i apologize we have the fire chief from vacaville with us right now is that correct. well thank you so much again for joining us. this is chief chris conception with the vacaville fire department when we spoke to at the top of the last hour we were talking mostly about how a 80 has been shut down cherry glenn an airbase park wake you have any estimate of time when that might reopen. that might reopen. >>i know we do no point we don't have meantime far as how long the freeway going well. our firefighters are still involved in active are fine as well and. moving over to defend. yeah. now home to the south part of our city where we expect the fire to extend the best. >>crews doing anything whether to chp or your department or the police department doing anything to get people who are stuck in their cars on 80 trying to get them off that the freeway. >>i'm not sure about the operation on the freeway right now there our police tackle shops ers are actually unique going door to door as far as evacuating people. in their neighborhoods but as far as the freeways concerned i'm

then vacaville, the fire has made its way to vacaville and that's you know the fire was burning this lightning fire. call complex fires. they were sparked miles and miles away to the northwest of vacaville but now they've worked their way down and into vacaville where there are plenty of homes that have gone up in flames will tran are out there. this is the first light we've seen and lots of flame. >>the flames are so close behind me during i can feel the heat you can see it setting. this particular lot on fire i've seen the fire trucks just drive by year so they're not even going to bother dealing with this fire. and unfortunately it's happening right underneath some power lines. so i we were told coming here. there is the danger of some lines possibly coming down, we don't know they're energized or not but we're going to step back just for our safety you can clearly see that it has gotten hotter more intense by the second so we're going to keep moving. i wish you were here to hear it with your own ears. the crackling is extremely loud. james and area and look at them look at the em

in the town of vacaville.ut evacuations in place stay to my much more coming up also talking politics this morning the democratic national convention is underway. jill biden was front and center. >>on day 2. >>but she wasn't the only headliner at the democratic convention karin caifa has a recap of last night's speakers. >>donald trump says bill clinton sharply critical of president trump's presidency in particular his handling of the coronavirus pandemic just one thing never changes. his determination to deny responsibility and shift the blame from a former president's purview vouching for joe biden in addition to 2 former presidents clinton and 95 year-old jimmy carter party look to the future with a virtual keynote address highlighting 17 rising stars this nation belongs to all of us and in every election we choose how we will create more perfect union that evening also offered a reminder of the hard-fought democratic primary and the ongoing tug of war between the party's progressive and moderate wings than

>>in vacaville is the chief was saying. >>that when they went to bed, they thought ok the first round of evacuations will do it. then this morning more people at you know 7 o'clock this morning or just trying to get out of their homes have you seen that area be a little more active with people leaving. >>no actually what we showed at the top 6 o'clock we saw a lot of the people flee already they got their knocks at the door they didn't sleep make no mistake about it they they knew this fire was on the ridge they were hoping it would not get close to their home they did so they got some things ready to roll and then they left and we if you watched us at 6 o'clock in the morning. we showed it to they were next to highway 80 on an on-ramp at cherry gland just watching it i can't even imagine just how helpless you feel when you're sitting in the back of your pickup truck in the bed just watching the fire just get closer and closer to their homes. right now we're not hearing of any fatalities or any injuries. i'm told by the fir

>>that area not the in vacaville proper. we talked to the fire chief and he said they haven't lost any homes in the actual town, but it's on the outskirts, it's the northern part of vacaville that this fire is moving in on. >>and you can see the updated map here showing you that section of vacaville that's under this new evacuation order are going to break down and try to explain this in his best details we can to give you the information you need in just a moment. stay with us the kron 4 morning new it's time for the biggest sale of the year on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. what if i sleep hot? ...or cold? no problem, with temperature balancing, you can sleep better together. can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. will it help me keep up with mom? you got this. so you can really promise better sleep? not promise... prove. save $500 on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. only for a limited time. to learn more, g

i o caoffi scirefial confirmation o much of vacaville will be evacuated. the lnu lightning complex though is burningn terrain with a lot of dry thick brush and vegetation fueling the flames. so a tgh situation out there. and mike, i know this is something you've been watching because the heat we've been talking about today andirhe t f. >> absolutely, heat and terrain are the two biggesttoac f thr low humidity. we don't have the winds, but you can see the wind that the fire creates as it was sucking the called the chimney effect. it heats dries it out and then allows to ignite faster and burn hotter. and that is why y ou get t rising air and you have to bring in air from around the system to fill in that rising air. you can't have a vacuum in the atmosphere and that creates even faster winds around the fire itself. and that is what can throw some of the embers down wind. we're not seeing the type of winds that we get in say september and october. we don't have the diablo winds out there thankfully. but we did have the heat and r defoill make it even har let

