Tells us a state of emergency has been declared for the entire island. Melissa residents of the Historic Town of lahaina finally allowed to return home days after the devastating fires in hawaii swept through communities, leaving behind a path of destruction. Just want to see whats left, but nothing. All gone. In west maui a new wild broke out overnight, forcing residents to evacuate. Hawaii Emergency Management records showed there were no warning sirens alerting people to evacuate. Instead, alerts went to cell but power and cellular outages limited their reach. This womans family lost their home. We are supposed to get, you know, on your cell phone, evacuation notices alerts, we got nothing. The flames also tearing through this neighborhood. His father spent decades building this multi generational home. It is now completely gone. Theres things you think you always have, you know, like things you think you will give to your children. The Community Coming together to help, some taking
Moving forward finding solutions. This is abc7news. This has superseded the camp fire of 2018. That was the deadliest. Now this fire is the deadliest. Over the last 10 years. Now at 9 00 devastation in maui continues breed the death toll for the wildfire for the wildfire coming overnight. It is sunday, august 13. Im stephanie sierra. We will have more on the aftermath in maui in a moment. We begin with the weather. Lets get to meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning everyone. Waking up to plenty of sunshine unless you are right at the shoreline. Live doppler 7 shows all the fog along the coast and high clouds coming in from this sierra nevada. Santa rosa has been a bit as well as Half Moon Bay and the golden gate bridge. This view from our former peak camera is beautiful. Air quality moderate east bay. Upper 90 santa clara valley. Low to mid 90s at a fire danger index brings us to a moderate level as we get into the warmth today. The upper elevation, the hills, very, very dry brush. War
This fire has now become the deadliest in the last 10 years. To station in maui continues, death toll climbing overnight. The latest on search and rescue efforts as federal help force in bank. Good morning. We have a lot to get, first, the weather. Lisa we have some fog. It has been compressed, the marine layer that 1000 two bank 1500 feet. You notice an area of low pressure to the south of us. We will be looking at air quality less than ideal in the east bay. Santa clara valley as temperatures continue to rise today. Tomorrow, north bay and tuesday is our inland warmth continues. They are major index is low through the morning let us temperatures come to the mid and upper 90s to the inland valleys, moderate risk of fire danger, afternoon hot temperatures with dry brush. 50s and 60s right now. Cloud cover around monterey bay and into Half Moon Bay. Visibility at about nothing. We will talk about how hot it gets today and into next week coming up. Stephanie we are tracking a fire in the
We want to check in with meteorologist lisa argen. Lisa high clouds to the east of us and a deck of clouds at 1600 feet. Clouds from the san to the north bay as we look from our tower cameras. Air quality is good for most of us except the heat is on today. Santa clara valley, temperatures warming. This will take us through monday and tuesday. Our fire index, numbers go from five degrees warmer yesterday to 10 degrees warmer than average. There is. 39 sleepy sea lions. 58 in oakland. Go to the warmup is quick pair pleasant around the bay. Cool and gray for the Morning Hours along the coast. Stephanie 30 say a fire that broke out in livermore overnight Authorities Say a fire that broke out in livermore overnight has been contained. It burned 15 acres of brush. Tracking another brush fire in the south bay. Crews cleaning up after a fire in mount hamilton. This is a video of when flames were still burning last night you the popular grandview restaurants. No structures were threatened. The
In the united states. That number is expected to go up. 85 people tragically died when the campfire tore through butte county. The flames have destroyed 1700 buildings, many of them homes. Nine boats sank in the harbor. Residents were allowed to return today and saw the devastation firsthand. Melissa don is following the developing story on maui. Reporter those raging wildfires are now hawaiis deadliest Natural Disaster in the states history. Tuesday, the flames torched several areas on the island. And police described how she survived spending more than four hours in the water. I climbed over the seawall into the ocean. While the fire was happening and the cars were exploding, we would duck into the water. Reporter residents returning to find their homes reduced to piles of ash and rubble. More than 2200 structures damaged or destroyed. More than 85 were residential. Hundreds and hundreds of cars are lined up, waiting for that opportunity to go back to their community. Its been four d