Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that
The bay area and beyond so many viewers, sharing pictures and videos like these today, thank you so much for sending them in helping us understand the scope of this problem, the smoky air mostly coming from wildfires, burning north of us. Yes for the air alert spanning woodburning as you can imagine is going to be in effect through at least friday now in the bay areas thick smoke from wildfires continues to envelop the region creating this orange hazy sky businesses is the 25th straight day. The air district is issued a spare the air alert. And here to explain the Science Behind all the weird colors out there Lawrence Karnow the guys just when i thought this is going to be kind of a slow weather day done with all the heat waves and everything else. Here we go one of the strangest days ive ever experienced in weather waking up to the orange skies outside. And all that smoke coming down from the fires and certainly it moved along want to push on through bringing with a lot of smoke not f
Bay, or 35 contained the czu august lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties are now 26 contained and then the l in you lightning complex fires in the north bay or 35 contained. Were going to start this morning by focus seen at the of on the czu lightning complex fire thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. The gray area on on the map on your screen shows the areas that have burned thus far in kron fours will tran reporting for us live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest on this firefight well. Mardy us talk about whats being burned so far the acreage has gone up slightly though as far as the acre numbers and theyre happy about that because its not exploding so they just wrapped up a News Conference the acres. Now sunday, 82,540 acres thats about a 1000 more than yesterday, its not exploding exponentially so there are starting to turn the corner a little bit on this fire, although they still have a lot of ways to go. Robin
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
Reporter with the heat wave moving in, covid19 has added a new layer of complexity to escaping the triple digit heat and sunrise bistro and catering in walnut creek spent 12,000 getting their patio and parking lot ready for Outdoor Dining only to add another cost today. This is a mr. To keep the diners school. We have 12 popup canopies to help with the heat and we did add the water misters and we hope for the best. Reporter at the contra costa employment and Human Services department got a cooling center with water and snacks available for people without airconditioning and today that requires a mask and only has room for 11 people. We covid19 we had 52 seats inside plus our outside area. Reporter sandy is worried about seniors and the homeless. The Senior Cooling Centers in the malls and shops for people go to get away like starbucks and mcdonalds, those are closed for access, so people could come here and sit. Reporter this comes increasing fire danger leading the Public Utility Comm