A five-alarm brush fire in Oakland, California, sparked evacuation orders as it burned two homes on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crews were “working aggressively to fully extinguish” the blaze in Oakland Hills, named the Keller Fire, the Oakland Fire Department said in an update on X<\/a> early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fire started Friday afternoon in a home on Mountain Avenue. Wind carried flames into a grove of Eucalyptus trees, where it has grown to 15 acres, NBC Bay Area reported<\/a>. The fire was <\/strong>50% contained as of Saturday morning, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fire Chief Damon Covington said at a news conference Saturday that there are still a “tremendous amount of hot spots.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We have a lot of work to do,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A major cause for concern was the wind picking up and the elevated temperature, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We expect to be here throughout the day and possibly through the evening,” Covington told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At a news conference Friday, he said that crews were able to stop the forward progress of the fire but said “we still have a lot of work to do.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n