And keep them safe as well. Hesitate to contact them. Were going to have more on our ask them for direction. They are there to help you. Santa clai website as well as with our free santa c a san joaquin and id like to ask if we could nbc bay area app. Were going to have more of our please hold any questions thank you. Midday newscast coming up for regarding the incident that you right after this break. Were here to discuss until the i fell asleep but when i woke up. Stanislaus county. The lnu complex fire spans napa, thank you, sheriff. End of the fire now id like to get an update sonoma, and solano counties. From our unit chief jones. It has grown 219,000 acres and operations chief, chief waters is now 7 contained. Up for an operational update. At least four people have died in those fires. About 30,000 structures are good morning, everybody. Good morning and thank you chris waters, operation section for joining us. Being threatened. And we want you to get caught up chief for the lnu lightning since august 15th as it was on the czu august lightning complex. Im going to give you an complex fire. Orientation of the operational reported, we have burned 771,000 it is burning in san mateo and activities on the incident Santa Cruz County border. It has scorched 50,000 acres and today. First of all we are at 2 zone acres. Thats greater than the state of rhode island. Fire. Weve got a west zone and an is 0 contained. East zone and we have the sonoma 64,000 people have been county line as the general demarcation between these two evacuated including voluntary zones. 229,000 acres evacuation of uc santa cruz. Starting out with the west zone we have a small fire, the myers at least 50 structures are fire out on the coast. Stretched thin everywhere destroyed. And in less than an hour, actually the fire stopped throughout the state. Governor newsom is expected to moving. Operational resources are but they continue to work hard, hold a News Conference in getting a foothold on that. And were looking for and theyre getting little rest. Calistoga. He is going to give an update on containment fairly soon. Were trying to switch that by the next fire in this zone is the fire response. And of course were going to brinu were the wal bridge fire. Incoming resources trickling in. It is moving in the dowti we ha and thats going to help this. Going to extreme it on the briefing today gave you some progress and some growth. Doziers, hand crews and Law Enforcement working in the but there is also were not wallbridge fire to try to slow out of the woods. The spread of the fire in the there are still some communities direction of guerneville. And were also organizing threatened, some peoples homes are threatened. Evacuations and warnings for the boy hi, do you want to share my sandwich . Community of guerneville. Our partners spoke of evaks and moving over to the east zone, plans to be prepared. vo good feeds our connections. The hennessy fire, hennessy fire please be prepared to leave you. Good feeds us all. Hormel Natural Choice lunch meats. Has basically threehae call you should have a plan right were learning roughly 25,000 to branches. The southern braf of the fire now. Pay attention to alert and has dropped off significantly Warning Systems that you have in 30,000 people total have left your county and your area. This county. From basically the Solano County but right now were in sonoma county, heels burg. Ready for wildfire. Org is its the downtown plaza. Through Solano County. And then up to division whats another please where you can get here people are trying to called it is in patrol mode that information of how to be maintain a sense of normalcy while just a few miles down the prepared. Please Pay Attention to your road the fire here has burned surroundings. Thousands of acres. That be alert. Know your area. Know how to get out. This fire is not lives which means most of the active i kn o fire spread has been contained. It is still active from lake First Responders that are fighting these fires are tired. Hennessy all the way around to of four citizens. But theyre doing it they are three people died in a home in the north of the fire down napa county, another found dead highway 16 and then down to the doing it to protect their home, in Solano County. And we shouldnt forget the osha dihe tribal community. Your families, their families, death of that pg e worke w our communities. We have dozers, hand crews i appreciate all the work of the of course we want to get a look continuing to work aggressively at what we can expect with that forecast for you. Up into pope valley and to try cooperators. Its not just the folks on the to prevent that fire from moving meteorologist kari hall has been front line, the first monitoring a lot going on with responders, those folks coming into those structures and those in from out of state, out of the the weather, kari. Communities. Were also focusing attention on and we have been listening to moving more Ground Resources area. Its everyone thats supporting also what the fire officials are into the northern side of the the folks out in the field. Hennessy fire that is in the logistically to take care of direction of middletown, and those folks to feed them, to saying about the weather conditions around those fires. But this of course this fire is then moving through cash creek make sure that theyre getting and our air quality has been so part of that larger lnu complex the right information, a proper bad as we look at the heavy briefing so that we all are on smoke thats moving over parts drainage down highway 16 and try fire that is burning throughout the same communication channel. Of the east bay as we get a live several counties. To contain the fire to highway it takes a lot of work. Look at walnut creek, and then last night crews worked to 16. Firing operations are continuing and all of those people you around the bay area the smoke defend homes. Down the east side of the fire should be thankful for. Has gotten worse over the past but the fire and those winds theyre doing it for you. Couple of hours. Made