Been devastating to see those homes lost in this fire right behind me they are carrying out their morning to briefing to you have agencies from across the bay area here to help put out this fire. But i enjoy life right now with captain saw lopez is with the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office you know, lets talk about how its been for your department in the most important thing you want people to now so were currently working with cal fire in communicating with our residents in the south coast area thats been affected and many of those areas or rural and steep. So when we do issue a i suggest that everybody listens to those warnings you pack up your things and be ready to evacuate if those mandatory evacuation notices come out what have you seen anyone or people trying to stay back and not wanting to leave their houses and if that is happening. What do they need to do so those are some of the challenges we have experience at in the last 48 several deputies have interacting with residents
Fine. Im sure their lawns are full of smoke and look at the left side of your screen you can see the smoke and the flames still there they easily could have been killed. Look at the hillside right behind them completely charred and then to the left of them as well thats also charred so those flames easily could have jumped into their field, but it never did. Apparently according to sources that people who live here they water this area very well for the llamas to have their food and because of that you can see the grass is much greener here then on the other side. Yes, its burned, but there are patches of a lot of yellow indicating dry vegetation. So because of that it looks like the llamas are saved and i just noticed over there on the right side of your screen a couple of cows. Theyre doing just fine as well among Pleasant Valley road driving into this location. There are many homes great news to pass along there are many homes that are still intact, theyre not allowing people to go
Valley. When they begin speaking we will bring it to you live. A pg e worker died in the wildfire in solano county. He was clearing power poles. This would allow access to emergency responders. He was unresponsive. Cpr was performed on the individual. The employee was transported by ambulance and pronounced deceased at a local hospital. Gates canyon is in the hills above vacaville. They have not said how the worker has died. This is the first data reported in the fires. There is the hennessy fire. The lnu lightning complex this is named after the lake napa unit. Doubtfire destroyed dozens of homes on tuesday night. Officials lifted some of the Evacuation Orders. People into areas of fairfield were given the green light to return home. Travis air force base is under an Evacuation Order, only Mission Essential personnel will work today. The walbridge fire is part of the lnu lightning complex fire. The fire is 14,500 acres. There is zero containment. There are mandatory evacuation. Much o
Switch to xfinity internet advantageous places as and get a flex 4k streaming device possible. Also, joe biden caps the with peacock premium included for no additional cost. First Virtual Democratic Convention with a pledge to be a president for all americans. As president i will make you a promise, i will protect america, defend us from every attack, seen and unseen, always, without exception, every time. More from the Democratic Convention in a few minutes, but first we begin with the bay area wildfires. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And hello everyone im Heather Holmes. Sadly we have late word tonight of several fatalities in these fires. Solano county, a man was found dead in the aftermath of the hennessy fire. The Solano County sheriff says the man lived on Pleasant Valley road in vacaville varied his name has not been released while his notified and cal fire says three people have died in napa county. So far no other information has been released. The massive lnu co
The woodward fires burning at the Point Reyes National seashore in marion county. Right now at this hour crews are in a race to try and save homes and property from those fastmoving flames. Good evening. Everyone, im Jonathan Mccall in tonight for ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 oclock tonight. We are going to tackle each of these complex fires, one by one from the damage done to the evacuations which are in effect we begin in the north bay and as we mentioned the largest of those fires, the l a new complex fire. In the last 30 minutes weve learned that this blaze has now grown to more than 124,000 acres now scorched. With more than a 100 structures destroyed and 25,000 more now being threatened you can see on your map exactly the areas that are made up from this particular inferno. Flames as we mentioned now burning in napa sonoma and solano counties. So far this blaze once again scorching more than 124,000 acres to give you an idea of just ho