Blaze. It just moves so quickly over the weekend that attract more than 200 people in Madera County National Guard helicopters were brought in to airlift them to safety and as i said before they are still working on rescuing more people. Good morning, everyone and thank you for waking up with us on the kron 4 morning news, its tuesday september 8th, im robin when said lets start this morning with a check of your forecast well check in with john and see how the day is shaping up another spare the air day fire crews are dealing with the rescues and the weather of course is going to impact the fires burning so lets check in with john to get a robin thats exactly right. We saw the massive growth of the creek fire and now here in the bay area were looking at heightened fire danger ourselves. As we work our way through this tuesday now last night we had a welcome sea breeze pushed back through our coastal areas this really resulted in a nice overnight cool down. For areas like San Francisco
Latest out of the walbridge fire burning in Sonoma County right now it flared up overnight and what youre seeing on your screen is time lapse video. What we saw burning before the sun came up new evacuation orders in effect right now for several neighborhoods in Sonoma County. And we actually have a live camera from Mount Jackson check this out, its pointed west right at the fire. You can see all the smoke earlier we saw flames to firefighters are still out there. They say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire but of course its not contain. And more breaking news to have military military helicopters attempting to rescue more than 60 people right now who are trapped in the creek fire in Fresno County. This will be their 3rd attempt to get to these hikers the rescues had to be called off last night because of heavy smoke. Thats pretty scary. We actually have a picture. The hikers are smiling theyre okay right now. They are sheltering at the vermilion valley camping res
Camp thats a Scotts Valley, he has the latest for us on the firefight will. Marty Scotts Valley good news. I just came to this location and the checkpoints are all gone meaning theyre not stopping people from returning to their homes. In fact only the median authorized personnel for this past week were allowed to come through now if you live in Scotts Valley and you didnt hear the news. You can return to your location, west of us highway 17 so you can do that even though the fires are still burning at this time it has chewed up more than 81,000 acres and they expect that number to go up when we carry that News Conference for you live in about 55 minutes from now. Containment number also has gone up when i was here 24 hours ago they were sitting at around 21 containment. Now its 24 containment, but the fire. Still is giving firefighters a handful of theyre throwing 2000 firefighters as says. Theyre hoping to go back up in the air to do water drops because theres been so much damage that
Except along the immediate coast a little bit sluggish there bay Area Temperatures checking into some 50s and some 60s at this hour antioch at 64 got 50 up to santa rosa how about that almost like falllike feeling there 60 meanwhile for san jose but for comparison sake, its a little cooler up here in the north bay milder off to the east bay and the south bay for the lowdown today, what fog gets taken care of we going to mostly sunny or while hazy skies at least 61 by 08 00am by 11 were talking 77. Now little bit of a warmup is expected for this weekend but were going to another heat spike and drying out into early next week, well look at that forecast coming up in a bit robin. Sounds good. Thank you dave. Thats firefighters start to gain control of the 3 large wildfires burning in the bay area. Evacuees are returning to find what damage has been left behind Fire Fighters acknowledge the scope of the damage is historic. But containment of these fires is growing. Now according to calfire
Mountains and also in southern San Mateo County thousands of people have had to evacuate these communities where the fire is burning and also where the fire continues to threaten theres been extensive damage in areas near Boulder Creek and also in bonny doon homes. Theyre just incinerated by the fire hundreds of other buildings have also been destroyed and many more are still threatened fire crews have been dealing with these intense fires for days now fire Officials Say that it is actively burning in heavy timber and thick undergrowth one of the big concerns has been burning trees which have been breaking apart hitting the ground and then causing the potential for more fires to spread however, firefighters have reported that there have been better firefighting conditions, thanks to improved. The weather. More aerial attacks and an increase in the number of crews that are working the fire. But evacuees that have been staying in nearby santa cruz have been patiently waiting for more upd