Breaking news tonight at 10 oclock the wildfires across the bay area are cal fire says the l a new lightning complex fire in the north bay now 25 contained. The scu lightning complex fire in the east and south base 15 contained in the czu august lightning complex on the peninsula and Santa Cruz County is 13 contained thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan Vicki Liviakis has the night off. We have a map of where the fires are happening. The lnu lightning complex that this is the biggest it is the deadliest of the mall. So far 5 people have been killed it scorched more than 351,000 acres in solano napa sonoma lake and yolo counties the czu august lightning complex fires burning in the mountains in san mateo and santa cruz counties destroying homes and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their. Finally the scu lightning complex its burned 360,000 acres in contra costa alameda and stannis last counties we have Team Coverage tonight on al
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from Solano County right now as you can see unfortunately, a house on fire. New evacuation orders just issued as numerous wildfires burn in several bay area counties this morning. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, august 19th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. This morning, wildfires rning in several locations across the area. Are forcing more evacuations. And blackening the bay area with unhealthy air. All the details on the fires in just a moment. But first straight to mary lee for all the latest on the heat and the air quality. Yeah, len and michelle, firefighters will be up against the heat once again. So extreme heat continues. We are not done yet with our heat wave. Looking at excessive heat warnings that remain in effect today due to the dangerous heat. Now lets show you our temperatures. So looking at mid 70s in San Francisco. 83 in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and 102 for concord. So 8 to 15 deg
Except along the immediate coast a little bit sluggish there bay Area Temperatures checking into some 50s and some 60s at this hour antioch at 64 got 50 up to santa rosa how about that almost like falllike feeling there 60 meanwhile for san jose but for comparison sake, its a little cooler up here in the north bay milder off to the east bay and the south bay for the lowdown today, what fog gets taken care of we going to mostly sunny or while hazy skies at least 61 by 08 00am by 11 were talking 77. Now little bit of a warmup is expected for this weekend but were going to another heat spike and drying out into early next week, well look at that forecast coming up in a bit robin. Sounds good. Thank you dave. Thats firefighters start to gain control of the 3 large wildfires burning in the bay area. Evacuees are returning to find what damage has been left behind Fire Fighters acknowledge the scope of the damage is historic. But containment of these fires is growing. Now according to calfire
Lightning complex fire still burning check out this map the shows exactly how much the fire has burned. Kron fours will tran reporting live at the Cal Fire Base Camp and Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us well. It has burned so far approximately 78,800 acres up about 1100 acres from yesterday and so thats all. Good news as far as cal fire because its still chewing up the area but they are slowly but surely getting the upper hand on this fire. Containment number also up its now 17 last night going into the overnight hours. It was around 13 . So they are making some progress and they expect to make even more progress in a mardi robin because the conditions are in their favorite is not a smoky this morning, not as windy humidity levels rising get all those things together and that basically means they can tell the pilot to once again take to the skies and thats what they did yesterday. Its one of the tools in their tool box but it is a major tool that they can use yesterday they drop
As we talked about yesterday, theres a lot of busyness on the map and i want to really quickly review some of the things we talked about yesterday. Remembering ten days ago, 18 to 20 different fires. You can see on the map, identifiers where all the fires were. All of these separate fires have been contained and no longer pose any threat. Several fires burned together adds we talked about. We had split that into two separate zones. Those separate zones now split or have joined together into one fire. This is all now being held as one large fire. A lot of good work has happened in the last 24 hours and we talked yesterday about the difference between looking at red line on a map and black line. Black line being an area of the fire perimeter thats been contained. We no longer see a threat before movement of the fire. Youll see we have black line all the way up this east side of the fire and north top of the one piece of the fire. That is great news and really provides a lot more safety f