Morning as well. The spare the air alert is in effect once again today. A record 18 days in a row with the alert for the bay area, that continues into saturday and likely beyond. The normal daytime highs, upper 80s and close to 90 in concord. Also for livermore comedy low 80s in san jose and the low 70s in oakland. The upper 60s for San Francisco. We have heat advisories and excessive heat warning in effect for the Holiday Weekend. I will have details coming up. Morning. As we check the roadways, we have a crash westbound 80. One car and felt of it might be blocking the left lane. The good news is there are not a lot of cars on the roadway. The traffic is pretty light. Plus the threeday Holiday Weekend is upon us. Things are moving after the limit. We will let you know if that changes but the left lane is blocked on the westbound side. Past that there are no delays towards the toll plaza. Traffic is moving at the limit. A place where we see a few brake lights is the nimitz freeway. We
Expands across napa, solana, and yellow counties it is 33 contained. Cal fire said theyre leeting more evacuees go home now. But the wall bridge fire in Sonoma County, which you see on the left there, continues to be a challenge for firefighters. Make no mistake, theres a lot of work that has to be done. Its a very difficult country over there. There is no fire hiss troifr there. What i can tell you is theres a good plan in place. Folks over there are working tirelessly every day. Reporter lets go right to Wayne Freedman who was at the wallidge fire today. Wayne . Its been quieter today, a lot more smoky today and roadblocks continue. This is the entrance and there you see the cars trying to get in. Many of them are. Some of them are not. On the surface you might say this was too quiet a day but there werent a lot of big flames, not a lot of advancement of the fires but up on the hills you see the work thats being done, weather helped as firefighters have gained ground. In the hills ar
Frias local news stations. We are essentially living in a megafire youre a massive wildfires in the bay area breaking records fires in the north and east bay is now the second and 3rd largest in state history ive lived here all my life. Never seen a fire like this in this area, firefighters hope to gain ground on the flames after a break in the weather but cal fire warning mega fires and mass evacuations. Might be the new norm, its going to be early and more often folks have been experiencing this california the last couple of years. Thank you for joining us everyone at 6 oclock im Catherine Heenan the wildfires burning across the bay area they are making history tonight. The lnu complex now the second biggest fire on record for california burning 350,000 acres and it is only 22 contained, followed very closely by the scu fire complex. Its from 347,000 acres only 10 contained and then there is the czu complex in san mateo and santa cruz fires a santa cruz counties all together those fi
When its made with love, its made to be shared. News at 6. A deadly natural disasters. Batter the u. S. From coast to coast in the bay area lightning sparked wildfires that have killed 7 people are still burning tonight. Firefighters say the scope of damage is historic the number of fires that we had such a short amount of time in the way theyve burned as is pretty parallel in my career on the gulf coast lower slams ashore as a category 4 hurricane killing 4 people and leveling entire neighborhoods. Another night of unrest in america protests turn violent in oakland as nationwide outrage grows over the Police Shooting of jacob blake and the sports world postponing games once again in solidarity with racial justice. Thank you so much for joining us tonight on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman were tracking 3 major crises in america tonight. Unrest has turned destructive during a bay area protest. A deadly hurricane has slammed the southeast. But first we want to turn to the 3 wildfire
Immediately when i got to do it was just green light anything we could do to to get the flames to go away. With firefighters stretched thin during the early days of the czu lightning complex fires, a few locals ignored the Evacuation Orders to try and save homes in their communities. Kron fours Maureen Kelly talked to one man who says he and a group of friends. Were able to keep more than 2 dozen homes and bonny doon from being destroyed. In t shirts involved having on the Santa Cruz Mountains locals pump water onto the burning forest in an effort to save homes. This video was shot by ben lomond native keilar ruskin who says he drove down from where he lives now in reno after hearing about the czu lightning complex fires. Threatening the bonny doon home of his best friend ruskin says he was part of a man squad who in the course of 5 days. Use whatever equipment they could get their hands on locals knowledge of the land to create a perimeter and douse flames. Here now. He says together