California Fires Live Updates: Vacaville wildfire destroys Houses, evacuations Expanded into Fairfield
Thousands of homes in Vacaville and Fairfield are at risk after the LNU Lightning Sophisticated fire exploded overnight and turned toward Solano County. Update: Wednesday evening, Napa County and Solano County joined the rest of the Bay Area in ordering residents to keep in their homes as much as possible. CHP shut both directions of Interstate 80 soon after 4 p.m., involving Air Base Parkway and Cherry Glen Road in Fairfield, as the fire storms throughout the area. The fire jumped the freeway into the Paradise Valley neighborhood, which is now under an evacuation order. I-80 was reopened in the two instructions soon before 9 p.m. The flame, which originally started near Hennessy Ridge Road in Napa and immediately spread into the Lake Berryessa area, suddenly blew into Vacaville about 1 a.m. Wednesday as high winds gusted. Some residents were awoken in the middle of the night and forced to flee. "It is quite rare that we see the kind of fire behaviour I watched last night," V