Its burned 2700 acres near lake hennessey, east of st. Helena. From sky fox, you can see several fires up in napa county. Actually, we just read that, so lets move on here to our next story. Hundreds of firefighters are battling these fires in extremely hot conditions. Ktvus rob roth tells us with so many fires burning, crews are being stretched then. Reporter cal fire calls the three most serious fires burning in the north bay, the complex fires including the hennessey fire, the gamble, and the 1510. About 400 people said Evacuation Orders wednesday tuesday to low along with those from yesterday. Just as i picked the cat up, lightning struck. Reporter but this man who lives on lower Childs Valley road where the hennessey fire looms above hasnt left yet. Its a very stressful time right now. Our house is just a couple of hundred yards from here, and it doesnt look good. Reporter firefighters say lightning strikes are responsible for these fires. This video was taken by a photographer la
Setting off investigation orders and and warnings at this hour. At least five different fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties. You know see the big plumes of smoke from the air above the fires. There are now Evacuation Orders in the area of Butano State Park, and people who live in the communities deer born park be under evacuation warnings. Altogether, these fires have burned about 1,000 acres, and right now there is zero containment. All right. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist bill martin now. What are firefighters dealing with, and is there in any positive news . Well, what theyre dealing with, frank, we have a live picture of the hennessey fire in napa. What they are dealing sat two and a half days of lightning strikes in the bay area. Unprecedented from my tenure of 35, 40 years in the bay area to have that much lightning that much over adoration over that large of an area. All bears counties had some strikes. Weve seen numerous fires. So cal fire is in a situation where
Davenport, and ader row. Agency. The scu lightning fire is but we have brought in significant numbers of resources from other parts of the state. We have called upon our western now the 7th largest wildfire in state partners. In fact, we have requested california history. Firefighters from other states. Nearly 230,000 acres or 360 we have activated the National Square miles have burned. The fire complex is now 10 guards, including their guards contained, and cal fire says so troopsmen, who are going to create introduce, and brought have been evacuated from their in the federal activation with homes, and five structures have air tankers, aircraft, thats weve been able to transform been destroyed. The lnu complex fire in the north bay is now 7 contained into fire tanker. We are drawing upon every available resource. Not only to help us fight the current fires, but, as was at 219,000 acres. Five deaths are being reported mentioned, we are looking at in connection to those fires. The napa
Start off with a live look outside where it is just beautiful as the sun starts to come up. A live look of San Francisco. Just a very little bit of low cloud hanging out in the bay this morning but not anything in the way of fog. San francisco 53 degrees, oakland about 49 and were at 50 in santa rosa and livermore 55 and san jose about 56. I wanted to mention the crews fire we were talking about, we are having better conditions for Fire Fighters and 90 humidity in gilroy and the wind is 3, 4 Miles Per Hour and that is really good news for them. Gives them a chance to get arms around some containment this morning. Wind is relatively calm all across the bay and we got breezy and gusty yesterday and not expecting things to get quite so gusty today and the marine layer not terribly successful this morning so its just a few low clouds out there and well see more of that tomorrow with a chance of fog and today mild to warm temperatures and itll be a Beautiful Day around the bay. 60s on the c
Afternoon and quickly grew to 600 acres. Thats according to the latest update from the santa clara unit cal fire. About an hour ago, evacuations are also under place along all of kenyatta road. At least four helicopters are working at keeping this fire at a moderate spread. Where were standing, were a little bit southwest of where the fire is burning. The wind seems to be blowing the fire east and growing that way, but not too long ago another layer of smoke a little bit west of where that big one where you can see the big one is started. Doesnt look like the fire is going away any time too soon. And were keeping a close eye on it, terry. Were live here near gilroy. Ginger, nbc bay area news. Ginger, thanks very much. Heres another live look at the cruz fire burning near gilroy. You can see from the wildfire camera all the smoke. Again, so far at least 600 acres have burned. Were going to continue to update you on this fire on air and our digital platforms as well. Download our free nb