Highest dew points right now. Still a touch of mugginess in the air. Temperatures today 70s along the coast to 80 in San Francisco and low 80s to low 90s around the bay and look at all those 100s inland. Some record highs are possible today. Ill talk more about the hennessey fire coming up. Lets get to reggie for more on that right now. Mike, thank you. Happening now, hundreds of firefighters battling this wildfire in wine country. So this is video of the hennessey fire from overnight. It broke out yesterday morning. It exploded in size in the afternoon. Its burning to the east of san helena and rutherford. Grown to 2,400 acres with zero containment. Evacuation orders are in effect in the area. Some people are choosing to stay. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live this morning. Amy . Goodern morning were in st helena and authorities behind me have sage canyon road blocked off. This is the area that is being impacted. They have evacuated about 205 homes in this area. We do have new
Area. The seas eu complex fires are burning in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz county. The s e u complex fires or in contra costa alameda and santa clara counties, the l a new complex fire exploded overnight, taking a destructive turn into the north bay. Now that destructive trend persists right now a fire in the l a new complex fire has now forced the california Highway Patrol to shut down interstate 80 as the fire has jumped the freeway. These are pictures now from a helicopter from kcra where we can see how chp has shut down the road, the conditions are terrible with all the smoke thats in the air. Now the part of 80 that is shutdown is between air base parkway and cherry road in fairfield again the pictures that were looking at is in the area of interstate 80 that is shut down right now. This is where the hennessy fire has been burning there is an Evacuation Order in place right now for the Rolling Hills neighborhood Fairfield Police are saying if you live in this area tr
Neighbor, there were long lines going out of the neighbor because of the mandatory evacuations. I want to go off into the distance. First you can see the homes right here. Then we look at the hillsides. We are at the western portion of i80. You go see the hill sides that are charred black from the flames that have torn through this area. They are under a mandatory evacuation. Some of them are still here. I want to pan back out. There are other things i want to show you. It is pretty quiet here. When we go on to above that roof and on to that hill top, you can see where some of those air tankers dropped that fire retardant. I want to throw it right now to some of the sound we have from some of the folks living in this area on what it has been like in the last 24 hours. At some point, if we feel its not safe, we will definitely depart. But like i am, we havell. Weve been saying all day, if the winds are on our side, we have a chance. With all the emotional tension, it was definitely chal
These are major fires. Reopen, but it is windy and in mind here. Rarely do we see such major one man didnt think he was fires along the coast in san burning. Going to pan over here again going to make it. Mateo county. Where you can see the fire on lets bring in Marianne Favro in these are live pictures of all the other side of the freeway, making its way up that hillside. Scotts valerivalley. The flames and that thick, black smoke from our nbc bay area sky a terrifying sight. This is my home county. Ranger. This is where i live. Marianne . Reporter jason hickey didnt this is south of pescadero. And its really hard to watch think he was going to make it. And its really scary to watch. We started covering this fire his nightmare began when his yesterday in earnest. And i know everybody is trying and its continuing to spread to figure out where do we go . Home burned down and he had so into Santa Cruz County. So that is the situation out many close calls overnight, as so far 10,000 acres
Frias local news stations. Frantic evacuations. Came through here so fast you cant believe that i think theyre just barely got out to barely got out homes reduced to ash. A series of wildfires explode overnight intense firefight under way in the north east and south bass the threat of fire amid a Global Pandemic has caught some offguard im not prepared. Im not prepared. Breaking news tonight here on kron 4 news at 6 wildfires are burning in all but one bay area county at this hour and some of those fires are actively destroying homes right now. And people parts of fa rfield are now being asked to evacuate its not safe. Police say there is an immediate threat to life well get to that areas that are under evacuation in whe tho complex fires are burning in the north east and south bays. Theyre all grouped together in fires in the area and cal fire has given them all sorts of different names. So the seas eu complex fires. Thats the one that is burning in the mountains of san mateo and sant