Destroyed more than 36,000 acres and is still 0 contained. The fires also forced thousands of people to flee their homes good evening, im ken wayne and im Vicki Liviakis of firefighters are up against it hot and dry weather conditions out there on the front lines making it really tough. The handle on the flames. Heres what we know tonight. Cal fire says a 113 structures have been destroyed more than 8500 are threatened. Back shun orders have been issued for parts of sonoma and napa county including the entire city of calistoga. In napa county the glass fire tore through the world renowned metal wood resorts near saint kron 4 state of sec. He was there she joins us live shes been monitoring the situation throughout the night taylor. This is a devastating blow to the community. How does it look out there right now absolutely devastating can i drove through that property and a long and i saw several different spot fires which made it really hard for firefighters while they were able to sa
Out ok getting away unscathed the fire 10 tearing through this area early this morning but crews remain here on the scene tonight. They are putting out some hot spots and mopping up the area roads in this area also remaining closed police making the rounds out here hillsides surrounding these communities also have been charred throughout the day today an into that into tonight. Theres been thick smoke in the air and theres also been a lot of ash that has been falling from the sky. Other communities all along highway 12 also having to deal with the flames buildings there and property there burned and destroyed. We actually spoke with one man who says that he was lucky that he did lose his home. But unfortunately his neighbor did. We got here they were you know a lot of activity this house was you know and claims are trees are on fire. The backyard with on fire the backfield behind us. Does seem like. If properties are starting to flare up. The house to my left is completely burned down.
News station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. Today across the bay area we reached record breaking temperatures. So if you thought to yourself today, hey its hotter than ive ever felt before. Well youre probably right if you lived in any of these spots. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 9 im justine waltman im Jonathan Mccall it definitely was hot today, the bay area roasting this Labor Day Weekend has a record breaking heat wave. Now shatters records all across the area take a look at this alone, san jose hitting 103 this afternoon. The previous high for san jose. A 100 degrees. This was said all the way back in 1923 gilroy also recording a high today of 107 its previous high one 04 back in 1977 downtown oakland just 3 degrees shy of triple digits, reaching 97 degrees beating its previous record of 95 set back in 1979 and Half Moon Bay breaking their daily record with 81 degrees this afternoon their previous record 80 degrees set back in 2004. San franci
San francisco 88 for the daytime high today which is cooler yesterdays mid 90s in the city of San Francisco itself. Now we do have red flag warnings for some of our north bay and inland areas due to high fire danger. And we also have these excessive heat warnings for most of the bay only spots that are under excessive heat warnings are right along the coastline with heat advisories as daytime highs there will only be in the 80s for most spots, triple digits back for the south bay today as well as most of the east bay 90s for a few bayside cities but once you head away from the bay, its just all about the triple digits again north bay temperatures above 110 to 10 degrees for areas like the vacaville on over to dixon in rio vista while temperatures towards the coast. Obviously are coolest. We are going to be seeing highs well into the triple digits for areas like novato on up through santa rosa today as far as air quality goes, lets zoom in on that and hopefully that map actually loads c
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