and this is whyhe t orders are in ofce p vacaville this morning. again, you can see how intense the flames were. in a matter of 15 minutes, whaty gonend again, the chimney being the only thing thats i t.a bit at this point and you can ee it whipping the flames the this is one of twour fires that on pleasant valley road here just outside of the city of vacaville. i do want you to ais lte woman who was forced to evacuat worried and concerned about all of the animals she has on her farm. >> i aenhactuallav hworks as a told me before this came that it was coming. so that helped. otherwise baverobl w known in time. i heard there are flames on the ridge and we looked out and it was hot spots, it was skipping. and that is why it spread so fast because you had the fire appear and just embers over here and then -- my parents are elderly and very worriedbo their home. animals, you hing, we're know. i have literally everything. goats, ducks, ickens,gspi horses, turkeys, rabbits. >> reporter: so many people are concerned about their their homes as again you ca

this is map coming to us right now from the vacaville police department. it's the area of south of alamo from 80 to the put a creek can now that's the s and the canal near marana evacuation areas are in the yellow believe it hears you can look at it just for a little bit longer so you can tell the evacuation order that has been put out. now crews are working right now to protect homes from burning from the fast-moving flames. this video of firefighters trying to save a home was on rim rock drive in napa i'm at the southern tip of lake berryessa that home there. engulfed in flames, smart smoke pouring into the sky fire crews tried to do as much as they can. we don't have a lot of information about this home the address right now but kron four's michelle kingston is on her way to the scene and she will bring us the very latest as soon as she's able to give us a live report safely. but our cover can coverage continues right now with our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow he's been tracking these fire conditions. the strong wind gusts has also helped to push

we're especially concerned about the hennessey fire in vacaville. already there has been an explosion overnight, a fire, and as a result people have been racing out of the area and just having to take whatever they have on them. julian glover is live in vacaville with what he is seeing now. >> reporter: good morning. f me wss,yeoue now on the other side of pleasant valley road. you can see this structure is fully engulfed in flames. some are doing a good bit of damage to this wooden fence, this tree and structure, pretty of the entire area h charred by the flames here this morning. one of two active structure fires that we've seen so far on pleasant valley e other one fla larger and shortly after we got it le, we er lialne rupture and the flames beginning to shoot up higher. this is what the fire crews are contending with this morning. that particular location, the wind leites nse, weer the flames with are flying around, but again, you can see sucture here on pleasant valley road completely on fire. cars beginning to try to make their way down this

proper so you get to downtown vacaville that area as well. but it's just this. this chunk of land basically in between that the bill and fairfield that has you know continue to burn tonight if you're looking obviously at that orange glow earlier today, it was a much more to the left of the valleys and now it has kind of moved its way down. what seems like more towards those residential areas and when i was in those neighborhoods earlier today. the the air was just pump very very thick very very dark and hazy and i watched as many people were packing up their kids and putting throwing things in the v a in the cars talking to the neighbors trying to figure out ok, it's time for us to get out of here because the ash was starting to tableau and the sky was getting darker and darker so that was definitely nerve-wracking obviously for me just sitting in my car watching them go back and forth to their vehicles trying to figure out what neighbors exactly what route they were going to take because again all of the surrounding roads were just completel

breaking news coverage will continue right after this break who will be live in vacaville will the flames continued to >>breaking news here tonight on kron 4. here's a look at where the fires are burning that we're tracking their 3 major fires 3 complex fires which are a group of fires all the same area so there's the seas eu complex fire. that's burning in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz counties. the s e u complex fires are in contra costa alameda and santa clara counties and the l a new complex fires. those are the fires that exploded overnight taking a destructive turn in the north bay 80 is closed now between cherry glenn an airbase parkway in solano county because the fire has jumped the freeway. now we are following this raging wild wild fire that began in napa county and started moving towards back about this morning. it destroyed homes just outside the city limits. thousands of homes are still threatened right now kron four's dan kerman is live for us now in vacaville dan we see the fire they're raging behind has been a year. all day long and there are plumes of smoke j

north of vacaville. the fire jumped the road and evacuations are in effect. the solano county shares say people living west of blue ridge road to highway 50 fight and north of cherry glen road to ohio highway 128 have to get out of there. there is an immediate threat to life. >> the flames will get to us and then it came over the hill and within 30 minutes it was on top of us. so we just started doing everything we could cutting fire lines. loading up all the pets we could catch. >>> lightning started this fire and it is their present content. authorities are gripping this fire as part of the much bigger lightning complex fire for napa and sonoma counties and it includes the hennessey fire and the gamble fires that have burned more than 46,000 acres or 72 square miles. it is 0% contain. about 50 homes or outbuildings have been destroyed. during the night in solano county, homes west of vacaville were integrated including people living south of the gates canyon road to highway 80. >>> an evacuation warnin

