143 homes have been destroyed more than 26,000 structures are still threatened calfire post same this video on twitter today and you can see smoke filling the napa county sky near the Robert Louis Stevenson state park flames from the glass fire have devoured swaths of brush and trees as we mentioned a red flag warning has been issued as the weather is expected to take a turn for the worse. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here to begin our coverage tonight, yeah guys a little bit of a break the last couple of days we see more of a westerly wind that has been carrying with it. Some of that moisture right off the ocean to bring up the humidity slow down the fire, but also pushed the fire different directions. These some of the winds around the fire now you can see fairly light. For the better part of the day now beginning to pick up a little bit the very conditions you can see some of those winds now 11 miles an hour saying lena 10 miles an hour outlets peak 10 miles an hour in
Structures a ton by these flames while you are very close will and theres a lot of smoke be careful. There is a big fire. Right behind me im just surrounded by fires, so its almost like picture. Fire and just go ahead and be on television and this is right there that fire that we showed you at 6. 30 continues to burn and it actually is moving from the left to the right of your screen so its moving closer to the hillside you could see theres some headlights coming down here as well not sure of as a firefighter or even a resident, leaving the syria, its gotten darker. Ficker smoke from the last time that you saw me im on Pleasant Valley road and well just walk down here just a try our very best to put you in the pocket where im currently located so you can see it at home and feel the desperation and how bad things are its reaching new vegetation every second and look at this james darya look at the smoke blowing from the right to the left side of your screen thick black smoke. We actuall
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
The day trying to determine if homes are still standing. She joins us now from davenprt. Stephanie . Its been an emotional week for people trying to see if their home is still there. We visited the Civic Auditorium just east of us that has been at full capacity for seven days in a row. Its one of the dozen shelters taking evacuees in. Its just south of here where we met many families. You notice that haze that stretches through the mountain significantly better than 48 hours ago. Their homes are in the middle of the fire zone, and all they can do now is wait. These are like tears of joy, tears of sorrow, because its very bittersweet. Its very sweet that my family is okay. Reporter Kathy Azevedo is living through the pain of simply not knowing. All you can do is take one day at a time and just be thankful for what is, you know, instead of what was. You really cant look back. Reporter mourning the thought of losing everything, she sat in her car praying for her family, her parents and he
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Did you see it or hear it . Thunder and lightning here in San Francisco and across the bay area. Rumbling in the north bay,va, p widespread wildfires. Flashing across the night sky in the east bay, lighting up the oakland skyline. Streaking across the south bay where its blamed for sparking on apartment fire. As someone who grew up on midwestern thunderstorms, it was both intense and unusual here. Yeah, eric. You got that right. Abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma joining us now. Right away with what to expect because, drew, this has been wild weekend of weather. Yeah. Certainly this morning is a morning a lot of us are not going to forget anytime soon. Hundreds of lightning strikes lighting up the morning sky earlier today. Live doppler 7 along with satellite showing you the bay area was basically the bullseye for all of the storm activity. Right now the current lightning strikes are in the sierra. But what is h