Santa cruz county. And any minute now were expecting an update from cal fire on the czu complex fires that are burning in santa cruz and san mateo counties and well have it for you live when it happens. Well meanwhile, lets start with the l in new complex fire. Thats burning in the north bay right now check out this map that shows you where the complex fires are burning which is in sonoma napa and solano counties so far at least 4 people have died and 4 others have been injured, lets check in with kron 4 Sarah Stinson who is in Sonoma County where the fire is threatening homes, sarah. They robin the on live here on West Dry Creek road just west of healdsburg where its still very dark outside a lot of times with these fires cal fire as the way till sunrise is to really see what theyre working with after a long day of battling the flames take a look at what they were doing yesterday and probably into the night to try and combat the flames and stop them from spreading to nearby communitie
Especially up in the north bay today that moisture plume is sitting a bit further out into the coast. What that means is areas further north bolton mendocino counties will see the opportunity of an isolated thunderstorm. Well we really take a step back from that in the bay area today so worrying less about any sort of heavy rain or thunderstorm but still having to worry about the heat that we are going to be seeing. 80s 90s and triple digits back in play with livermore concord antioch at one of 3 to 106 degrees. Napa and santa rosa also triple digits and upper 80s in hayward mideighties in oakland, San Francisco right at 80 degrees today. Ive got more details on what to expect right where youre at this forecast. Still ahead daria. Thanks a lot john lets get to the breaking news now for big wildfires are burning across the east bay and in the north bay this morning. They were sparked likely by lightning. Lets take a look at a map that shows you where these 4 fires are burning yeah right
Now lets focus in on the czu lightning complex fire. You can see the outline on your map its in red. It shows the outline of the fire and you can tell that its spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fire has turned deadly as firefighters discovered the body of a 70 yearold man in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a scotts valley. He has the latest for us well. Marty they just wrapped up the News Conference a little bit more information on that man who died his name not being released. But we do know that he was found near his vehicle in the attempt of leaving the fire so he was trying to rescue himself but overcome, but either the smoke or the flames so he was not inside his home at the time and thats when they believe that he was desperately trying to flee unfortunately he ran out of time and the fires just simply overcame him as far as the condition of the fire still very much burning out of control at this
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