is vacaville fire.chief kris concepcion chris good morning. good morning doing okay, i want to ask how you're doing and more importantly what what is the situation this morning with the fire. >>the good news overnight a fire son itself out. so firefighters hooper i'm able to keep it from from the homes gain some advantage to share a in the city. >>and how long you've been on the job in vacaville. >>i've been in a vacaville for 5 years, but ah ah close to 30 years in the fire service have you ever seen a situation that you had yesterday last night where the fire jumps 10 lanes of freeway. >>i i actually have really on a southern california but our northern california i had ever see it like that that was that quite a me you don't expect to do that to do that but jump that many lanes of freeway we we weren't expecting we we thought there was a possibility so we were a year he has had that. and we're for that contingency just happened to be not you don't necessarily expect it. >>and because it's so hot and

certainly not the case where you were in the vacaville area. you go to these areas annually unfortunately. how did how would you describe what you saw in vacaville and what are you expecting to see once you get to the santa cruz mountains area. >>yeah i think we'll all be shocked by what we see i think no no matter how many disasters respond to or how many how much devastation you see i think there always surprising and that's another important piece during his time as mental health making sure that people taking care of their mental health to and of course people been through so many different fires situations years we need to think make sure people are taking care of there mental health is where as well as their physical health. of course i saw they'll sideburns burn you know there's lots of action. you know white in smoke in the air and things like that. but i think when the do the side that will have lots of trucks that will need help to get back on their feet recovery will be the biggest thing that will be in front of others. the red cross

vacaville where we've been seeing our most dramatic pictures this morning. yeah we have live team coverage this morning will tran has been out in an area that has already seen. >>structures a ton by these flames while you are very close will and there's a lot of smoke be careful. >>there is a big fire. right behind me i'm just surrounded by fires, so it's almost like picture. fire and just go ahead and be on television and this is right there that fire that we showed you at 6.30 continues to burn and it actually is moving from the left to the right of your screen so it's moving closer to the hillside you could see there's some headlights coming down here as well not sure of as a firefighter or even a resident, leaving the syria, it's gotten darker. ficker smoke from the last time that you saw me i'm on pleasant valley road and we'll just walk down here just a try our very best to put you in the pocket where i'm currently located so you can see it at home and feel the desperation and how bad things are it's reaching new vegetation every second and look at thi

i also spoke with a man from vacaville who had evacuated. he said this entire situation just came as a really big surprise to have. >>we went by and recent fires going last night nosing up on the hills all red and but never thought it was going to come down and the town re side road every back road every a detour. it's just jam-packed. >>so the last update we received regarding structures here in fairfield said that there were no structures. damage here in fairfield or vacaville, but again that was about an hour ago and right as we saw a large flare up over the hill. i was looking on twitter as i mentioned someone was showing images of the fire line that they could see it was starting. >>to get closer to any of the cars that you see coming behind me those are all trying to evacuate this area gets to a place right now the air not as hazy, but there's definitely ash that's kind of blowing around here and it's going to continue of course as we know things can change very very quickly with these wildfires can jonathan. >>noel thank you for that

it is covering a part of 80 as you pass vacaville. in the north bay, this closure is impacting people eastbound and westbound 128 between silverado trail and monticello road. so you can see 128 there, that is the main close surhu closure extends to vacaville as well. and you can see that we just have primarily local streets, but the gray on the map is the smoke that is resting over the area. there all morning long, so be aware of low visibility around 505 and 80. and closer to the coast, highway 1 between graven stein highway and stewarts point and skaggs springs road, that is all closed this morning. and this is the largest expansion chexof th expansion of the closures that i have seen. full closure of betwe betwepes right now, we could all use some comforting words, so here it goes: melty, melty, tasty, grilly, juicy, sizzle. thdough patty melt is back. melty, melty. thdough patty melt is back. so strong. so... not ripped. what're we talkin about... that's the hefty ultra strong bag hefty! hefty! hefty! (whispers) gimme. (confused)

