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
We could have seen more fires. The first psps shutoffs are in the name of say. The psps is meant to prevent pg es equipment from being damaged and spark fire. Power wont be restored until tomorrow. Pg e said this waits 12 Daylight Hours to pass before they turn power back on. 5,000 in napa county and 18,000 in Sonoma Countysympathizes wit frustrated customers. It compounds with all the various issues the state is facing. We know it can be exhausting. We appreciate our customers patience. Reporter the north bay dealt with six Power Outages last year. That was tough on businesses. Some have generators, but one Business Owner we spoke with said they still arent seeing customers. One man in santa rosa said he and his mother had a lot of issues because of last years outages. They are worried about this year. She fell in the house and injured her shoulder because the power was out. Ship couldnt see and she fell down. I totaled my car because the stop lights were out. We had a rough year last
There are so many fires going on. The chair was more that i could it is not a very happy forecast ever put into words. To be honest with you. He would leave his victim, there is too much. Shaking while he went to the there will be a little bit of kitchen, to eat, only to return relief. We are seeing it ever so and then the abuse and vileness slowly. San francisco, oakland, nevermore it is 75. Had started all over again. Look for hazy, hot, humid, one more day and lynn. The court will hear from not so much around the coast. More survivors on wednesday and thursday. I clouds, smoke, cooling dangelo is said to be formally sentenced on friday to multiple life terms in prison. Pg e utilites has settled the ghost fire at the tomorrow. The forecast projections to drop a lot of temperatures 10 warehouse in oakland, an degrees tomorrow. It will be so much haze and smoke in the area that temperatures will be above average for across the board from the city to livermore. Lets get over to sal, and
Of the road man to dev moving a burning quickly. We have had a photographer on the scene overnight gathering that video and getting the stories and spoke with folks burned trying to escape the fire and heard people gathering the belongings, taking photographs of the inside and outside and belongings to document what they have in case there is any damage from this fire. It is important to note that this all stems from the lightning that we had a couple days ago, that lightning struck some very dry brush creating this fire and thats where we are right now. Take a listen to someone working to escape this fire here in ive never evacuated before. But why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and fast and winds probably 45 miles per hour. Reporter and i can tell you the smoke out here very, very heavy. You cant see the flames. They look like fire flies in the distance but that fire still burning out here smoke very thick. There are cars covered with ash and looks like 5,000 outages a
There is a lot we move through morning. The allen you lightning comples maof seven neighboring Law Enforcement agencies throughout the bay area have come to our aid, to different fires, so far it has the help of folks here in the county, to knock on doors and burned 50 square miles, and is zero percent contained. Literally go home to homeis a s putting that in perspective, that is the size of the entire city of vallejo. There are several Evacuation Orders in napa, sonoma, and solano counties. One that obviously, residents there, members of our office also live in this area. It is extremely important to heed these Evacuation Orders if you receive them over the phone. Obviously, we want to maintain public safety. We want to keep everyone safe the latest Evacuation Order is for all of soler hills and through this thing, this is something that we are in the gibson canyon road. Evacuations are in effect for early stages have. Other Pleasant Valley road, and we will be absolutely committed c