Open overnight, some of us didnt get much relief from the heat really if anything just put some bad air into our homes. 80s at the coast 90s by the bay and yep youre seeing it there triple digits, one 10 today again in livermore in antioch concord at one o 9 Napa Santa Rosa san jose just to name a few other spots that will be solidly in the triple digits today now with temperatures this hot you can see why so much of the bays yet again under excessive heat warnings through 09 00pm tonight that includes these pink areas on the peninsula down into the south bay where we will be solidly in the triple digits. Same for those of us on the east bay triple digits inland 90s for bayside cities like oakland and richmond while antioch brentwood Discovery Bay above 110 degrees in these areas. Fairfield and vacaville also at a 110 above and with such dangerous heat check on your neighbors, check on some of your older relatives who may be even more vulnerable to the heat make sure that theyve got a
Is burning in a large area of the north bay. Leveling homes and impacting thousands of People Living in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties and the woodward fire that is burning in the Point Reyes National seashore area of marine county. And so far those devastating north bay fires have scorched a combined 215,000 acres and 4 people have died 3 in napa county one in Solano County. 480 structures have been destroyed. These numbers were just updated and they have really jumped 125 other structures have been damaged tonight more than 30,000 structures are still threatened. And right now the entire complex in the north bay is 0 contained. And tonight, were learning all Evacuation Orders have been lifted in vacaville with the exception of south of fort hill drivein west of alamo drive from monte vista avenue to interstate 80 was michelle kingston is in vacaville with what conditions are like. Well theres not much activity here outside the eu lead his community center. This is the only
Destroyed. Thats the latest count. At least three people have been hurt. Robert handa joins us from felton. Robert . Reporter thats right. Were here at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats been set up here in felton. Im here with a lot of weary firefighters, which, as you heard have been battling fires, steep terrain and tall trees which have limited the usual aerial attack. The smoke has almost washed out the mountain scenery. The aerial view shows how much the fire and smoke have blanketed this stwrech from the Santa Cruz Mountains to San Mateo County and has those underneath it moving frantically. Michael herzog and megan are doing whatever they can to protect their felton home. After getting their evacuation notice grabs what they need. We just got the essentials. Reporter it was difficult for firefighters to move around in this terrain, so they set the backfires to keep the fire from spreading into neighborhoods and businesses. One business was in Boulder Creek where the redwood keg staye
At this ominous sky over the dry creek valley. You have a little bit of everything. You have blue sky, heavy smoke, youve got the sun trying to peek through and you have the clouds continuing to move to the southeast. Inside the burn zone, it is not pretty. We just returned from there a few hours ago. Were driving carefully up mill creek road in Sonoma County through a burn state that this morning seemed benign when compared with what must have been the hell that roared through here last night. It breaks my heart. This is my backyard. This is the fire that weve been worrying about for decades around here. Reporter thats the healdsburg fire chief describing the wadgfire. This afternoon he toured the browned out burn zone with supervisor james gore who usually has answers for. Does anyone have any answers for how many houses burned here . No. There are people throwing around estimates, 15 to 20 but nobody knows right now. There are no confirms numbers. Reporter but everyone knew to worry
Alameda and contra costa counties is now the second largest fire in california history more than 367,000 acres have burned containment is up to 30 it is followed closely though by the l lightning complex in the north bay which has burned more than 360,000 acres in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties containment their climb to 33 and the czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties has burned 81,000 acres with containment reaching 21 altogether these fires have burned more than 800,000 acres, lets start with more details from cal fire on each of these complex fires, the largest one were monitoring. In terms of acreage is the scu lightning complex fire 5 people have been hurt in that fire. So far it spend the least destructive in terms of Property Damage, 20 have been destroyed 6 have been damaged but more than 20,000 structures are still threatened the second largest wildfire burning right now in anchorage and 3rd largest in state history is the lnu lightning c