because this is a rural area of vacaville. everyone out here is on propane and the tanks are just popping intense flames as if the area needed any more of that. back to you len. >> you have been up and down the road there, what can you llus about the fire fighting efforts underway. >> reporter: at midnight, they were in kind ofa ofpaemergency everybody out. save lives. and now they've moved them more resources so further south to us now, we're seeing crews backed up in the driveways. they have got their hoses pulled out and tools ready to battle any hot spots or spot firethat pop seeing them separateically all throughout the homes. further south of here, yeah some homes are going to be okay but this is early. they have personnel on fullre p coming. >> the key of course is for you to stay safe as well. and our photographer brian kiley. thank you much. >>> i'm anne live news desk. monitoring a huge wildfi threatening lot of homes now in the south bay. motaant gh the santa cruz of rinew evacuations in the nny it has been a night

napa county wildfire spread into vacaville. those evacuations on pleasant valley road we saw those flames earlier this morning, intense. some homes destroyed by the fire and those evacuating have suffered some burns, one woman described seeing a car blow up as a scary, busy morning for us out there. now a look at what to expect from that forecast today because, kari, it is not playing well with firefighters as they're already dealing with the intense heat of the fire and the intense temperatures. >> we have had such high temperatures. we know that the fuel is very dry and with the new fire burning over the santa cruz mountains overnight the flames and the heat was so intense picked up on the radar and that may even be ash that's being streamed into parts of the south bay from san jose over close to fremont so we are going to continue to have unhealthy air quality today as those fires continue to spread, very little con and thement this morning and you may need to wear your mask inside the home. whatever mask you have been weari

westbound 80 jams up outside of the fire area but not far from vacaville. getting into cordelia we have one or two lanes blocked by an overtoned rig big. bay bridge metering lights are on but big slowing south 880 and looks like speeds improving so i think they may have started to move that big rig in the hayward area. back to you. >> all right. good news there. all right. thank you, mike. >>> happening now for you a typhoon hitting hong kong hard overnight. battered the coast. hong kong is rated that system on a 1 to 10 as a 9. >>> all right. next a look at the top stories to cover. we keep talking about the fires. you can smell the smoke walking out the door this morning. the fires explodingover night in many areas, some cases sending people running for their lives and a live update from vacaville as we know that people have been injured. hi. we're glad you came in. what's on your mind? can you help keep these guys protected online? easy. connect to the xfi gateway. what about wireless data options for the family? you can customize and save. what about in

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vacaville. >>absolutely good evening i'm so far back though the city proper up back bill to concerns are our primary objective right now and priority is the south >>our city where the fire jumped. i from the west to the to the east side prompting an additional evacuations in the south part of our city. so that's where a majority of our resources are right now. it sound like a very getting a gaining the upper hand as far as keeping the fire. from getting into the homes. >>you talked chief you talked about evacuations can you talk a little bit more about how many homes are under the gun right now that are trying to safe. >>so as part the backbone concern we have a total of about 5500 homes that we estimate are under an evacuation order up some sort of it started on the west side of our city and more orchard neighborhoods fault for elbow. and then we additionally had to the shy and brown valley neighborhood in the north part of the city and then just as recently as about 4 o'clock that afternoon. i

right now, traffic is flowing through vacaville, fairfield. that's how far it's progressed and fires in the tri-valley area. and then the south bay handing it right back to you. >> that's right. mike, hundreds of homes under evacuation orders right now in the santa cruz mountains after a fire exploded in size there and covering san mateo and santa cruz counties. this is a group of five fires sparked by lightning. fire there already scorched 7,500 acres. no con and thement. two evacuation centers are set up, one at a high school, the other at santa cruz county fairgrounds. kris sanchez will update us throughout the morning from close to the fire lines. >>> very busy morning here and that, treatment heat concerns not just here in bay area. still ahead here on "today in the bay," the push to contain the large fire in l.a. county and the outages of thousands there. >>> plus another blow for riders in uber's battle with california, the monthly services impacted. we'll be right back. >>> happening this vacaville as the fire continues to spread very

because we're looking at and s for vacaville. unhealthy air qual sensitive groups for san leitandro and y for folivermore so because of this, a spare the air alert is in effect for today. let's check out e thfires burning this morning. for the napa county fires temperatures in the mid- to upper 70s to lo15w and thankfully, firefighters are working with just northerly winds about 1 to 5 miles per hour. so light conditions up in napa county. now for the marsh fire, gusts up to 17 miles per hour. humidity at 11% and temperatures right around 80 degrees. east of milpitas. the deer zone fire, gusts up to 27 miles per is is to e soutest br. twood.thhour and for the santa cruz mountains, miles per hour this morning. so also talking about the heat. excessive heat warnings that are in effect. firefighters will be up against the dangerously holt temperatures as we go through our afternoon. d e ineffect all the way until 9:00 p.m. today. so because of the strong ridge heat dome that remains in effect. taking you hour by hour on futurecast w

