Some neighborhoods. Traffic is still shut down on the stretch of i80 in richmond. All eastbound lanes are back open but right now, hazmat crews are still popping pumping up the gasoline that are pouring over the westbound lanes. A fiery tanker truck crash prompting an Evacuation Order and then a shelter in place. It all happened about a little clock this morning according to chp. A motorcycle entering westbound i have been 80 from hilltop driver lost control and spun out, ending up under the fuel tanker. The truck drove onto the shoulder with the motor cycle is still caught underneath, the truck burst into flames, the front cabin was engulfed and it was a very close call but unbelievably, both the rider and the driver are all right. Still, it shut down both as i have an 80, smoke visible for miles. People on both sides of the highway order to evacuate. It was downgraded to a shelter in place and one resident described the rush to pack up. Part of our important step at a certain place,
Burning around the bay and as they continue to rage that major that declaration will help us right now the latest from cal fire puts the lnu complex fire. At 17 containment. That is the fire thats burning in the north bay. The scu lightning complex fire which is in the east bay has burned 10 contained right now and the czu lightning complex fire. Thats the one along the peninsula. Its just 8 contain still that is a jump from yesterday morning by about 3 so little by little they are working on it as fast as they can to knock down these fires before there is a threat. More dry lightning. Lets talk about the csu lightning complex fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties in total. This fire has burned 71,000 acres, 60,000 people plus have had to flee their homes and as you can see many structures have gone up in flames 2 people suffered minor injury. There are now 1300 fire personnel there battling that fire right now. Lets take a look at the map and that shows you Scotts Valley and santa
Nearly 340,000 acres. And is 10 contained 5 structures have been destroyed 20,000 others are threatened to First Responders and 2 civilians have been injured. Kron fours dan thorn live for us in Santa Clara County tonight where the su lightning complex continues to spread. In the area around Mount Hamilton, so dan what have you learned tonight. And in this fire is primarily burning right now in the deep rural areas near Mount Hamilton as you head up the lick observatory. Still very smoky and very dangerous for people that are in those areas and thats fire crews out here been asking people to evacuate and not be allowed to head back into these areas if you look at some of the video that we have from earlier today this is a grant ranch park where you can see charred hillsides there. Along with that you can see some flame retardant that was dropped off to prevent this fire from spreading over the last couple of days, nearby homes have been threatened as you can see a lot of dry brush out
Acres tonight we also know that President Trump has approved californias request for a president ial major disaster declaration. This afternoon governor gavin newsom tweeted his gratitude for the president s help writing that, although these are unprecedented times california is resilient. And well get through this. We have Team Coverage on these fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle lot gayle ong and dan thorn on live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the conditions, lets first go to know well with the very latest on the firefighting efforts in Sonoma County know well whats going on. And sorry just about 5 minutes ago, i watched as several fire trucks just came to zooming down this road, im on west side road in a Dry Creek Valley that is just west of healdsburg and most folks if you live on this road you were ordered to evacuate here west of highway one oh one and now as i mentioned several
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