And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula to percent contained. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Im Vicki Liviakis that im grant lotus we continue of course to track the 3 lightning complex fire still burning in the bay at this hour. Well start with that czu august lightning complex fire system thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Fires that were burning separately in those 2 counties merged overnight in total. The flames have now burned about 57,000 acres and forced more than 60,000 people to leave their homes at this hour. The fire is just 2 contained at least 97 structures have been destroyed nearly 25,000 others are threatened this evening. 2 people have suffered minor injuries said there are more than 1100 personnel working those fires right now. And we have Team Coverage on the czu or this lightning complex fires are kron fours gayle ong dan thorn they are alive. In Santa Cruz County with the latest on the fires and the damage there and our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is in our Weather Center tracking weather conditions. We want to first start with gayle ong who has the latest on the firefighting efforts in the Santa Cruz Mountains and san mateo gayle. Grant and vicki, its also worth noting with a 57,000 acres. Some of that is actually back burning uncommon firefighting strategy where crews will intentionally set fires to control fire lines and firefighters have the upper hand with the weather today. They saw a low winds so that was a big help they were able to fly aircraft to drop heres some video of earlier this is by highway one near water creek, and there still some activity even by the coast and we saw some smoldering hot spots. So that has also been a concern at the Major Concerns in this fire is mostly and Santa Cruz County and of those areas is over the san lorenzo areas burning bonny doon which many homes that we know so far almost a 100 homes. Last of structures rather but most of them homes. So a cruise they do have teams out there that will be serving the area over the next couple days to get a feel what exactly has burned now another focus in this fire is evacuating several. Thousands of people im more than 60,000 people were evacuated from all counties all together and another concern is that they evacuate people displaced them. There they could be attracting looters and that is what happened 5 people were arrested in Santa Cruz County. There are people out there unfortunately that are that are looking at to victimize people. We have a laugh and have been displaced since absolutely its its terrible. Its disgusting. Today alone. We arrested 5 people 5 people with 2 carloads full of stolen property. A fall creek road. And a fall creek road that is in the town of felton in Santa Cruz County his picture the 5 people who were arrested i have been seeing a sheriffs deputies in Santa Cruz County patrolling the area. Hes here in scott valley road more than i have seen in the last couple days that ive been reporting. We are live in scott valley, gayle ong kron 4 news. Thank you gayle and we continue our coverage with dan dorm, he is also in Santa Cruz County yeah hes been serving the devastation in ben lomond and. Several homes and buildings have been destroyed out here tonight vick in grand. We are in downtown ben lomond which is just south of Boulder Creek where the fire continues to rage along highway 9 and highway to 36 take a look at this video that we shot from earlier today, a home bursting into flames, you could feel the heat and hear the popping and crackling as it quickly spread threatening another home that was nearby. This fire began climbing up the trees and burning away at any dry brush neighborhoods have been virtually flattened by this fire cars burned in the skeletons, downed power lines and power poles blocking streets along fallen leaf drive memories for people that are living in this area have been turned into piles of ash others have been lucky sum cars and houses actually spared by these flames. Firefighters telling us tonight that this fight has been difficult not a lot not only because of the terrain but the lack of resources because of other fires that are burning across the bay area several of these homes are also located in areas where its one way in and one way out. Many people have evacuated except for some like one man who says that hes staying behind to defend his home despite fire officials recommending people to leave. Is pretty much all we have. So weve been sitting here doing a bunch of work. Clearing it all back into everything cut back nice and clean is eerie is scary. As you can see here. The man says that hes been putting out little spot fires that have been popping up near his home by using buckets of water in his house mates have a also had their cars packed and ready to go in case they have to leave. Firefighters on scene tell me tonight that there are still a lot of fires that are breaking out in this area and they are advising people to leave to not hang out because it could put a damper on their efforts not as we mentioned some of the roads that around here a very narrow and very difficult to navigate. So firefighting efforts are already difficult and having to worry about people that should be out of the zones already just adds to that. All right dan thorn live for us tonight in Santa Cruz Mountains. Thank you dan because of all these fires beaches in beach parking lots in pacifica will be closed this weekend we posted a list of specific locations on our website kron 4 dot com that are affected city officials by the way in Half Moon Bay. Announce beaches and parking lots will also be closed there through monday