Now lets focus in on the czu lightning complex fire. You can see the outline on your map its in red. It shows the outline of the fire and you can tell that its spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fire has turned deadly as firefighters discovered the body of a 70 yearold man in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a scotts valley. He has the latest for us well. Marty they just wrapped up the News Conference a little bit more information on that man who died his name not being released. But we do know that he was found near his vehicle in the attempt of leaving the fire so he was trying to rescue himself but overcome, but either the smoke or the flames so he was not inside his home at the time and thats when they believe that he was desperately trying to flee unfortunately he ran out of time and the fires just simply overcame him as far as the condition of the fire still very much burning out of control at this
The front lines in the overnight hours thankfully they get to rest a little bit as theyre throwing as much as they possibly can at this fire 1500 firefighters with more firefighters on the way from out of state. This fire they are making progress we did learn from a News Conference earlier this morning that containment numbers now sitting at 13 containment and that is up from 8 in the overnight hours, however the acreage did go up from 74. To 78,000 and the number of homes or structures destroyed sitting at 231. Destroyed or damaged were talking about that going up and up especially since the fires are happening in a remote rugged area thats. Hard to get to for the firefighters, but we do know that the one fatality that one man who did die that he was trying to leave the area because he was not found inside his home instead he was found near his car. So that leads investigators to believe that he was trying to flee the area that was simply overcome by the flames or the smoke as far as
Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. A sightseeing trip on San Francisco bay goes from smooth sailing to on the rocks. Dozens of passengers were trapped on board waiting to be resc rescued. Im eric thomas. Im dion lim. Passengers were headed out for a bird watching crew when they hit ground. Reporter 41 passengers were on the ospy, it was booked saturday for bird watching. Ten minutes after leaving the marina during low tide, the boat ran aground. The people picked themselves up and the boat started listing in one direction. Very surprising. Reporter it took more than an hour and two small boats to rescue all the passengers. No one went into the water. They were able to move the small boats alongside the ferry and able to step from one vessel to the other. Reporter the crew members refused to leave the boat so they stayed on board. There were two minor injuries but thats not why sara is upset. Upsetting we didnt get to see the birds. This was thep out to see these particular birds
Yes, we have we have mandatory evacuations right now for the Sonoma Valley area and the santa rosa area, and i can give you those locations real quick where the evacuations are. Yes, please. Yeah, okay. So, for Sonoma Valley, its going to be 7th street east. Uhhuh. From east napa street to denmark street. So this is the Sonoma Valley area. I think this was one of the first evacuations that we had earlier this morning. Can you tell us a little bit about where that is and we can put that map up on the screen. We have a little map made for that one. Its southeast of downtown sonoma, is that correct . Thats correct. And thats not as heavily populated, but the newer this is were now showing the map on our screen. Its not as densely populated but you do believe that youve gotten everyone out of there, is that correct . Yes, maam. We believe so, yes. But we we just have to remember that if we do request the evacuations, that were hoping that people understand that the evacuation is not only f
Firefighters will continue their attack on this ramping up the attack with more air attacks when the sun comes up. This section kicked up at 10 00 yesterday morning across Sugarloaf Ridgeline moving north from kenwood toward santa rosa. Firefighters waging attacks throughout the day dropping fire retardant with airplanes and water with helicopters as crews work to reinforce the containment line trying to stop the destruction. We have people sitting right on top of these homes. We have a fire truck sitting in the driveway because the last thing we want is to lose more homes. Reporter the fire was creating updrafts that kept fueling itself. There are no structures that have been damaged yet and firefighters are trying to keep it away from the city of santa rosa and the oakmont area. The weather has been working in favor of the firefighters. The temperature has been cool overnight and there is no wind so the air quality is terrible. Anybody in this area knows that and unfortunately we are