Get as it relates to the czu complex fires as the santa cruz, San Mateo County fires and this is a live picture from. The podium there where we expect cal fire officials to speak momentarily. So this News Conference was scheduled to get underway the top of the hour. So were probably moments away from that happening, well keep an eye on the shot and the minute they come there to the microphone to give us the very latest will jump back to our live coverage but right now lets cover the lnu complex fire which is in the north bay. This map shows you the area burned around sonoma napa and solano counties kron fours sara stinson is live in napa county with a closer look at the damage to homes and other property sarah. The devastation is hard to see with your own eyes and i hope by us being live here you can really get a good idea of how awful the hennessy fire has been ripping through napa county salon a county here alive above Lake Berryessa in this Highlands Community look at this this is a
Almost burned his building down. Reporter he says many people are staying behind, using what they have to protect their properties, knowing fire resources are stretched thin after monday mornings lightning strikes ignited dozens of fires across the region. I keep my sprinklers going and my water pumps working. Reporter a fire incident spokesman admits lack of resources has hurt containment efforts and he tells us these fires are moving in all directions and those who do stay behind need to keep their heads on swivels. Be aware of your surroundings, be aware of your environment and definitely be ready to go. Reporter evacuations across the growing fire complex, a fluid situation all day. Even catching commuters in a web of road closures. And that turtle rock bar and cafe and Lake Berryessa, the western edge of the lake, among those emergency mandatory expanded evacuation orders late this afternoon. We just saw police head up the road here towards Lake Berryessa with their lights on tryi
In the terms of fresh firefighters, theyre stretched thin, but they are making a lot of progress 17 can tame and thats up from 13 and good news to pass along they hope to make significant inroads in the fire over the next several days because the conditions look really good meaning winds are down humidity is up and that means they can launch their aircraft once again which yesterday they did for the First Time Since the fire started more than a week ago and they were able to drop 200,000 gallons of water down to the flames. They hope to do as much if not more today unfortunately because the fires are still burning in a lot of times theyre in rugged hard to reach areas that the new number to pass along this morning. 330. Thats the number of structures are homes destroyed thats up from around 280 yesterday so the fire has been destructive although not as deadly. No fatalities in the overnight hours, no major injuries as far as evacuations people. 77,000 people have been told to evacuate
Counties. Sc fire is in the east bay in three areas calledded the canyon zone, calaveras zone and the deer zone. If youre wonders what the action hims stand for. Its the region tasked with fighting. Csu is the santa clara. As you can imagine theres a number of evacuations in all of these numbers. The czu is 22 fires merged together. Its posing a serious threat to homes and public safety. Thousands have been evacuated. To northwestern Sonoma County, the lat os the walbridge fire, evacuation orders for 15,000 people in that area. This includes guerneville, jenner and other areas north of the russian river. It has burned 1500acres and zero percent contained and expected to be bigger. Were looking at the potential for the fire to expand in new directions as the winds rise in speed and shift direction from the southerly to easterly direction. Smoke from that fire is hacking offing central Sonoma County. Jesse gary is monitoring the evacuationed on the san mateo and santa cruz border. We get
Should be prepared. The shut offs are being ordered by the state of california so pg and he wants everyone to know this is not the Public Safety shutoff switch happened during high fire threat conditions. The outages are due to a combination of the extreme heat that were experiencing and high energy usage. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now to tell us the records that were broken today and how long this hot weather is going to stick around for years, you can imagine all the people trying to turn up their abc today. These temperatures easily, the hottest of the summer so far and records all around the bay area, not just in a few spots we smashed into many places in the San Francisco 95 degrees that is very hot. Downtown San Francisco. Look at oakland, a 101 degrees a 103 in san jose that was a record in san jose, Half Moon Bay right out there on the waters edge 82 a record a 106 scorching heat in napa one 05 in santa rosa. We were done there more records falling redwood ci