That what we saw over the first couple of hours, the first couple of days look at this that fog is a wonderful they will take it every time because it cools things down it brings moisture to the area rises the humidity. A raises the humidity and that is helping firefighters take to the air that they plan to drop another 256,000 gallons of water down to the fire. Still 19 containment so that did not go up. As far as the acreage its 80,138 acres and that is only about a 1000 more than it was yesterday at this time. And the reason why its not exploding because theyre doing controlled burns and that is taking the field away from the fire which of course is still churning through santa cruz and san mateo counties but it is not fatal no new fatalities to report in terms of the fire. I can tell you with these great conditions. They have so far down to one 0. 6 million gallons of water down to the flames. Heres cal fire talking about their success. Past couple days weve been able to make a sig
Kron fours will tran is there live at the Cal Fire Base Camp in scott valley with more well. Actually we just got an update from cal fire unfortunately you talked about the structures and the damage we do know now its now 538 structures and that involves either barns or homes that have been destroyed so that number has gone up, but they say theyre not surprised by that especially with having investigators going into burned areas and now going through the neighborhoods and county feast your eyes on this james and area that is not smoke thats fog and theyre so happy to see fog because it brings moisture to the area it cools things down. And it allows firefighters to get a bit of a break once the fog lifts it will be sunny again and they expect to have the aircraft back up in the air in the aircraft has been wonderful for the firefighting efforts in fact theyve increased the gallons every day as far as gallons dropped to the fire. It is still 19 containment so that did not go up. But more
Million acres. Most of it came within the last week kron fours Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala has details on what officials are doing to prepare for another threat of more fires in the coming days. 14,000 california firefighters are on the front lines working to put out more than 600 fires burning across the state included in that number the second and 3rd largest wildfires in state history. Each caused by lightning strikes in Northern California last week we are deploying every resource at our disposal governor Gavin Newsome said monday emergency leaders are bracing for even more fires to flare up after 300 lightning strikes hit the state between sunday and monday sparking 10 new fires with now a major disaster declaration from the president california has requested 375 fire engines and crews from out of state about 100 of them have come in from nearby states with air support coming in from the National Guards of kansas idaho, utah this week. Is going to be a profoundly importa
Its a little hazy out there and it is all across the bay area. Air quality suffering now for the north bay, the east bay and the south bay with pour conditions in all these areas again you are immediately going to notice that smell smoke as you wake up this morning. Its going to be the first thing thats changed from yesterday as far as what you do notice skies are dry all across the region and we do have relatively calm winds for most areas this is the positive factor here we have wildfires burning in eastern Contra Costa County amid what is generally some calmer winds overnight winds picking up today though of course these napa blazes as well very dry conditions up here lower humidity than what we had been seeing winds mostly out of the west and then multiple fires burning closer to the south to including in Santa Cruz County up in the Santa Cruz Mountains so a lot of smoke being put up it is going to be another hot one not sure ideal day to be spending much time outside definitely fi
Of their own home as they were allowed to return late last night so theyre the First Community to do so the hope is to have areas like felton and the highway 90 corridor to have those areas open sooner than later those of the new places that they were targeting today, theyre throwing 2000 firefighters at this and it is working because the number of acres burned its not exploding, it is sitting right now at 82,540 acres and thats up only a 1000 acres from yesterday containment also up youre sitting now at 26 . Containment but firefighters still have their hands full, its basically a race between them and the fire to get to feel that has not been touched yet. Were going to have to start removing trees. The are unsafe. Weve got potentially take out additional power lines across roadways or in danger structures. So like i said its multiphase when we start pushing forward with the entire mitigation process of this incident and its going to take a while. I mean everyone to be patient. Were w