Around the corner which as you guys mentioned could cause a lot of us across the bay area problems, especially if you are in one of those areas. We could lose power as fire danger increases, looking outside this morning at least we do have a beautiful start to the day. Its dark but it is very clear out there to kick off this morning, pretty calm for now, but winds pick up tonight across especially the coast and across the north bay, those winds will gradually spread be really widespread for portions of the in one north bay into the inland, the east bay by the time we work our way into wednesday and thursday now these winds paired with increasingly warm temperatures means fire danger is going to be of concern vacaville atlas peak Calistoga Sonoma seeing winds gusting regularly and into a 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour range that paired with low humidity and hot temperatures of so theres a lot this season way too much is going to result in the high fire danger out right now temperatures 40s 50s
Bay area wildfires turning even more deadly tonight weve learned a 70 yearold man has been found dead in Santa Cruz County where the czu lightning complex fires are burning coal fire says those fires are burning at least 74,000 acres so far in san mateo and santa cruz counties. It is at 8 containment at least a 163 structures have been destroyed. There are roughly 1500 fire personnel working on the fire lines kron fours gayle ong joins us now live. In the Santa Cruz Mountains in Scotts Valley with more on this fire fight. Gayle. Well that 70 yearold man was found in the low area of last chance the road and of Santa Cruz County sheriffs deputies are also looking into 3 other missing persons cases. Firefighters are focusing on saving homes. We have video of what theyre doing today and you can see a they were a back burning they were setting fires to control the fire line around a home on highway 9 in Boulder Creek and this is right by the Boulder Creek Community Church. They were making
Santa cruz county. And any minute now were expecting an update from cal fire on the czu complex fires that are burning in santa cruz and san mateo counties and well have it for you live when it happens. Well meanwhile, lets start with the l in new complex fire. Thats burning in the north bay right now check out this map that shows you where the complex fires are burning which is in sonoma napa and solano counties so far at least 4 people have died and 4 others have been injured, lets check in with kron 4 Sarah Stinson who is in Sonoma County where the fire is threatening homes, sarah. They robin the on live here on West Dry Creek road just west of healdsburg where its still very dark outside a lot of times with these fires cal fire as the way till sunrise is to really see what theyre working with after a long day of battling the flames take a look at what they were doing yesterday and probably into the night to try and combat the flames and stop them from spreading to nearby communitie
Now lets focus in on the czu lightning complex fire. You can see the outline on your map its in red. It shows the outline of the fire and you can tell that its spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fire has turned deadly as firefighters discovered the body of a 70 yearold man in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a scotts valley. He has the latest for us well. Marty they just wrapped up the News Conference a little bit more information on that man who died his name not being released. But we do know that he was found near his vehicle in the attempt of leaving the fire so he was trying to rescue himself but overcome, but either the smoke or the flames so he was not inside his home at the time and thats when they believe that he was desperately trying to flee unfortunately he ran out of time and the fires just simply overcame him as far as the condition of the fire still very much burning out of control at this
Screen that map shows the outline of the fire and it has spread now to the coast, new this morning that fire has turned deadly as firefighters discovered the body of a 70 yearold man. In the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran is live at the Cal Fire Base Camp and scotts valley, he has the latest for us will. Learning just add on to what you said about that victim we do know that he was not inside his home, but in fact near his car. That leads them to believe that he was trying to flee the fire but just simply ran out of time and just overcome by the heat the smoke or the flames and thats how he was not able to get out, but his name not being released to the public at this time as far as the fire they are making progress. Good news to pass along they were so fearful of lightning strikes in the overnight hours but they did not see any lightning strikes in the Santa Cruz Mountains and that and just favorable conditions have helped them make headway. We are now sitt