Tonight. We are learning they have been deadly investigators say at least 4 people have died. In fires. Thank you for joining us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis investigators say of the ford s 3 were in napa county one in Solano County they didnt provide. Any other details on whether those who died were residents or firefighters will show you a map now of where the biggest fires are burning tonight. But theyre calling the scu lightning complex fire. Its the biggest. Scorching more than a 137,000 acres in contra costa Alameda Santa clara. Stanislaw san san joaquin counties toward the bottom of your screen the seas eu august lightning complex fires burning in the mountains and san mateo and santa cruz counties where people are unaccounted for homes have been destroyed fire forcing thousands of people to evacuate their. And finally the lnu lightning complex that is burning in a huge area of the north bay. Leveling homes impacting thousands of People Living in s
Prepare for the final day of the work week began. We are live at the czu august lightning complex fires base camp. This is a look at what it looks like. These are the battalion chiefs and operations personnel. Theyre getting ready for an update that they will give us at the 6 am hour. Right where we are standing, they were going on as business as usual but now where we are standing right now, this is all or under an order. The city of Scotts Valley west of highway 17 is forced to leave. This how shows how vast of an area it is. It is bounded by la honda to the north and highway 17 to the east and uc santa cruz to the southern by the Pacific Ocean to the west. At last count that is 48,000 people in that dark red area. That is the fire itself that is still burning out of control with 0 containment. This is video that cal fire shot out of a helicopter along the coastline. The fire has burned all the way to highway 1, which is shut down now. Employees were able to beat back the flames and
Lightning complex fires are burning in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz counties. Many people are still unaccounted for as homes have just been completely destroyed forcing thousands to evacuate and then theres the l a new lightning complex fire thats burning in a large area of the north bay also leveling homes and impacting thousands living in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties. Well were also tracking the scu lightning complex fires which group over a thursday night, the cluster of fires burning across 5 counties in Santa Clara Alameda contra costa, san joaquin and counties check it out on the map here. 20,000 structures are now threatened. And thats why evacuation are mandatory for several spots are urging people to leave an Alameda County Evacuation Orders remain in place for all of mines road south of mile marker tend to the county line. And there are warnings for the city of fremont as well at mill creek road. Well in santa clara county. You must leave if youre in
Across 420,000 acres and that is about 14 times the size of San Francisco and they are still having no containment. It is daunting, it is overwhelming. It is out of control and it is out of anybodys control. We are covering all angles of this massive fire battle including the unhealthy air and the impact as people escape. Lets look at the mountains, where an update is about to began. We are coming to you from the incident command post in the city of Scotts Valley and they have a map that shows significant it has expanded in size overnight. We will get the exact numbers once the press conference gets started. Where we are standing, this is west of highway 17 and we are in the mandatory Evacuation Order area. It will give you a better sense. Look at this map it shows you how big of an area were talking about. The orient shaded in red is a la honda to the north. Skyway 17 to the east and down to santa cruz campus and then the only thing stopping it was the Pacific Ocean to the west. At la
Concord this afternoon. So temperatures right around where we should be for this time of year. Were going to warm things up looking ahead to tomorrow. Less of that onshore flow and talk about that and also hurricane laura. Have details on that as well. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic for the latest on a crash on 880. Yeah, mary i was kind of looking at 880 a little more closely. We had a Traffic Alert at whipple thats now been canceled and all lanes are clear there. Then this delays south of there into fremont. There may be an accident actually in the area involving a couple of vehicles and we have very red on the sensors here and a lot of slowing as you work your way in this area. This is south 880 heading into fremont. Looks like were getting first reports of a crash in that area. So thats going to add to busy ride thats already been happening on the nimitz freeway this morning. 680 looking okay in both directions if you want to use that instead. And if you are taking