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
Today just like yesterday, it is t a company by wind and dncause of the lack of when they al expect aircraft to be up in the air very soon to dump approximately 200,000 gallons of water if not more on the oday, they are making progress not a lot of progress as far as leaps and bounds, but they will take it 17 containment, thats up from 13 containment. What youre looking at right its fog thats not smoke so Good Progress there. But it has een very destructive. The number of homes and structures destroyed has gone up in t overnight hours from approximately 280. 2 now 330 structures and they do expect that number to go up because part of the firefighting process today is try to make inroads into a hard to reach areas which have bridges that have burned wooden bridges, theres fallen trees, theres debris. They hope to clear that get into those areas and count their homes that are still there and destrobut going to go do that and get back up in the r firefighters on the gr about 1400 of them.
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
Containment also went up to 17 the hurricane warning is out for all of the areas in this red area here. As we come in closer, when you from 13 yesterday. About 77,000 people remain evacuate from the homes in have a storm this strong, the santa cruz and san mateo storm surge will be a huge counties. This fire has destroyed more concern, possibly on the order of 9 to 13 feet, and theres a than 330 buildings, most in Santa Cruz County. That number is only going to chance this surge of water could move 30 miles inland. Thats just amazing. Increase. Obviously a large incident like so thats the latest on what is a strengthening storm, and it this encompasses numerous will be a big concern over the roadways and numerous next few days. Structures within the interior here is a live camera look at that is very difficult to get San Francisco, where you see to. Especially with the amount of some layers im watching. Trees that have fallen and the the fog hanging out ern, that amount of debris thats
Reporter 48,000 people have been evacuated so far between santa cruz and san mateo counties. As you mentioned, this fire exploding to nearly 50,000 acres, 0 contained. Coming up in a couple hour, we expect to get an up date from cal fire as to the status of the fire so far. They have been telling us about some of their challenges in fighting the fire, this low relative humidity, insaysab ina terrain and of course the limited julian glover, abc 7 news. As he mentioned, not only there in santa cruz, but fires are burning across the entire bay area this morning. And this map kind of gives you a sense of how widespread the emergency is. Many fires are burning in five counties, there are widespread evacuations. The lnu lightning complex in the north bay has caused the stuildings have been destroyed, dozens damaged. These fires have burned 131,000 acres with 0 containment. Cal fire says the winds are a huge threat as we head into the weekend. Now lets go to the south bay, the scu fire, it is