Complex in the east bay, and the czu august complex in san mateo, santa clara, and santa cruz counties. We have new aerial images of the czu august lightning complex fire. That fire has burned more than 40,000 acres or about 62 square miles in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Cal fire says it is still 0 contained. Cal fire has now ordered a mandatory evacuation for the entire town of felton and the mountains a few miles north of santa cruz. Everyone in feltons population of about 4000 is being told to leave. Lets get right to kpix 5s kiet do who joins us live from felton this afternoon. Reporter cal fire issued the Evacuation Order at 8 30 this morning. Since then, we have seen a steady stream of cars, everyone pulling their jet skis, lawn equipment, rvs. It is interesting to see what people take with them in these situations. Now it is looking more like a ghost town. Make no bones about it, the fire is coming. We were warned to be on the lookout for extreme fire behavior and it did
More than a dozen fires are raging in every bay area county but San Francisco. Cal fire has grouped them by region to the north the lnu lightning complex fire. In the east way, the scu lightning complex fire. And to the south, the czu august fire. And across the state cal fire today there are more than 60 fires that started because of lightning strikes this week. Cal fire tonight says there is extreme fire behavior. Fires burning in four north bay counties. Napa, sonoma, solano and lake. Seven fires have burned a total of 14 h. 124,000 acres. The most destructive started in napa and pushed deep into Solano County today. In the east bay, a disastrous combination of dry fuel, gusty wind and hilly terrain fires in alameda, contracosta and santa clara counties could explode in size. Burning at least 102,000 acres. New Evacuation Order have been issued tonight for residents east of san joses city limits. Residents of coastal communities all the way south to davenport and Santa Cruz County h
Cal fire tonight says there is extreme fire behavior. Fires burning in four north bay counties. Napa, sonoma, solano and lake. Seven fires have burned a total of 14 h. 124,000 acres. The most destructive started in napa and pushed deep into Solano County today. In the east bay, a disastrous combination of dry fuel, gusty wind and hilly terrain fires in alameda, contracosta and santa clara counties could explode in size. Burning at least 102,000 acres. New Evacuation Order have been issued tonight for residents east of san joses city limits. Residents of coastal communities all the way south to davenport and Santa Cruz County have been told to evacuate. Five large fires and a number of smaller ones burning in both counties have claimed 10,000 acres with zero percent containment. You can see how intense the flaps there are tonight and there are a lot of embers flying around. Images show the chaos when the wildfire in fairfield flared and jumped across 80. This picture shows the sky a gol
Luckily we have an rv. Im concerned about the house right now, but we have everything that we could. Reporter so many people across santa cruz and san mateo counties are concerned about their property, their homes, their belongings, their pets that they might have at their homes as well. The concern of the firefighters though is due to the other fires burning all across Northern California right now, they have limited resources, also limited visibility. The smoke is hampering the air fight operations. Some 8500 buildings are threatened this morning. And again, 0 contained, we expect to get an update at 6 00 a. M. And well carry that live here. Julian glover, abc 7 news. A tmages showeallyas neighbo Rancho Solano neighborhood within forced to evacuate after the complex fires jumped across enter 125interstate 880. People were trying to get out and found themselves stuck in evacuation traffic. Amy hollyfield is live in Solano County with the evacuations and unfortunately the homes lost to
Blocks obliterated. All gone. Other new information received is that the death toll for all the fires including all of the fires is now at 21. But hundreds are still unaccounted for. That damage is hard to watch, isnt it . Incredible. This afternoon, Santa Rosa Police confirmed a body was found at journeys end mobile home park. Alyssa harrington joining us live from there. Alyssa . Reporter theres crime scene tape surrounding the area where the body was found. Journeys end mobile home park. And we did just learn that that is the body of linda tooney, 69 years old. Her daughter posted this note on facebook. It says, my mothers remains have been found at her home at journeys end. May she rest in peace. My sweet mama. Police tell me it was a Family Member of the victim that made that very sad discovery around noon today. They were here searching through her burned home. There are so many people missing, the latest numbers more than 600 people unaccounted for and that number may seem stagg