Been destroyed or damaged. Firefighters are also making progress on the czu lightning complex fire burning in the santa cruz mountain. It is burned 80,000 acres in santa cruz and san mateo counties, but is now 19 contained. The fire has destroyed 538 homes and other structures, mostly in Santa Cruz County. The good news is there are no new evacuation warnings or orders. The gains made in containing the czu complex have officials feeling optimistic that they will be able to allow more people to return to their properties as early as next week. Jesse gary has details on that. He joins us live this afternoon from downtown felton. Reporter good afternoon. With containment growing by about 5 every couple of days, officials are now working to take the teeth out of this fire by burning potential fuel before it can go up in flames. Although it does make people nervous, introducing fire to the environment, especially from the outside, but you have the best people available doing that job. Repor
All the smoke looks like big bank of clouds. The smoke coming down in our direction from the oregon fires and the fires of california and it is just collecting in the upper levels of the atmosphere. And then the low clouds and fog, the marine layer, down at the surface level. A layer cake effect with the smoke layer above and the marin layer below. And we had a rather vigorous onshore flow with weaker winds aloft. Right now, theyre getting a little stronger but not enough to change the setup that ive just explained to you. Fog. Air quality right now, be nearly as red as you might think by looking at the ugly air. We have yellow dots indicating moderate air quality. We have poor air quality in ukiah and vacaville. Looking southward, oakland, San Francisco, fremont, livermore, san jose, we even have good air quality indicated by the green dots over parts of, well, parts of the santa cruz mountains. The marine layer will push locally inland. We might see some drizzle in the overnight hour
This photo sent by les carr. Lets look at live conditions. This is our camera on top of our studio in jack london square, looking out towards San Francisco. You cant even see the city there in the distance. Some are describing the key is as having a post apocalyptic look. Here is another camera at sfo. The sky appears more gray than orange. Flights have not been affected by all of the ash in the air we are told. And finally a live camera in the east bear on highway 24 in laugh fayette, looking toward walnut creek. Our view from mount diablo has been obscured. You cant even see it, for the past three weeks now. Lets go for more on this s bill, weve all been talking, never seen anything like it. No, this is, in our tenure, definitely, julie, this has been unprecedented. I saw something similar to this, like i mentioned earlier, when Mount Saint Helens blew in 1982 in eastern washington. The skies looked like this. But that was a major, massive volcano. I mean, the smoke from these fires
Fire otheir progress, but say they dealt with issues on the east side of the fires throughout the afternoon yesterday. 7 00 last night, the lnu lightning complex has burned nearly 550 square miles, and is 25 contained. 908 buildings are destroyed. 248 are damage. More than 30,000 are threatened. Six people have died including a pge worker. Theres a lot of work to be done. Any evacuation orders remain in place. If you get to go back to your property, there is a reentry point set up for those who live within the myers fire zone in sonoma county. Its not required to check in, but it could be helpful. We are going to stop here because cal fire is about to start a News Conference with an update to the czu morning complex. My name is jonathan. And deputy chief. A quick reminder, if you could mute your telephones and take conversations outside the press conference area it would be appreciated. Please keep your masks on when not speaking. A quick update. 6 00 this morning, this incident is 78,
Digits, are motivating many to okay. San francisco fire said that 8 bay area, with little relief in change normal routines, like shortening a typical extended swimmers were rescued today walk. I was just going to trial to near ocean beach. They are reminding people to be take, like, a 15minute walk, careful while swimming in the because normally we go for a water. Long like a long hike. Well, a large scale reporter meteorologists sight. Say the bay area normally sees pandemic assistance fraud ring good evening, im cristina rendon. We want to let you know that was scored by authorities temperature spikes of about operating out of the san mateo three days before cooling off, these Power Outages that are but this wave is expected to happening in the bay area are county main jail. Not part of planned outages or last about a week, with a authorities began investigating in july afterrish mates at the rolling blackouts. Strain on utilities, rolling we understand that the orange mcguire correc