Expands across napa, solana, and yellow counties it is 33 contained. Cal fire said theyre leeting more evacuees go home now. But the wall bridge fire in Sonoma County, which you see on the left there, continues to be a challenge for firefighters. Make no mistake, theres a lot of work that has to be done. Its a very difficult country over there. There is no fire hiss troifr there. What i can tell you is theres a good plan in place. Folks over there are working tirelessly every day. Reporter lets go right to Wayne Freedman who was at the wallidge fire today. Wayne . Its been quieter today, a lot more smoky today and roadblocks continue. This is the entrance and there you see the cars trying to get in. Many of them are. Some of them are not. On the surface you might say this was too quiet a day but there werent a lot of big flames, not a lot of advancement of the fires but up on the hills you see the work thats being done, weather helped as firefighters have gained ground. In the hills ar
It is also a foggy and hazy start to the day with patty drizzle as well as along the coast and the bay. Heading to the afternoon, near normal daytime highs in the upper 80s around 90 in concord and livermore. Low 80s and san jose. The upper 60s in san jose several disco and low 70s in oakland. We talk more about the heat advisories and excessive heat warnings for the Holiday Weekend, coming up. Speaking of the Holiday Weekend, we see later conditions on the freeways and for the most part. That is good news. There are a couple of hotspots. Westbound 37, you have brake lights and for the commute working out of the east bay into marin county. I vallejo. You have a slow ride westbound. No accidents. Just a bit busy. We are seeing slightly slower speeds westbound 580 into the past. It is actually pretty clear out of tracy picked the drive times are pretty much in the green for all of the major freeways. 21 minutes to a five through 680. Changes for mass transit. I will have that in the next
Hardest hit areas. Cal fire has been around 120 years and there really has not ftburnedto the his magnitude in ground the tally doubled overnight. The firefighters are doing what they can with the limited resources they have it. We are doing the greatest good for the residents by assuming the defensive role and going house, to house. We are firing around the houses. Reporter at least 50 structures have been destroyed that they do expect the number to increase with more than 24,000 structures threaten. Eric gordon believes his home is okay for now but not his coworkers place nearby. There were houses on fire including the house across the street from his that burned down. There were cal firefighters out there actually putting ou flames. What is your understanding of how many people kenny, that remain in the area yeedto cal fire officials thing the majority of residents in this area have left ace on the observations that they have made over the last couple of days. They always say there
Conditions. At least eight people have died and more than 1. 4 million acres have burned. And weve learned there are four burn patients being treated at u. C. Davis medical center. And we want you to take a look at these pictures. Santa cruz sheriffs deputies need your help catching a man suspected of stealing a firefighters wallet while he was battling the flames. Heres a look at the largest wildfires burning in the bay area right now. Lightning sparked them a week ago, and they torched an area greater than the size of rhode island. In the north bay, the lmu lightning complex is proveding to be challenging for firefighters tonight. Sky 7 was overhead the wall bridge fire near water springs road in Sonoma County this afternoon. You can see the difficult terrain crews are facing. So far the lnu lightning complex, containment is rising and currently at 25 . So its a bitten couraging here tonight. Abc7 News Reporter j. R. Stone is following the story and joins us live from healdsburg toni
Areas biggest fires. Tonight we start in the north bay where the l a nelightning complex fire is that is the deadliest and most destructive fire here the bay. It remains a serious threat tonight once again it exploded today in size having now burned more than 300,000 acres in Sonoma Solano napa lake and yolo counties. Tonight, we know 5 people died in that fire for more have been injured during the fire fight almost 500 structures have been destroyed 125 others damaged and more than 30,000 others are threatened tonight still a bit of good news at this hour cal fires now reporting 15 containment. Thats more than double what it was this morning. When the most impacted communities in Sonoma County is Healdsburg Kron fours dan kerman reports about the challenges fire crews are facing there. Right now the fire is progressing from mill creek to the Sweetwater Springs road area that south southeast. Firefighters trying to get a handle on things before those Early Morning hours when the fire h