The key is to attack fire relatively small. Strike teams were also in place. The Immediate Response was helpful for early evacuations. We knew the vent was coming. Abl a lot of notice. Reporter strike teams could be disbanded saturday but not likely with record winds expected to return sunday. Hot, dry wind is probably the biggest problem with wildfires. Clearly the temperatures have come down but the wind combined with the dry fuels that we still have could present a very big problem for us. Reporter the strike teams will have a lot of help from cal fire in covering all this territory. Cal fire has already got extra staffing and equipment ready for this windy weekend. Live in san jose, robert honda, nbc bay area news. Thank you, robert. Were getting our first look at the east bay yous have them to help on the front lines. The chopper became fully certified to battle flames from the sky. Its already helped crews fight several fires over the past few weeks. We have lots of questions for
Which feels like a ghost town. I was in Boulder Creek yesterday and the homes i saw then are gone today. Firefighters from agencies all over the bay area, and state are trying to stay on top of the relentless flames that are ravaging the czu area from here in the Santa Cruz Mountains from here in is to hope. They are busting their butts, and they are exhausted and tire and they dont have enough resources and they are tired and not enough support. Reporter and the homeowner is one of the handful of people still in Boulder Creek setting up his sprinkler to keep the roof soak. If i can preserve my property and keep it from a statistic, that is great. Reporter it is not hard to see what the evacuating residents are worried about. Some of the friends neighbors have been reduced to rubble, and the fire is still moving. Do you plan going to go . When it is necessary. What are the parameters . Flames inside of my home. Reporter but the homes down the street show how fast it can happen. Reporte
Firefighters battled flames that pattern. Were waiting to see what firefighters trying to get a lit up a tree next to homes happens next with respect to the handle on them. The series of fires that is situation but were also starting to lay all our plans stretching across san mateo and Santa Cruz County has reached evacuation on the west side. Reporter as evacuations 57,000 acres. Continue and more areas are put containment at 2 . On standby just in case, county 97 structures have been destroyed. 77,000 people under mandatory authorities are asking tourists evacuation orders. To turn around and come back he terrorized women in the later. Please, if you dont live here, dont come here to bay area and across california for years. Recreate. Tonight the man known as the wed love to see you on a different day, just not now. Golden state killer will spend the rest of his life in prison. Reporter and there is a little more progress. A judge sentenced joseph there are more firefighters that are
In fog or clear sky. Right now in San Francisco it is about 58 degrees. Current temperatures throughout in the 60s and 50s, but heading to the afternoon it will be another day in the 90s. I want to show you satellite radar to give you sort of an idea of why we have a fire weather watch that will take effect on sunday. You can see a low pressure system just to our south that is churning. Then the interaction with a High Pressure system to the east is going to drive some moisture to the bay area. The interaction of those two and the instability in the atmosphere is going to bring another chance of seeing dry lightning in the bay area with the potential for that heading into tomorrow, which is why the National Weather service has issued a fire weather watch that will be in place sunday through tuesday because of a chance for fastmoving storms. We are going to take a very close look at that because this is going to, of course, impact the alreadyburning fires that are out there, what thats
Im marcus washington. Right now we want to get to meteorologist kari hall with a look at the forecast that we can expect today. Talk about what is behind you there. This is the last image captured in the Santa Cruz Mountains shortly before midnight before flames overtook this camera. We know this fire is spreading rapidly across the Santa Cruz Mountains, as well as the rest of the bay area as weve seen some very warm weather. Lets take you to the north bay. Several fires burning here and temperatures this morning mostly in the 70s. The humidity is coming up just a little bit but look at the gamble fire. Humidity levels only at 21 . Very dry. So that causes those fires to spread more quickly. As we head to the Santa Cruz Mountains, we had a lot of smoke coming into the south bay and our Current Conditions, our temperatures in the upper 70s. Early in the morning, we havent seen a good recovery here where we look for lower temperatures and lower humidity, as well. As we look at what is go