Destroyed. Check out this maam that shows all the fires burning across california right now. The fires in gray are contained. The orange ones are still burning. These are major fires in california. We have crews coveringfires. We begin with Laura Anthony live in north bay, covering that lnu complex fire. Laura . Hi. We are in vacaville again today and i can tell you from ground here, it appears at least the conditions have greatly improved. About 10 degrees cooler. Oler. Ol. Ol once the smoke has cleared for some families, what theyre finaling is a total loss. At th top of the hill within hours to the bottom of the hill. Brian was one of the unlucky ones when it comes to the hennessey fire. One of those who fell victim to the happen hazardndom march thr. His home, a large garage, a barn now lay in ruins when so many others around him survived. Normally i would see cal fire trucks, bumpertobumper, rolling down the road, any time there is a fire up the road toward berryessa. This time there was not one fire truck to be seen. I talked on an officer as i left 4 00 in the morning on wednesday. I asked him, where are all the fire trucks . He said out saving lives. Reporter for all who live here, it has been an extremely stressful two days except for some small spot fires, the flames have moved on. What is left in their wake is hard to comprehend. Even for those who stood tall as the flames went by. She survived in her pasture. It went all the way around her. Reporter her horseas fine along with the house but the beloved barn was a total loss. I think it is unprecedented with the heat and the humidity and the wind. It was inevitable. Do you worry for the future . Of course. Reporter Brian Branigan told us, as hard as it is now, all he can do is look ahead. Will you rebuild . Yes, we will. You have to. Got to move on. Reporter unfortunately, his story is fairly typical of many out here. At this point, the official numbers i would say are probably a bit behind the reality. Dozens of homes have burned. Im sure they havent been able to count them all including out buildings, cars, all of. As i said at the beginning, the weather conditions seem to have improved significantly today. It is probably ten degrees cooler today, in the mid 90s, rather than over 100 as it was this time yesterday. The winds so far today have cooperated. At least from what weve seen, it appears the fire crews are able to get around and try to put out the spot fires before they ignite any more buildings. Live in vacaville. Abc7 news. Thank you. New information today on the pg e worker killed while assisting with the lnu complex fire in solano county. The employee was found unresponsive just outside of vacaville and died at the hospital. The employee was in the gates cabon area clearing infrastructure, power poles and lines to make the area safe for emergency responders. Once again, please keep the family of pg e in your thoughts andndolences and his family. This is the first reported death in relation to the fires. The employees name has not been released but were told hes fromhe vacaville n two blazes, meyers fire has burned 3,000 mb acres, and the walbridge fire. The walbridge fire is burning along the russian river, forcing evacuations there. Officials say Additional Resources and Better Weather helped them make progress overnight. Resources were able to maintain that line along sweet water springs road last night. It has gotten over the road a little bit. It did not make the run as we anticipated, and the burning conditions overnight were not as severe as they were the nightre progress against aknown unoffic stewards fire. The crews, their plan is to allow that blaze to burn into the walbridge fire. Now lets to Wayne Freedman live in healdsburg. Whats the latest there . Reporter good afternoon. Were right on the bordernd the creek valley. Were ie of the fire behind us over there. A short time ago, we went into those mountains where the fire was burning. It is not a pretty picture. Were driving carefully up middle creek road in Sonoma County through a burn state that this morning seemed benign when compared with what must have been t hell that roared through here last night. It breaks my heart. This is our backyard, my backyard. This is the fire weve been worrying about for decades around here. Reporter he skriks the walbridge fire. This afternoon he toured the browned out zone with the supervisor who usually has answers for everything. Does anyone know how many houses burned here last night . No. People are throwing around estimates, 15 to 20 or so but nobody knows right now. There are no confirmed numbers. Reporter but everyone knew to worry, not far away in healdsburg proper, residents watched the smoke and the flames above them. And contemplated evacuating. Fingers crossed. I think it may be moving away. Reporter one can only hopeful because back on mill creek road, the remnants only hint at what used to be here. A mail route. A beautiful drive through the woods that isnt anymore. And all complaining drive, the stuff of memories turned to ash. Seth used to live here. Theres about a six bedroom house there that is gone. Two houses on the left, one on the right, within the next couple hundred yards. Reporter we asked seth howl homes he thinks survived . Two houses out of probably 15. Reporter it is too early to know and almost too painful to guess. And were back live in healdsburg. Let me show you an interesting contrast. Thats blue sky, clearly, right next to us. Ill show you how close we are to the fire. Thats smoke