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Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 News At 9 20240712

In decades. Cal fire says that more than 400 structures have been. Burned to the ground 32 are looking at damage. Converse Taylor Bisacky is live for us in Scotts Valley to bring us up to date. Whats the latest taylor. The key here in Scotts Valley were seeing a lot of Emergency Personnel a lot of First Responders coming and going but some of that action starts about 11 miles west of here. I travel towards that area today and eventually landed in bonny doon and this is what youll see a shot some video from earlier and making my way over that way youll see a lot of dark plumes of smoke coming from the mountains and as i headed towards that direction. I eventually had felt an empire road where flames are still active. Theres many hot spots on both sides of the road so it makes it a little unnerving driving through that area you also would see a lot of fallen trees thankfully. I did see plenty of firefighters nearby the watching over that area now through the flames and smoke erode youll eventually hit empire road in bonny doon unfortunately that area is just a full of destruction many homes burned to the ground only chimneys some melted appliances Still Standing pretty eerie eerie feeling out there eventually ran into some locals who are staying behind to help firefighters. One of the men helping out is casey thornley who lives in washington has property in santa cruz. He says theyre providing all the basic essentials for First Responders. Now this property we are handing out food and water at this moment for other people were making a safe space its a fire safe spot. Its a local everybody is local knows where the airport people are donating which is really helpful. Were getting food water gas diesel. Firefighting equipment which has been really and just getting prepared. Now casey tells me he also has his own firefighting equipment and he used that earlier this week to defend his own home of granger lane also the property at one of his Friends Properties that theyre staying at they did the same there and well he tells me that theyre not allowed to help other properties, he sometimes goes ahead and has done that so far but he says that theyve become somewhat of a home base for these firefighters. One plane, a truck came through where the fire tenders came through and got some water from the pull over and that property so theyve become a really big help for the local First Responders in this area for now live in Scotts Valley taylor sackey kron 4 news. Well helping out no doubt thank you taylor, the czu complex fire there did go through big basin redwoods state park, the oldest state park in california. Featuring some of those majestic redwood trees, some of those close to 2000 years old and tonight were hearing good good news, many of those trees survived. When the forest fires when storms and lightning hit redwood trees. They dont tend to topple over and are often known to re sprout, the resilient park Officials Say theyll be inspecting the trees in the coming days, yeah, we needed that good news tonight. To the north bay now the l a new lightning complex fires burning in Solano Sonoma napa lake in yellow counties. Those have grown now to more than 356,000 acres. And it is now 27 contained tonight, 5 people have died in those fires and 978 structures are destroyed our Team Coverage fours noelle bellow who spoke with people. Trying to return to their homes. Noel, its a. Its a challenging endeavor. No doubt. Definitely and you know if youre on one side of the creek, then youre not able to come home if youre on the other side of the creek here in a Dry Creek Valley than you were able to come home, im here on west side road as you can see behind me. The road is closed everyone up this way including off of hardhit mill those folks cannot come home tonight and there are still active flames burning i can see an orange glow just behind me so it definitely is still very active tonight. I have some video from around 7 oclock this evening. This is what looks to be like the last evening. Water drop that choppers were making as they were trying to kind of get a nother good handle on the flames burning to the west of dry creek i made my way down like i said mill creek road saw several active flames still burning on the hillside there again exactly why folks are just not supposed to try and come home on this side now on the east side of the creek you can see the flames on the ridge pretty close but most People Living there were able to return to their homes today, their evacuation orders were lifted, but looking at how the fire was behaving this evening and it is starting to get a little windy folks i spoke to are a little worried. Its a lot of mixed emotions because. The fire still on there. Our side of the mountain now and smoking and so im like. On edge said charters and winds but i cant really be a fun morning because. I dont know how the trust of firefighters and our city saying that we can come home but. You never know with fires. And you definitely never know with fires now earlier the cal fire officials said they used the term cautiously optimistic when it comes to the l a this one burning here behind me is technically called the walbridge fire. Its about 17 contained tonight but as i mentioned still active flames happening here and and fire crews have their work cut out for them for several more days likely for now live in Sonoma County noelle bellow kron 4 news thank you know well and for the months to come the charred hills along i 80 and Solano County those will serve as a reminder of just. How fast and dangerous the lnu lightning complex fires moved into the bay area or conversely to call talk the fire of