News stations, youre watching kron 4 news at 10. And its hard to look at. And i know that were going to have to start going through things and. You know coming up here and at and working a little bit but if at a time to come. Now it and devastation after a disaster a family of 5 is left heartbroken tonight after the lnu lightning complex fires destroyed what was supposed to be there forever home. Thanks for joining us on this thursday night, im ken wayne and im pale more that familys home one said on gates canyon road in vacaville and it is now reduced to rubble. Well for sale of the sack erie visited the area with the family tonight and she joins us live with more taylor is heartbreaking. Pam ken a family of 5 lived here april and Mike Hernandez raise their 3 kids here, im standing in what was once their sons bedroom, you can tell just how hot this fire was check us out. This is wilsons a desk chair. Well all thats left of it and here behind me melton appliances in the area that was o
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
Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that
Counties. It has burned nearly 370,000 acres and is 35 contained this morning, 5 people have died. 4 others hurt. And the fire destroyed over 1000 structures and threatened more than 30,000 others. And also in the north bay as more people return home in Solano County emotions will likely run high for the coming days. The county Sheriffs Office says that of the roughly 1000 homes in the affected burn area about a 150 are safe enough to allow reentry. Some residents tell us that they fear their home home was completely gone only to learn later through a firefighter that that was not the case. And in the same week not everything was only all cried remember van and were hearing all of that because houses was like wow thats great. I can imagine a deep sigh of relief. Well the county set up a Re Entry Center at Mission Church and thus were evacuees approved to head home can get passes that will allow them through those checkpoints to keep in mind you have to be approved first. Well firefight
Bay, or 35 contained the czu august lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties are now 26 contained and then the l in you lightning complex fires in the north bay or 35 contained. Were going to start this morning by focus seen at the of on the czu lightning complex fire thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. The gray area on on the map on your screen shows the areas that have burned thus far in kron fours will tran reporting for us live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest on this firefight well. Mardy us talk about whats being burned so far the acreage has gone up slightly though as far as the acre numbers and theyre happy about that because its not exploding so they just wrapped up a News Conference the acres. Now sunday, 82,540 acres thats about a 1000 more than yesterday, its not exploding exponentially so there are starting to turn the corner a little bit on this fire, although they still have a lot of ways to go. Robin