Been devastating to see those homes lost in this fire right behind me they are carrying out their morning to briefing to you have agencies from across the bay area here to help put out this fire. But i enjoy life right now with captain saw lopez is with the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office you know, lets talk about how its been for your department in the most important thing you want people to now so were currently working with cal fire in communicating with our residents in the south coast area thats been affected and many of those areas or rural and steep. So when we do issue a i suggest that everybody listens to those warnings you pack up your things and be ready to evacuate if those mandatory evacuation notices come out what have you seen anyone or people trying to stay back and not wanting to leave their houses and if that is happening. What do they need to do so those are some of the challenges we have experience at in the last 48 several deputies have interacting with residents
Fine. Im sure their lawns are full of smoke and look at the left side of your screen you can see the smoke and the flames still there they easily could have been killed. Look at the hillside right behind them completely charred and then to the left of them as well thats also charred so those flames easily could have jumped into their field, but it never did. Apparently according to sources that people who live here they water this area very well for the llamas to have their food and because of that you can see the grass is much greener here then on the other side. Yes, its burned, but there are patches of a lot of yellow indicating dry vegetation. So because of that it looks like the llamas are saved and i just noticed over there on the right side of your screen a couple of cows. Theyre doing just fine as well among Pleasant Valley road driving into this location. There are many homes great news to pass along there are many homes that are still intact, theyre not allowing people to go
Biggest challenge for crews on fires, alyssa is standing by the front lines today. Or because a little birdie told me you wanted them back 90s, better than triple digits. Santa rosa right around 90. With information on the lnu really bad. San francisco, 73 degrees. Get my spicy chicken strips combo san jose, in the upper 80s and lighting fire complex burning for only 5. 99. Mid90s for morgan hill and gilroy. In sonoma, napa county. We go here is a look ahead. Hazy of course, that will probably be the repeating theme each and every day through the weekend, you will see right to allie, she is temperatures, they cool off today, kind of stabilizing monitoring the fire burning in santa cruz in San Mateo County friday and could warm up a little bit by saturday, so and new Evacuation Orders are temperatures inland in the mid now in effect. To upper 90s by saturday, and then as we head towards sunday, these high clouds represent or symbolize a bit of uncertainty, that is right, the most there
Destroyed. Check out this maam that shows all the fires burning across california right now. The fires in gray are contained. The orange ones are still burning. These are major fires in california. We have crews coveringfires. We begin with Laura Anthony live in north bay, covering that lnu complex fire. Laura . Hi. We are in vacaville again today and i can tell you from ground here, it appears at least the conditions have greatly improved. About 10 degrees cooler. Oler. Ol. Ol once the smoke has cleared for some families, what theyre finaling is a total loss. At th top of the hill within hours to the bottom of the hill. Brian was one of the unlucky ones when it comes to the hennessey fire. One of those who fell victim to the happen hazardndom march thr. His home, a large garage, a barn now lay in ruins when so many others around him survived. Normally i would see cal fire trucks, bumpertobumper, rolling down the road, any time there is a fire up the road toward berryessa. This time th
It is now the largest in the state and we have learned this evening it has burned 480 structures, too. Reporter thats right, two main fires. The hennessey already devastating and deadly in the walbridge, which has the same potential if it gets away. At sunset west of hills burke winds pick up and fire stands up. It has been a long, turbulent week for crews and ranchers on alert. It actually started just in the back of one of our properties off of skaggs springs. Reporter jason saw the walbridge fire start from lightning, so small at first. Low hanging, white smoke smoldering. I knew there were some cal fire guys on it. We didnt give it much thought. The next day, the temperatures rose and it got some legs and started running itself. Reporter and it has run to 43,000 acres so far, helping drcomplex fires to 302,000 acres it is getting the attack people have waited for. Tankers and helicopters diving the landscape, working to stop the fires march into the Dry Creek Valley toward lake son