The workweek more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires across california and tonight word of another death th of a 70 yearold man has been discovered in Santa Cruz County good evening. Everybody, im pam moore and im ken wayne thanks for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 oclock tonight were monitoring 3 lightning complex fires across the bay area. Heres the latest information on each the largest one burning acl and you complex fires. Those fires spanned napa a Sonoma Solano and lake counties. Tonights theyve grown to more than 347,000 acres and theyre at 21 containment. The s c you lightning complex fires are burning in alameda contra costa and santa clara counties. Theyve expanded to 343,000 acres and or 10 cothe czu august lightning complex fires are burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Theyve gwn to 74,000 acres and are at 8 containment. And the last time that we have this event which was last weekend. There are some significant wind gust
Quickly it can go from bad to worse. Thanks so much. New video tonight from the north bay showing flames burning out of control. Firefighters continue to work around the clock. Yeah. And its not just the north bay. Fires are burning in parts of Santa Clara County and the east bay along with santa cruz, san mateo counties. Thats the czu fire. And tonight weve learned a body has been found in the fire wreckage. We have Team Coverage tonight of all these fires. Lets begin with fire fighterma in Scotts Valley. Reporter and it was some very close call for one homeowner in Boulder Creek tonight. It was very scary just off the road here off highway 9 we watched as flames headed right to the home. This is what it looked like in Boulder Creek just a couple of hours ago. The flames were burning a fence, and we did not see any fire crews around. But ten minutes later cal fire crews showed up and attacked the flames with shovels and water preventing the flames from burning the house. But its not j
Then very spotty elsewhere and actually the skies may start to open up a little bit but because we still have the same scenario set up there is that possible chance of an isolated thundershower being dry lightning until 5 they have the red flag warning thats been posted really for the entire bay area technically, Solano County not in that and theyve also pulled away down the Monterey County as well. Down to the south so things are improving live shot of the golden gate as you can see that we have the marine layer that certainly checking in that tends to be a stable air mass, the winds across the greater area little bit of an onshore wind nothing major. Our temperatures into the 60s for the most part fairly mild 72 going on for any aac were ahead of the ball game in most regions of around the bay compared to where we were 24 hours ago so the skies will open up however that will give the atmosphere more energy in which to work with so concerned again for isolated elevated dry Thunder Sho
Santa cruz county. Lets zoom in now on the czu lightning complex fire. You take a look at this map on your screen. The red line shows the outline of the fire and it has grown so much you can see that spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fires turned deadly a 70 yearold man was found the body of 7 yearold man was found in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live this morning at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley. He has the latest will. Marty so far right now as of the update yesterday at around 11 oclock last night 74,000 acres have burned for this fire. We do know that at least 131 structures have gone up in flames with many others damaged. We expect a News Conference in one hour from now they have thousands of firefighters spread throughout california. The moving forward the biggest challenge will be the resources heading to this location. Yes, very dry very smoky. But the good news is i did not see any Lightning Strikes thats the fe
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