Burning around the bay and as they continue to rage that major that declaration will help us right now the latest from cal fire puts the lnu complex fire. At 17 containment. That is the fire thats burning in the north bay. The scu lightning complex fire which is in the east bay has burned 10 contained right now and the czu lightning complex fire. Thats the one along the peninsula. Its just 8 contain still that is a jump from yesterday morning by about 3 so little by little they are working on it as fast as they can to knock down these fires before there is a threat. More dry lightning. Lets talk about the csu lightning complex fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties in total. This fire has burned 71,000 acres, 60,000 people plus have had to flee their homes and as you can see many structures have gone up in flames 2 people suffered minor injury. There are now 1300 fire personnel there battling that fire right now. Lets take a look at the map and that shows you Scotts Valley and santa
Which feels like a ghost town. I was in Boulder Creek yesterday and the homes i saw then are gone today. Firefighters from agencies all over the bay area, and state are trying to stay on top of the relentless flames that are ravaging the czu area from here in the Santa Cruz Mountains from here in is to hope. They are busting their butts, and they are exhausted and tire and they dont have enough resources and they are tired and not enough support. Reporter and the homeowner is one of the handful of people still in Boulder Creek setting up his sprinkler to keep the roof soak. If i can preserve my property and keep it from a statistic, that is great. Reporter it is not hard to see what the evacuating residents are worried about. Some of the friends neighbors have been reduced to rubble, and the fire is still moving. Do you plan going to go . When it is necessary. What are the parameters . Flames inside of my home. Reporter but the homes down the street show how fast it can happen. Reporte
Areas were anywhere from 106 degrees to 112 degrees at this hour. So weve had quite a cooldown in part because of the lingering smoke and haze and the more vigorous marine layer than was anticipated. Yet we have high fire dangers 8 00 tomorrow morning for all the hills and mountains of the bay area. And with very low humidity and strong gusty winds. Wind gusts right now in the higher elevations. The wind advisory will be in effect until 11 00 for the north bay hills and mountains. There is a possible there of downed trees and power lines and maybe even power outages. Ill have a closer look a little later. All right. Thank you. More than 170,000 pg e customers in 22 counties had their power turned off today. Well show you a maam where the out outages are in the bay area. The upside down magenta triangles, well try to get the map for you but it is impacting napa and sonoma counties. Another round of frustrating shutoffs. Reporter heres the latest. Highway 12 has been on the unincorporate
Never forget. Tomorrow is 9 11. Can you believe its 19 years since that terrible tragedy affected our country . 10 03 we had a remembrance for those who died in the plane crash in shanksville, pennsylvania. Actually the date is tomorrow, but so many people wanted to be on site on the day of so we have we had a few of us there at the invitation of the flight attendants where they read the list of people who had died. At 8 46f the flights atrican Airlines Flight 11, 9 0 three united Airlines Flight 175, first was the north tower, second the south tower, 9 37 the , american Airlines Flight 77 entered the pentagon. 10 03 United Airlines classes into a crashes into a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. That crash is memorialized off withotunda of the capital the testimonial that the courage of those people was so remarkable and that most likely the destination of that flight was the u. S. Capitol. We will have a moment in the next few days, the flowers and attributes are out there. Will be
Now from abc7, live breaking news. Wildfires rage on in the bay area, ballooning in size overnight. Right now more than 1 million acres have burned in california. That is the most in state history. And more people are being told they need to evacuate. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im dion lim. And im eric thomas. This is a quick look at three big fires burning in the bay area. The lnu complex, which is in the north bay, has charred more than 341,000 acres. Its the second largest wildfire in state history. The scu complex which covers parts of alameda, contra costa and santa clara is behind at 339,000 acres. And the s tzu complex is burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. We have Team Coverage for you. Theyre getting ready for more fires. Cornell barnard is in the north bay where the lnu complex keeps growing. We begin with meteorologist drew tuma with a look at the chance of us seeing more lightning strikes tonight. Drew. We were watching live doppler 7 as we see moistu