Calm down in the afternoon giving firefighters the upper hand really trying to get everything we can get done. Done before the wind picks up and then of course nighttime brings additional complications, firefighters unable to catch a break many coming from other fires in the region, the glass incident fire broke out during a red flag warning about 200 pg and e napa county customers were scheduled for a Public Safety power shutoff down more than a 1000 homes under an evacuation warning really urge you to do what you can. To clear Defensible Space around your home. The ready water things to evacuate with that you need know what you need to pick up so youre not trying to find important papers things like that at the last minute. And this point in time it is too early to tell and many buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Firefighters are focusing on structure protection and stopping the spread of the fire the cause is under investigation. In saint helene gayle ong kron 4 news. And wer
Breaking news tonight at 10 oclock the wildfires across the bay area are cal fire says the l a new lightning complex fire in the north bay now 25 contained. The scu lightning complex fire in the east and south base 15 contained in the czu august lightning complex on the peninsula and Santa Cruz County is 13 contained thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan Vicki Liviakis has the night off. We have a map of where the fires are happening. The lnu lightning complex that this is the biggest it is the deadliest of the mall. So far 5 people have been killed it scorched more than 351,000 acres in solano napa sonoma lake and yolo counties the czu august lightning complex fires burning in the mountains in san mateo and santa cruz counties destroying homes and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their. Finally the scu lightning complex its burned 360,000 acres in contra costa alameda and stannis last counties we have Team Coverage tonight on al
Very foggy its a mix of both now even though it might not smell so bad for your area we are still looking at poor air quality as we see ash falling from the hazy layer above us. You dont want to be breathing that in so of course the Face Covering will be as helpful as possible as you are venturing outside now why is it so smoky when we had our fires a couple weeks ago and thats when they were really expanding and now theyve come down. Well we had strong winds from the north a couple days ago that resulted in rapid spread of fires on the northern end of the state and the smoke from those fires just drifting down our way since winds have calmed down now that haze that smoke a sitting with us and gradually sinking yesterday the hazy layer was above us so any sort of light that hit that he is the lair pass through it with just the red remaining today the grey sinks and now were looking at a whole different hue entirely as you see outside your window this morning, 50s and 60s for current te
Remain similar as it comes to the afternoon highs. We will go with 60s, 70s, 80s inland. It is another spare the air alert day. We have haze and smoke. It is continuing due to all the wildfires in our area. We will check in on those conditions and afternoon highs. We will talk about the weekend and just a little bit. At 4 31, we want to check in with sal. We do have roads open. Interstate is open, in case you were wondering. Cordelia, fairfield, getting up to vacaville, we have been watching those roads, so is highway 12. We are watching those for you. The traffic seems to be moving by okay. We dont have major freeway closures, as you can see. The Richmond Bridge traffic is very light. Most of the commutes are light. It is 4 31. Lets get back to the headlines. The fires are still raging out of control in the bay area and central coast. There are four new deathsaned o one mans body was found in debris. That was Pleasant Valley road in vacaville. Three deaths were reported along highway
Lnu complex in the north bay is up 5 from yesterday to 27 understand. The scu nightling complex in the east and south base is 15 . And the czu complex is up to 17 containment. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Although the progress is encouraging the widespread wildfires are still taking a very dramatic toll. Many people evacuated from the czu fires are trying to determine if their homes are still standing. The good news is that cal fire late today lifted evacuation warnings for santa clara county. Abc news is live just south of the fires in davenport. Reporter we spoke with so many families today who dont know if their homes are still there, if their family heirlooms are there or if they will have a commune to come home to. Those stories are a reality for many families forced from their homes. We spoke the many of them east of where we are right now where many of the hot spots are still burning. Want to point out. Notice the haze stretching into the santa cruz mountains. It is s