Burning around the bay and as they continue to rage that major that declaration will help us right now the latest from cal fire puts the lnu complex fire. At 17 containment. That is the fire thats burning in the north bay. The scu lightning complex fire which is in the east bay has burned 10 contained right now and the czu lightning complex fire. Thats the one along the peninsula. Its just 8 contain still that is a jump from yesterday morning by about 3 so little by little they are working on it as fast as they can to knock down these fires before there is a threat. More dry lightning. Lets talk about the csu lightning complex fire in santa cruz and san mateo counties in total. This fire has burned 71,000 acres, 60,000 people plus have had to flee their homes and as you can see many structures have gone up in flames 2 people suffered minor injury. There are now 1300 fire personnel there battling that fire right now. Lets take a look at the map and that shows you Scotts Valley and santa
Was on fire. Reporter thats andy immel standing in the photo surrounded by whats left of the home he built over 42 years. H nifds gandline. Nd tdher, j s big cry. Before that it was we dont know, maybe. We kept hope. Reporter but on that morning that the immels were still hoping, this is what was happening in their neighborhood and all over boulder creek. By morning it was all rubble. The bits and pieces that make a home completely charred. This street, fallen leaf drive, completely devastated. Still there were streets that prove just how unfair a fire can be. Her burned to eground. That just goes to show that we dont have the resources on it that we would normally. If this were a normal situation where, say, this were only one or two fires within the state, we would have more resources here. Reporter cal fire crews stretched thin, dealing with this kind of work. Spot fires that are smoldering slight change in weather conditions. You dont really grasp what it really means to be in that
About to collide with coronavirus overwhelming hospitals. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight on kron 4 news at 5 im Justine Waldman and we have lots of news to get to tonight. Well start with the wildfires that are still burning around the bay area and threatening thousands of homes. The czu lightning complex fires have now burned more than 80,000 acres in the mountains of santa cruz and san mateo counties more than 500 structures have been destroyed 51 damaged. One person has died. Containment did go up slightly overnight us now at 19 . Many structures are still threatened and there are several Evacuation Orders in place and for more right now we go to kron fours rob fladeboe he joins us now live from felton which is about 7 miles from santa cruz. He has the very latest on the firefight good evening drop. Good evening just seen thats right out here in the Santa Cruz Mountains once again firefighters are quite literally a fighting fire with fire as you say i am here in felto
Feel driving in nice. Cool, cool. I keep thinking im not running the ac. Steve paulson. Thats good news. Well, the weekend unseasonable cool. We rebounded a little bit, but yeah , the lows are back in the upper 40s and low 50s. Palo alto is at 51. We had a much bigger fog bank yesterday. Theres not a lot here today, but theres some. Once that burns back then itll be walking on the sun forever, so to speak, if you will. Patchy low clouds, cooler lows, sunny for all, nice to mild to warm temperatures, though not much changing here of anything they may cool off a couple of degrees for a few days and then start to warm up. But not a big one as we head to the weekend here. So for us, a quiet pattern, 60s and 70s and 80s as san a have you heard 80 is open breaking news have you heard. Yes, sir. You know, i think some people may be tuning in and not knowing that Somebody Just wakes up and says, is that 80 open for crying out loud . It is. There you go. Thats true. Yes, it is. Open. You know w
Being released as of yet and department is not being released as of yet until next of kin are notified. Here at nbc we are responsible journalists and wont make assumptions. But cleanup, see the motorcycle, thats the motorcycle that the officer was riding on during this fatality. This all happened before 6 00 a. M. And it was total dark and all he heard was the impact of the crash. According to a witness, traveling north on monterey and in turn lay for chester avenue and turned into the path of that 44yearold motorcycle driver. That 44yearold motorcycle driver a Law Enforcement officer who was on that motorcycle killed in that collision. That was a major shock to those who were just inches away from where this happened. This happened right in front of a convenience store. I dont see but i heard noise, big noise, around 5 40 between 5 45 and 6 00. Reporter what did it sound like . Boom. Big noise. And i thought something happened in bomb. Reporter back here live, where cleanup continues