And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula to percent contained. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Im Vicki Liviakis that im grant lotus we continue of course to track the 3 lightning complex fire still burning in the bay at this hour. Well start with that czu august lightning complex fire system thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Fires that were burning separately in those 2 counties merged overnight in total. The flames have now burned about 57,000 acres and forced more than 60,000 people to leave their homes at this hour. The fire is just 2 contained at least 97 structures have been destroyed nearly 25,000 others are threatened this evening. 2 people have suffered minor injuries said there are more than 1100 personnel working those fires right now. And we have Team Coverage on the czu or this lightning complex fires are kron fours gayle ong dan thorn they are alive. In Santa Cruz County with the latest on the fires and the damage there and
All beaches will be closed from tonight to monday. The fire is continuing to burn west of hieldsburg. Its becoming more than a firefight in the santa cruz mountains. Ki a the are missing and crooks possibility of dry lightning. I will have the latest forecast coming up. Abc news at 11 00. Starts right now. And that breaking news is the massive lnu complex burning in the north bay is now the second largest wild fire in california history had. Its burned more than the 3,000 acres and now, tonight, a new concern for those rested on susci of looting. Ngwer is on the way. Another round of thunderstorms and dry lightning is expected. It could spark new wildfires. Take a look, these are the had three fire zones spread across the area. The lnu to the north and the scu lightning complex east of San Francisco and the czu to the south. Firefighters are making much needed progress tonight as this czu lightning complex fire is 2 contained. 57,000 acres have burned between santa cruz and san matteo
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 tonight. J. R. , what does it look like tonight . Reporter dan and ama ama it is much more humid than it had been. Winds have died down in this location. Those firefighters out there tell me that is helping with the fire fight. Still, though, you can see directly behind me the c. H. P. Officer still has this area closed off. We are only around one or two miles from heavy smoke and a fire. Flames shooting into the air monday evening in the hills northwest of healdsburg ne
It is now the largest in the state and we have learned this evening it has burned 480 structures, too. Reporter thats right, two main fires. The hennessey already devastating and deadly in the walbridge, which has the same potential if it gets away. At sunset west of hills burke winds pick up and fire stands up. It has been a long, turbulent week for crews and ranchers on alert. It actually started just in the back of one of our properties off of skaggs springs. Reporter jason saw the walbridge fire start from lightning, so small at first. Low hanging, white smoke smoldering. I knew there were some cal fire guys on it. We didnt give it much thought. The next day, the temperatures rose and it got some legs and started running itself. Reporter and it has run to 43,000 acres so far, helping drcomplex fires to 302,000 acres it is getting the attack people have waited for. Tankers and helicopters diving the landscape, working to stop the fires march into the Dry Creek Valley toward lake son
It is tuesday, august 25th. Is it smoky in there this morning, kumasi. I find it gets smokier as the day goes on. Early in the morning, oh, its not too bad. And then it comes back. No, were not done here. For anyone without air conditioning, you might be like me. The windows open in the middle of the night woke you up. I hope that did not happen to you. Mike is back right now to give us a forecast for today. Mike, i hope you have some good news. I do. But let me tell you, even those of us with air conditioning are suffering as you can probably tell from my voice this morning. It tends to draw it in. We cant our houses air tight enough. Everyone is suffering, just different degrees, i guess. I want to show you the fog out there because it is mixing with the smoke and low visibilisibii in many areas and slowly funneling off towards the east. Air quality is unhealthy in the south bay. Unhealthy for everybody in the east bay valleys. Its moderate around the bay, thanks to that localized se