About 4,000 people displaced during Boyles Fire evacuations

Published: Sep 09, 2024 Duration: 00:02:39 Category: News & Politics
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But first we're tracking the latest on the Boyles fire in Clear Lake, it's now burned 81 acres with containment at 30%. Officials estimate about 4000 people were displaced during evacuations. Cal fire says about 30 structures were damaged and the fire destroyed 40 to 50 vehicles. ABC Ten's Roxanne has a closer look at the damage and she's also talking to neighbors in one of the most affected areas from the Boyles fire here on 18 th and Irving Avenue. If you take a look here behind me, you can see entire homes burned to rubble and ashes, people's belongings now gone. It's scary when you see embers coming down and you're hosing down all the weeds and everything all around. But you're seeing hot embers come down. Give you a moment of pause. Jeff Stanley and his neighbor, Kristen prey decided not to leave their homes. Sunday afternoon when they saw the smoke from the Boyles fire creep up on their homes. They live about four blocks from the most affected area in Clear Lake where dozens of homes were burned. This is a picture from Prey's front yard around 4 p.m. All the times they've asked us to evacuate. We don't, you know, I will. If I see actual flames I'll get out. But otherwise, you know, there's only two entrances into this neighborhood and this one was blocked off. So that other one was just a traffic jam. Both neighbors say they stayed to try and protect their homes from burning down. Neither one of them has home insurance and they say many of their neighbors will be left without anything if their homes and cars didn't make it through the flames. A lot of people are just getting by here, they're surviving and that's it. Most of us don't have insurance or the insurance rates went up so high. We dropped it. Uh I had a little bit of money. I put the concrete board all around my house, sprinklers on the roof with, with a 12 volt supply water tank, his home and his neighbors made it without damage this time around along with a few others soaked in fire retardant. But they're wondering what emergency funds will be made available for those who lost everything. They also say they're growing tired of seeing the devastation caused by the fires each year. I think about moving because this happens every year. I mean, this is the closest it's come to my house, but every year almost we have to evacuate and it's scary in clear Lake Roxanne, Elias, ABC 10, Roxanne. Thank you. No injuries have been reported at this time. And there is an ongoing investigation into what sparked the fire Sunday afternoon.

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