Evacuations are in place for certain Oakland Hills residents on Friday afternoon after a fast-moving fire broke out in the area.

A fast-moving vegetation fire broke out Friday afternoon in the hills of Oakland, California, burning at least two homes before firefighters were able to stop forward progress hours after the incident began.

Dozens of firefighters were working Friday to put out a large fast-moving brush fire that threatened homes in the Oakland hills in California and sparked evacuations of hundreds of residents amid extremely dry and gusty conditions.