At this ominous sky over the dry creek valley. You have a little bit of everything. You have blue sky, heavy smoke, youve got the sun trying to peek through and you have the clouds continuing to move to the southeast. Inside the burn zone, it is not pretty. We just returned from there a few hours ago. Were driving carefully up mill creek road in Sonoma County through a burn state that this morning seemed benign when compared with what must have been the hell that roared through here last night. It breaks my heart. This is my backyard. This is the fire that weve been worrying about for decades around here. Reporter thats the healdsburg fire chief describing the wadgfire. This afternoon he toured the browned out burn zone with supervisor james gore who usually has answers for. Does anyone have any answers for how many houses burned here . No. There are people throwing around estimates, 15 to 20 but nobody knows right now. There are no confirms numbers. Reporter but everyone knew to worry. Residents watch the smoke and the planes above them fighting and contemplating evacuating. Fingers crossed. I think it may be moving away. Reporter one can only hope. 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 ore. And all along that drive, the stuff of memories turned to ash. Seth used to live here. Theres about a six bedroom house right there, gone. Two houses on the left, one house on the right, within the next couple yards. Reporter we asked seth how many homes he thinks survived. Two houses out of probably 15. Reporter again, it is too early to know and almost too painful to guess. In healdsburg with that sky behind us. If wasnt such a difficult situation right now, you can almost call it beautiful. It is certainly not beautiful but awe inspiring. That might fit. Live in healdsburg, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. It is that dramatic behind you. Lets take to the Santa Cruz Mountains in Scotts Valley where cal fire and officials are updating people and the media. An incident, a minor injury vehicle accident involving two firefighting vehicles today. No major injuries. One piece of good news is we are now up to 997 personnel assigned to the fire. With that im going to hand i over for an Operations Update from Management Team 3. Operations section chief battalion chief. Good evening. Today was another d firefighting for our personnel. We have limited resources but were taking advantage of any opportunities we can with the weather. Today through most of the day. We had some favorable weather to fight fire in. We are expecting more of what weve been seeing the past couple of days where we have increased fire activity throughout the evening. We are gearing up form. Today during our preparations, weve madeome ad, getting some lines put in. Fire, the number one pority of structures throughout the incident. We still h fire encroaching into the communities of pescadero in San Mateo County, livermore and moving into santa cruz county, the community of davenport is still threatened but fire is subsiding along the coastline slightly. But it still exists. As we move around into the air closer to felton, ben loman, fire has crested above those communities and has moved down to highway 9 north of the community of ben loaman. We have resources in those areas actively fighting fire protecting structures and performing structure Defense Operations as we speak. We have a lot of opportunities to save a number of structures throughout the hll pier ridge road area where the fir impacted heavily. Were trying to put the resources we have into the areas as possible to suppress those structures. Weve had evacuations in play over the last couple days and that has helped us by getting the folks out of that area so we can get into those narrow roads, where the structures are without having to worry about the civilians escaping at the same time. Our friends within Law Enforcement have done a fantastic job helping us do so. We have those folks who have stayed. It has become a bit of a challenge to try to suppress and take care of those issues with the people in there. We do ask if you are evacuated, please stay evacuated. Leave, please leave so we can keep you safe and our firefighters safe as well. Speaking next from the Santa Cruz Sheriffs Office is chief deputy clark. In good evening. I thought i would touch on a little of what we did today. Hro we fully evacuated the city of felton, and now as the city of Scotts Valley was warned, weve moved into mandatory evacuation of Scotts Valley. Well be systematically evacuating folks there. About 48,000 people to include Scotts Valley that have been through with evacuating Scotts Valley. Security is a major concern of ours as it is for home owners who live in the evacuated areas. Weve devod a number of personnel. We had 65 personnel just doing evacuations today. Thats not to include personnel doing security and tonight just for security, well have about 30 different officers between chp and allied agencies helping with us that to help look for folks out there doing things they absolutely shouldnt at a time when people are hurting. Moving on to reunification, i want to message this. If you have a loved one havent heard from. There are ways in which you can find out how they are. One is that you would contact, you would go to the red cross. Theres a red cross web address that you can look up on the internet. Red cross. Orgsafe and well. Red cross. Orgsafe and well. Its a sitehe go look up whether or not your loved one has been evacuated and safe. I want to stress this. One there, please report them dispatch center. An call our 