Complex fire. Well conduct this in spanish. So everyone remain seated please. To give the perspective, but were going to give you a quick reminder. This incident is a very complex incident that includes seven different counties. The counties are santa clara, alameda, san joaquin, rased, and san benito. Right now, the scu lightning complex is the second largest fire in california history. Second largest. Quick update. The incident stands at over 365,000 acres in size and 25 containment. We have over 1600 firefighters fighting this fight and up to date, 37 structures that have been destroyed and 20,000 that remain threatened. Two civilian injuries. Take you back to 2019 before 2020, and in and today in 2020. We have the incident here with chief tim ernst. My name is team ernst. The several sim bogg symbology. And extremely happy with the amount of black light. Weve contained the fire on the map. 24 to 4 hou8 hours. This entire east side, show under containment. We do not expect any futur
As we talked about yesterday, theres a lot of busyness on the map and i want to really quickly review some of the things we talked about yesterday. Remembering ten days ago, 18 to 20 different fires. You can see on the map, identifiers where all the fires were. All of these separate fires have been contained and no longer pose any threat. Several fires burned together adds we talked about. We had split that into two separate zones. Those separate zones now split or have joined together into one fire. This is all now being held as one large fire. A lot of good work has happened in the last 24 hours and we talked yesterday about the difference between looking at red line on a map and black line. Black line being an area of the fire perimeter thats been contained. We no longer see a threat before movement of the fire. Youll see we have black line all the way up this east side of the fire and north top of the one piece of the fire. That is great news and really provides a lot more safety f
Former Pulaski County Judge Buddy Villines died last year at 76. Near the enduring monument he willed into existence, the Big Dam Bridge, is a plaque bearing words he spoke at its September 2006 opening: