2 firefighters injured as wildfire spreads across 11,000 acres near San Francisco

Two firefighters were injured and evacuation orders were issued as a wildfire spread to more than 11,000 acres Saturday night in Northern California, officials said.

The Corral Fire was burning in San Joaquin County near the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, located about 50 miles from San Francisco, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

“Areas west of the California Aqueduct, south of Corral Hollow Creek, west of Alameda County and south of Stanislaus County are expected to leave now,” emergency officials said Saturday. San Joaquín.

Two firefighters were injured in the blaze, Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Silveira said in an interview with KXTV. One of them was lightly injured and the other was moderately injured, he said, adding that both were expected to survive.

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The fire broke out Saturday near Interstate 580 on the west end of Tracy and had spread to about 11,047 acres by midnight, about 13 percent of which was contained, officials said.

It moved quickly through the tall, dry grass in the area, Silveira said.

“With these winds, it was increasing very quickly,” he said. “The fire was moving faster than we could post updates.”

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