Norte Fire: Flames, smoke shooting through roof of home

We want to bring you back in the fold here. If you can, while we're making this switch, kind of tell us what you're seeing right now. I mean, look at this heavy smoke and the flames as well. Yes. You know, this is in between the part of the roof that collapsed and the part of the home that is still standing as we see very, very intense, fierce flames shooting up into the air and sending all that black smoke up as well. And this is what we've been watching for the past, you know half hour or longer is just them getting kind of the the flames to die down a little bit here and then they just roar back and I can feel the heat of it now actually it's the first time I'm feeling the heat of it we did move a little closer than we were before but we're still keeping of course a safe distance letting these crews do their jobs you could see all of those flames and you can see below where the roof is still standing that one side where the chimney is You can just see those flames touching the top of it there, really roaring through that part of the house. This other part where the garage is, is still standing as far as we can tell, at least from the outside, but the rest of that house has just given way to these very intense flames that won't stop. Thankfully, we're getting a little break in the wind right now, and the crews are kind of assessing how they're going to attack it next. I would imagine in the next couple of minutes they're going to start hitting this with water again. And we continue to see a little bit of white smoke, some smoke billowing out of some of the roof here a little closer to us. But those flames just keep going. Again, pushing all of this black smoke into the neighborhood right here. And we're not far from the coast. We certainly could see the smoke from miles away as we made our way down the five. And I'm just watching. You kind of see how the crews reassess every few minutes to see how they're going to continue to protect the surrounding properties and get a handle on this here. We see flames creeping up again. And this part of the roof that we're looking at right now, when we first got here, it was still standing. It went up into a point. We've seen the flames. I'll bring that down to just a little part of roof left over here. And in the last few minutes, we saw a lot of collapsing. We're hearing a lot of popping right now. We know that that part of that roof collapsed. We certainly heard when that happened. And several pops, at least a half a dozen popping noises. It's unclear exactly what that was. could have been something in the home you got to remember what what do you have in your home you got appliances you've got electronics that stuff when it meets fire it tends to implode like I think we're hearing right now I don't know for sure but I've got to imagine that could have been a microwave or some kind of appliance that went up and we're hearing all those pops but we continue to watch these crews here and they're they're letting the the flames do their thing right now I'm seeing more flames on this part of the round part of the home. Looks like the front door just above the front entryway. I've seen the flames creep out and they're doing it quite quickly on this part. I would imagine they're going to start getting some water on this again soon as those flames move over again to top the garage. Now I'm seeing the very top of the garage and it's close to where some Phos-Chek was put but so much water has gone on this home as well. So they're doing all they can to get a handle on this as unfortunately this home is just engulfed. It is such a sad sight to see, Nick. This is Marla Tejas joining the coverage now in the four o'clock hour on this Friday. We do have these dueling images here on the ground, live pictures, courtesy of our crew, including Nick Garcia, who you've been listening to, and then up above those aerials from Skyfox. And Nick, just so you know, and you can probably see Skyfox if you look up from where you are on the ground. It is on that tight shot of the same home that you're showing from the ground. This is just such a sad sight to see. We know multiple homes have been engulfed in flames because of the Northridge fire that has been now burning for a few hours now. The lead agency is Orange County Fire Authority. We talk about the wind speeds in the area. We talk about the high temperatures and what these firefighters are up against as we're seeing sort of a broader view and we're seeing that Phos-Chek that has been dumped onto this property nick i'm wondering and what we saw in the palisades fire and the eaton fire a lot of that hopscotch nature of these flames is this the only home on this particular street that is currently in this situation that's right marla this is the only home so far you see how close this one is right next door and it is not on fire right now so this is the only one and that's you know heartbreaking nonetheless for the people who live here but that is the only home we're seeing on fire right now. I saw a sky fox a little while ago we were in another neighborhood I can't see it now because the smoke is obstructing our view but I know that they're providing images as well I'm probably able to see a lot where those flames have moved into firefighters just in the last couple minutes were zooming with their firefighters putting water as much as they can. At this point two or three hoses and we know that there are water hoses on the back side of the house as well ready to go when they're ready for that. But like you said Marla I mean people see these images and I think that our region is just forever scarred and you think right back to January 2025 and what we saw in the Palisades and in Altadena. We're not seeing the hopscotching just right now and the wind has calmed down a little bit so hoping that that continues to be the case, this is the only home here and like I was telling Coco earlier, the neighborhood on the next hillside and the next ridge, we saw tons of people, over a dozen, just standing there watching and I'm sure concerned that this fire is going to move closer to them.