the Fire Department in fairfield about how that city avoided death and destruction. Along interstate 80 more than 1000 acres of land between fairfield and vacaville and Solano County have fun. Lightning complex fires that all homes are Still Standing and not one person died as a result of the flames that passed through the area last week youre dealing with something that. You train for and that you do on a daytoday basis but to do it here in your own backyard was very surreal matt luke and bach is deputy chief of the fairfield Fire Department he says 13 members of his team were out of town last tuesday night helping cal fire fight other fires throughout the state. His department was already stretched thin when management learned flames were coming their way we had a little bit of a warning the fire came from the winners area through Lake Berryessa in the vacaville. And eventually the fairfield lucan box as it was up to his team and crews with neighboring vacaville Fire Department to coordinate a response. He says they let several back burns, the wall the fire off and that strategy worked even though the jumped interstate 81 point our normal staffing is 16 we actually had over 40 fearful firefighters on duty protecting the city luckenbach says the officiant firefight and the way his crews were able to quickly assemble. Is a testament to how prepared they are to fight these large wildfires has stepped up they stayed calm. They did everything that they could there was there was no hesitation that mean i just cant say the word proud enough, especially since everyone made it out alive in fairfield fled to gaul kron 4 news. The scu lightning complex fires burning in Santa Clara Alameda contra costa and san joaquin counties. Those are more than 365,000 acres right now in tonight. Its 20 contained 2 people have been hurt in these fires and 6 structures are damaged. And tonight, a local family is sharing their pain after the su complex fire just ripped through their livermore property kron fours michelle kingston spoke with them and shares their story tonight from pleasanton. This family just bought 5 acres of land to 4 years ago theyve been working on it ever since, but now its all gone. This is whats of our house the scu complex fire tore through the hills in the mines road area of livermore last week burning homes and displacing families we were just getting to the line a sleigh. Really doing a lot of there and then like this is kind of. And the stating dominique failing in his girlfriends family purchased this property for years ago never thinking that one day it would all be gone. After we packed what we could the jeep was full to the brim we got everything that starts clothing in looking for documents but everything has pretty much gone of their pictures and stuff like that last thursday, the family learned their house did not make it nearly everything on their property was gone, it was. Its surreal it was it was something weve never experienced when they went to survey the damage over the weekend they were happy to find one important part of their their cat tina survived the fire we just called her and called her and called her and likely she. Came right up to us. In Alameda County, michelle kingston kron 4 news. Were closely monitoring the evacuations across these 3 major complex fire areas. Kron fours also the money live in the newsroom now to and a guide us through each map area l a. Theyre granted this is a dynamic situation, especially with evacuation. So i do want to turn our viewers attention to eat region to show more clearly to go over the latest on what is open and what is still closed and were going to start with alan you complex fires in the north bay first so in Sonoma County people who live in the green area can now go home so evacuation orders. That means have been completely lifted for these areas so thats mostly in the coastal areas leading up all the way into what looks to be. Lets see fox mountain and all the way down to the Russian River so below the Russian River in the area of guerneville and for us fill those people can go home but above it is still in the red all the way into the west side of king ridge road down to where the road hits custody robot east of king ridge road all of austin creek state park fox mount the armstrong redwoods thats all in the middle here in the red, including Mount Jackson and again north current bill along with hacienda so basically again just following the Russian River all the way. Inland and up and around as you can see so dry creek road on the west of that site is still under mandatory evacuations heading all the way up until where it reaches. You take a look as you zoom in a little bit closer. Dutcher creek road so again that intersection right there is where the evacuation warning begin cents right above. Lake sonoma, so everything below that thats in the red is still a mandatory evacuation and now moving on into the lnu complex fires i want to go over and napa counties specifically so napa county thats where the lnu complex fire is still a burning right now so the red is where the fire zone is in the blue is a mandatory evacuation so all of lake area so you can see up to the knoxville wildlife area to the north napa county line where it borders with yellow county and that includes big basin and south of butts canyon where and then the napa county line needs lake county see just follow that order passing right underneath, laying tree farms, golf club, including including po valley and up to highway 29 where it meets lincoln avenue just northwest of calistoga city limits and the mandatory evacuation line kind of cuts east to include north and east of silverado trail including Glass Mountain and how a mountain chiles mountain. So you can get a sense of really this rugged