

She also picked up a burnt computer mouse, a piece of tile from the great room floor and a melted aluminum car wheel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateĪt 1100 Ormsby Trail, Ellen Isaacs snapped photographs of her former kitchen and retrieved several souvenirs from her destroyed home. Sunday's forecast calls for scattered showers and the possibility of afternoon thundershowers, but little of the fog that hampered fire fighters on Saturday. "It's not growing, but it's not reducing."įirefighters said it's still going to take several more days to get the blaze under control. "We're at a stalemate," said Sergeant Fred Plageman of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's office. There is no estimated time when the roads will reopen or when residents might return, and a state of emergency has been declared in the county.īy late Saturday afternoon, the fire remained 35 percent contained. Approximately 50 residents were forced to leave their homes, and five roads were closed.

On Saturday, the Santa Clara County Office of Emergency Services issued the county's first mandatory evacuations and road closures related to the Summit Fire. But fog hampered morning flights by fire-fighting aircraft, and flames jumped the containment line to threaten the small community of Sveadal, southwest of Morgan Hill next to Uvas Canyon County Park on the Santa Cruz-Santa Clara county line.