the employee was based here in vacaville. pg&e not wanting to release anymore information out of respect for the family. we've also heard of four civilians who have been injured, those people suffering some burns. the fire activity here in vacaville is calmer this morning. but there is still -- there are still little fires popping up everyone where around here. you can see them on the hillside, would he have ale've in the streets. so firefighters are carefully watching this area. and they are attacking spot fires on pleasants valley road. they didn't want the wind to turn it into an out of control situation. the hennessey fire has been destructive and terrifying. it created a very intense situation on interstate 80 when it jumped the freeway. they had to shut it down. it is open now, we drove through there this morning without any fires. and the fires in the lnu lightning complex have destroyed 105 homes, many of those in vacaville. evacuation orders are still in place there, but in fairfield, the situation is improving. some

there is a reflex time. >> i want to go back to the fire in vacaville.we understand a portion of i-80 is closed because the fire is burning. what can you tell us about the status of the situation there in vacaville? >> i am actually on the czu fire . i do know that you are correct that it did jump i-80. that's an example of what we are facing across the area. a lot of different fires and fronts that we are trying to catch. >> it seems like the fires have popped up everywhere. let's focus on the fire where you are. you tell us about the status of the firefight there? >> the fire started with 22 fires as we can. caused by lightning. and he has pushed from san mateo into santa cruz county. right now it's threatening boulder creek and into bonnie doon. we know that ructures have been destroyed and there's additional evac% containment. sea to have any idea how many more people will be forced from their homes? >> i don't want to speculate and cause any unnecessary inks. as a fire progresses we will continue to stay in front of the fire to make sure that we giv

. >> singed but surviving in vacaville. you'll hear from a homeowner who lost his home and what he'll do next. >>> and the largest to control. >>> now breaking news as new evacuations in santa cruz county. >> i jumped out of bed. thank god. or else i'd be sleeping in the house on fire. >> he lost his house, he left es on his come o >> in vacaville. fires reached the neighborhood. >> i was on the roof, i didn't know if the leaves would pick up and get embers. >> that man was able to save his home. but the house across the street burned to the ground. one resident, current conditions made for the perfect storm. >> i think it's unprecedented with the heat and the humidity and the wind, it was inevitable. >> good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. thank you for joining us. to the north, we have the lnu lightning complex fire and to the south the czu august lightning complex. the largest fire is the scu lightning complex burning east of milpitas. cal fire says 137,000 acres have burned. that's 214 square miles. bigger th

people have been hurt 105 structures were destroyed kron four's while bella has the latest from vacaville. after a 5 hour closure. i 80 finally re opened around 09:00pm wednesday night, i'm here at air base parkway. >>good interstate was actually shut down from here all the way up until cherry glen road up towards the vacaville now this is all because the fire actually jumped over lanes of traffic. and forced officials to shut down the highway near the interstate on both sides. now the flames continue to flare up through the night but then would die down many folks stopped on the overpass because they couldn't figure out just where to go there were plenty of evacuations. anyone who was trying to take back roads were just met with complete gridlock traffic just like those who were stuck on the interstate i spoke with many folks who are from sacramento trying to make their way home and just couldn't because of the gridlock traffic and for those from vacaville who had evacuated this entire situation came as a big surprise on we went by and recent fires going last night no cinnabon the hills

>>among the homeowners evacuated last week when flames consumed the vacaville hills, stephanie man i don't need to rest to get back in because i'm safe panel made a quick stop at solano counties reentry center set up at the mission church in vacaville thursday there she and other evacuees who live in areas where evacuation orders have been lifted received passes to get them through check. analyst says at one point the home was in peril, the whole canyon, it was black and then i looked over the hill just kind of my front yard and it was read just you can see the fire like it was coming and it not only reach her property off gibson canyon road it burned all the way up to the house we appreciate our home now the first hours back stephanie spent doing little things she took for granted before like planting grateful. she recently invested in fire protection. >>we'll get to has a story in just a minute, but there are new details tonight about the shooting of jacob lake that has sparked protests wisconsin. investigators say the incident started when a woman called 911 and a dispatcher named

another part of 80, i want to show you the portion near vacaville. if you are taking 80, all lanes are open and there was a closure on 80 both directions yesterday due to the fires burning in and around the area. i will keep a close eye on 80 and a trouble spot near travis exit. there are closures not too far from the freeway due to the fires. other closures to look out for are 128 years of otter trail and napa county. you will see highway one, look at that purple it indicates road closures. between highway nine. let's get a look at your forecast with some unhealthy air quality due to those fires. >>> check out this fiery sunrise. we are looking east with those smoke particles in the atmosphere, providing that bright orange glow and with those hazy and smoky skies we have unhealthy air quality we can also see some patchy fog. that is onshore flow starting to kick in for cooler temperatures. we are in the 50s and 60s this morning, much cooler compared to the last several mornings. it is 66 in concord, oakland is 59, mid 50s in san francisco, 60 in san

