Today. So much smoke and haze. A lot of fire shop on the infrared satellite and a lot will continue. My satellite may not move. I will have to toss it. The system is stuck. Cordelia junction and 238 and bay bridge, where would you like to start . The Cordelia Junction because we have a truck accident on interstate 80 at 680 and that has made a slow traffic coming from fairfield and vacaville mostly fairfield and the backup is not that long and not quite into vacaville pick a big back up there. Slow traffic on highway 4 this morning because of earlier wrecks from pittsburgh into concord. The big 80 at industry pick look at all this slow traffic. This is not typical because of an injury crash there clear at industry. You may want to consider using an alternate route. Get on the freeway in union city and avoid heyward on 880 s. We will begin with breaking news where fastmoving flames near vacaville have burned homes or loose money. There is some injuries as well. The fire vacaville is par
Open overnight, some of us didnt get much relief from the heat really if anything just put some bad air into our homes. 80s at the coast 90s by the bay and yep youre seeing it there triple digits, one 10 today again in livermore in antioch concord at one o 9 Napa Santa Rosa san jose just to name a few other spots that will be solidly in the triple digits today now with temperatures this hot you can see why so much of the bays yet again under excessive heat warnings through 09 00pm tonight that includes these pink areas on the peninsula down into the south bay where we will be solidly in the triple digits. Same for those of us on the east bay triple digits inland 90s for bayside cities like oakland and richmond while antioch brentwood Discovery Bay above 110 degrees in these areas. Fairfield and vacaville also at a 110 above and with such dangerous heat check on your neighbors, check on some of your older relatives who may be even more vulnerable to the heat make sure that theyve got a
Counties. Sc fire is in the east bay in three areas calledded the canyon zone, calaveras zone and the deer zone. If youre wonders what the action hims stand for. Its the region tasked with fighting. Csu is the santa clara. As you can imagine theres a number of evacuations in all of these numbers. The czu is 22 fires merged together. Its posing a serious threat to homes and public safety. Thousands have been evacuated. To northwestern Sonoma County, the lat os the walbridge fire, evacuation orders for 15,000 people in that area. This includes guerneville, jenner and other areas north of the russian river. It has burned 1500acres and zero percent contained and expected to be bigger. Were looking at the potential for the fire to expand in new directions as the winds rise in speed and shift direction from the southerly to easterly direction. Smoke from that fire is hacking offing central Sonoma County. Jesse gary is monitoring the evacuationed on the san mateo and santa cruz border. We get
Exactly where the fires are burning so theres the lnu lightning complex fires, burning in the north bay and now 21 contained. And then we have the scu lightning complex fires in the east bay only 10 contained this morning and then the czu august lightning complex fire along the southern peninsula at 8 contained more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires all across california and were learning that the body of a 70 yearold man was found sunday afternoon in santa cruz county. Well the l a new lightning complex fire has been the deadliest and most destructive check out this video at least 4 people have died and others have been injured 871 structures have been destroyed and another 234 structures have been damaged flames have just scorched more than 347,000 acres containment this morning, its only 21 . The fire continues to burn just west of the hillsborough area and also threatened several more homes kron fours taylor psaki has a look at the damage. Right no
Santa cruz county. Lets zoom in now on the czu lightning complex fire. You take a look at this map on your screen. The red line shows the outline of the fire and it has grown so much you can see that spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fires turned deadly a 70 yearold man was found the body of 7 yearold man was found in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live this morning at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley. He has the latest will. Marty so far right now as of the update yesterday at around 11 oclock last night 74,000 acres have burned for this fire. We do know that at least 131 structures have gone up in flames with many others damaged. We expect a News Conference in one hour from now they have thousands of firefighters spread throughout california. The moving forward the biggest challenge will be the resources heading to this location. Yes, very dry very smoky. But the good news is i did not see any Lightning Strikes thats the fe