And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula to percent contained. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Im Vicki Liviakis that im grant lotus we continue of course to track the 3 lightning complex fire still burning in the bay at this hour. Well start with that czu august lightning complex fire system thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Fires that were burning separately in those 2 counties merged overnight in total. The flames have now burned about 57,000 acres and forced more than 60,000 people to leave their homes at this hour. The fire is just 2 contained at least 97 structures have been destroyed nearly 25,000 others are threatened this evening. 2 people have suffered minor injuries said there are more than 1100 personnel working those fires right now. And we have Team Coverage on the czu or this lightning complex fires are kron fours gayle ong dan thorn they are alive. In Santa Cruz County with the latest on the fires and the damage there and
For kenny troy. Im michelle griego. Jessica flores tells us its complicating dangerous conditions for firefighters. Reporter firefighters have a tough job working under smoky conditions. Firefighters contained the town home fire on south wind and park haven drive quickly keeping it from spreading to other units and three residents made it out, but learned the devastating news about their pets. The three rabbits did not survive. [ crying ] about 20 firefighters worked to put out hot spots as the building continue to smolder. The smoke billowing into the hot and smoky air. The high heat has been terrible. We cautioned our crews and we have a working fire to start a second alarm which gives us additional bay area air Quality Management officials says wild fires burning in oregon and california is causing unhealthy air of pollution making it hard to breathe for some folks today. Crews delivered extra oxygen tanks. Weve had no reports of damage or entry to either the crews or any of our app
Ravine 40 feet. He went to the hospital and was okay and wanted to go back out and fight this fire. Kiet do, kpix5. Pleasant hill firefighters quickly knocked down a fire at a townhouse on south wind and park haven drives. All three residents made it out safely. About 20 firefighters continued to put out hotspots as the building continued to smolder and crews provided extra oxygen tanks for those struggling with the already unhealthy air. Smoke from California Wildfires is hanging over the bay area. The view from our sutro cam is still showing, as you can see smoggy, as you can see. Kpix5s Juliette Goodrich is live in pleasanton for us. This is our fifth spare the air day in a row. Breathing this dirty air cannot be good. If. Reporter its not good. Its deemed unhealthy. Weve collectively have dealt with these triple digit temperatures throughout the bay area and now were seeing the hazy. Fortunately its starting to go away, but on a day youre supposed to relax and barbecue its been ver
Our temperatures are cooling off to near normal starting today. We had some showers yesterday afternoon, light showers. But it helped clear the air a little. Air quality will be moderate so no more spare the air alerts. We had enough days of that, didnt we . There will be a bigger temperature drop rater on this week. Ill explain coming up. Right now were tracking one blocked lane on westbound 92 at clawiter and it looks like a big rig there. They are waiting for a tow truck but it could be there for a while because they have to offload whatever it was hauling. Things okay after that, 13 minutes westbound from 880 to 101. A backup over at the bay bridge toll plaza, looks like those cash lanes have you got fastrak . Youre good to go. You have 12 minutes from the maze to 101. Today President Trump is expected to end a program that protects hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the u. S. As children. California has more Daca Dreamers than any other state. Joe vazquez
Most likely to pop up with the futurecast when im back in ten minutes. First well see how the roads are looking on a wednesday morning. Jessica boyington with an update. Thanks. Starting on the schuylkill expressway, definitely watching fog here, as well. Reduced visibility pretty much on all of the cameras. Watching here around route 202. Both directions now, though, in terms of drive times are okay. 12 minutes on the eastbound side from the blue route to the vine. Average speeds there still into the 60s. Again, watching for reduced visibility. Were seeing speed restrictions, as well. And alternating lanes for construction over the Burlington Bristol until 5 00 this morning. About right now. Watch for the clearing of that. Other than that, the tacony palmyra, betsy ross bridge, nice and clear. More speed restrictions. We talked about that, over the Burlington Bristol. Now, down to 45 Miles Per Hour due to heavy fog on the new jersey turnpike. For the delaware Memorial Bridge and up no