Bonny Doon wild-fire threatens the residents of near by Santa Cruz Mountain areas. The fire was reported on Wednesday night and till Thursday morning, things were not under control.

Bonny Doon town is situated in the Santa Cruz Mountains some 70 miles towards south from San Francisco. The matter is being looked into whether how the jungle-wood caught fire but meanwhile, the impact of fire was reported to be ever increasing list night. The men engaged in evacuation and safety activities found it real hard to carry on with.

It is reported that 250 or more homes were successfully evacuated well in time and the police had to make sure the evacuation by door to door visit. The firefighters as many as 300, were reinforced by crews from nearby counties Santa Clara, San Benito, Monterrey and Santa Barbara to control the fire which was seen from miles around. Till last reports of 12:30 am, the coastal town of Davenport was also likely to be affected by the fire. Therefore to be on the safer side, the authorities were planning to evacuate this town as well.

So far one death has been reported whereas at least 20 homes have been reported destroyed completely. Few roads have been approached, cleaned and re-opened to facilitate the residents move quickly to the safer areas.

The Butte County seems to have been affected most. Hundreds of thousands of residents living there or around have been forced to evacuate. The fire was so dense and wild at night that it could be seen from Marin County which is at least a100 miles away from Bonny Doon, reports say.

Hardly a year ago 1n 2008, the same area faced a fierce wildfire resulting in the evacuation of at least 1500 people and damaging several houses. Right now it is feared that the Wednesday night fire has spread up to 20,000 acres of both wild and residential land, as per California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection report.

The winds play a very important role in such fire-hit areas as they keep on changing the direction of fire every now and then. Resultantly, it becomes extremely hard to continue with rescue or extinguishing activities. Like at Bonny Doon despite their best efforts, the authorities were unable to safe at least 20 houses from turning into piles of ash.

Bonny Doon Fire