Hello everyone thank you for joining us at 5 oclock tonight, im Catherine Heenan we continue to follow the many wildfires across the bay area tonight. Were going to begin with what so far has been the deadliest most destructive fire were talking about the l a new lightning complex fire. Its burned more than 350,000 acres across 5 counties Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo those flames have killed 5 people destroyed more than 900 structures, hundreds more are still threatened. The fire did grow overnight to more than 352,000 acres did go up a bit from 22 to 27 . As weve seen firefighters are making slow steady progress on the fire and the north a lot of times like guerneville rio nido they do remain evacuated. Kron fours dan kerman hes in guerneville tonight to explain why that is the case dan. Well as you see behind me catherine you can see that plume of smoke it might look like fog to you, but that is armstrong would status what is currently on fire. The most recent and the closest thr
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
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