Latest out of the walbridge fire burning in Sonoma County right now it flared up overnight and what youre seeing on your screen is time lapse video. What we saw burning before the sun came up new evacuation orders in effect right now for several neighborhoods in Sonoma County. And we actually have a live camera from Mount Jackson check this out, its pointed west right at the fire. You can see all the smoke earlier we saw flames to firefighters are still out there. They say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire but of course its not contain. And more breaking news to have military military helicopters attempting to rescue more than 60 people right now who are trapped in the creek fire in Fresno County. This will be their 3rd attempt to get to these hikers the rescues had to be called off last night because of heavy smoke. Thats pretty scary. We actually have a picture. The hikers are smiling theyre okay right now. They are sheltering at the vermilion valley camping res
Live camera to from Mount Jackson points to the west here you can see the smoke coming off the fires, theyre filling the valleys and also overhead firefighters do say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire so at least theyve been able to accomplish that. Speaking of the fires more breaking news to our south military helicopters are attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire burning in Fresno County. Now today will be their 3rd attempt to try and get these hikers out the rescue operation had to be called off last night because as you can see in this video the smoke just got too heavy and too dense for the helicopter crews. We have a picture of the hikers they seem to be doing in fact this photograph shows you theyre all hunker down right now at the vermilion. Campers and lake edison volunteers are helping them stay fed and hydrated as they wait to be rescued again theyre in good spirits for now because they are still a little bit of ways
3 large wildfires burning in the bay area and the good news is crews are making headway. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore at this hour cal fire says the scu lightning complex fire in parts of the east bay and the south bay is 35 contained with more than 369,000 acres burned the lnu lightning complex fire in the north bay is now 35 contained with more than 369,000 acres burned and the czu august lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties is now 24 contained with more than 81,000 acres burned you see where that fire is burning on this map in the Santa Cruz Mountains and into San Mateo County. So far. The fires have destroyed more than 700 structures and majority of those. Our homes are still several mandatory Evacuation Orders in effect tonight. But the good news is those orders have been lifted for the you see santa cruz campus which was threatened at the southern edge of this fire tonight kron fours gayle ong live for us in Santa Cruz County
Have to pull the water and get down there and put the darn thing out. Reporter cal fire has warned time and time again that residents staying behind or returning to an evacuation zone is not just illegal but also puts the firefighters in harms way if they have to stage a rescue. We know six people had to be rescued on on sunday. The number of homes destroyed could increase drasticlly as the survey crews make their way out there to survey the land and get a better look at the destruction left behind by the czu lightning complex fire. For now reporting live in scots valley, julian glover, abc7 news. Thank you, julian. In the north bay, the lnu lightning complex burning is proving to be very challenging for firefighters. Sky7 was overhead near sweet swatter springs road in Sonoma County yesterday and you can see that difficult terrain theyre facing. The fire is now threatening the armstrong woods state park but firefighters say theyre keeping an eye on its progress. The lnu complex fire h
Lightning complex fire still burning check out this map the shows exactly how much the fire has burned. Kron fours will tran reporting live at the Cal Fire Base Camp and Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us well. It has burned so far approximately 78,800 acres up about 1100 acres from yesterday and so thats all. Good news as far as cal fire because its still chewing up the area but they are slowly but surely getting the upper hand on this fire. Containment number also up its now 17 last night going into the overnight hours. It was around 13 . So they are making some progress and they expect to make even more progress in a mardi robin because the conditions are in their favorite is not a smoky this morning, not as windy humidity levels rising get all those things together and that basically means they can tell the pilot to once again take to the skies and thats what they did yesterday. Its one of the tools in their tool box but it is a major tool that they can use yesterday they drop