When its made with love, its made to be shared. News at 6. A deadly natural disasters. Batter the u. S. From coast to coast in the bay area lightning sparked wildfires that have killed 7 people are still burning tonight. Firefighters say the scope of damage is historic the number of fires that we had such a short amount of time in the way theyve burned as is pretty parallel in my career on the gulf coast lower slams ashore as a category 4 hurricane killing 4 people and leveling entire neighborhoods. Another night of unrest in america protests turn violent in oakland as nationwide outrage grows over the Police Shooting of jacob blake and the sports world postponing games once again in solidarity with racial justice. Thank you so much for joining us tonight on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman were tracking 3 major crises in america tonight. Unrest has turned destructive during a bay area protest. A deadly hurricane has slammed the southeast. But first we want to turn to the 3 wildfire
News stations, youre watching kron 4 news at 9. And its hard to look at. And i know that were going to have to start going through things and. You know coming up here and at and working a little bit but its sad its hard to come. Now at 9 as firefighters start to gain control of the 3 large wildfire complex is burning in the bay area evacuees are returning to find whats been left behind good evening. Im ken wayne and im pale more firefighters acknowledge the scope of the damage is historic but. Containment of these fires is growing cal fire says the scu lightning complex fires. Parts of the east bay and south bay or 35 contained tonight. The czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties now 24 contained and the l in new lightning complex fires in the north bay are now 35 contained. The lnu lightning complex fire has ripped through hundreds of homes and displaced scores of families from fourstaters sackey is in vacaville where one family has lost everything from the ln
News stations, youre watching kron 4 news at 10. And its hard to look at. And i know that were going to have to start going through things and. You know coming up here and at and working a little bit but if at a time to come. Now it and devastation after a disaster a family of 5 is left heartbroken tonight after the lnu lightning complex fires destroyed what was supposed to be there forever home. Thanks for joining us on this thursday night, im ken wayne and im pale more that familys home one said on gates canyon road in vacaville and it is now reduced to rubble. Well for sale of the sack erie visited the area with the family tonight and she joins us live with more taylor is heartbreaking. Pam ken a family of 5 lived here april and Mike Hernandez raise their 3 kids here, im standing in what was once their sons bedroom, you can tell just how hot this fire was check us out. This is wilsons a desk chair. Well all thats left of it and here behind me melton appliances in the area that was o
3 large wildfires burning in the bay area and the good news is crews are making headway. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore at this hour cal fire says the scu lightning complex fire in parts of the east bay and the south bay is 35 contained with more than 369,000 acres burned the lnu lightning complex fire in the north bay is now 35 contained with more than 369,000 acres burned and the czu august lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties is now 24 contained with more than 81,000 acres burned you see where that fire is burning on this map in the Santa Cruz Mountains and into San Mateo County. So far. The fires have destroyed more than 700 structures and majority of those. Our homes are still several mandatory Evacuation Orders in effect tonight. But the good news is those orders have been lifted for the you see santa cruz campus which was threatened at the southern edge of this fire tonight kron fours gayle ong live for us in Santa Cruz County
Of their own home as they were allowed to return late last night so theyre the First Community to do so the hope is to have areas like felton and the highway 90 corridor to have those areas open sooner than later those of the new places that they were targeting today, theyre throwing 2000 firefighters at this and it is working because the number of acres burned its not exploding, it is sitting right now at 82,540 acres and thats up only a 1000 acres from yesterday containment also up youre sitting now at 26 . Containment but firefighters still have their hands full, its basically a race between them and the fire to get to feel that has not been touched yet. Were going to have to start removing trees. The are unsafe. Weve got potentially take out additional power lines across roadways or in danger structures. So like i said its multiphase when we start pushing forward with the entire mitigation process of this incident and its going to take a while. I mean everyone to be patient. Were w