Contained and the czu august lightning complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Now 19 contained calfire seeing cooler weather and extra resources coming from outside the bay area has certainly helped crews gain some ground on these fires and weve got Team Coverage of the czu lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties. And you can take a look here at the map and it shows you the areas burned by that fire or complex of fires which has destroyed more than 440 homes and other structures kron fours will tran is live now at the Cal Fire Base Camp in Scotts Valley with the latest well. No i can tell you the conditions are favorable for firefighters at this particular time it is cold, its still smoky. And yes, the fires are still burning but slowly its not chewing through all of that dry vegetation that we saw over the fast the first couple of days of this fire, lets get right to the video it is tearing through parts of Santa Cruz County including bonny doo
Kron fours will tran is there live at the Cal Fire Base Camp in scott valley with more well. Actually we just got an update from cal fire unfortunately you talked about the structures and the damage we do know now its now 538 structures and that involves either barns or homes that have been destroyed so that number has gone up, but they say theyre not surprised by that especially with having investigators going into burned areas and now going through the neighborhoods and county feast your eyes on this james and area that is not smoke thats fog and theyre so happy to see fog because it brings moisture to the area it cools things down. And it allows firefighters to get a bit of a break once the fog lifts it will be sunny again and they expect to have the aircraft back up in the air in the aircraft has been wonderful for the firefighting efforts in fact theyve increased the gallons every day as far as gallons dropped to the fire. It is still 19 containment so that did not go up. But more
Reporter dan, were on the edge of palo alto as we speak right now. You go see behind us, the flames inching up to about 200 to 300 people in this community. We spoke to several residents of la honda who are now packing and gearing up to evacuate. You cahahi sn s expanding through the ridge. You can see the flames raging in that community with about 60 homes. Lets look at sky 7. You can see the flames aggressively expanding. They are impacting two major communities. Loma mar and dearborn park. It is presumed this fire was caused by lightning sunday morning. Cal fire responded to about 22 lightning fires in this region. Le residents have been documenting the size of the blaze since sunday. Now there is nothing else to wait for. Theyre evacuating. Heres one of the residents. We are evacuating now. We had no instruction by the San Mateo County sheriffs thpartment to do so. E rangers, we have had no one come into our communiy to tell us what to do. So myself and my brotherinlaw rick took it
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
Even feel the ash. Smoke. Thats another region towards this is why this map shows vacaville where were seeing dozens of fires burnsthe govern unhealthy for all groups air quality. Much like the north bay fires that led to the highest pollution in the last 20 years. We could be looking at these areas of very unhealthy air quality of a sudden shift in the wind. Coming up, well talk about when we might get some relief in terms of that air quality and cooler temperatures in our forecast comes up in about 12 minutes from now. Poor air quality sticking around for at least another day. You can see the haze and probably smell the smoke in many parts of the bay area. This is video of the smoky air from our hd sky cameras. And a viewer from Redwood Shores sent us this video of ash falling onto the ground tonight. People in sensitive groups should be cautious. That includes seniors, children, and people with respiratory and health issues. If anybody does smell smoke, we do recommend that resident