Most all sparked by recent lightning. The governor is expected to given up date. We will bring it that News Conference live once it gets underway. We do have team coverage. We are monitoring those evacuations in san mateo and santa cruz. We will have the latest information on the lightning complex fire that has destroyed several homes already near vacaville. Sarah, good afternoon. Reporter cal fire actually just wrapped up a News Conference 30 minutes ago and gave us an up date about the lmu complex. There are several different fires burning across the state. Hellfire has requested 375 fire engines to help with all of the fires burning in california. The lmu lightning complex has limited resources at this point. It is a blades made up of seven different fires. It has burned 72 square miles and five counties including napa, lake, sonoma, solano, and yolo county. 60 fires were started by Lightning Strikes. This led us to this point. 50 structures have been destroyed. 50 have been damaged
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
Those fires cover 645 square miles. 13 times the size of san francisco. We begin our Team Coverage with Andrea Nakano where many residents on the west side have evacuated tonight. Reporter yeah. With the winds picking up a little bit the fire that was at a distance earlier this evening crept closer to this location. We have seen spot fires here and there and across the street and firefighters have been busy putting them out all night. This road is impassable as the fire scorching the mountain side, flames shooting up red woods and burning out of control. It is scary at the end of the day. It is it is daunting. It is overwhelming. It is it is out of control. It is out of anybodys control. Reporter he has been working all day and night on what he can control. Trim back trees. We have sprinklers on roof. Pump in the pool and friends that have showed up and offered to help. Reporter air tankers tried to knock down most of this blaze. Residents say the fire has been erratic with the winds p
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
Boulder creek golf course. The fires have torched close to 60,000 acres. Tonight, Scotts Valley residents and the uc santa cruz are the latest to be evacuated. We are live with the details tonight. Fire is zero percent contained and that marks another night of evacuations in Santa Cruz County. Those in Scotts Valley and uc santa cruz are the latest to receive the official notice to leave and it only came a few hours ago. Its this scene across the ccu august lightning complex fires. Forcing continued mandatory evacuations. A look at Boulder Creek in Santa Cruz County thursday evening. Homes are actively burning. Cars charred, since is igniting the devastation and ongoing danger has led to the evacuation of close to 50,000 people. You are hearing about some of the other surrounding fires. We are standing guard, the best way we know how. For Scotts Valley resident, the best way to stand guard now means getting out of town. The evacuation orders for the city, leave now. I have never seen a