That moved into the bay area from the south, the remnants of what was a tropical storm. So humidity is up, but we still have conditions that are not so great for firefighting. Let me give you a look at conditions near the czu lightning complex right now, going down to the Santa Cruz Mountains. Relative humidity is up. Thats good news. 74 . Dont mind that wind reading there. Our computers are not accurately recording the actual current steady wind right now. But the gusts are accurate. Gusts up to 17 miles an hour right now in the area of the czu lightning complex. Here in gaurnville, its 81 degrees. Relative humidity at 41 . Gusts only 4 miles per hour, so very light wind there. And near the hennessee temperature, relative humidity at 30 and the gusts at 8 miles per hour. So some improvement in the weather in the north bay. In the south bay we could use more help the wind and temperature. Ama . All right, spencer, thank you. Officials in lake county are holding a Virtual Community meet
Conditions. At least eight people have died and more than 1. 4 million acres have burned. And weve learned there are four burn patients being treated at u. C. Davis medical center. And we want you to take a look at these pictures. Santa cruz sheriffs deputies need your help catching a man suspected of stealing a firefighters wallet while he was battling the flames. Heres a look at the largest wildfires burning in the bay area right now. Lightning sparked them a week ago, and they torched an area greater than the size of rhode island. In the north bay, the lmu lightning complex is proveding to be challenging for firefighters tonight. Sky 7 was overhead the wall bridge fire near water springs road in Sonoma County this afternoon. You can see the difficult terrain crews are facing. So far the lnu lightning complex, containment is rising and currently at 25 . So its a bitten couraging here tonight. Abc7 News Reporter j. R. Stone is following the story and joins us live from healdsburg toni
Ago, and they torched an area greater than the size of rhode island. In the north bay, the lmu lightning complex is proveding to be challenging for firefighters tonight. Sky 7 was overhead the wall bridge fire near water springs road in Sonoma County this afternoon. You can see the difficult terrain crews are facing. So far the lnu lightning complex, containment is rising and currently at 25 . So its a bitten couraging here tonight. Abc7 News Reporter j. R. Stone is following the story and joins us live from healdsburg tonight. J. R. , what does it look like tonight . Reporter dan and ama ama it is much more humid than it had been. Winds have died down in this location. Those firefighters out there tell me that is helping with the fire fight. Still, though, you can see directly behind me the c. H. P. Officer still has this area closed off. We are only around one or two miles from heavy smoke and a fire. Flames shooting into the air monday evening in the hills northwest of healdsburg ne
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