Be early and more often folks have been experiencing this california the last couple of years. Good evening, everyone, im Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis tonight, im grant lotus thank you for being with us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 oclock fire Officials Say theyre cautiously optimistic tonight after dodging a major Lightning Storm and we begin with an overview of the 3 major lightning complex fires that are burning in the bay have been for about a week now 5 people have died in the lnu lightning complex thats burning in solano napa sonoma lake end yolo countys 5 people have been injured meanwhile and the scu lightning complex thats in contra costa. And Alameda Santa clara as well among others we have also learned that fires there have scorched. More than 360,000 acres making it. The second largest in california state history in terms of acreage more than 351,000 acres meanwhile have in the north bay making the l a new fire the 3rd largest in california history. And its easy y
News stations, youre watching kron 4 news at 10. And its hard to look at. And i know that were going to have to start going through things and. You know coming up here and at and working a little bit but if at a time to come. Now it and devastation after a disaster a family of 5 is left heartbroken tonight after the lnu lightning complex fires destroyed what was supposed to be there forever home. Thanks for joining us on this thursday night, im ken wayne and im pale more that familys home one said on gates canyon road in vacaville and it is now reduced to rubble. Well for sale of the sack erie visited the area with the family tonight and she joins us live with more taylor is heartbreaking. Pam ken a family of 5 lived here april and Mike Hernandez raise their 3 kids here, im standing in what was once their sons bedroom, you can tell just how hot this fire was check us out. This is wilsons a desk chair. Well all thats left of it and here behind me melton appliances in the area that was o
For some time. Now there are questions about staffing and what role that plays for officers on the street kron fours dan kerman is live at Police Headquarters tonight with our top story. Dan. Well the police union is coming forward saying despite the fact that the Police Department has a 122 funding positions they have never fill those positions all at once not placed in the last 10 years and they say that is requiring officers to work overtime and that is putting citizens lives at risk. And understaffed police force is a threat to those that live in vallejo. So says the Vallejo Police union which says citizens are endangered by the citys failure to hire police specifically they say there are not enough cops to cover all beats on a regular basis. The says for 10 years the city has had open positions and because the forces consistently shorthanded there are generally no more than 6 officers on the street at any given time in a city of over 120,000. The says that puts filet o well below
Its not like a neighborhood that you see obviously in San Francisco, but there are homes, there are lots of ranches and right now many of them went up in flames, we showed it to you all morning on the kron 00 04am morning news, this pg any right there off in the distance of their part of the response team. They said that they did energize d energize i should say de energize most of the lines if not all of the lines we have not heard of any transformers exploding at this particular point way off in the distance, those are neighborhoods in actually told us to stay at this location. Just in power. The poll comes down and we could be trapped because a lot of these power poles went up in flames as well so they told us they dont want to run in there to save us if necessary so were going to stay right here. But look at that james story off in the distance as well, black smoke and ive been telling viewers for a long time black smoke basically means is reached new feel new material so its burni
Details on that coming up in just bit all right well, it certainly has a lot of fog out there on your way if youre driving yeah the month change skies, but the weather has not were keeping the fog and the haze around you can see the low lying cloud cover above timber on good news about the fog as of right now is thats lifted over most of the bay area itself so aside from some spotty visibility issues, especially in hilly hillsides. We are actually seeing you driving under the fog on our bridges just looking up that the gray that has been persistently overhead through the morning. Temperatures right now are in the 50s and 60s we actually have a much more comfortable afternoon ahead of us than what we had yesterday with slightly cooler temperatures. But of course as we are still talking pockets of haze in this forecast want to moderate your time outside as much as possible. Daytime highs will be in the 60s and 70s near the bay and the coast with the 80s and 90s remaining for inland areas