Breaking news tonight at 10 oclock the wildfires across the bay area are cal fire says the l a new lightning complex fire in the north bay now 25 contained. The scu lightning complex fire in the east and south base 15 contained in the czu august lightning complex on the peninsula and Santa Cruz County is 13 contained thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan Vicki Liviakis has the night off. We have a map of where the fires are happening. The lnu lightning complex that this is the biggest it is the deadliest of the mall. So far 5 people have been killed it scorched more than 351,000 acres in solano napa sonoma lake and yolo counties the czu august lightning complex fires burning in the mountains in san mateo and santa cruz counties destroying homes and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their. Finally the scu lightning complex its burned 360,000 acres in contra costa alameda and stannis last counties we have Team Coverage tonight on al
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
Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that
Counties. It has burned nearly 370,000 acres and is 35 contained this morning, 5 people have died. 4 others hurt. And the fire destroyed over 1000 structures and threatened more than 30,000 others. And also in the north bay as more people return home in Solano County emotions will likely run high for the coming days. The county Sheriffs Office says that of the roughly 1000 homes in the affected burn area about a 150 are safe enough to allow reentry. Some residents tell us that they fear their home home was completely gone only to learn later through a firefighter that that was not the case. And in the same week not everything was only all cried remember van and were hearing all of that because houses was like wow thats great. I can imagine a deep sigh of relief. Well the county set up a Re Entry Center at Mission Church and thus were evacuees approved to head home can get passes that will allow them through those checkpoints to keep in mind you have to be approved first. Well firefight
Except along the immediate coast a little bit sluggish there bay Area Temperatures checking into some 50s and some 60s at this hour antioch at 64 got 50 up to santa rosa how about that almost like falllike feeling there 60 meanwhile for san jose but for comparison sake, its a little cooler up here in the north bay milder off to the east bay and the south bay for the lowdown today, what fog gets taken care of we going to mostly sunny or while hazy skies at least 61 by 08 00am by 11 were talking 77. Now little bit of a warmup is expected for this weekend but were going to another heat spike and drying out into early next week, well look at that forecast coming up in a bit robin. Sounds good. Thank you dave. Thats firefighters start to gain control of the 3 large wildfires burning in the bay area. Evacuees are returning to find what damage has been left behind Fire Fighters acknowledge the scope of the damage is historic. But containment of these fires is growing. Now according to calfire