it difficult at times for we are seeing in parts of the many residents and local so please do your part, help us north bay some really bad air Business Owners that thought of north where cash creek comes losing everything is pretty quality and in San Francisco we down to highway the help you. Listen to the evacuations, get had the fog earlier this morning terrifying. Were all on edge osha di community. As that dissipates we still have ready to go when you need to. This smoke left behind. Thats it. Lets get a look at those i hope for good news, but its year. Thanks. Weather conditions around those 480 going to take a long time. Fires in the north bay. We are not out of the woods, no so many of them burning, and thank you, chief. This morning was their opportunity to get some higher id now like up our law humidity and cooler patience because as the smoke enforcement partners for a quick temperatures. As we can see that around the clears, youre going to want to update. Get back in your homes. Napa county sheriff john the size of this fire is huge. And for those of you that have healdsburg fire, we are starting robertson as well as sonoma lived in sonoma, lake, napa, to see temperatures warm up and county sheriff markrobertson fr. Into the upper 70s and humidity im also here on behalf of the yolo, colusa and solano is coming up as well and we are sheriffs from lake county, getting some stronger winds, up Solano County and yolo. Counties, you know that this area is very impacted by fire on to about hour. Here to give you a brief update a yearly basis. As we look at other fires in so, please beith us. On evacuations. Napa and solano counties, we are we continue to work with our were trying to do the best we partners side by side. Can. We want you back in your home. Temperatures there starting to warm up. But we did have a nice cool that is cal fire and other thank you very much. Please be safe. Public Safety Agencies working morning and higher humidity. But once you go up in elevation this incident here. We are issuing evacuation orders that really doesnt make a difference. And notices as appropriate thank you, chief. We are seeing dryer conditions up there. And also for parts of the south through our partnership with cal now id like to bring out our fire. Incident chander achieve kavanaugh. Bay into the scu lightning our job is to get the public out of harms way. Complex, look at how warm it is we want you to leave when youve around Mount Hamilton right now. Been ordered to evacuate. Good morning and thank you for thats the center that w coming joining us this morning. Evacuation zones are dangerous. As ive talked the last couple they contain many hazards for days at theseion out to you and the public and thats why were now to 39 . Asking you to leave those areas. But thats after awere also se additionally, evacuation zones appreciate everybody listening and having questions. Changing for parts of the santa have active Fire Fighting but its important for us to be cruz mountains. And our gusts right now are at efforts going on. And you remaining in those areas able to speak with all the issues that are involved on this could hamper Fire Fighting large incident we have. About 9 miles per hour. Currently the lnu complex is weve seen some higher gusts at efforts. So please, if youveif you for n sitting at 219,067 acres. We have approximately 7 b containment on the incident. Anything below 30 is extremely as far as personnel, we doubled our personnel last 24 hours, and we are very thankful from that. Dry. But even with some higher were up overpeonnel as of this humidity were seeing those fires still spreading because of from about approximately 587 all the dry vegetation and yesterday. So that is a good thing. Things that havent burned in the morning operational years. Theres a lot of fuel out there. Briefings are getting more people in it. And thats a benefit to the looking at the wind direction, this is what influences our air operations in the firefight that we have at hand. Quality and what makes it change so quickly. So our winds are coming in from unfortunately, yesterday in the county of napa we did have three the northwest. Its blowing a lot of that smoke civilian fatalities that were discovered. And also we have one down inouy. Over toward the central balancy but also settling in our bay those are tragic losses that have occurred. Area valleys as well. And my heartfelt sorrow goes out to the families of those victims from this incident. In napa and lake county, and ill try to do this every day, we are watching Tropical Storm as you can see on the map weve genevieve thats moving west of reorganized how the map looks. Once again the fires have come cabo and baja, california. This is expected to weaken over together over here, the east branch or the east zone. The next few days. This may actually have an impact in napa and lake county, its here on our weather here in the one fire now called the hennessy bay area as we are watching for the potential of this getting fire. And the fires that merged were drawn up into that High Pressure the gamble, the green, the etna, and bringing another round of some tropical moisture and the markly, spanish, the morgan, and potential of more lightning the round fires. Strikes between sunday night and monday. This morning were sitting around computer models still trying to sort this out. And thats something well be doing over the next couple of 94,942 acres. And thats where the 7 days. But you definitely want to stay on top of the weather situation containment sits. Throughout the weekend into over in what were calling the east zone, that isllbridge this early next week. Marcus . All right, kari, thank you. Coming up for you, the sitting around 21,125 acres, 0 Golden State Killer is sentenced. His word to his victims. But happening now for you, containment. The myers is around 3,000 acres. Home sales soared in july. As you heard from chief waters this is up by 25 from june. On the operational update, thats according to the National Association of realtors. Overnight we had some humidity