborhood. the damage is in the back of that building and then the building next door suffered some exposure damage. that's on clayton. now, i talked to some people here, some of the people left displaced by the fire, some people who are evacuated. he says he got out with his pregnant wife, only because of the direction of the wind he was saved. >> we are lucky. the wind -- the wind was blowing in the opposite direction from our house. that's the only thing that saved us. this fire was called in by 3:00 a.m -- at 3 about 3:00 a.m. by a resident and also two police officers were conducting surveillance at the time and they were doing that because of four arson fires in the castro, which is not far from here. there is sa theory the fire started on the deck at the home in -- in corbitt. and some believe the materials may have been the cause of the fire. and police and arson investigators are asking the homeowners what kind of materials were used. >> it could have that been that, you know. i know th

on corbitt near clayton street. investigators say it appears to have ignited spontaneously. smoke and flames damaged the upper unit and water damaged the lower one. the flames were coming up over the fence next door. they just completed construction of the deck next door. completely engulfed. >> my husband woke up right after me, and he realized there was a fire and i realized there was -- there were flames. >> no one was injured. >>> gilroy police are looking for three men involved in a violent home invasion robbery. police say the men broke into a home on rucker avenue about 9:00 last night beat the homeowner and tied him up. they say the men took several guns from the safe and fled in the homeowner's truck. the home owner got free about 6:00 this morning and was taken to the hospital for wounds that are not life-threatening. police found his truck near state routes 9 and 35 but it had been torched. >>> the numbers just came in on how many people watched the super bowl. >>> a lot of smiles at a bay area school this morning after representatives of a large company came bear