Airport Fire burns 1,300 acres and forces mandatory evacuations in Orange County

IT. JUAN: KCAL NEWS AT 4:00 O'CLOCK WITH AMY JOHNSON AND JUAN FERNANDEZ, MIKE ROGERS, ON THE DESK AND HER DESMOND SHAW IS OPEN SKYCAL BRINGING YOU THE LATEST INFORMATION IN THE PICTURES REGARDING THE AIRPORT FIRE, BURNING RIGHT NOW IN TRABUCO CANYON A FIRE THAT STARTED ABOUT AN HOUR AGO, MANY AND THEY QUICKLY GREW UP TO 800 ACRES AS WE SEE YOU RIGHT NOW. AMY: AND WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING US THIS FIRE IS BEING FOUGHT MOSTLY FROM THE YEAR WE DO HAVE A NUMBER OF FIRES BURNING IN OUR AREA FROM LA COUNTY AND ORANGE COUNTY AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY RESOURCES ARE CERTAINLY DIVIDED HERE. WE HAVE SEEN A GREAT DEAL AIR TANKERS MAKING DROPS OF THIS FIRE AND THIS OF COURSE IS ANOTHER HOT DAY AND WE BEEN IN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING. 100 DEGREES WEATHER METEOROLOGIST OLGA OSPINA HAS BEEN WATCHING THE SITUATION AS WELL AND OLGA'S TOP OF THE RIGHT SIDE HERE IS THE WINDS ARE RELATIVELY HOME CORRECT. OLGA: THEY WERE RELATIVELY CALM IN THEIR ACTUALLY PICKING UP JUST A BIT MORE RIGHT NOW SO WE SEE SUSTAINED WINDS OF 70 MILES PER OUR GUESTS LONGER THAN OUT SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO SEE GUSTS 20s IS NOT EXTREMELY STRONG WE DO SEE A LOT OF OTHER AREAS ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STRONGER WINDS AT LEAST IN THE 20s, BUT OF COURSE WITH THIS FIRE ALREADY IN PLACE, THAT IS CERTAINLY OF CONCERN. IT IS ALSO REALLY DRY OUTSIDE AND RELATIVE IMMUNITY IS DOWN TO THE TEENS AND IS ANOTHER DAY, OF THE TEMPERATURES IN THE ONE HUNDREDS FOR A LOT OF VERY BUT SPOTS INCLUDING THE TRABUCO CANYON AND SO WE HAVE HAD A VERY HOT SUMMER AND PERIODS WHERE WE HAVE HAD A WEEK OR TWO WEEKS UP TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER '90s AND ALL THAT ARENAS DRY ONCE WE THIS FIRE THAT OF COURSE HELPS TO FIRE EVEN QUICKER REALLY STRONG WINDS AND WE SEE UNDERWENT SALE THROUGH TRABUCO CANYON 70 MILE-PER-HOUR SUSTAINED AN EASY OTHER AREAS OF COURSE WAS FROM WITH IT WE WILL CONTINUE WHEN THE TEMPERATURE STILL ABOVE AVERAG HOW TO GET TO TWO MORROW GOOD IS THIS RELEASE AND SIGNED HIM JUST WAS TALKING ABOUT AND CLOSE AVERAGE ALREADY BY WEDNESDAY BUT TODAY IT IS ANOTHER VERY HOT DRY WE SEE SOME MODERATE WINDOWS THAT THAT AREA AND WE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE RED FLAG WARNINGS THAT WE HAVE SOME AREAS FOR THE TRABUCO CANYON. SPECIFICALLY AND EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING AND CONTINUES THROUGH TOMORROW THROUGH TOMORROW NIGHT AS WE SEE A LOT OF DANGER AND EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING AND PLACE ACROSS MOST OF OUR INLAND SPOTS AND RENDER THE HEAT ADVISORY SO STILL VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR THE REST OF TODAY AND SO FOR A LOT OF US, INTO TOMORROW SO WIN AND WEDNESDAY THINGS EQUIPMENT AVERAGE BUT FOR TODAY, WE STILL SEE SOME MODERATE WINDS AFTER THE TRABUCO CANYON AREA SO OF COURSE FROM A LOT OF DANGER OUT THERE AND THOSE WINS COME YOU CAN SEE THE MAP, THEY ARE PUSHING IT FROM THE WEST AND SO ANY