News stations, youre watching kron 4 news at 10. And its hard to look at. And i know that were going to have to start going through things and. You know coming up here and at and working a little bit but if at a time to come. Now it and devastation after a disaster a family of 5 is left heartbroken tonight after the lnu lightning complex fires destroyed what was supposed to be there forever home. Thanks for joining us on this thursday night, im ken wayne and im pale more that familys home one said on gates canyon road in vacaville and it is now reduced to rubble. Well for sale of the sack erie visited the area with the family tonight and she joins us live with more taylor is heartbreaking. Pam ken a family of 5 lived here april and Mike Hernandez raise their 3 kids here, im standing in what was once their sons bedroom, you can tell just how hot this fire was check us out. This is wilsons a desk chair. Well all thats left of it and here behind me melton appliances in the area that was o
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
Work with the clear air. Also tonight, the Republican National Convention Kicks off with a full slate of feckers including donald trump, jr. Defending his response to the coronavirus. The president acted quickly and delivered the ventilators and delivered pp and e to front line workers, and he braved the private sector to tackle this new challenge. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Damage assessment teams are now starting to get into some of the burned areas and calfire is now reporting more than 1,000 structures destroyed. The big fire in the north bay, the lnu complex has 63ed 100 structures. And the ccu complex has destroyed 106 acres and the seu fire destroyed 1200 structures. Another body has been found in the aftermath of the lnu complex. And a pg e workers also died. Dulc pite the progress made today calfire said its going to take time to put the fire out because of the size and complexity of the fire. The lnu complex fire is now 20 contained. Its
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
Except along the immediate coast a little bit sluggish there bay Area Temperatures checking into some 50s and some 60s at this hour antioch at 64 got 50 up to santa rosa how about that almost like falllike feeling there 60 meanwhile for san jose but for comparison sake, its a little cooler up here in the north bay milder off to the east bay and the south bay for the lowdown today, what fog gets taken care of we going to mostly sunny or while hazy skies at least 61 by 08 00am by 11 were talking 77. Now little bit of a warmup is expected for this weekend but were going to another heat spike and drying out into early next week, well look at that forecast coming up in a bit robin. Sounds good. Thank you dave. Thats firefighters start to gain control of the 3 large wildfires burning in the bay area. Evacuees are returning to find what damage has been left behind Fire Fighters acknowledge the scope of the damage is historic. But containment of these fires is growing. Now according to calfire