The scu impacting Santa Clara County, Contra Costa County and parts of alameda county. 35 contained. 20,000 structures, though, are still threatened. In the north bay now were going to jump up to the north. The lnu fire. This stretches from Sonoma County, you see santa rosa here, all the way over to napa and solano counties. Some of the numbers there, 33 containment. Five people have died so far. Now the august fire up in mendocino county. Its made up of 37 smaller fires. Way up here. Mendocino county, nearly 20 contained. Again, we said 37 separate fires. And were monitoring the woodward fire in marin county. It is much smaller but it continues to grow. Containment still very limited at 5 . Okay. Thank you, raj. We want to get that information on the czu complex fire. Thats the one in san mateo, santa cruz. Lets listen to cal fire. Obviously the number of acres confirmed, 24 containment, which is up from this morning. However, we still have 13,305 structures that remain threatened. Th
County, other communities will have to wait to return. Well let you know when other areas are not listed here today will be available to return home. And again we thank you so much for all of your patience and cooperation. Reporter amber plans to go back to work. Get back to school or zoom, just value those things you didnt think you care about as much before you thought you are going to have it. Reporter now also coming into town are more Sheriff Deputies and Law Enforcement units. They are here to make sure that people coming into town are supposed to be here. Live in pascadero, nbc bay area news. You can just hear it. A warning from cal fire this evening about that fallen tree. This one is in the czu fire zone where robert handa was reporting from. A reminder here, stay out of burn and evacuated areas until safety inspectors have done their jobs. Answers for a firefighter who had his card stolen while he was on the fire line. Brian johnson was arrested at his home in live oak. Johns
Tearing through parts of texas and louisiana, killing at least 4 people damaging property and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 5 im Justine Waldman at this hour were tracking the 3 large wildfires burning in the bay area. The good news right now crews are making progress cal fire says the scu lightning complex fires in parts of the east and south bay, or 35 contained. The czu august lightning complex fires in san mateo and Santa Cruz County are now 21 contained and the l a new lightning complex fires in the north bay are now 33 contained. We will begin our coverage there where the fires have burned more than 368,000 acres across napa Solano Sonoma lake and yolo counties while firefighters continue to make progress in sonoma county. The wall bridge fire continues to burn above healdsburg and guerneville and even when the fire is put out that does not mean that evacuees will be able to return immediate
With more evacuation orders being lifted, more people are back home safe tonight. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana begins our coverage in pescadero with some very relieved homeowners. Sergio. Reporter yeah. Well, this town largely emptied out on thursday under those mandatory evacuation orders, but today as people were returning back home, the population actually grew by one. The newest resident is a newborn boy. This is the first walk for lauren tip ets since returning home. Her oldest son, jack, is riding in the wagon and strapped to her chest is jonathan. He was born the day after they evacuated. Thursday night when we got our evacuation, i went into labor, and i had him. Reporter she shared this photo. She and her husband spent the days before their evacuation spraying down their property with fire hoses. It survived unscathed. We were at the hospital for a few nights and then stayed with my inlaws over the hill. Reporter there are homes that did not survive the fire but theyre a bit
3 large wildfires burning in the bay area and the good news is crews are making headway. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore at this hour cal fire says the scu lightning complex fire in parts of the east bay and the south bay is 35 contained with more than 369,000 acres burned the lnu lightning complex fire in the north bay is now 35 contained with more than 369,000 acres burned and the czu august lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties is now 24 contained with more than 81,000 acres burned you see where that fire is burning on this map in the Santa Cruz Mountains and into San Mateo County. So far. The fires have destroyed more than 700 structures and majority of those. Our homes are still several mandatory Evacuation Orders in effect tonight. But the good news is those orders have been lifted for the you see santa cruz campus which was threatened at the southern edge of this fire tonight kron fours gayle ong live for us in Santa Cruz County