Prepare for the final day of the work week began. We are live at the czu august lightning complex fires base camp. This is a look at what it looks like. These are the battalion chiefs and operations personnel. Theyre getting ready for an update that they will give us at the 6 am hour. Right where we are standing, they were going on as business as usual but now where we are standing right now, this is all or under an order. The city of Scotts Valley west of highway 17 is forced to leave. This how shows how vast of an area it is. It is bounded by la honda to the north and highway 17 to the east and uc santa cruz to the southern by the Pacific Ocean to the west. At last count that is 48,000 people in that dark red area. That is the fire itself that is still burning out of control with 0 containment. This is video that cal fire shot out of a helicopter along the coastline. The fire has burned all the way to highway 1, which is shut down now. Employees were able to beat back the flames and
Of rolling blackouts to ease demand on the states electrical grid. Its all happening amid days of long heat wave that is also fueling a number of wildfires more than a dozen active wildfires are currently burning across the golden state, including several in here right here in the bay area that have prompted evacuation warnings. Tonight we have Live Team Coverage of the ongoing heat wave in the impacts from it Ashley Zavala is live in sacramento with the governor with what the governor is now demanding in light of those blackouts kron fours dan kerman though joins us live from the east bay on the deers own fires but first kron 4 meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is tracking the dangerous conditions now fueling these blazes or so. Hi there. Jonathan yeah lets take a look at stormtracker 4 plenty of thunderstorms rolling through parts of ukiah in clear lake right now we do have a red flag warning so high fire danger in effect right now for lake and mendocino counties but for us here in the
Bay area wildfires turning even more deadly tonight weve learned a 70 yearold man has been found dead in Santa Cruz County where the czu lightning complex fires are burning coal fire says those fires are burning at least 74,000 acres so far in san mateo and santa cruz counties. It is at 8 containment at least a 163 structures have been destroyed. There are roughly 1500 fire personnel working on the fire lines kron fours gayle ong joins us now live. In the Santa Cruz Mountains in Scotts Valley with more on this fire fight. Gayle. Well that 70 yearold man was found in the low area of last chance the road and of Santa Cruz County sheriffs deputies are also looking into 3 other missing persons cases. Firefighters are focusing on saving homes. We have video of what theyre doing today and you can see a they were a back burning they were setting fires to control the fire line around a home on highway 9 in Boulder Creek and this is right by the Boulder Creek Community Church. They were making
Contained. The scu lightning complex fires in the east bay and parts of Santa Clara County or 10 contained. And the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula and into Santa Cruz County or 8 contained. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and i pale more fire crews and residents are anxious about the high winds, the thunderstorms and the lightning expected tonight and into the start of the workweek in fact all of us across the bay area are concerned more than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than 2 dozen major fires across the state. Tonight, another death to report the body of a 70 yearold man has been discovered in Santa Cruz County. We have Team Coverage on all 3 major complex fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle ong and dan thorn our live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the weather conditions tonight, lets go to the biggest fire noelle bellow has the latest on the
Intensified kron fours reyna harvey live in oakland with details on what happened reyna. And good morning. So it really was a Ripple Effect first you happy Police Shooting of jacob blake like you mentioned, and then you had to protesters who were shot and killed protesting the shooting of blake so a lot of things happening that have made its way here in oakland were going to show you some of the damage that was done overnight you can see here at the whole foods store here in oakland, the windows broken out there there were also several other buildings that were vandalized including cars along with the Alameda County courthouse being set on fire as well now according to police. Theyre saying that numerous fires were set throughout the downtown area and theyre saying that also dozens of windows were broken and theyve seen multiple businesses that were vandalized now its really important to know that the protest all started peacefully. People taking to the streets with signs asking for ju