Hayward napa and avato from my last check with you as we are seeing some low clouds beginning to raise right above the bay itself sear now starting to drive under the fog rather than right through it unless youre in Half Moon Bay at the coast where yeah visibility still a problem, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with alameda dublin and san mateo all at 58 degrees right now oakland, youre at 60 with areas like berkeley and San Francisco a little cooler 56. Later today, a bit of a cooler afternoon can be expected with coastal temperatures in the 50s to 60s 70s, right along the bay and 80s and just a few 90s remaining inland. Ive got more details on especially that smoke with an updated smoke bap just here in a few minutes, robin. Actually i take it john lets talk more about that smoke we do have smoke from the fires causing bad air across the bay area. And you can see here on the map. Just kind of where it is at its worst the darker the color. The worse the air and in some area
Tonight at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus days after dry lightning swept across the bay area firefighters tonight are still battling dozens of wild fires that started as a result, some of them, burning dangerously out of control tonight, heres a map of where the fires are burning as we speak well start with the scu lightning complex fire that is the biggest grouping of fires of all of them scorching more than a 137,000 acres and contra costa Alameda Santa clara status. Lawson san joaquin counties to the bottom of your screen. You see the seas eu august lightning complex fires, burning in the mountains in san mateo and santa cruz counties destroying homes forcing thousands of people to evacuate their frantically overnight. And finally the lnu lightning complex. Thats burning in large area of the north bay, leveling homes and impacting thousands of People Living in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties these fires are huge and so far those devastating north bay fires have scorched
Devastation can see in the video homes have burned down businesses a burned down as we know napa is known for wineries but theres a lot of wineries up here its not as close to the heart of napa but more up in napa up in the hills near on highway, one or highway in one 28 in one 21 driving up when windy roads thats where you can see this area as a part of the l a new lightning complex which so far has burned 351,000 acres. Its now 25 contained firefighters have been able to make some Real Progress since the red flag warning was canceled yesterday that means the wind died down a bit giving firefighters a real chance to get a better handle on the raging flames and allow them to save some homes that otherwise could have been destroyed the hennessy fires the biggest fire in the complex and has burned over 290,000 acres its a very widespread fire that quickly burned towards and through napa county which surprised a lot of people who live here. More relieved a lot more an for us to get prepar
I want to zoon in on live doppler 7. You can see a pair of returns here thankfully moving into Santa Cruz County. We want to get you an update on the czu complex right now. The statewide situation in california at the moment before we get started here specifically in these two counties. Since saturday, august 15th, we have experienced 615 fires across the state of california, and more than two dozen of those fires have turned into major fires. With that, the second and Third Largest fires in california history are burning around us at the moment in santa clara unit and up in lmu and the lake napa unit. With that, theres over 14,000 firefighters assigned across the state at this moment with this lightning siege. Additionally, theres over 2400 fire engines across california fighting these fires. And cal fire alone has 96 of all firefighting engines committed to an incident somewhere in the state of california at this exact moment with. That, we have 95 aircraft assigned to incidents in c
On here at the staging area. Quite a few deputies are here from Alameda County part of the mutual aid force that is out here for two main reasons. They are going to be going door to door as they to notify people if they need to evacuate. Also, theyre going to be here to provide security for all of those people that are evacuated so that when they do return, they will have homes that have not been broken into. In Boulder Creek tonight a few homes are destroyed. The fire moved through this evening. Cal fire has confirmed 50 structures have been lost in the sprawling complex of fires and, unfortunately, the destruction may be much worse. We believe that it will go to the triple digits. It is just too early to know what that exact number i few mi alan strong is taking a stand against the coming fire, spraying down the roof of his friends bakery all day. He knows danger is on its way. You can feel the breeze. Its coming this way from the alba ridge. When it starts doing that, you know somet