Firefighters made progress Saturday in a San Francisco Bay Area blaze that endangered homes and sent residents fleeing as dry, gusty conditions across California raised the risk of wildfires.

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

A large brush fire threatened homes in the Oakland hills in California and sparked evacuations of hundreds of residents amid extremely dry and gusty conditions.