obscuring from the sun right on the border line. As we assistant here at the dry creek valley, no evacuation but ashes are falling all around us. Hive in sonoma valley. Wage, thank you. In the east bay, the snu complex acres in alameda, contra costa. It is 5 contained. Evacuation orders have been issued for residents eat east of San Jose City limits but not everyone is leaving. Stephanie . Reporter we just learned the largest portion of the 20 fires that make up the scu lightning complex is moving south. I want to step out and show what you were seeing. No hazy sky which is hovering over the east foot hills. That large plume of smoke that is towering over the foot hills here. It is significantly better than what we saw a couple hours ago. What we did ind up this steep rugged terrain are families risking their lives to protect their homes and get to safety. A mere mile from the line of fire, elias garcia is cutting down shrubs. It was pretty bad. You can see right here, all the way like that. Reporter for many, it is too close for comfort. But if you ask garcia im not scared, no. Im just trying to save everything. Reporter no fearful just there to fight. Weve been fighting a fire there for two days with tractors and we saved some homes and such back there. The home owner wants to keep the legacy of his ranch alive. The family ranch has gone back to 1902. So we fight hard to keep it. Reporter their cattle, a sml of the 22 neighborhoods forced to evacuate across santa clara, alameda and contra costa county. Cal fire working around the clock to save what they can, up to 6200 homes threatened. Just like these men who despite orders to evacuate, are not giving up hope. Im a fate ighter. Im going to make sure everything is safe. Reporter heres another live picture of that smoke billowing in the distance. It is certainly hot out here. In the dry heat, low humidity, it is really making this fire difficult to contain. I just spoke to cal fire and they are concerned this fire will continue growing out of control. Given resources are stretched too thin. Especially because a lotfires, them. Theyre starting to conjoin together so thats a big concern. Abc7 news. Thank you. Take a look at this map. You can get a better idea of where evacuations are from where the scu complex. The area in red is under mandatory evacuations and the area in yellow is currently under an evacuation warning. Lets check in with spencer. Just a terrible situation. As the fires expand and merge, it makes it challenging to get specific information from specific locations. So let me give you what we have with fires around the bay area. A look at conditions. Dangerously low humidity, 20 . The wimbledon is light there. Thats good news. Fivemileperhour gusts, similar conditions. Well, windier at the hennessey fire. Gusts 16 Miles Per Hour there. The wind is out of the north generally. Very low there. 31 . Temperatures, 86 degrees. Its not hot but it is try and breezy. At vacaville, its hot. The relative humidity is at 47 . Still low but not dangerously low. The winds, the steady wind has been light but the gusts are up to 16milesperhour. And going down to the santa cruz mountains, several fires burning in different locations. Near la honda, 77 degrees. Not very hot there. The humidity, 43 , low but not dangerously low. Here is a look at the Bigger Picture right now. Surface wind is getting lighter generally across the north bay. Still quite breezy and gusty near the coach and into some of the south bay locations. In the Higher Elevations, the gusts are Even Stronger and weve got gusts on 23milesperhour. Mt. Tam, 22, mt. Diablo. So fighting fires in the Higher Elevations will be challenging. Ill have more on that later. Larry . Thank you. Our coverage. Fires will continue just ahead. We take you to the santa cruz mountains. Evacuations are still underway there. Plus, unhealthy air all over the bay area. Were already Wearing Masks lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. 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The czu lightning complex fire has burned 40,000 acres in santa cruz and san mateo counties. 20 structures have been destroyed and new Evacuation Orders were ordered this afternoon for the canyon in Santa Cruz County. Evacuation warnings have been as well as the uc santa cruz campus. Lets go straight to abc7 News Reporter chris reyes live in scots valley with a look at the situation there. Chris . [ silent ] reporter this is huge. This is almost unprecedented. Weve had very little significant fire history in this area and yet we have these amazing huge redwoods everywhere. Reporter at cal fire base kaffir, crews from all over the bay area and beyond. We spotted fire trucks from los angeles county. Wereer because didnt have the resources to get out there and put eyes on them because we were busy battling other fires. Reporter now the fires are closing in on dozens of ities. Cal fire estimating more than 8,000 structures are being threatened. We drove through ben loaman completely deserted and thick with smoke. On highway 9 drivers lined up desperate to get back to their homes but were turned away at road blocks. The owners of this Grocery Store in Boulder Creek hg trying to gather food for firefighters. Other residents were just in a frenzy to get out. Basically, everybody is trying to save their homes and things like that. Thats what im doing. The big basin hasnt burned in a long time. There is a tunnel of fuel up there. When i heard propane tanks were starting to explode close enough to the top of