Santa cruz county. And any minute now were expecting an update from cal fire on the czu complex fires that are burning in santa cruz and san mateo counties and well have it for you live when it happens. Well meanwhile, lets start with the l in new complex fire. Thats burning in the north bay right now check out this map that shows you where the complex fires are burning which is in sonoma napa and solano counties so far at least 4 people have died and 4 others have been injured, lets check in with kron 4 Sarah Stinson who is in Sonoma County where the fire is threatening homes, sarah. They robin the on live here on West Dry Creek road just west of healdsburg where its still very dark outside a lot of times with these fires cal fire as the way till sunrise is to really see what theyre working with after a long day of battling the flames take a look at what they were doing yesterday and probably into the night to try and combat the flames and stop them from spreading to nearby communitie
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
Screen that map shows the outline of the fire and it has spread now to the coast, 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 is live at the Cal Fire Base Camp and scotts valley, he has the latest for us will. Learning just add on to what you said about that victim we do know that he was not inside his home, but in fact near his car. That leads them to believe that he was trying to flee the fire but just simply ran out of time and just overcome by the heat the smoke or the flames and thats how he was not able to get out, but his name not being released to the public at this time as far as the fire they are making progress. Good news to pass along they were so fearful of lightning strikes in the overnight hours but they did not see any lightning strikes in the Santa Cruz Mountains and that and just favorable conditions have helped them make headway. We are now sitt
Computerized system. The overall view is increasing relative humidity and very strong gusts, 9 to 11 miles per hour. Then moving down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, we have wind gusting to about 13 miles per hour. Relative humidity there is 74 . Again, thats encouraging and the temperatures only 68 degrees. Weather is improving for fire containment, but once again, the air quality is very poor across most of the bay area. We have a spare the air alert in effect for the next three days through friday. Dan and ama. Spencer, thanks very much. Well get to that News Conference as soon as it happens. Well bring it to you. Right now, we want to tell you about the scu lightning complex, the second largest wildfire in the state. Its scorched 363,000 acres, destroyed 20 structures and is threatening another 20,000. This is truly a massive fire burning in the east and south bay. Even beyond. Parts of alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties are all affected. Cal fire put this effort into pers
Area. The seas eu complex fires are burning in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz county. The s e u complex fires or in contra costa alameda and santa clara counties, the l a new complex fire exploded overnight, taking a destructive turn into the north bay. Now that destructive trend persists right now a fire in the l a new complex fire has now forced the california Highway Patrol to shut down interstate 80 as the fire has jumped the freeway. These are pictures now from a helicopter from kcra where we can see how chp has shut down the road, the conditions are terrible with all the smoke thats in the air. Now the part of 80 that is shutdown is between air base parkway and cherry road in fairfield again the pictures that were looking at is in the area of interstate 80 that is shut down right now. This is where the hennessy fire has been burning there is an Evacuation Order in place right now for the Rolling Hills neighborhood Fairfield Police are saying if you live in this area tr