AREAS TO THE EAST OF THE TRABUCO CANYON WILL GET MORE SMOKE AND HOWEVER COME EVEN THOUGH SURROUNDING AREAS COMING IF YOU ARE IN PLACES LIKE RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA EARLY FOR US WE HEAD TOWARDS LAKE ELSINORE TO THE EAST OF TRABUCO CANYON, YOU WILL START TO GET A LOT OF THAT SMOKE AND SO AIR QUALITY WILL BE ANOTHER CONCERN FREEMAN AREAS THAT ARE NOT IN THAT IMMEDIATE AREA OF THE FIRE. WILL HAVE A LOT OF SMOKE AS WE HAVE BEEN SEEING OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS WITH A LOT OF FIRES BREAKING OUT IN THE SMOKE AND AIR QUALITY WILL BE AN ISSUE, FOR ORANGE COUNTY OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CONCERN OF WE SEE THOSE MODERATE WINDS AS WELL. JUAN: WE BEEN TALKING MEDICAL DATA THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WHERE THESE TEMPERATURES ARE MORE AVERAGE AND YOU THINK I WILL HELP WITH THE SITUATIONS LIKE THIS. OLGA: WITH THIS TRABUCO CANYON FIRES OVER THE PLACE SO UNFORTUNATELY, YOU KNOW, THAT IS WAS OVERLY THE CASE BUT WE WILL START TO SEE MORE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR OTHER FIRES TO DEVELOP NOT GOING TO BE US WITH THIS GREAT OF THE RISK IS WE'VE SEEN THESE LAST SEVERAL DAYS AND WINDS WILL START TO COME DOWN OUT ALSO AS WE HEAD INTO THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS BEFORE TODAY TO MODERATE WINDS AND YOU KNOW SOME OF COURSE NOT GOOD AS ONCE WE HAVE THIS FIRE AND OF COURSE ALL ABOUT REALLY DRY TERRAIN OUT THERE. AMY: SO OFTEN WE HAVE SUNDOWNER WINDS AND SENSORS TO GO TO THE MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT WE SEE SOME OF THE IMPACTED BADNESS ANOTHER SOMETIMES WE HAVE A FIRE GUNNED CHANGES THE WEATHER BECAUSE IT CAN BE SO BIG THE SMOKE AND EVERYTHING BUT AGAIN WE ARE UP TO 1300 ACRES WITH THE AIRPORT FIRE AND IF YOU JUST 20 AS OF THIS NAME COMES FROM THE REMOTE-CONTROLLED AIRPOR FOR THE REMOTE-CONTROLLED PLANES, SPONSORED THE FIRE DID START IN AN AREA AND IS BEEN SPREADING APPEAL AND AWAY FROM OPS WHICH IS A GREAT POINT THERE. MIKE: I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT REMEMBER UNTIL YOU IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE NEW FIRE OVER AND BANNING THERE IS NEW FIRE OVER GETTING ON THE SUNSET FIRE AND ENFORCEMENT IS DIVERTED SOME OF THE YEAR RESOURCES OFF OF THIS FIRE ONLY THAT FIRE AND BEHIND ME WAS JUST TALKING TO CAL FIRE ESSENTIALLY IS HOW IT WORKS AND TRY TO GET A JUMP ON THESE AS QUICKLY AS THEY GET BECAUSE OF THAT WE HAVE LOST A SIMILAR AIR RESOURCES AND ORANGE COUNTY FIRE AND WHEN SHOW YOU BRING TO BACK OUT TO MY MAP HERE I WAS SAY WITH THESE TWO FIRES ARE BECAUSE WE LOST ALL OF THEM AND THERE ARE STILL SOME RESOURCES OVER THE AIRPORT FIRE WE STILL HAVE THE MD-80 WHICH IS OF COURSE IS A HUGE HELPING HERE AND WE HAVE A SHERIFF'S HELICOPTER INTO ORANGE COUNTY FIRE NOW FOR AIR RESOURCES YOU ON THIS FIRE IS A IS THE SUNSET FIRE ANY CITY SMALLER TANKERS THAT WERE ON OUR FIRE NOW OVER HERE RIGHT OF THE TEN FREEWAY AND IN SUNSET EVIDENCE OF A REVIEW AND HELP I RIVERSIDE KENNY FIRE SAID FIRE STARTED ABOUT 3:00 O'CLOCK, ANYTIME AN HOUR AGO CUMMINGS OBVIOUSLY KNOW HOW THAT WENTITH- WITH