All of the region’s evacuation orders were downgraded to warnings by 6 p.m. Sunday evening, and Interstate 580, which had been closed in the area, was reopened Monday morning. Flames surrounded both sides of the road as their trucks and five trailers’ worth of people and animals drove out of the neighborhood. “I was thinking, ‘I’m not going to show at fair this year,’” Shanko said. Such notifications go out as a safety warning to crews any time there are possible power lines down, Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Silveira said. “The investigation team is going to do everything in their power to figure out what truly caused this,” Silveira said.
