Been devastating to see those homes lost in this fire right behind me they are carrying out their morning to briefing to you have agencies from across the bay area here to help put out this fire. But i enjoy life right now with captain saw lopez is with the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office you know, lets talk about how its been for your department in the most important thing you want people to now so were currently working with cal fire in communicating with our residents in the south coast area thats been affected and many of those areas or rural and steep. So when we do issue a i suggest that everybody listens to those warnings you pack up your things and be ready to evacuate if those mandatory evacuation notices come out what have you seen anyone or people trying to stay back and not wanting to leave their houses and if that is happening. What do they need to do so those are some of the challenges we have experience at in the last 48 several deputies have interacting with residents
Immediately when i got to do it was just green light anything we could do to to get the flames to go away. With firefighters stretched thin during the early days of the czu lightning complex fires, a few locals ignored the Evacuation Orders to try and save homes in their communities. Kron fours Maureen Kelly talked to one man who says he and a group of friends. Were able to keep more than 2 dozen homes and bonny doon from being destroyed. In t shirts involved having on the Santa Cruz Mountains locals pump water onto the burning forest in an effort to save homes. This video was shot by ben lomond native keilar ruskin who says he drove down from where he lives now in reno after hearing about the czu lightning complex fires. Threatening the bonny doon home of his best friend ruskin says he was part of a man squad who in the course of 5 days. Use whatever equipment they could get their hands on locals knowledge of the land to create a perimeter and douse flames. Here now. He says together
Bay area wildfires turning even more deadly tonight weve learned a 70 yearold man has been found dead in Santa Cruz County where the czu lightning complex fires are burning coal fire says those fires are burning at least 74,000 acres so far in san mateo and santa cruz counties. It is at 8 containment at least a 163 structures have been destroyed. There are roughly 1500 fire personnel working on the fire lines kron fours gayle ong joins us now live. In the Santa Cruz Mountains in Scotts Valley with more on this fire fight. Gayle. Well that 70 yearold man was found in the low area of last chance the road and of Santa Cruz County sheriffs deputies are also looking into 3 other missing persons cases. Firefighters are focusing on saving homes. We have video of what theyre doing today and you can see a they were a back burning they were setting fires to control the fire line around a home on highway 9 in Boulder Creek and this is right by the Boulder Creek Community Church. They were making
Contained. The scu lightning complex fires in the east bay and parts of Santa Clara County or 10 contained. And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula and into Santa Cruz County or 8 contained. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and i pale more fire crews and residents are anxious about the high winds, the thunderstorms and the lightning expected tonight and into the start of the workweek in fact all of us across the bay area are concerned more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires across the state. Tonight, another death to report the body of a 70 yearold man has been discovered in Santa Cruz County. We have Team Coverage on all 3 major complex fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle ong and dan thorn our live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the weather conditions tonight, lets go to the biggest fire noelle bellow has the latest on the
The weekend was beautiful and well see more that have continue today. Were waking up to a clear sun rise in walnut creek but it is a chilly start to the day. Its going to be in the low 50s here and the rest of the day were looking at a hey in the upper 70s today as we see the trend going up. Once again a warmup in the forecast, in fact in concord slightly warmer. Some of us hit 90 degrees coming up in a few minutes. Happening today some bay area shelter at home rules will be relaxed. Changes in six counties you see in red. Solano is allowing some with restrictions. What is allowed under the new shelter at home rules . Construction projects, more real estate activity but not open houses just yet. Outdoor businesses back in business. Also, daycare, summer camps and other programs for kids whose parents cant work from home but cannot have more than 12 children. A new report claims china deliberately hid the severity of the coronavirus in the early months of the outbreak. Today in the bays