2000 structurehave been destroyed. At least seven people have died as a result of the fires an were injured. Fires like this seem to be a new normal in california with significant delays coming almost every fall. Climate change has made weatherb more unpredi and led to hotter and drier conditions and Housing Developments have pushed to fire prone regions. Should we plan to live with this devastation and air quyeity for many s to come . Is there any way out . Joining the is Scott Stevens a professor at uc berkeley. We have seen several instances in which e devastation from wildfires has become personal including the santa cruz firefighters who lost their own homes this year. You are also facing concerns about a rucamp you what is the latest . This is in a little town lled meadow valley. We have a camp there we have used for 130 years now for an undergradue course and there is a fire called the bear fire to the south that has been moving in our direction. We have been watchiit carefully.
State. We have Team Coverage across the bay area. Fires are flaring and evacuations are underway as we speak. One of the most destructionive fireses is in sonoma county. 50 structures there have been damaged so far. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony live in vacaville with more on the situation. Laura . Reporter well, hi. I can tell you from what weve seen, that number will go much higher. This house behind me in the English Hills area, a very recent casualty. This home started burning right about 2 00. A beautiful twostory home on top of a hill. We can see it go up. The roof was on fire. And within less than two hours, really, this is all thats left of it. This is a harrowing night for the folks who live in this neighborhood. Were in northwest vacaville. Im told by the neighbors around 3 30 in the morning, they started to get the calls via loud speaker. The warning that there was an imminent threat to their lives. We had a go list dug up last night, fortunately. We grabbed everything an
If you are there, the sheriff said, leave now. The evacuation orders have expanded in Santa Cruz County. Take a look at the powerful new video. It shows firefighters on the front lines, battling flames trying to save homes near the Boulder Creek golf course. The fires have torched close to 60,000 acres. Tonight, Scotts Valley residents and the uc santa cruz are the latest to be evacuated. We are live with the details tonight. Amanda . Reporter the fire is zero percent contained and that marks another night of evacuations in Santa Cruz County. Those in Scotts Valley and uc santa cruz are the latest to receive the official notice to leave and it only came a few hours ago. Its this scene across the ccu august lightning complex fires. Forcing continued mandatory evacuations. A look at Boulder Creek in Santa Cruz County thursday evening. Homes are actively burning. Cars charred, since is igniting the devastation and ongoing danger has led to the evacuation of close to 50,000 people. You are
So looking at a few more thunderstorms and with that, the Lightning Strikes which is the reason why red flag warning remains in ef0 orct ffe today. Lightning strikes could lead to fire starts. We had about 50 fires that started because of lightning over the weekend. And the excessive heat warning and heat advisory that remains in effect for the bay area, because of the dangerous heat, that is all the way through wednesday nine a clock p. M. As we are going to see temperatures soar once again. We are looking at 17, triple digit in concord, 103 in santa rosa. Into the 80s around the bay. I will show you the future cast hour by hour coming up in a few minutes. Back to you. This morning a brush fire burning in the south bay has tribute triggered evacuations outside milpitas. Lets get to kiet do who joins us live from Santa Clara County with the latest on this. Reporter good morning. Ife ar a alongcas ro couple of miles south of 680 around the area of reservoir. We can see orange flames and
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