Evacuations Ease As Wragg Fire Burns Away From Populated Areas

SOLANO COUNTY (CBS13) — The Wragg Fire moved into rugged terrain on Thursday as it burned for a second day in Napa and Solano counties, though the threat to homes has subsided.

Cal Fire lifted mandatory evacuation orders for the Golden Bear community on Thursday as the nearly, 7,000-acre fire burned away from homes with calmer winds.

Gen Hess is still not allowed back to her ranch on Pleasants Valley Road, so she's storing her 20 American saddlebred show horses at a nearby emergency shelter for livestock.

"It's terrifying, but I think at that moment you don't think about them being valuable you think about them being living creatures and how terrifying it would be to be stuck in the fire," she said.

Maggie Burns and her husband Roy say this is the second year in a row a fire has forced them from their County Road 87 home. They're happy to be returning once more with no damage.

"They saved our houses a year ago and they did it again," she said.

But hundreds like Kristine DeGuerre are not yet as lucky, as they will have to spend another night waiting.

"It's hard not going home tonight, but I have my dog with me, staying with a friend in town," she said.