Santa cruz mountains right now. We will be monitoring the press conference and bring you the latest updates. Earlier, chopper five was over the destruction, within the last hour, you can see that some of the homes and neighborhoods have been completely wiped out. At last check, the fires burning 78,000 acres and theres about 13 containment. Heavy fuel, rugged terrain, putting the lines and thats going to take time. The oldest state park in california, one of the crown jewels is unrecognizable. The journey to big basin state park is not for the faint of heart. On highway 236 their downed power lines and debris everywhere. Half a dozen huge fallen redwoods blocking the road meeting the four mile round trip must be done on foot. More on the fallen trees in a bit. As we head into the park, we passed some of the popular campgrounds. Bloom creek are gone. The bathrooms and showers are now piles of rubble into tile. But this toilet paper did not burn. The water faucet still run, but pressure
Bring it to you live. In the meantime, we want to go to bill martin, our chief meteorologist, to talk about the weather conditions, and they are getting at least a little bit of good news here, bill. Yeah, a little bit of good news. Yeah, my camera is a little off balance. Ill tell you watt, let me fix this right now. Yeah, hat should be better. The air quality is pure right now. But the fires are still mainly terrain driven. The weather is not really driving these fires. Its really about so many fires having started, and cal fire not having enough resources to respond to almost 13,000 lightning strikes. So with over 350 fires in that first string. So were seeing good containment each day, and thats how its going to continue. And now i think weve got a live press conference. Just wanted to bring everybody up to speed, after the weather came through yesterday, and we found ourselves here getting wet last night, over the courts of the evening, across california, the cal fire confirmed th
Work with the clear air. Also tonight, the Republican National Convention Kicks off with a full slate of feckers including donald trump, jr. Defending his response to the coronavirus. The president acted quickly and delivered the ventilators and delivered pp and e to front line workers, and he braved the private sector to tackle this new challenge. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Damage assessment teams are now starting to get into some of the burned areas and calfire is now reporting more than 1,000 structures destroyed. The big fire in the north bay, the lnu complex has 63ed 100 structures. And the ccu complex has destroyed 106 acres and the seu fire destroyed 1200 structures. Another body has been found in the aftermath of the lnu complex. And a pg e workers also died. Dulc pite the progress made today calfire said its going to take time to put the fire out because of the size and complexity of the fire. The lnu complex fire is now 20 contained. Its
Conditions. At least eight people have died and more than 1. 4 million acres have burned. And weve learned there are four burn patients being treated at u. C. Davis medical center. And we want you to take a look at these pictures. Santa cruz sheriffs deputies need your help catching a man suspected of stealing a firefighters wallet while he was battling the flames. Heres a look at the largest wildfires burning in the bay area right now. Lightning sparked them a week ago, and they torched an area greater than the size of rhode island. In the north bay, the lmu lightning complex is proveding to be challenging for firefighters tonight. Sky 7 was overhead the wall bridge fire near water springs road in Sonoma County this afternoon. You can see the difficult terrain crews are facing. So far the lnu lightning complex, containment is rising and currently at 25 . So its a bitten couraging here tonight. Abc7 News Reporter j. R. Stone is following the story and joins us live from healdsburg toni
Ago, and they torched an area greater than the size of rhode island. In the north bay, the lmu lightning complex is proveding to be challenging for firefighters tonight. Sky 7 was overhead the wall bridge fire near water springs road in Sonoma County this afternoon. You can see the difficult terrain crews are facing. So far the lnu lightning complex, containment is rising and currently at 25 . So its a bitten couraging here tonight. Abc7 News Reporter j. R. Stone is following the story and joins us live from healdsburg tonight. J. R. , what does it look like tonight . Reporter dan and ama ama it is much more humid than it had been. Winds have died down in this location. Those firefighters out there tell me that is helping with the fire fight. Still, though, you can see directly behind me the c. H. P. Officer still has this area closed off. We are only around one or two miles from heavy smoke and a fire. Flames shooting into the air monday evening in the hills northwest of healdsburg ne