When its made with love, its made to be shared. News at 6. A deadly natural disasters. Batter the u. S. From coast to coast in the bay area lightning sparked wildfires that have killed 7 people are still burning tonight. Firefighters say the scope of damage is historic the number of fires that we had such a short amount of time in the way theyve burned as is pretty parallel in my career on the gulf coast lower slams ashore as a category 4 hurricane killing 4 people and leveling entire neighborhoods. Another night of unrest in america protests turn violent in oakland as nationwide outrage grows over the Police Shooting of jacob blake and the sports world postponing games once again in solidarity with racial justice. Thank you so much for joining us tonight on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman were tracking 3 major crises in america tonight. Unrest has turned destructive during a bay area protest. A deadly hurricane has slammed the southeast. But first we want to turn to the 3 wildfire
News stations, youre watching kron 4 news at 10. And its hard to look at. And i know that were going to have to start going through things and. You know coming up here and at and working a little bit but if at a time to come. Now it and devastation after a disaster a family of 5 is left heartbroken tonight after the lnu lightning complex fires destroyed what was supposed to be there forever home. Thanks for joining us on this thursday night, im ken wayne and im pale more that familys home one said on gates canyon road in vacaville and it is now reduced to rubble. Well for sale of the sack erie visited the area with the family tonight and she joins us live with more taylor is heartbreaking. Pam ken a family of 5 lived here april and Mike Hernandez raise their 3 kids here, im standing in what was once their sons bedroom, you can tell just how hot this fire was check us out. This is wilsons a desk chair. Well all thats left of it and here behind me melton appliances in the area that was o
Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that
Bay, or 35 contained the czu august lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties are now 26 contained and then the l in you lightning complex fires in the north bay or 35 contained. Were going to start this morning by focus seen at the of on the czu lightning complex fire thats burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. The gray area on on the map on your screen shows the areas that have burned thus far in kron fours will tran reporting for us live at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest on this firefight well. Mardy us talk about whats being burned so far the acreage has gone up slightly though as far as the acre numbers and theyre happy about that because its not exploding so they just wrapped up a News Conference the acres. Now sunday, 82,540 acres thats about a 1000 more than yesterday, its not exploding exponentially so there are starting to turn the corner a little bit on this fire, although they still have a lot of ways to go. Robin
Of their own home as they were allowed to return late last night so theyre the First Community to do so the hope is to have areas like felton and the highway 90 corridor to have those areas open sooner than later those of the new places that they were targeting today, theyre throwing 2000 firefighters at this and it is working because the number of acres burned its not exploding, it is sitting right now at 82,540 acres and thats up only a 1000 acres from yesterday containment also up youre sitting now at 26 . Containment but firefighters still have their hands full, its basically a race between them and the fire to get to feel that has not been touched yet. Were going to have to start removing trees. The are unsafe. Weve got potentially take out additional power lines across roadways or in danger structures. So like i said its multiphase when we start pushing forward with the entire mitigation process of this incident and its going to take a while. I mean everyone to be patient. Were w