>>shows the you where the fire has burned so far and it's crept into parts of vacaville. >>and has moved towards fairfield as well that collation orders are in place in parts of both of those cities. this is the one that shut down 80 last night, let's check in with kron four's will tran who has the latest from vacaville this morning. >>i'm now on cherry glen road just down the road from pleasants valley road and that's where most of the homes were destroyed, but make no mistake about it. there are a lot of homes along this stretch is is right next to highway 80 that were not spared look at this home still smoldering. but there's nothing left that used to be a home right over there, it's gone the tree has wilted the tractor is ok, it looks like with the field. pretty much charred, let's walk down this direction here and there's a checkpoint right in front of us. fires or never fair because one home could be destroyed to the left side there you can see that home still intact. it doesn't look like it was even touched at all even though behind it look at the field just black

the highway one 28 and it is important also know that 80 is shut between fairfield and vacaville between cherry glen road and air base parkway we've covered that a few times here we'll get more information on that to you as soon as new information comes in. now tonight, there are multiple evacuation orders also in the north bay because of the l a new lightning complex fires. right now the napa county evacuation orders include this information highway one 28 from lower child's valley road to monticello road highway one 28 from child's pope valley road to lower child's valley road. childs pope valley road from highway one 28 to lower child valley road. all of hennessy ridge road from moscow with corner to wooden valley road this includes circle oaks community. atlas peak from bubbling well pet cemetery that's located on atlas peak road all the way to the debt and also there's loma vista road so to canyon road and all of steel canyon from highway one 28 to the end of the road including pleasure cove resort. childs pope valley road from lower child's valley road to pope canyon road highway o

is very unhealthy for vacaville. we want to get to the red flag warning in effect for portions of napa, solano, sonoma, and lake county until 9:00 due to gusty conditions and low relative humidity values. this is the last thing fire crews need as they try to battle these fires. let's get right to it. current conditions for the lnu lightning complex fires, temperatures are in the mid to upper 60s, and 43% for relative humidity values and wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour. for the walbridge fire, burning east to west of healdsburg, the wind is at eight miles an hour and they are in the upper 60s and for the deer zone and marsh fire's, low 70s right now and humidity just 9 to 15%. it is very low and we have a dry start to our day. westerly winds are gusting up to 20 miles an hour in those areas and the santa cruz mountains, temperatures are in the mid to upper 60s to low to mid 70s. they have 21% relative humidity. that strong ridge of high pressure , it will weaken slightly and that is going to usher in some onshore fl

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the worst damage is near vacaville. fires have destroyed 105 homes and out buildings. 20,000 more buildings are threatened. the flames jumped between vacaville and the section of highway on 80 was closed in both directions for more than three hours last night. >> i don't know how close fire is but i've never been in this situation before. >> this is home. this is the real deal. tomorrow i could come home and everything is gone. >> reporter: fairfield high school open as a shelter. many were senior citizens. they sat in the dark after the school lost power last night. the evacuation order for that retirement community was lifted overnight. >>> the lnu lightning complex fire is made up of eight smaller fires that have burned 124,000 acres. lnu stands for the local agency handling this fire. we have seen fires been named with their origin point, but cal fire has its hands more than full with so many fires burning. >>> you can always join us on our ktvu news app, you will get the information you need on the fires burning ar

we've been watching it flare up throughout the day in vacaville. one of the hot spots a short time ago. hillside still black and smoky. made a run down the hill towards a beautiful ranch style house. fortunately the firefighters were able to save it. not the case for a lot of houses out here. rural vacaville hit hard as lmu lightning complex fire took off early this morning, zldestroyin homes and threatening pets and wildlife. >> the fire was loud, it whistled and roared, you could hear trees falling. scariest thing i've ever been in. >> reporter: nancy millkin describes the fire. when it flared up, raced to bring more than 100 horses and sheep to safety. but it was too late to drive out. >> we were smart about it, knew it was coming at angle. waited until it crowned before we started to lay a line. >> reporter: he and his 16-year-old son bulldozed lines and poured water on the flames and rest of the family and animals huddled under the horse arena. >> hot, felt it coming at your face, eyebrows about to get burnt off your face, no hair on your face

