The Latest: California blaze stopped; evacuations lifted

OAKLAND, Calif. – The Latest on a fire that prompted evacuations in Northern California (all times local):

11:30 p.m.

Evacuation orders have been lifted for homes in the San Francisco Bay Area that were threatened by a grass fire.

Residents of about 50 homes were ordered to leave Wednesday after the fire erupted shortly after noon in Oakley, an unincorporated area of Contra Costa County east of San Francisco.

The wind-driven blaze destroyed two outbuildings and charred about 60 acres of land before firefighters contained it.

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1:47 p.m.

Fire officials in the San Francisco Bay Area say a grass fire is threatening several homes and they have ordered evacuations.

The East Contra Costa Fire Protection District spokesman Steve Aubert says the fire in unincorporated Oakley is being driven by wind and that all of its fire engines are fighting the blaze in the community 50 miles (80 kilometres) east of San Francisco.

He says residents of about 50 homes have been ordered to leave.

Aubert says the blaze has destroyed two outbuildings and that additional fire engines and crews are on their way.

Television images show a structure burned to the ground as the blaze burns through empty, dry fields.

The blaze is burning near several greenhouses and homes.