2 firefighters injured as wildfire spreads across 12,500 acres near San Francisco

Two firefighters were injured and evacuation orders were issued as a wildfire spread to 12,500 acres in Northern California, officials said.

The Corral Fire is 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 Sacramento ABC affiliate KXTV. One of them was lightly injured and the other was moderately injured, he said, adding that both were expected to survive.

The fire started around 2:30 p.m. PT Saturday near Interstate 580 on the west end of Tracy and quickly spread around midnight to approximately 11,047 acres, with about 13 percent under control, officials said.

Cal firefighters increased that figure Sunday morning, saying the fire had grown to 12,500 acres and that high winds and dry grass were “making it difficult to contain.”

The fire spread 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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