Evacuations and progress hopefully in the firefight. Joining us on the phone right now for the latest update is Christine Mcmorrow with Calfire Christine can you give us an update or are you starting to gain the upper hand on any of these fires. Hi there yeah, you know we are we did see today with and increased containment on the lnu complex fire that good news, however, you know we did also see increased we are getting more personnel under these fires as fires in other parts of the state week at a better handle on those were moving personnel into these larger in in the north bay and in east areas so that we can and continue to increase those containment lines. What do you attribute the increase in containment the lnu complex that north bay. Fire complex, the containment doubled in about 24 hours which obviously we hadnt seen that sort of. Leap in progress made thus far was it mostly the weather. Well the the weather didnt help us out today and we had a little bit higher relative humid
And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula to percent contained. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Im Vicki Liviakis that im grant lotus we continue of course to track the 3 lightning complex fire still burning in the bay at this hour. Well start with that czu august lightning complex fire system thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Fires that were burning separately in those 2 counties merged overnight in total. The flames have now burned about 57,000 acres and forced more than 60,000 people to leave their homes at this hour. The fire is just 2 contained at least 97 structures have been destroyed nearly 25,000 others are threatened this evening. 2 people have suffered minor injuries said there are more than 1100 personnel working those fires right now. And we have Team Coverage on the czu or this lightning complex fires are kron fours gayle ong dan thorn they are alive. In Santa Cruz County with the latest on the fires and the damage there and
Have to pull the water and get down there and put the darn thing out. Reporter cal fire has warned time and time again that residents staying behind or returning to an evacuation zone is not just illegal but also puts the firefighters in harms way if they have to stage a rescue. We know six people had to be rescued on on sunday. The number of homes destroyed could increase drasticlly as the survey crews make their way out there to survey the land and get a better look at the destruction left behind by the czu lightning complex fire. For now reporting live in scots valley, julian glover, abc7 news. Thank you, julian. In the north bay, the lnu lightning complex burning is proving to be very challenging for firefighters. Sky7 was overhead near sweet swatter springs road in Sonoma County yesterday and you can see that difficult terrain theyre facing. The fire is now threatening the armstrong woods state park but firefighters say theyre keeping an eye on its progress. The lnu complex fire h
Million acres. Most of it came within the last week kron fours Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has details on what officials are doing to prepare for another threat of more fires in the coming days. 14,000 california firefighters are on the front lines working to put out more than 600 fires burning across the state included in that number the second and 3rd largest wildfires in state history. Each caused by lightning strikes in Northern California last week we are deploying every resource at our disposal governor Gavin Newsome said monday emergency leaders are bracing for even more fires to flare up after 300 lightning strikes hit the state between sunday and monday sparking 10 new fires with now a major disaster declaration from the president california has requested 375 fire engines and crews from out of state about 100 of them have come in from nearby states with air support coming in from the National Guards of kansas idaho, utah this week. Is going to be a profoundly importa
Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that