8314711121. To make a missing persons report. And we will use those to reconcile them and make sure your loved one is accounted for. Do not go back into evacuation zones. People haveon forgotten or something to that effect will but it createsore of a for our cal fire who are really working hard to stop this fire, prevent it from spreading. It just makes it harder. Weve had reports of good natured people wanting to help. And trying to come back into these evacuated zones to help. Granted, you know, we understand the help these but doing that only places our fire partners in greater, in greater predicament to have to work and then work around these civians and other folks that have trickled back into the area. As good named as they may be. Help, you can obviously reach out the our shelter centers. You go provide food and water. There are ways to help besides turning it back into an evacuation zone. Thank you. All right. Youre listening to officials in Scotts Valley in the Santa Cruz Mountains describe the latest activity. Weve learned 48,000 acres burned in that area, in that fire. 0 containment. 20,952 structures are threatened. Ben lomond has been an active firefight there. Lets go back and listen to what else is being talked about. Empire ridge road area, they saved a lot there. The red barn area, russian bridge, sky londa. Were working with our partners to do hard closures at highway 84 and highway 1 as well as 85 sorry, highway 84 and 35. And stage road to highway 1. Were looking at approximately 3,600 people that were evacuating and were asking everybody to go to the high school for the majority of those evacuations. Rv and large animals are also welcome to go there. If anybody is able, were asking they will to go directly to a new evacuation site at san mateo event central. Also, were working the Human ServicesAgency Red Cross and the local nonprofit of puente. The main thing we want to reiterate, we have deputies in the area providing security and assisting with these evacuations. And we want to make sure that you are all informed so we can help protect u. You can find all this information through San Mateo County social media platforms as well as the sheriffs platforms and the new Sheriffs Office app. Again, that update, some of the evacuation warnings upgraded to orders. Theyre evacuating in Half Moon Bay, felton fully evacuated, Scotts Valley fully evacuated. 48,000 people evacuated at this point when you add in Scotts Valley, now theyre also evacuating 3,600 people in the Half Moon Bay area, setting up a shelter at the san mateo events central there. Well continue to follow this if anything else is. That we need to pass along to you immediately from these authorities Scotts Valley. But lets move on. Ama in. Lets get back to the north bay. A lot of smoke is visible there and it is coming from the 1,500 acre woodward fire burning through the seashore in marin county. The evacuation soar in effect for west marin west of highway 1 between sir Francis Drake boulevard and the town. Abc7 News Reporter anser joins us. What is it like where you are . Reporter good evening. The firefighters say they have one advantage in fighting the woodward fire burning along the ridge behind me. They say the pacific site is dying out among the Pacific Ocean coast. They also say theyve been able to hold the fire on the north and south ends. But for many the fire isnt the only threat. So is this wind. She and her family have evacuated. Not from the woodward fire behind them but from another wildfire that threaten their home in sonoma. Coming down the burn way. Reporter they evacuated to the olema camp ground zero only to find this nearby. The order has been issued but for now theyre staying put. Were watching the winds. When we came in last night, the smoke was over the hills. It is till a little bit off. Reporter this afternoon air drops were conducted over the fire burning through Point Reyes National seashore. Firefighters stay unusually high temperatures and rugged terrain make the a tough fight. Logan who works at the camp grounds says a lot of people left when the fire game but like others, hes watching the wind. Their the wind has been blowing it toward the west out toward the ocean. I heard that some part of the fires burned out at the ocean. So hopefully that continues to happen. It has been crazy times. Further south from the fire in bolinas, this person said it has been a tough few days wildfire and evacuation orders all in the middle of a pandemic. But he remains mifk. Whatever comes will come. We cant change the winds. We cant change whats coming but we can make sure everyone here is accounted for and taken care of. It starts with Small Businesses and everyone else working together. Reporter fire Officials Say if mandatory evacuation orders are issued, it would be based on how fast and how far that fire spreads. Now in the meantime, an evacuation central has been set up. At a school in point reyes station. Abc7 news. Thank you. Residents are checking on the winds as well and so is our weathe thats right. Spencer is tracking it very closely. And the wind is a big concern. Surface wind speeds across the entire bay area, you can see it is quite gusty especially near the coast. We have gusts at 44 miles an hour in San Francisco twoofl Miles Per Hour in novato. 20 in ukiah. Notice in the north bay, it is a little lighter but it is quite vigorous to the south bay. Letse at fire conditions. A couple of the north bay fires. 90 degrees in the community. Really, really loud. Only to 5milesperhour. It may get stronger later. We have stronger gusts near the hennessey fire. Relative humidity, 32 . Gusts to 12milesperhour. One more location here down near la honda. 