With the National Guard about providing reinforcements as an already devastating wildfire season. Threatens to get even worse. The scu fire complex is the second largest fire in state history. Scorching now more than 365,000 acres containment is up to 20 . Its followed closely in size historically and currently by the lnu complex fire which has burned more than 356,000 acres in the north bay that complex is 27 contained and then theres the czu complex in the Santa Cruz Mountains thats burned. But 80,000 acres and containment has grown to 19 altogether these local fires have burned about 800,000 acres in just over a week all right, lets get a closer look at each of those major we start off with the scu lightning complex and. Contra costa Alameda Santa clara, san joaquin and stanislaus counties more than 365,000 acres have been scorched in the fires are 20 contained tonight, 5 people have been injured 3 1st responders and 2 others more than 20,000 structures are threatened. Now that lnu
In decades. Cal fire says that more than 400 structures have been. Burned to the ground 32 are looking at damage. Converse Taylor Bisacky is live for us in Scotts Valley to bring us up to date. Whats the latest taylor. The key here in Scotts Valley were seeing a lot of Emergency Personnel a lot of First Responders coming and going but some of that action starts about 11 miles west of here. I travel towards that area today and eventually landed in bonny doon and this is what youll see a shot some video from earlier and making my way over that way youll see a lot of dark plumes of smoke coming from the mountains and as i headed towards that direction. I eventually had felt an empire road where flames are still active. Theres many hot spots on both sides of the road so it makes it a little unnerving driving through that area you also would see a lot of fallen trees thankfully. I did see plenty of firefighters nearby the watching over that area now through the flames and smoke erode youll
I agree, it is too hot. Lets talk about this. I know people had some Power Outages yesterday, which made the hot date even hotter and a hot night. I dont think we are out of this yet . We will not get rid of this heat for the next couple of days temperatures will drop slightly for the weekend and then back up again peaking on tuesday. Outside right now, most areas never really cooled off. A lot of 60s and 70s out there to start the day. A live look over east bay where you can see some hayes and some fog along the northbay coastline. It is 64 in santa rosa. 67 semper cisco. Upper 60s in oakland and low 70s and livermore and san jose. A little bit of clear sky at there compared to the cloud cover we have been starting with over the last couple of days. In any case, temperatures are supposed to be there warm once again. Heres what we can expect with bart advisories getting as well. For nurse by those, especially, San Francisco peninsula and santa cruz, we have the heat advisory that will
Havent seen those high winds. Is that going to remain the case . It looks like it will for at least a little while longer. Right now as we track the Current Conditions in napa county, look at how hot it is though even though we dont have much of a wind, this really makes it hard for those crews out there when temperatures are already at 91 degrees. And at least once again, as we said, the winds are calm, but the humidity also continues to drop from this morning. The air is getting drier, which also helps those flames spread faster. As we look at what caused those fires, the lightning and all of that moisture that was streaming through the bay area. That has moved farther to the north. We do some unhealthy air in the east bay. Those temperatures are heating up fast once again. Well take a look at all of our micro climates in the High Temperatures for the next few days. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Thanks, kari. Crews are still battling two fires in napa county. The Napa Hennessy fi
The woodward fires burning at the Point Reyes National seashore in marion county. Right now at this hour crews are in a race to try and save homes and property from those fastmoving flames. Good evening. Everyone, im Jonathan Mccall in tonight for ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 oclock tonight. We are going to tackle each of these complex fires, one by one from the damage done to the evacuations which are in effect we begin in the north bay and as we mentioned the largest of those fires, the l a new complex fire. In the last 30 minutes weve learned that this blaze has now grown to more than 124,000 acres now scorched. With more than a 100 structures destroyed and 25,000 more now being threatened you can see on your map exactly the areas that are made up from this particular inferno. Flames as we mentioned now burning in napa sonoma and solano counties. So far this blaze once again scorching more than 124,000 acres to give you an idea of just ho