That fire weather watch. And there is possibility, so we have to bring that too you. But for today were looking at the fog along the coast. High clouds to the south that will be moving up from the south. The golden gate number in the north bay rebounding. 75 with calm wind by the delta and as we look at the air quality. Pleasanton and san jose, very unhealth. Concord and oakland not far behind and as we look at the rest of the bay area. A wind shift today is going to bring some of the smoke from the south up to more of the north bay. The north bay, are calm. Temperatures in the 70s and over into the east bay. Were at degrees. And looking at relative humidity about temperatures by 10 00, some 70s, high clouds in the afternoon. More high clouds in the south bay. Mixed with smoke and highs in the 90s. Well talk about less wind and more potential for dry lining when we see you next. Liz . Lisa, thank you. The bay area wild fire emergency spreading really by the hour. Here look at where the
And contra costa. Its massive. Burned 85,000 acres and only 5 contained. The lnu fire, that is in the napa and Sonoma County regions in the north bay. The wine country. Thats burned 46,000 the czu lightning complex, 10,000 acres, closer to the coast. More than 375 fires started across california in the past three days. A lot of those due to lightning strikes that weve had, of course, we have very hot temperatures and its so dry. B. I dont think ive seen anything quite like this. All around the bay area. Look at the nasa satellite image, just to show how widespread the fires are. Youve seen numerous fires from the north bay to the south bay, on the peninsula now. And the wind flow out of the north has generally been blowing smoke from window, im sure youve seen the smoke in the air or maybe seen ash collecting on the ground or automobiles. Heres a look at down in the south bay fires, the east bay fires and on the peninsula, you can see the images are so vivid on the nasa satellite camer
At this ominous sky over the dry creek valley. You have a little bit of everything. You have blue sky, heavy smoke, youve got the sun trying to peek through and you have the clouds continuing to move to the southeast. Inside the burn zone, it is not pretty. We just returned from there a few hours ago. Were driving carefully up mill creek road in Sonoma County through a burn state that this morning seemed benign when compared with what must have been the hell that roared through here last night. It breaks my heart. This is my backyard. This is the fire that weve been worrying about for decades around here. Reporter thats the healdsburg fire chief describing the wadgfire. This afternoon he toured the browned out burn zone with supervisor james gore who usually has answers for. Does anyone have any answers for how many houses burned here . No. There are people throwing around estimates, 15 to 20 but nobody knows right now. There are no confirms numbers. Reporter but everyone knew to worry
State. We have Team Coverage across the bay area. Fires are flaring and evacuations are underway as we speak. One of the most destructionive fireses is in sonoma county. 50 structures there have been damaged so far. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony live in vacaville with more on the situation. Laura . Reporter well, hi. I can tell you from what weve seen, that number will go much higher. This house behind me in the English Hills area, a very recent casualty. This home started burning right about 2 00. A beautiful twostory home on top of a hill. We can see it go up. The roof was on fire. And within less than two hours, really, this is all thats left of it. This is a harrowing night for the folks who live in this neighborhood. Were in northwest vacaville. Im told by the neighbors around 3 30 in the morning, they started to get the calls via loud speaker. The warning that there was an imminent threat to their lives. We had a go list dug up last night, fortunately. We grabbed everything an
Reporter 48,000 people have been evacuated so far between santa cruz and san mateo counties. As you mentioned, this fire exploding to nearly 50,000 acres, 0 contained. Coming up in a couple hour, we expect to get an up date from cal fire as to the status of the fire so far. They have been telling us about some of their challenges in fighting the fire, this low relative humidity, insaysab ina terrain and of course the limited julian glover, abc 7 news. As he mentioned, not only there in santa cruz, but fires are burning across the entire bay area this morning. And this map kind of gives you a sense of how widespread the emergency is. Many fires are burning in five counties, there are widespread evacuations. The lnu lightning complex in the north bay has caused the stuildings have been destroyed, dozens damaged. These fires have burned 131,000 acres with 0 containment. Cal fire says the winds are a huge threat as we head into the weekend. Now lets go to the south bay, the scu fire, it is