The scu fire is also in four counts. The three wildfires have burned more than 775,000 acres. All of these fires started by lightning one week ago. Reporter heather, good afternoon to you. Contain system up, which is good news. Also good ws, a large no longer in direct threat from the flames. But if you look screen left, off in the distance, thats smoke rising above the hilltops here in the santa rosa mountains. Those homes along the highway 9 corridor are still in danger, so crews are using an old technique in hopes 0 of making gains the firefight. Just north of felton, firefighters are taking advantage of higher temperatures higher humidity to work gains the fire. The weather is cooperating to help us get those containment lines around those communities that are involved. Reporter firefighters are using fire to fight the 78,000 acre fire. The difficult task burning the vegetation on the ground but preventing the flames from going up into the trees, because if they do that, they could
Im running on pam cook. It is tuesday, july 20th. As we head over to steve paulson, i heard a lot of that thunder you were talking about in yosemite. Did not see any lightning likely because we heard some very big thunder and some ominous clouds we were seeing as we are at the very top of yosemite falls. It wouldnt have been good to see lightning. Yeah, they were very close. Moreover to the north of you, but they were close. Today looks a little quieter for the sierra nevada. There will be a very quiet pattern here that just has a grip on us, so if you like it enjoy, if you dont, i dont see much teacher going forward. Theres just a locked in pattern here. Thunderstorm activity was really widespread up in the northern sacramento valley. It looks a little choir today. San jose is cloudy. The low clouds of made it there to san jose. They have been hit and miss in this pattern but today they havent. Theres an onshore breeze out today. Vacaville hit 103 yesterday and travis mill was 91. We
Sal castaneda. Im gasia mikaelian. We want to get back to the news that we have been reported for the last two and a half hours. A firefighters with injured trying to put out these large flames. We got an update to San Francisco fire. Six commercial buildings here. The smoke could be seen across the bay in emeryville in oakland. Lets get to alley that joins us with the latest. Reporter the fire broke out around 6 30 this morning, 5 alarm fire. It is now 75 contained. That means forward progress has stopped. Six commercial buildings impacted by this. This is a live picture from the scene right now. You can see this is adjacent to highway 101. This is the central freeway and this is the Industrial Area of the city. But were told that nearby, there is about 14th street, there are some residences that have been evacuated as a precaution the good news is that the forward progress of this fire has been spreading. They have it under control. This is after they had 160 firefighters, 60 trucks
About. This is the crews fire. The wind is not bad. We were running in that 13 to 16 mile perhour range yesterday. Today it is 8 and below. 90 humidity which is better. We were in the 45 to 50 5 humidity level yesterday. Wins not expected to be as bad as yesterday. Its relatively calm across the bay area. That is good news for firefighters is a try to get there arms around this containment. Our marine layer has not been getting together to make it in. It has brought in a moisture air mass so a few coastal clouds are out there. It will be a Beautiful Day to San Francisco with a seasonable high of 69. That your weather. Heres your traffic and Sal Castaneda. Good morning to you. We have traffic that is moving along very well around the bay area. Lets talk about the freeway and traffic is moving along pretty well coming out to the area of the east shore. There have been no major issues at the bay bridge. We dont have a backup yet. We may later on. Right now its still very good. Lets go bac
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