THE FIRE AND ORANGE COUNTY, NIPPERS REPORTED IT WAS AT 7 ACRES AND WE ARE AT 1300, SO WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR THAT BUT I WANTED TO SHOW YOU THAT THESE AIR RESOURCES THAT WE ARE OVERCOME ALL THESE IN FACT WERE HERE IN ORANGE COUNTY AND THEY HAVE NOW BEEN DIVERTED TO THIS NEW FIRE IS BURNING OFF THE TEN FREEWAY BANNING WE STILL HAVE THE MD-80 HERE DOING CIRCLES THERE AS WELL AND LOOKS LIKE WILL THIS IS THE SKY CREDO SELLING ABOUT COMING OVER THAT CHINO SO WE'LL SEE WHERE THAT IS UP TO COME FROM CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AND SO THEY CERTAINLY ARE TRYING TO DO WHATEVER THEY CAN WE DID FIND OUT FROM THE C1 HERCULES IS ON THE GROUND AT THE AIRPORT UP IN SACRAMENTO COUNTY. JUAN: A LOT IS CHANGING DEVELOPING AND WE HAVE THE ORANGE COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY AND THE PHONE AND SHAWN ARE YOU THERE. >> YES, THE ORANGE COUNTY FIRE SEE WHEN I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT, IF YOU GIVE US AN IDEA WESLEY IS NOW MIKE AND THIS WAS TELLING AS WE HAVE YET ANOTHER BRUSHFIRE THE JUST ABOUT. >> YES PRETTY THINK ABOUT OUR FIRED I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT DIVERTD TO ANOTHER FIRE RIVERSIDE WHEN CALLING THE GREAT NEWS THE FIRE IS MOVING AWAY FROM THE HOMES MOVING AWAY FROM THE ROBISON REGION OF THE HILL SO YES WE DID PASS IN EVACUATION ORDERS IN PLACE THEIR HOMES ARE SAFE AND IS GRIDLOCKED IN THE AREA WHEN I CAME IN ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF AGO, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE TRYING TO GET BACK INTO THEIR HOMES AND RIGHT NOW FROM THE ROADS ARE SHUT OFF AND SO JUST BE PATIENT LOCAL AREAS IN THE MARKET, TARGET IS THERE ANY CAN WALK THROUGH DISTANCE IN YOUR HOMES ARE SAFE AND AGAIN, IT A LOT OF AIRCRAFT HELICOPTERS AND PERSONNEL WITHIA ROW BEST RESPONSE INITIALLY WHEN WE FIRST WENT ON SCENE, WITH A SMALL FIRE AND IT WAS A REQUEST FOR 35 INCHES RIGHT AWAY AS WELL AS MULTIPLE AIRCRAFT. WE WERE ABLE TO PINCH THIS FIRE AND IT IS GOING UPHILL YOUR HOUSE, WE HAD HOLY FIRES AND RELIGION FIRES OVER THE YEARS IN THE TRABUCO CANYON IN THE UPPER TRABUCO CANYON THE GOOD NEWS BURNING AWAY FROM HOMES AND AT FOUR OH SIX, IT IS NOW APPROXIMATELY 1400 ACRES I KNOW YOU SAID 1300 PLUS TO GET THIS DYNAMIC SITUATION AND IS THE FIRE GETS BIGGER, AND ASKED ME MAP TO BUY HELICOPTERS OR AIR ATTACK AND PLANES IN THE YEAR AND UNTIL PLANES SO THAT COMES IN. IT WILL BE GOING UP AS THE FIRE CONTINUES BUT AGAIN COME THE AIRPORT FIRE WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 1000 PERSONNEL EITHER ON SCENE ARE IN ROUTE TO GET HIS WAY TO BE THE EXTENDED FIRE WILL BE OUT HERE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. I WILL INTO THE NEXT FEW DAYS. JUAN: ONE THING FOR SURE AS WE DID SEE THE LAST HOUR OR SO, THE AGGRESSIVE FIREFIGHT IN YOUR ACTUALLY RIGHT ABOUT THAT IS GOOD FOR ANYBODY WAS WATCHING THIS SO RIGHT NOW, IN THE AREA TO KNOW THAT IS YOU SAID, THEIR HOMES ARE SAFE AND FOR NOW THE FIRE IS BURNING AWAY FROM THE HOMES AND OF THE RICH SO WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH BRINGING US UP TO DATE ON THE A