More than a dozen fires are raging in every bay area county but San Francisco. Cal fire has grouped them by region to the north the lnu lightning complex fire. In the east way, the scu lightning complex fire. And to the south, the czu august fire. And across the state cal fire today there are more than 60 fires that started because of lightning strikes this week. Cal fire tonight says there is extreme fire behavior. Fires burning in four north bay counties. Napa, sonoma, solano and lake. Seven fires have burned a total of 14 h. 124,000 acres. The most destructive started in napa and pushed deep into Solano County today. In the east bay, a disastrous combination of dry fuel, gusty wind and hilly terrain fires in alameda, contracosta and santa clara counties could explode in size. Burning at least 102,000 acres. New Evacuation Order have been issued tonight for residents east of san joses city limits. Residents of coastal communities all the way south to davenport and Santa Cruz County h
Cal fire tonight says there is extreme fire behavior. Fires burning in four north bay counties. Napa, sonoma, solano and lake. Seven fires have burned a total of 14 h. 124,000 acres. The most destructive started in napa and pushed deep into Solano County today. In the east bay, a disastrous combination of dry fuel, gusty wind and hilly terrain fires in alameda, contracosta and santa clara counties could explode in size. Burning at least 102,000 acres. New Evacuation Order have been issued tonight for residents east of san joses city limits. Residents of coastal communities all the way south to davenport and Santa Cruz County have been told to evacuate. Five large fires and a number of smaller ones burning in both counties have claimed 10,000 acres with zero percent containment. You can see how intense the flaps there are tonight and there are a lot of embers flying around. Images show the chaos when the wildfire in fairfield flared and jumped across 80. This picture shows the sky a gol
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now on kpix 5, we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look east this morning. Good morning, it was thursday, august 20th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. A number of new evacuation orders have been issued all over the bay area and Santa Cruz Mountains. There is another one for the entire city of healdsburg. The scu in santa clara, alameda and contra costa counties and the czu in san mateo and santa cruz counties and the l and u, which started in sonoma and not the counties and burned around yolo counties. The lnu has scorched to 24,000 acres, about a 200 square miles. There is still 0 containment. By comparison, the biggest wildfire last year burned just over 77,000 acres and that was the kincade fire in sonoma county. We have all the latest details on the fires burning around the bay area but first lets go to mary lee for the latest on this and healthy air quality. We are tracking th
We have new video coming in from the fires burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. More than 20,000 people have been evacuated in that area. This is affecting a lot of peoples lives and you can see this video ththres cr homes. It has burned 25,000 acres so far in the hills of santa cruz and San Mateo County and at least 20 buildings. We saw a lion of a dozen fire trucks going to that area but cal fire is having trouble responding to all of these fires, as we have been talking about. They are spread very thinly, two First Responders have been injured in this firefight. Thsh d at structure you saw burning was a long empire great road. All of these are under evacuation orders. For the people in San Mateo County, this is the same big complex for them. Tey can go to Half Moon Bay high school. We will continue to watch the fire activity this morning as cal fire updates us on how much progress they may have been able to make overnight and in the meantime, the weather is a huge factor and mary le
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