About to collide with coronavirus overwhelming hospitals. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 5 im Justine Waldman and we have lots of news to get to tonight. Well start with the wildfires that are still burning around the bay area and threatening thousands of homes. The czu lightning complex fires have now burned more than 80,000 acres in the mountains of santa cruz and san mateo counties more than 500 structures have been destroyed 51 damaged. One person has died. Containment did go up slightly overnight us now at 19 . Many structures are still threatened and there are several Evacuation Orders in place and for more right now we go to kron fours rob fladeboe he joins us now live from felton which is about 7 miles from santa cruz. He has the very latest on the firefight good evening drop. Good evening just seen thats right out here in the Santa Cruz Mountains once again firefighters are quite literally a fighting fire with fire as you say i am here in felto
Near st. Helena. Terry mcsweeney, you were with crews a authority tishort its believed that lightning started this fire. Reporter a lot of evidence that lightning started it. I was talking to firefighters here. They say the focus tonight is on structure protection, saving the homes which are up state route 128, closed off as you can see. Everywhere you look, theres fire on the mountain. Huge flames leaping into the night sky along hennessey ridge. Cal fire says this fire has burned 2,400 acres and is 0 contained. With the hot, dry conditions that weve been having and then coupled with this weather that weve had, its not common for the area with all the lightning strikes that weve been having. Its just its very can be very hazardous for the fire conditions. Reporter the cause believed to be lightning. This video from the local chp office showing a strike a short while before the first reports of fire. This structure fell victim to the flames today. More than 200 other buildings are thre
Dangers this he way to get one day of hot temperatures like this ok you get to not so bad you get for your 5 days that begins to wear you down a bit today records in the San Francisco at 95 degrees. 101. Very impressive record in oakland today, a 103 a record in san jose 82 right along the waters edge in Half Moon Bay very impressive for record there a 106 smoking hot napa 105 degrees in santa rosa all around the bay area just scorching temperatures a 107 the hottest i could find in antioch but everywhere he went even inside the bay places usually dont see those really hot temperatures it was smoking not 101 degrees in mount view 103 degrees in hayward it even 95 in the San Francisco, 105 in the bottle so certainly hot temperatures to be found everywhere numbers but beginning to cool down a little bit but these numbers going to stay way up overnight tonight. We still got triple digit right now 104 in little more one 05. One of 5 little more 104 in dublin, one 05 in concord look at pitt
Should be prepared. The shut offs are being ordered by the state of california so pg and he wants everyone to know this is not the Public Safety shutoff switch happened during high fire threat conditions. The outages are due to a combination of the extreme heat that were experiencing and high energy usage. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now to tell us the records that were broken today and how long this hot weather is going to stick around for years, you can imagine all the people trying to turn up their abc today. These temperatures easily, the hottest of the summer so far and records all around the bay area, not just in a few spots we smashed into many places in the San Francisco 95 degrees that is very hot. Downtown San Francisco. Look at oakland, a 101 degrees a 103 in san jose that was a record in san jose, Half Moon Bay right out there on the waters edge 82 a record a 106 scorching heat in napa one 05 in santa rosa. We were done there more records falling redwood ci
Nearly 340,000 acres. And is 10 contained 5 structures have been destroyed 20,000 others are threatened to First Responders and 2 civilians have been injured. Kron fours dan thorn live for us in Santa Clara County tonight where the su lightning complex continues to spread. In the area around Mount Hamilton, so dan what have you learned tonight. And in this fire is primarily burning right now in the deep rural areas near Mount Hamilton as you head up the lick observatory. Still very smoky and very dangerous for people that are in those areas and thats fire crews out here been asking people to evacuate and not be allowed to head back into these areas if you look at some of the video that we have from earlier today this is a grant ranch park where you can see charred hillsides there. Along with that you can see some flame retardant that was dropped off to prevent this fire from spreading over the last couple of days, nearby homes have been threatened as you can see a lot of dry brush out