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
Cal fire has divided the fires into three socalled complexes, the scu in santa clara, alameda and contra costa, and new evacuations in san mateo and santa cruz and ellen you in sonoma and napa counties that turned into salina, lake and yolo counties. The ellen you has scorched more than 124,000 acres. The biggest wildfire last year just burned over 77 thousand acres. We have Team Coverage beginning with joe vasquez and napa county, and the new evacuations near st. Helena, just minutes ago. Reporter hope valley, due north over the hill from st. Helena, the socalled spanish fire raged through this Small Community for much of the day. Just over the hill, this is the smokey aftermath along butts county road this evening. We saw the remnants of several homes into the ground. Spot fires continue to flare on both sides of the road. Deputies have been informing residents that this is a mandatory evacuation. One resident said he and some neighbors defy the evacuation orders, stayed behind impor
Fire warns all of us, be prepared to leave in a moments notice. Tonight we are live on the front lines with new evacuations underway and the efforts to save homes and our bad air, the worst in the world right now. Now at 11 streaming on cbsn the bay area. Evacuation orders have been issued all over the bay area and in the santa cruz mountains, and theres an evacuation warning for the entire city of hillsboro. Cal fire has divided the fires into three socalled complexes, the scu in santa clara, alameda and contra costa, and new evacuations in san mateo and santa cruz and ellen you in sonoma and napa counties that turned into salina, lake and yolo counties. The ellen you has scorched more than 124,000 acres. The biggest wildfire last year just burned over 77 thousand acres. We have Team Coverage beginning with joe vasquez and napa county, and the new evacuations near st. Helena, just minutes ago. Reporter hope valley, due north over the hill from st. Helena, the socalled spanish fire rag
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now on kpix 5, we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look east this morning. Good morning, it was thursday, august 20th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. A number of new evacuation orders have been issued all over the bay area and Santa Cruz Mountains. There is another one for the entire city of healdsburg. The scu in santa clara, alameda and contra costa counties and the czu in san mateo and santa cruz counties and the l and u, which started in sonoma and not the counties and burned around yolo counties. The lnu has scorched to 24,000 acres, about a 200 square miles. There is still 0 containment. By comparison, the biggest wildfire last year burned just over 77,000 acres and that was the kincade fire in sonoma county. We have all the latest details on the fires burning around the bay area but first lets go to mary lee for the latest on this and healthy air quality. We are tracking th
We have new video coming in from the fires burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. More than 20,000 people have been evacuated in that area. This is affecting a lot of peoples lives and you can see this video ththres cr homes. It has burned 25,000 acres so far in the hills of santa cruz and San Mateo County and at least 20 buildings. We saw a lion of a dozen fire trucks going to that area but cal fire is having trouble responding to all of these fires, as we have been talking about. They are spread very thinly, two First Responders have been injured in this firefight. Thsh d at structure you saw burning was a long empire great road. All of these are under evacuation orders. For the people in San Mateo County, this is the same big complex for them. Tey can go to Half Moon Bay high school. We will continue to watch the fire activity this morning as cal fire updates us on how much progress they may have been able to make overnight and in the meantime, the weather is a huge factor and mary le