vacaville has an east wind at 81 degrees. 30 percent humidity. there is really nothing that is positive here, except the wind speeds are not that strong. other than that, it will be a hot day in lynn. this is a heck of a high- pressure system that is parked itself over the nevada border. it will get nudged out of the way. it will be bumped back towards arizona and new mexico which will open the door for cooling. i will tell you, it is a slow process, when it is this strong. there is relief near the ocean and around the bay. for everyone it will be thursday and friday and then will hold steady on saturday, you guys. >>> an altercation in san jose got heated between a man on a bike and a police officer who stopped him. up next, you will see newly released body cam video of the incident, raising serious questions about excessive use of force. >>> a rise in the number of coronavirus cases for us one summer destination to expand their travel restrictions, affecting the tourism economy. do not forget, you cannot the morning headlines delivered right to

and women of the vacaville fire department. thank you thank you. i want to give you a map now showing the current evacuations in solano county the areas in red here mandatory evacuation orders that includes travis air force base as you can see here the yellow areas are currently well the evacuation warnings you can see a full list of all the evacuation information on our website kron 4 dot com. and check out this new video of the wall bridge fire shot just hours ago over healdsburg quite a sight there this is part of that same l and you lightning complex fire in the north bay so far it has burned 20,000 acres this one specifically it is 0% contained and that is where we find kron 4 s taylor bisacky tonight, taylor. >>what's it like there now. >>well vicki grand this is my view from killing drive in healdsburg and if you see over this way you can see those huge smoke plums we've seen a black it and some flames earlier this is the view that we're seeing in the main concern obviously it's for the people that live out there on the

kron four's will tran has the latest now from vacaville this morning.at news to pass along an update on the llamas yesterday i was reporting right here from this location in so many people were fearful that the llamas right behind me would be killed and for good reason because they were surrounded by smoke and fire. look at them this morning, they're still grazing t

you can see these yellow circles on the map here just outside of vacaville, here's the city of vacaville. these are checkpoints and only residents are allowed to go past those checkpoints seasonal purple dots that you see here these are and. closures so you cannot get through there. there will be police at these checkpoints so they will prevent you from getting into this red area this is the mandatory evacuation area, let's move on to the next map. this shows you the napa side of lake berryessa and again all of this. well first of all this red is the fire perimeter again but then when you add the evacuation. a mandatory evacuation. area over it it kind of turns into a blue and purple area but all of this is the evacuation area. this a yellow area here is evacuation warning. and this stretches from just east of napa stretching all the way along the foothills above silverado trail. all the way up to calistoga and then you hit the mandatory evacuation area on the east side of highway 29, which of course takes you up to middletown into lake county. so you can see this is the evacuation area

>>according to vacaville police july 2019 jefferson hegel was found dead in her vacaville home. the evidence she died by suicide, including a phone call she made to a suicide hotline moments before dying, but her family says they see no evidence of such a call. >>if caylee did call a suicide hotline we want phone records we want she call this hotline. >>the family also says the military prevented an autopsy even though her mother requested one in the family claims it still has not received a vacaville police report it does not take this long to give the mother was she is asking for airman's mother says what's even more alarming is her daughter's body had evidence of a assault. in fact she says were revealed to her at a funeral home not by investigators i was shocked. to find. >>her neck broken her eye blackened knuckles bruised. asif court on into her private parts. without an explanation. >>that was doug johnson reporting for us this morning. well, a massive wildfires burning in los angeles county. this is a look at the so-called lake fire. now it started yesterday afternoon in

these are the current conditions in vacaville.part as the winds are going to pick up and be around 15 to 20 this afternoon through the early evening hours. and they will drop off a bit during the overnight hours. it's because the sea breeze is going to try to make its way all the way to vacaville, but if you look at the temperatures, it drops them considerably. 106 today, but still mid to upper 90s thursday through tuesday. it's going to pick up the winds, which will drop the temperature, but the winds will transport more humidity into these areas, but the winds, that's the big story. the difference maker there. let's take a look what's going on in the santa cruz mountains. relative humidity, 20%. winds light at 3 miles per hour, but it's that fire that's bringing that smoke into the peninsula and into the south bay down to saratoga. that's why you have such pyoor air quality conditions. let's go up here the hennessey fire, still hot up in the higher elevations. rell humidity is 10 to 14%. the winds, you can see those up in the he

