Progress on the lnu lightning complex. Sky 7 was over vacaville, earlier this evening. This is damage on oak canyon lane. At least 978 structures have been destroyed. More than 356,000, containment. Cal fire shifted a lot of its focus to lake countys middle town, Hidden Valley lake and lower lake. Its an area thats been hit multiple times in several years. And this report for us a short time ago. Flames shooting into the smoky air along the hillside of butts canyon road southeast of middletown. A site that is one of the main fire focuses for cal fire. I honestly expected cal fire to buckle and just get overwhelmed by it. They have held up, remarkably well. In fact, on tuesday, some firefighters sprayed the hillside with water. Others took to the air, dropping fire retardant. This is an area where homes have burned in the past. Theres now hope that wont happen, again. There is a little bit of deaa vu. But what are you going to do . The human condition is to power through. So you cant la
Joy, but guess what we also have . Mike nicco is in studio with me today. I am no longer a lonely girl here. Hi, friends. Hi. Youre so cheerful. Im happy that you are here. It is even more he have investigatievery investigation sense and bubbly in person. Lets talk about what is going on. You see the wind at fairfield, about 23 Miles Per Hour. And look at all this clean air automatic there. We have green throughout the bay, yellow in mifr more, so moderate and glean all the way up into the north bay and yellow around ukiah. So nothing is unhealthy right now. And for the better part of the day, well have the seabreeze. So the air quality today i think will be just a touch better than it has been. But come tomorrow, i think that well reverse that a little bit. So lets not get ahead of ourselves. Walnut creek, you see some of the essential commuters enjoying slightly cooler conditions. We start at 55 to 60, we end up near 60 at the coast, 76 around the bay, 88 inland. Well talk more about
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Computerized system. The overall view is increasing relative humidity and very strong gusts, 9 to 11 miles per hour. Then moving down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, we have wind gusting to about 13 miles per hour. Relative humidity there is 74 . Again, thats encouraging and the temperatures only 68 degrees. Weather is improving for fire containment, but once again, the air quality is very poor across most of the bay area. We have a spare the air alert in effect for the next three days through friday. Dan and ama. Spencer, thanks very much. Well get to that News Conference as soon as it happens. Well bring it to you. Right now, we want to tell you about the scu lightning complex, the second largest wildfire in the state. Its scorched 363,000 acres, destroyed 20 structures and is threatening another 20,000. This is truly a massive fire burning in the east and south bay. Even beyond. Parts of alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties are all affected. Cal fire put this effort into pers
Front lines tomorrow. And, at the same time, the weather is cooperating, pitching in with cooler temperatures and higher humidity. The Better Weather is helping firefighters with containment. Right now, the scu lightning complex is 20 contained. The czu lightning complex in santa cruz and san mateo counties is 19 contained and the lnu lightning complex in the north bay is 27 contained. Firefighters made steady progress on the lnu lightning complex. Sky 7 was over vacaville, earlier this evening. This is damage on oak canyon lane. At least 978 structures have been destroyed. More than 356,000, containment. Cal fire shifted a lot of its focus to lake countys middle town, Hidden Valley lake and lower lake. Its an area thats been hit multiple times in several years. And this report for us a short time ago. Flames shooting into the smoky air along the hillside of butts canyon road southeast of middletown. A site that is one of the main fire focuses for cal fire. I honestly expected cal fire