County, other communities will have to wait to return. Well let you know when other areas are not listed here today will be available to return home. And again we thank you so much for all of your patience and cooperation. Reporter amber plans to go back to work. Get back to school or zoom, just value those things you didnt think you care about as much before you thought you are going to have it. Reporter now also coming into town are more Sheriff Deputies and Law Enforcement units. They are here to make sure that people coming into town are supposed to be here. Live in pascadero, nbc bay area news. You can just hear it. A warning from cal fire this evening about that fallen tree. This one is in the czu fire zone where robert handa was reporting from. A reminder here, stay out of burn and evacuated areas until safety inspectors have done their jobs. Answers for a firefighter who had his card stolen while he was on the fire line. Brian johnson was arrested at his home in live oak. Johns
Conditions with their homes and most want to see. Or see what is left, that is of course the problem. A lot of anticipation this morning for sure. We first met stephanie at the Mission Church arcing lot on leisure town road in vacaville, a widow literally with minutes to evacuate as the firestorm swept the region destroying 15 homes. I feel bad because there are so many, so many people out been lost their homes. To get to their neighborhoods homeowners must show proof of residency and get a pass from the sheriffs office. We ask them to check in and we update contact info, some people lost their homes and cant go for a variety of reasons. Reporter she already knew her home survived the firestorm. I came up here then my thought was im so lucky to be alive. I could have been killed, you know, it came that fast. We had no time. Reporter she used unexpected things brilliantly. I got bark and gravel and p gravel and i said i will get rid of the plans. Reporter like other homes of surviving h
Tearing through parts of texas and louisiana, killing at least 4 people damaging property and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 5 im Justine Waldman at this hour were tracking the 3 large wildfires burning in the bay area. The good news right now crews are making progress cal fire says the scu lightning complex fires in parts of the east and south bay, or 35 contained. The czu august lightning complex fires in san mateo and Santa Cruz County are now 21 contained and the l a new lightning complex fires in the north bay are now 33 contained. We will begin our coverage there where the fires have burned more than 368,000 acres across napa Solano Sonoma lake and yolo counties while firefighters continue to make progress in sonoma county. The wall bridge fire continues to burn above healdsburg and guerneville and even when the fire is put out that does not mean that evacuees will be able to return immediate
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
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our rooftop camera out at the beautiful bay bridge this morning. Good morning everyone, it is friday, we made it to friday. Thank goodness. Its august 28th. Im michelle griego. We did it. Good morning, im len kiese. A check of the weather now with mary lee and a spare the air alert has been extended through the weekend. Thats right. Still watching that haze and smoke. Len and michelle, on this friday morning and checking current air quality conditions, not as great as yesterday morning. Ange and reds and that does indicate that unhealthy air for the bay area. So because of that, we have a spare the air alert. That remains in effect today as well as through the weekend. So looking at that spare the air over the next few days and likely even beyond that. Now we are looking at that smoke forecast as we take you through the day, and you can see that is red and purple colors and that indicates that smoke. So still