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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 n ....
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 ....
Are still trying to escape from the neighborhoods are facing this morning. Good morning, mike. Lisa. Its lisa, sorry. Thats okay. Well work through it, right . Here is a look at live doppler 7 where you have the low clouds and fog pushing into the city and a little bit of mist and drizzle there, so that is good news. Numbers are in the 50s and 60s, so cool here downtown and looking at the current air quality shows that were moderate in the south bay, unhealthy in the east bay. Better in the city right now, and pretty much fair to good in santa rosa and napa. But the relative humidity, this is really nice to look at, anywhere from 73 to 100 . So with the cooler temperatures, the relative humidity increases, although as we get warmer throughout the afternoon, that of course will drop and the winds will pick up. Three quarter mile visibility half moon bay. The next several hours, well look at the afternoon numbers coming up through the 90s, 80s around the what i. And then well see the fog ....
Map shows all of the thermal activity from the flames and you can see it there on your screen. This morning. We know that several homes have been destroyed in that area, thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. Kron fours reyna harvey live now in Santa Cruz County she has the latest for us rain little bit more good morning and here in scott valley where thousands of residents were forced to evacuate yesterday, we also know that you see santa cruz, those students and faculty had to evacuate as well know again were going to show you the damage that was done overnight taking you to Boulder Creek and you can see these homes in the area as they go up in flames now we know thousands of residents throughout like you mentioned santa cruz in this area have had to evacuate as the fire continues to grow overnight 48,000 acres this morning structures destroyed about 50 structu ....
Dirty air when the sun comes up. 55 santa rosa, 52 by the delta. And we are looking at relative humidity anywhere from 89 to 100 . So right now the air quality is worse in the east bay, but a little better in san jose and redwood city where you have you the fog. So temperatures will steadily climb through the 70s and 80s around the bay topping off into the 90s today inland. Were talking about still temperatures above average, but not as hot as we had been since the heat wave last week. Now well start in the north bay and that is because the major focus of the lnu complex fire is happening with the walbridge fire. That is getting dangerously close to the town of healdsburg. Residents are being washed they shou warned they should be prepared to leave. Amy hollyfield is live. Reporter and were on mill creek road which is evacuated. But they left behind a sign letting them know that there is water at their home if they need it. And now check out this video sho shot overnight, this is a hom ....