bay area wildfires turning even more deadly tonight we ve learned a 70 year-old 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 four s gayle ong joins us now live. in the santa cruz mountains in scotts valley with more on this fire fight. gayle. well that 70 year-old man was found in the low area of last chance the road and of santa cruz county sheriff s deputies are also looking into 3 other missing persons cases. firefighters are focusing on saving homes. we have video of what they re 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
the workweek more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires across california and tonight word of another death th of a 70 year-old man has been discovered in santa cruz county good evening. everybody, i m pam moore and i m ken wayne thanks for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at 8 o clock tonight we re monitoring 3 lightning complex fires across the bay area. here s the latest information on each the largest one burning acl and you complex fires. those fires spanned napa a sonoma solano and lake counties. tonight s they ve grown to more than 347,000 acres and they re at 21% containment. the s c you lightning complex fires are burning in alameda contra costa and santa clara counties. they ve expanded to 343,000 acres and or 10% cothe czu august lightning complex fires are burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. they ve gwn to 74,000 acres and are at 8% containment. and the last time that we have this event which was last weekend. there are
now let s focus in on the czu lightning complex fire. you can see the outline on your map it s in red. it shows the outline of the fire and you can tell that it s spread now to the coastline. new this morning that fire has turned deadly as firefighters discovered the body of a 70 year-old man in the last chance area of santa cruz county kron four s will tran live at the cal fire base camp that s 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 that s 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
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 year-old man. in the last chance area of santa cruz county kron four s 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 that s 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.
to see the backup. you are looking at north bound 680 in fremont. we only expect it to get worse as more and more drivers gas up their cars and hit the road for the thanksgiving holiday. mean people are heading out the central valley. los angeles. sacramento and the sierra nevada. aaa is predicting that nationally the largest number of americans in almost a decade to road-trip it 50 miles or more for the holiday, in part because of the improving economy, better paychecks and gas prices under $3 a gallon. here are the numbers. just under 44 million americans to hit the road this holiday weekend. that s roughly a 2% increase over last year. the most travelers since 2007. even though not everyone on the road really wants to be there. i don t. but you do it anyway? it s family! yes. i do anything for my family. reporter: you don t have to cook, right? i am. we re cooking tomorrow. reporter: cook and drive? what kind of deal that. you know, it s family. come on!