there is still a shortage of and allowed for some good work inventory. In San Francisco the number of homes on the market is down 3 to be done on all the incidents. From this time last year. Keep talking about evacuations. In san jose theres 21 fewer i stood up here yesterday and homes for sale. Well be right back. Talked to the community about how we do evacuation, some of the reasons why. Also said it was very important and its a priority when we bk o dont miss a n documentary their homes. We starting that today again already. About how the bay area we do have some evacuation transformed surfing into the california dream. Orders that are being lifted. Along with that this is bay area revelations riding interesting though. The waves sunday at 9 00 on nbc were also in the process of bay area. Adding more evacuations. And thats something we normally dont do. We are spread out in such a large geographical area that we have different fire behavior. We have Different Levels of containment. And t it is a priority. As soon as were talking about evacuations were working up the repopulation plans. Its same as i said yesterday. It takes a large cooperative and welcome back. Effort to make that happen, not only for the fire behavior, the right now we want to take you to that press conference where weather, all the resource, utilities to get people back in their homes. But i promise you it is a top the state. All of you assembled here priority for us to do that. With that please adhere to any with cal fire, tom porter chief additional new evacuation orders of cal fire. That we have. Weve been monitoring fires all it is imperative that you take up and down the state of to those orders as we keep california. A week or so ago the headline pushing the message. You dont have to, if you feel fires, the apple fire around like youre in danger, please riverside county, challenges we were facing and the ranch fire, leave your property for your lifes safety as you move the lake fire in los angeles forward. Its a large incident. County. We have substantially made get the progress on the apple fire, 95 resources, its a goodth are in. Contained. Weve been able to pull resources from Southern California here to the north. Weve made progress on the lake fire about 50 contained as of this morning, 39 contained at the ranch fire. The fire concentration, the challenge that were facing here is now disproportionately impacting now california. And that is because of close to 12,000 lightning strikes that we experienced over a 72hour 376 fires in this state. That number has grown to about 560 fires in the state of california. We had a lot of sleeper fires. This we anticipated as the smoke cleared as our reconnaissance efforts increased as we compared and contrast the federal efforts with the local and state efforts. That new number represents 560 active fires that we are addressing, tried to suppress here in california. The larger fires, the lnu fire that we briefed you here this morning, this fire complex ligh complex is one of many lightning complex fires that we are addressing here in northern california. I was down y watsonville and santa clation s around the fires down there, the czu complex and the scu complex. The scu complex and santa clara right now is about 10 contained. While were dealing with about 219,000 acres here in this complex, the lnu, that complex is about 229,000 acres. The reason i mark these two in points of contrast, 7 contained here, is these two fires represent two of the top 20 largest fires the state of california has had in recent memory, arguably in modern recorded history. Theres been 20 epic wildfires in the state of california. This complex represents the tenth largest the complex scu represents the seventh largest that the state has ever had to battle. These fires again are stretching our resources, stressing our personnel. We have 12,000 firefighters actively working to suppress these larger complex fires. The larger cohort of fires represents about 20 to 25 fires. We talk in terms of the totality 560 fires. A lot of those are smaller fires, more remote. The larger complex fires that were battling represents roughly two dozen fires that have required incident commands like the one we have assembled here today all up and down primarily the northern part of the state. We are making progress on the butte fire complex, lightning complex up north, making some progress on that jones fire which generated a lot of concern and consternation because the evacuations are around nevada city and grass valley. Progress being made there. We were pleased by the extraordinary work the red cross and others have done to quite literally overnight get up these evacuation sites. Their protocols, processes, and procedures are second none in this country as was stated by a number of people already. These are familiar challenges for all of us here in the state of california. The individuals assembled in this room are familiar with this because weve been at this in 2014 up in lake county, 2015 not just in lake but throughout northern 2017, 2019 last year struggling with some of the largest fires we have had to experience. Kincade more recent memory, more indelible to folks up here in this region. And so its a consequence of that, we developed stronger protocols, processes. Weve developed a stronger collaborative tissue in terms of the work thats being done across the spectrum. The volunteers familiar with other volunteers. And i just want to express deep gratitude not only and i will in a moment substantively to all our front line firefighters, but to all the volunteers that assembled to help seniors at 1 00 a. M. Down there in vacaville that had to evacuate a senior facility to accommodate their needs at 1 00 in the morning, particularly in this covid environment where were cohorting individuals, were testing individuals, were making sure people are healthy when theyre in the evacuation site. I want to thank all of those extraordinary volunteers down in santa clara at the fairgrounds that had to evacuate a site with dozens and dozens of peopl w