my road, i got out. Reporter for residents able to get out, shes hopeful theyll be spared. Theres not enough people to do the job in the fire, its crazy. Trying to keep kittens in a sket. Reporter again, scots valley has been put under an evacuation warning. And im seeing drivers in their cars full ofelongings ready to get out. Now also cal fires station is just down the street. Theyre hoping they wont to have move locations. Well be hearing from they will at 6 00. Well bring you the live briefing at the 6 00 show. Chris reyes, abc7 news. Thank you. The smoke is so incredibly 36 in that shot. Californias oldest state park under siege because of fire. Sky 7 video, the redwood state park shows the smoke filling thy sky. What happen here is part of the czu line complex fires in the santa cruz mountains, stretched right into the park. Multiple structures destroyed including the historic headquarters, the nature central, as well as camp grounds. It features ancient redwoods, some dating back to 1902. They have not given us an update on the extent of the damage to the redwoods. The river fire is 7 contained. Cal fire says this fire was sparked by line on sunday. Six structures have been destroyed. More than 2,700 remain threatened so Evacuation Orders are still i place. Today, the fire ceped north to where the outlyi of salinas. The school veterinarian Facebook Page shows some of the animals being treated there. They include an 11yearold draft horse named ava. She was the soul survivor of a nurse who lost her home. Also being treated, a welsh pony and an alpaca they dubbed camilo. And anyone who needs help getting large or small animals moved out of harms way can call. They posted these photos on its twitter page today. All right. What we need is a change in the weather. Were starting to get a change but were not sure how much that will help. We are getting a change. We have a deep yepping marine layer and that will, the good news is that we get a little cooldown and an increase in humidity. The not so good news is that it often, as the marine layer in as it surges, it brings an increase in winds. We get breezy conditions near the coastal it is cooling down. You can see the temperature change shows a couple degrees cooler in San Francisco than at this hour yesterday. Three degrees coolerha oakland. And 10 to 13 degrees cooler than yesterday. We take a look at the surface wind flow. 30mileperhour gusts in San Francisco. Thats what you get when the marine layer is deepening. It is generally not too windy in the north bay. It is quite breezy just about everywhere else. So on we go to a vw of showinga. It is just 66 at half moon bay. Napa, 81, fairfield, 85, concord, 91. And another view from the east bay hills. You can see how widespread the smoke is and how deep it is. It will be with us for the next few days through the weekend. Turning warmer tomorrow and saturday. It will get more humid on sunday with a slight chance of thundershowers sunday evening into monday. And heres a look at our air quality. We have very poor air quality just about everywhere across the bay area. And we have a spare the air alert through sunday. We expect poor air quality to continue tonight for the next three days at least. The forecast an place shows the deepening marine layer. The big change is the temperatures dropping today and tonight and a little increase in the wind and humidity. The marine layer will pull back to the coastline tomorrow as it often does. Tonight, look for low temperatures, perhaps slightly cooler than last night. Mid to upper 50s on the coast. About 60, 61 degrees along the bay shoreline. Well see some upper 50s to about 60. Then in the inland areas, it is a little milder there with low temperatures in the 60s. Er 60s at the coast to upper 70s at the bay shoreline. And heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. So hazy and warmer by a couple degrees tomorrow. Warmer still on saturday. It will be hot inland. High temperatures from the upper 90s in the hottest low cases. An increase on sunday. Well see the temperatures drop a little bit and that increase in humidity may add fuel to the possibility of some thundershowers going into monday. And then well see more of a steady summerlike pattern going into the latter part of next week highs. 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Setting your ac to 78 or higher. Or cooling off with a fan when you can. United we are always stronger. Stay well, california, and keep it golden. The latest out in on the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Has more than 5. 5 million cases in california. Cases increased today to more than 644,000. Hospitalizations in the state are continuing to trend downward. In the bay areas nine counties, there have been 76,661 cases. This includes people who have recovered. Despite Governor Newsom suggesting that san francisc could come off the watch list, it didnt happen today. Melanie woodrow explains why. San francisco remains on the watch list having not met state thresholds on two key indicators. Case rate and percentage of icu beds currently available. Yesterday governor gavin newsom said the county was close to coming off the watch list. It is expected for the purposes of transparency. We expected if all things being equal, that it is likely as early as tomorrow. Though well see exactly as the numbers come in at San Francisco will be added to our list. Thats not the case today. It looks as if theyre in a position three plus days to get off of that monitor merrimac, to list. Reporter to