morning. These fires are forcing families out of the place that theyve been calling home for decades. David birch and his wife have been living in Scotts Valley and Santa Cruz County for the past 36 years. They spent the day sorting through their most prized possessions. A person like jo spence died in iraq. Our daughter gave me his flag. A little emotional. And probably shouldnt talk about that too much otherwise why not get through this. And they are heading to idaho to stay with their children. And now we want to take a look at the evacuation map for this fire as well you can see by this area in red just how large the mandatory Evacuation Orders are i was a lot of territory. Indeed yeah, those fires combining in a lot of cases and they did overnight. With the san mateo portion of the fires santa cruz portion of the fire converging our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is tracking that part of the story tonight from our Weather Center reese its its been a long road this week for firefighters, yeah, and it may even get longer grant and vicki, especially of dry lightning in those pop up thunderstorms do form once again later this weekend into early next week. So certainly not going to let our guard down lets take a look at fire conditions out there right now with this czu lightning fire 71 degrees. So still tracking a relatively mild air mass even at this 10 oclock hour relative humidity down to 68 wind speeds though fortunately in the Single Digits in fact nearly calm with 3 mile per hour sustained winds. So that is great news for firefighters going to get a little bit more moisture and also not tracking as strong a breezes during the overnight hours even through the 1st half of the weekend winds will shift out of the westsouthwest with gusts upwards of about 20 Miles Per Hour or less so great news, especially for the 1st half of this weekend thats going to increase our relative humidity for most of our inland valleys or dries locations overnight will actually have moisture as high as 70 to 80 near 100 along the coast and along the bay but were going to cut that in half by around saturday afternoon tracking another warm dry day with the potential for dry lightning and popup thunderstorms more coming up in my full forecast in a few minutes granted to keep back to you thanks for bree said to the north bay now the l a new lightning complex fire is so far. The largest and the deadliest of the 3 complex fires currently burning here in the bay area. This is a map of the areas that are burned more than 300,000 acres have been torched in Sonoma Solano napa lake and yolo counties. And today we have 5 people have died and 4 have been injured in the fire there that firefight claiming almost 500 structures destroying those a 125 other structures damaged in that complex more than 30,000 other structures are still threatened tonight. Some good news though has we we have been reporting cal fire is now saying that there is 15 containment on that north bay fire complex thats more than double what it was this morning. As the lnu complex spreads across the north bay, the town of guerneville in sonoma county, its basically empty tonight following a mandatory Evacuation Order not entirely empty though kron fours michelle kingston was there tonight. She says downtown guerneville is close to a ghost town. Im standing in a deserted downtown guerneville all shops and restaurants is down here an look at this the sky behind me, bright blue, but when i turn the camera just a little bit out of downtown all you see is brown smoky skies, the entire town is under evacuation and we definitely need those that have not heeded the warning and left the area to do so emergency crews are patrolling the area on standby should the walbridge fire make its way into guerneville a heavily wooded tourist town that has not seen a fire in a long time theres a lot of unburned fuel spills that have not seen any substantial fired history and a long that and thats what really led say it being a beautiful area. People enjoy living amongst the it is a truly beautiful parts noma county this home burned nearby earlier this morning fire crews are concerned it will travel to guerneville with winds increase to Higher Elevations when he was just very bad on monday when a Lightning Strike fires happen myers fire which is on the other side of me towards the ocean. So effective monday night and they just kind of been on standby ever sent some neighbors in nearby castle darrow said been keeping a close eye on the rich they see a glow every night but are staying home for now weve been so lucky and where we are and who we have on the spire weve got a crew of at least 6 now locals neighbors that have their personal equipment out cutting lines on our ridges. And theyve been working all night long. So its been pretty pretty incredible neighborly effort out here winds have picked up concerning firefighters that they may push the fire to Higher Elevations and into guerneville a town that has not seen a fire in a long time in guerneville michelle kingston kron 4 news. And that ellen you complex fire and the north bay parts of the area around healdsburg this is what many of the homes look like now in that region, the raging fires also took down a family property that goes back some 80 years. The emotional values we just started to think i read on the cabin and then taken some steps toward on that so well with when i was younger eased up and spend an item or chain. You know i can i just dont hear the clock we know in the in the house. You know the they get up in Morning Coffee berks is out recreating that for our kids is the but i want to start from scratch. Plans change now he says he worries about his winery in