12mileperhour gusts near that fire. As you can see in vacaville, the gusts are at 11milesperhour. It is wnldy across the bay area and the air quality is not improving exempt in the coastal locations. You can see we have poor to very poor air quality. Most locations in the south bay and along the bay shoreline. And looking eastward, mainly moderate conditions. The air quality is very poor in vacaville. Ill have more a little later. You. a sound of survival in the middle of loss. For spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Rewarded get a free delivery perk when you order. [group] grubhub. Krauflta. The biggest wildfire in the bay area is the szu lightning fire complex. In total it has burned more than 137,000 acres and is 5 contained. Cal fire put together this map so you can see how large the fire is. Mandatory evacuation areas are shaded in red. The yellow highlight is for evacuation warnings. These fires are burning in five counties. Parts of santa clara,al need, aa contra costa counties. We know most of this fire continues to burn southwest in the direction of the wind. I have to say cal fire is most concerned about the potential for many of them to merge together. As you pointed out, there are 20 fires that make up the scu lightning fire. The closest one to us is the calveras fire. You see the smoke and haze in the distance. What we found 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 in hopes of saving his home. Smoky skies seen in the distance creeping on to the 47acre property. Nestled in the foot hills of mt. Hamilton. It was pretty bad. You can see it here. All the way like that. For many, it is too close for comfort. If you ask garcia nno, no. Im just trying to save everything. Reporter no fear. Weve been fighting with tractors. We saved some homes and such back there. Reporter the home owner bill tiernan wants to keep the legacy of his ranch alive. The ranch has gone back to 1902. So we fight hard to keep it. Reporter rushing to beat the flames. The two group their animals and cattle. A small fraction. 22 neighborhoods forced to evacuate across santa clara, alameda and contra costa county. Firefighters working to save what they can of the 6200 homes threatened just lying these men who despite orders to evacuate are not giving up hope. Im a fighter. Im going to make sure everything safe. Reporter heres another live picture of that smoke billowing in the distance. It has dissipated quite a bit from what we saw. Much of that is in part due to the wind moving all the smoke south. It is hot out here. 84 degrees. The dry heat and 84 degrees are making the fire very difficult to contain. As i pointed out earlier, cal fire concerned about several of the fires merging together. It is just unclear how quickly that would happen. All dependent on the wind and the weather. Live in san jose. Abc7 news. Always so critical, the weather. Thank you. The lnu lightning fire has destroyed the most structures of any fire burning in our region. Amid the heart break. Lost homes, some are finding reason for hope. Laura anthony continues our Live Team Coverage in vacaville. Reporter well, hi, we are here in what is the southwest part of vacaville. This home one of dozens destroyed. A family home about 40 years old. Now one of the things weve seen throughout the last two days is sort of the randomness of this fire. For instance, the home was completely destroyed. Yet some things unscathed. I saw the orange glow at the top of the hill. Within hours to the bottom of the hill. Reporter brian was one of the unlucky ones when it comes to the hennessey fire. One of those who fellville to the hap hazard seemingly random march. A his home, a large garage, a barn in ruins when so many others 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 wasnt one fire truck to be seen. I talked to one firefighter as i left 4 00 in the morning on wednesday of i said where are the fire trucks . Emout saving lives. Reporter for all who live here, it has been an extremely stressful two days. Except for some small spot fires, the firefighters have moved on. What is left in their swak hard to comprehend. Even for those who stood tall as the flames raced by. She survived in the middle of the pasture. It burned all the way around her. Reporter lynn got in to check on her horse. 30yearold jewel. She was faine along with her house but her beloved farm was a total loss. I think it is unprecedented with the heat and humidity and the winds. It was inevitable. Reporter do you worry for the future . Of course. Reporter Brian Branigan told us, as hard as it is right now, all he can do is look ahead. Will you rebuild . Yes, we will. We have to. Got to move on. Reporter were back live in vacaville. Again, were talking about how h haphazard was. The branigans home completely destroyed but behind me, untouched. Thats what weve seen the last couple of days. I can tell if you theres any good news in the last few hours. The winds have stayed call. The temperatures are down. But i can tell you what spencer was talking about. The air quality was not good. In the last hour or so, weve seen a lot of ash in the air. And that of course is an indication that it may not be burning in this area but it is obviously burning somewhere. Live in vacaville. Laura anthony. Abc7 news. So true. Thank you. Coming up next, spencer will give us an update on the weather conditions including both our high temperatures and the low inflammation in your eye might be to blame. 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