Been devastating to see those homes lost in this fire right behind me they are carrying out their morning to briefing to you have agencies from across the bay area here to help put out this fire. But i enjoy life right now with captain saw lopez is with the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office you know, lets talk about how its been for your department in the most important thing you want people to now so were currently working with cal fire in communicating with our residents in the south coast area thats been affected and many of those areas or rural and steep. So when we do issue a i suggest that everybody listens to those warnings you pack up your things and be ready to evacuate if those mandatory evacuation notices come out what have you seen anyone or people trying to stay back and not wanting to leave their houses and if that is happening. What do they need to do so those are some of the challenges we have experience at in the last 48 several deputies have interacting with residents
Bay area almost have fires. In the last hour, two fires also sparked in Sonoma County, forcing evacuations there. Lightning suspected as the cause of most of these fires. Now, fire danger not the only concern tonight. Power outages are also possible as the states grid is once again pushed to the max. Pg e is asking people to conserve electricity through 10 00 this evening. We have a lot going on right now and a team of reporters in place on the Power Outages and the wildfires. Lets start with nbc bay areas ian cull live in San Mateo County. Ian. Reporter yeah. Hey, guys. Very active scene up behind us here. You can see the plumes of smoke hundreds of feet in the air. This is what you can see from Silicon Valley throughout the bay area as more than 350 firefighters are onscene up there along that ridge. On officer who th a cal fire tells me that this is very steep, difficult terrain to be fighting a fire. Its also very dry up there because of this heat, and thats also a worry and a diff
Smoky conditions will lead to reduced air quality over the next several days and the temperatures will drop slightly. Plus, is the third time that charm for joe biden . Thank you all, it means the world to me and my family. Good evening, now at 11, and streaming on cbsn bay area, fires are burning all over Northern California tonight, forcing more evacuations this evening and blanketing the bay area with unhealthy air. New evacuations were ordered near mount hamilton, that fire is part of a complex of 20 that has burned at least 35,000 s re and 1800 acre blaze along the Alameda Santa clara line has prompted evacuations and in eastern Contra Costa County a group of four fires has forced evacuations along marsh creek and Morgan Territory roads. Lets head over to Katie Nielsen who was in napa county tonight where homes have already been destroyed as residents are scrambling to safety. Reporter the roar of the fires echoed through canyons. As fastmoving flames consumed homes in the spanish
Most all sparked by recent lightning. The governor is expected to given up date. We will bring it that News Conference live once it gets underway. We do have team coverage. We are monitoring those evacuations in san mateo and santa cruz. We will have the latest information on the lightning complex fire that has destroyed several homes already near vacaville. Sarah, good afternoon. Reporter cal fire actually just wrapped up a News Conference 30 minutes ago and gave us an up date about the lmu complex. There are several different fires burning across the state. Hellfire has requested 375 fire engines to help with all of the fires burning in california. The lmu lightning complex has limited resources at this point. It is a blades made up of seven different fires. It has burned 72 square miles and five counties including napa, lake, sonoma, solano, and yolo county. 60 fires were started by Lightning Strikes. This led us to this point. 50 structures have been destroyed. 50 have been damaged
Some of them burning dangerously out of control tonight. Here is a map of where those fires are burning at the moment, the u. S. See you a lightning complex that has burned the most scorching more than a 137,000 acres across 5 counties. Then closer to the coast. The seas eu august lightning complex fires, those are burning in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz counties and finally the l a new lightning complex fires are burning in the north bay, including napa sonoma and solano counties. The lnu lightning complex fire. So far have scorched a combined total of a 131,000 acres imagine that a 105 structures have been destroyed 70 have been damage and right now the entire fire is 0 contained and we want to share with you the evacuation map now for sonoma county, heres a look at the Evacuation Orders and warnings in that county as you can see there anyone living in the red area they are under mandatory Evacuation Orders. The yellow area. Thats under an evacuation warning, which means