By the lnu complex fires which have burned more than 357,000 acres containment there when up to 33 and the czu lightning complex fires have burned more than 80,000 acres. In just over a week the fires have burned more than 800,000 acres altogether. Now in the Santa Cruz Mountains crews are quite literally fighting fire with fire. Crews are setting backfires to help protect felton and other communities in the san lorenzo valley just north of santa cruz kron fours rob fladeboe takes us there now for a ride to the fire ravaged felt an empire road. A spot at the time firefighters are gaining ground on the czu lightning complex fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Its hoped backfires here along felt an empire road from upper fall creek to empire grade where one encounters many of those rocks and thick smoke will help keep the fire away from felton been lawman and neighborhoods in the nearby san lorenzo valley. And that way so when the main fire makes its way to the communities that are affecte
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Weve gotten some fog thats come in its fairly thin, however, not really thick thick fog that were dealing with this morning all right, heres we got going on hopes hopes that matt graphic should be in there. Excuse me its jumping off its thing on a second. This but wasnt set up and one 2nd. Heres the image i want to show you. Berkeley here. Yeah, this is u c berkeley and you can see a little bit away some of that haze thats there. This is whats left over from the fog we had from overnight and now thats pretty much cleared out or will pretty quickly. We do have a bit of that on shore when thats in place out of the northwest as you will notice that will be with us through the day today. Temperatures in the 50s and the 60s as what we got going on 69 antioch 66 for concord theres interesting pattern here we actually have better cooling happening in land that we do around the bay. Well we have a bit more fog and moisture around that actually supported temperatures overnight a little bit. The
Map shows all of the thermal activity from the flames and you can see it there on your screen. This morning. We know that several homes have been destroyed in that area, thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. Kron fours reyna harvey live now in Santa Cruz County she has the latest for us rain little bit more good morning and here in scott valley where thousands of residents were forced to evacuate yesterday, we also know that you see santa cruz, those students and faculty had to evacuate as well know again were going to show you the damage that was done overnight taking you to Boulder Creek and you can see these homes in the area as they go up in flames now we know thousands of residents throughout like you mentioned santa cruz in this area have had to evacuate as the fire continues to grow overnight 48,000 acres this morning structures destroyed about 50 structures that are still currently threatened by this growing fire over 20,000 now yesterday, the First Responders had s
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