dry creek in the family home on mill creek, thousands of people in the north they have been ordered to leave there holmes, this is the evacuation map for sonoma county. The red portion of the screen indicates the Evacuation Order is mandatory in that region while the yellow. Her first to evacuation warnings, People Living there in the yellow are not required to leave right now, but Officials Say if the call comes they should be ready to go. And this just in here a 3 alarm grass fire has just started in valais homemade a map here its burning near lemon street near deer street thats right across from mare island, the fire threatening buildings on cole the court will continue to monitor that situation certainly though concern has a new fire around or street again, threatening structures on coal and were going to be keeping an eye close eye on that one yeah we already have our hands full of course the largest among the 3 complex fires. That is the u. S. S c you lightning complex fires is burning in several locations throughout Santa Clara County alameda contra costa, san joaquin and stannis county cal fire says all together the fires have burned more than 274,000 acres about 10 contained tonight, 5 structures have been destroyed and more than 20,000 are threatened to First Responders and 2 civilians have been injured during the firefight was also the money and live in our newsroom now with a look at the effort on the front lines of that as siu complex fire l a. Just like the rest of the scu fire its made up of all these smaller blazes in the bay area most of that progress was made over in Contra Costa County in the east bay with the deer zone. So now, the main challenges the calaveras zone over in alameda and santa clara counties. And crews are out there cutting fire lines all along smith creek to create some more Defensible Space today and the scu has unfortunately grown at a frightening speed overnight by 90,000 more acres. There were some residents who are hurt so firefighters are reminding us that it is so important to have a go bag packed in case youre told to evacuate. Let me just point out a couple of areas that we did see some significant fire growth last night. This area down the south and eastern side of the of the fire here is where we this blew out last night and we had significant fire activity in here and then on the web as well we also had significant fire down throughout this area, the perimeter yesterday was a bit inside here and so its its its grown significantly over the past 24 hours. And you are showing her the fires to maybe join some yes and so as you can tell last night we had this kind of thing or grow in the fire. And if it has potential to kind of connect here over highway one 30 thats how its always important thing when those Evacuation Orders in those evacuation warnings are in you really gotta. You really got to listen to them because were going to have Emergency Personnel and their whether its Law Enforcement or or fire crews and their and their in their debt to help save those structures that are maybe in and specifically that helps save lives and by by you not being in that area and thats a huge help to the fire crews and and the Law Enforcement crews that are in the area. So far containment has doubled to 10 and hopefully these crews out there can get a handle on this up until we see the next storm later on this week live in the newsroom. Ella sogomonian kron 4 news alright ella and heres the latest evacuation map now from cal fire for the as c u complex. Fires you everywhere in reddits the mandatory Evacuation Order well those living in the yellow areas theyve received an evacuation warning but as we keep saying. You just be asked to leave the area at a moments notice so you got to be on guard. Want to check in now with our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez who is in our Weather Center and shes checking on weather conditions around the s c you lightning complex fires, looking better. Well we are noticing cooler temperatures, thanks to that night life or leave, but we are also tracking relative humidity fortunately going up as a result wind speeds also on the calm side with sustained winds at around 3 Miles Per Hour. So great news right there. Firefighters really getting a break tonight and even for the 1st half of the weekend as far as battling all of our wild fires go lets take a live look outside san jose another hazy night out there with pretty unhealthy air quality still remaining in effect for most bay area cities and temperatures out there right now starting to cool down into the 50s and 60s around the San Francisco peninsula, mid 60s for most of the east bay shoreline and widespread 70s as you make your way inland livermore 70 degrees in concord 77 degrees for you napa in the mid 70s and low 70s for those of you in santa rosa, so we are tracking overall calmer winds speeds tonight which is another great story that we want to see downtown San Francisco getting a little bit of the sea breeze, the 21 mile per hour sustained winds but in and around where the wildfires are burning tracking temperatures and also tracking. Calmer winds speeds as well so we are getting some relief there overnight lows tonight cooling down into the low to mid 60s with the exception of our tribe valleys in concord in antioch just cooling down into the 70s warming up into the mid 90s once again for the 1st half of your weekend, san jose 86 degrees low 90s for santa rosa mid 70s throughout the east bay shoreline so we are tracking about 5 degrees above average temperatures away from the coast, but near average highs returning for downtown San Francisco, 68 degrees cant even remember the last time i said that Half Moon Bay