Down. Moments ago we saw this. Widespread destruction. This is near big basin in Santa Cruz County. And this is what it looks like for many of our mountain communities. Look down below. You could see those cars and those homes charred and destroyed. So far six people have died across our region. Over the weekend that czu fire claims the live of a 70yearold man near davenport. There is good news. As of right now the red flag warning for the bay area has been lifted. That means no more dangerous fire weather is in the immediate forecast. Also Evacuation Orders are beginning to scale back in santa clara. Some neighborhoods have been downgraded from Evacuation Orders to evacuation warnings. More on that in just a minute. Now our team is on the ground, across the region, covering the flames, covering all of the widespread damage and the weather conditions. Cal fire is starting their nightly press conference, lets listen in on czu fire fire. If you could mute your telephones and keep your ma
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
Evacuations and progress hopefully in the firefight. Joining us on the phone right now for the latest update is Christine Mcmorrow with Calfire Christine can you give us an update or are you starting to gain the upper hand on any of these fires. Hi there yeah, you know we are we did see today with and increased containment on the lnu complex fire that good news, however, you know we did also see increased we are getting more personnel under these fires as fires in other parts of the state week at a better handle on those were moving personnel into these larger in in the north bay and in east areas so that we can and continue to increase those containment lines. What do you attribute the increase in containment the lnu complex that north bay. Fire complex, the containment doubled in about 24 hours which obviously we hadnt seen that sort of. Leap in progress made thus far was it mostly the weather. Well the the weather didnt help us out today and we had a little bit higher relative humid
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