terrain that firefighters are now being challenge with so again that is in the napa county area. Moving on with the lnu complex fire. Still nearly farias said this is now Solano County that i want to go over so all the red these see on your screen similar story this is a mandatory evacuation warning so thats above lake curry into fairfield along both sides of highway 80 right above the paradise valley, golf course and then it curves a upwards to the west of lagoon valley, Regional Park and then west of i 80 right here and then a Pleasant Valley road at gates canyon road and it also includes a stretch of Gibson Canyon a little bit further up. And between quail bridge lane and candler road. So all of that to the west of Gibson Canyon is part of that mandatory evacuation so that just means you get a head out immediately if you havent already left so were going to have all this information including where you can go if you need a safe place. Those Evacuation Centers are all listed on our website kron 4 dot com later on in the newscast will go over the s e u and the czu fires live in the newsroom. Ella sogomonian kron 4 news all right allen, thank you for all that information turning now to the weather which is a really important component here. As we get a live look at outside of sfo. Yeah. Pretty beautiful shot right there as the weather has been cooperating the past a day and a half or so and that is great news tracking conditions now across the bay areas our meteorologist lab recently rodriguez mabrisa would love to see that marine layer stick around. Yeah, we would love to, but unfortunately looks like tonight is going to be the last night without widespread marine layer cooling down through your midweek forecast but then tracking warmer and drier weather in the days ahead. So hopefully firefighters really gain ground as far as the wildfire battle goes lets take a look and air quality out there right now we do have a spare the air alert that has been extended from now through friday. But one thing that we are noticing along the coast, they said that deepening marine layer and that cool sea breeze, its pushing all of that smoke and ash away from the bay area where even most of the east bay and south bay noticing also an improvement in air quality even though youre noticing about moderate amounts of poor air particles with the unhealthiest and porous levels no surprise for inland areas in the east bay and that is going to be the same pattern that were tracking for your midweek forecast as well unhealthy amounts of air particles for most of the bay area but the porous for those of you in the east bay specifically our inland valleys but much needed much welcome relief for our firefighters are heroes out there on the front lines battling a raging wildfires but getting a little bit of a break from Mother Nature yet again tonight. Thanks to the return of that low and high cloud cover calmer overnight wind speeds as well temperatures out there right now already cooling down into the 50s along the coast, half moon bay, 59 degrees downtown San Francisco. A degree cooler at 58 degrees. Thanks to that stronger on shore flow and even san jose in the upper 60s with widespread low to mid 60s throughout the east bay shoreline oakland, 64 degrees hayward 66 still in the 70s for warmest inland areas in the east bay livermore and dublin in the low 70s with widespread 50s and 60s. Finally arriving for those of you in the north bay battling the lnu complex fire for firefighters, there 66 degrees for napa and santa rosa already in the upper 50s so they really should take advantage of this weather tonight because wind speeds during the overnight hours. 20 Miles Per Hour less and stormtracker bore is going to track that deepening marine layer making its way into our inland valleys not going to be as widespread as last night through this morning but nothing moisture out there to really help them out with popup flare ups we are going to notice better clearing by wednesday afternoon overnight lows tonight, widespread 50s and 60s and even cooler temperatures with near average highs for downtown San Francisco at 67 degrees mid 70s throughout the east bay shoreline and back in the 80s for inland valleys, no 90s or triple digit heat for your midweek forecast upper 80s for those of you in livermore an antioch napa 82 degrees in santa rosa 86 degrees. So lets take a look ahead at the 7 day outlook, warmer and drier weather in the days ahead, but looking out in the future forecast a week from today tracking some light to breezy winds so going to keep an eye on that from the kron 4 Weather Center as this wildfire fight continues back to you grant vicki. Thanks for another fire we are monitoring not one of the 3 big complex is but it is in the north bay, its known as the woodward fire. Burning in western marion county. Yeah, it is burning in Point Reyes National seashore flames there have grown to more than 2700 acres. Only 5 contained. Firefighters say that theyre frustrated with the slow progress blaming weather as well dance of dry timber, this fueling the flames there. The fire is threatening more than 1600 structures. Evacuation orders have been issued for about 90 homes on silver hills road, fox drive and noren way coverage continues at kron 4 dot com and there you can find a complete list of evacuation orders and warnings. You can also track the wildfires on an interactive map and find any alert about weather in your neighborhood. Its all at kron 4 dot com. Others are set to release new reopening guidelines this week for us Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains some of the business officials. Say they have been taking part in this discussion. California Health Officials tuesday said r

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