Mike, you alluded to this earlier. Firefighters say they are essentially tapped out of resources and there is no more help and were waiting for out of state resources to come. I dont know when was the last time i heard that. We heard the governor say were getting help from arizona, texas, nevada but that doesnt happen. They wont be here in five hours. In the meantime, firefighters here and i was referring to marine county fire asking for air support and they were told sorry, you guys are on your own. Youre not priority right now because there are close to 400 fires in california. It is a terrible situation right now, a dangerous situation. People are running for their lives up and down california and including in the bay area we have to cross our fingers and thank the firefighters for what they are doing and when the Sheriffs Office says get out, it is time to get out. We watched the News Conference live here yesterdid say there a more than 360 fires burning up and down california and
Survival. When youre in it, youre fighting it. Youre not going to give up. The bay area man who risked his life to save his home, doing something firefighters tell you not to do. From the flames to the air quality and the weather, we have a lot to get to tonight. Lets sta ng in the bay area. Tonight progress on the front lines. We begin our Team Coverage withn san mateo and santa cruz counties. Cal fire says two things are helping them tonight. Reporter yeah, and there is some progress luckily on this fire. They say, one, the weather is providing some good visibility because, two, the good thing, their helicopters can finally drop some water, make some real progress. Today alone they dropped 200,000 gallons of water on the flames up in the mountains. One fire chief is expressing some caution, saying he believes theyll be fighting these flames for quite some time. Tonight on the front lines, Santa Cruz County firefighters dousing the truck of a redwood tree to save it and keep the fire
Of the road man to dev moving a burning quickly. We have had a photographer on the scene overnight gathering that video and getting the stories and spoke with folks burned trying to escape the fire and heard people gathering the belongings, taking photographs of the inside and outside and belongings to document what they have in case there is any damage from this fire. It is important to note that this all stems from the lightning that we had a couple days ago, that lightning struck some very dry brush creating this fire and thats where we are right now. Take a listen to someone working to escape this fire here in ive never evacuated before. But why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and fast and winds probably 45 miles per hour. Reporter and i can tell you the smoke out here very, very heavy. You cant see the flames. They look like fire flies in the distance but that fire still burning out here smoke very thick. There are cars covered with ash and looks like 5,000 outages a
Move because of evacuations im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lets get right to the map lay out the scenario that were seeing this morning with fires burning down near santa cruz in eastern Contra Costa County out there near mount diablo in a course in the north bay as were seeing here the live pictures at a salon a county with the fire that is now prompting evacuations in fact a bill this morning, lets go live to will tran very close to one of the fire lines that they are working on trying to keep people out and people safe as we see properties go up in flames. Well. Were talking about farmland thats going up in flames right now and this one is getting a little too dangerous even for us and we want to bring you to the scene it is chewing up the land its marching down closer and closer to in the intersection them at Pleasant Valley road and sherry glen road. And you can clearly see it is going unimpeded because theyre not being stopped by the firefighters at all they have other thi
That is myers starting to move down along the coast. We are not done yet, the it is a busy morning. Thousands of acres burn across woodward fire in marin county several bay area counties, is also sending in plumes of homes have been destroyed. People are forced to evacuate, smoke, ive been looking at the and the weather is not letting up. It is like we dont know where to start. San mateo coast, you can see the smoke looking all the way lets dive right into it, down the peninsula, then, of course, look at all the smoke we are going to start in the north bay where we have seen thats boring right there, and several structures go up in now, you get into santa cruz flames, residents say they had very little time to react, as the fire spread so quickly. This is all part of the l and county and into the santa cruz you lightning complex fire, we mountains, the smoke is blowing toward san jose, you can see it right there. We have unbelievable amounts of smoke getting caught up in the have been