Mountains and also in southern San Mateo County thousands of people have had to evacuate these communities where the fire is burning and also where the fire continues to threaten theres been extensive damage in areas near Boulder Creek and also in bonny doon homes. Theyre just incinerated by the fire hundreds of other buildings have also been destroyed and many more are still threatened fire crews have been dealing with these intense fires for days now fire Officials Say that it is actively burning in heavy timber and thick undergrowth one of the big concerns has been burning trees which have been breaking apart hitting the ground and then causing the potential for more fires to spread however, firefighters have reported that there have been better firefighting conditions, thanks to improved. The weather. More aerial attacks and an increase in the number of crews that are working the fire. But evacuees that have been staying in nearby santa cruz have been patiently waiting for more upd
Today just like yesterday, it is t a company by wind and dncause of the lack of when they al expect aircraft to be up in the air very soon to dump approximately 200,000 gallons of water if not more on the oday, they are making progress not a lot of progress as far as leaps and bounds, but they will take it 17 containment, thats up from 13 containment. What youre looking at right its fog thats not smoke so Good Progress there. But it has een very destructive. The number of homes and structures destroyed has gone up in t overnight hours from approximately 280. 2 now 330 structures and they do expect that number to go up because part of the firefighting process today is try to make inroads into a hard to reach areas which have bridges that have burned wooden bridges, theres fallen trees, theres debris. They hope to clear that get into those areas and count their homes that are still there and destrobut going to go do that and get back up in the r firefighters on the gr about 1400 of them.
Video of what it looked like late late last night when the driver was coming along southbound 85 when according to chp the driver lost control either because of drugs or alcohol we do know that because that person was arrested 2 people during the rollover were ejected from the suv a few others actually were trapped inside. They rushed the survivors to the hospital we do know that one person still alive at the hospital whether male or female we dont know the driver. This might not come as a surprise to a lot of people that driver was not seriously injured along with dui theyre also looking into possible speeding. As a factor in all this because of shelter in place the freeway was probably a little bit wider or free or i should say that in normal circumstances because there are so few cars on the roads these days that that gave probably the driver more opportunity to go faster than normal. So that is certainly one thing that theyre looking into they actually daria they thought that they