some of the evacuations in vacaville have been lift this had evening.that is good news, but for some people this is when the real heart break begins. >> we're alive and everybody is okay. >> reporter: flames brought an early morning wake-up call for john moya as he rushed to grab what he could. >> you could feel the heat and wind blowing from the fire and ash. it was too hot. i said we don't have time. >> reporter: the fire came right up to his house. >> same video of the houses burning next to us. >> reporter: his home is one of the few still standing in this area. the flames leaving many of his neighbors with nothing to come back to. >> i'm very thankful. >> reporter: ten miles away karen wasn't as lucky. >> i don't think we're going to be evacuated for long. we'll be right back. guess what? this is the one that got us. >> reporter: her neighbor telling her that her house of 30 years is gone. another gentleman alaw enforcement officer, said i was up there and there is nothing left of our homes, nothing. >> take a look at this. a mini firenado was spot

that was pleasant valley road in vacaville. three deaths were reported along highway 128 in napa county. the largest cluster of fires is the lightning complex fires in the north bay that has destroyed most five homes or outbuildings. it has burned 336 square miles. the icu lightning complex fires in the east and south base have earned 246 square miles. the ccu august fires and the santa cruz county's are forcing almost 50 people to evacuate. p his chapter crashed while fighting a fire in fresno county. he is identified as a 52-year- old of rancho cucamonga. he was on a water dropping mission, but his helicopter went down. he leaves behind a wife and two daughters. obviously, they are grieving his death. they say he loved to fly. he was a football coach and a gym instructor. he lived life to the fullest. >> he loved each and every person who came into his life. he loved with all of his might. he loved his family. he loved the lord. >> the cause of the crash is being investigated. >>> the wildfire that roared through vacaville le

this incredible scene there really just a fire storm in vacaville. we learned there are about 170 structures that were destroyed because of that fire. 50 more were damaged. at last count, 120,000 acres throughout napa, solano and cal fire saying this is at 0% containment. take a listen to what one family that did have to evacuate had to say about this entire situation. >> it's just terrible. what else is going to be next this year? >> it's terrible. but we also think they're lucky. people who lose their house and had no time to get out. we had an hour. >> so, just if you're out here, please use caution. you can see those spots in the middle of the freeway still burning. an indication of just how bad things are out here. there is a little relief coming in the form of firefighters from san francisco. they're coming in to help fight that fire, but as chrkris mentioned, it doesn't matter who comes to fight the fire. we all need to be aware. pg&e is in the area spraying those poles down with the fire retardant to prevent things falling down. a big effort

we did have some strong winds and vacaville. as tom vacar pointed out the wind has been relatively light. but it's going to change and it's going to come robustly onshore annight. it's very typical for this time of year. it's thabreeze. if we get into the next couple of nights we will see those sea breezes kick in. a record in oakland at 83 degrees. 100 and extreme heat of morning it will drop in the next few hours. we have a lot going on out there. we do see slight cooling enacted stand some of the fire. it's not helpful , it's a double-edged sword. when we come back what we could expect how much cooler it will get. and when the wind will stabilize ? >>> coming up kamala harris is expected to make history tonight by officially becoming the democratic party's vp nominee. >>> also coming up san francisco may be coming off the state coronavirus watchlist. what it means? and a message from the mayor. >>> today fired police chief and kirkpatrick fired a whistleblower lawsuit. (birds chirping) (woman chattering) - [narrator] ordering

in vacaville, do evacuation orders along shelton lane and browns valley road. cal fire just giving an update on the firefight within the last hour. >> right , we ainfive counties. what that means is cooperation. >> by cooperation, he means get out evae.wear vacaville with several people who barely made it out of the fires alive. >> reporter: it is just barely 8:45 on the western end of vacaville. the smoke is so thick that the sun is an orange ball in the sky. it is already warm. it is windy and it is not looking good. vacaville went to bed last night, believing they were safe from the flames that were miles away at lake berryessa. i midnight, heavy winds suddenly picked up and pushed the flames and hot embers straight down to the canyon like a blowtorch for more than 12 miles. this woman and her husband tried to escape by car but . i and i got all these flames on me. i lost my shoe but i made it. god saved me. >> reporter:by sunrise, reinforcements moved in and some homes that we saw that were in the fire's path like this one, were saved. we also saw plenty of

the vacaville based lemmon was und unresponsive in the gates canyon area in his car. he was in the area clearing power poles and lines to make the area safe for emergency crews. >> in the south bay, about half of santa clara county is under an evacuation order or warning right now. the scu lightning complex burning in stanislaus county and san joaquin still burning. the flames now encroaching on the observatory on mt. hamilton. thiswas the scene there overnight. the telescopne and visitor's center are still anding. crews are tackling very challenging firefight right now as flames tear their way through the point reyes national seashore. they flew over the woodward fire with the winds causeing the flames to balloon 1500 acres towards the coastline threatening 1600 homes. the area is usually foggy and cool. it's now unusually warm and sunny. the coastal terrain leaving the fire engines unable to reach the fire lines. we're having to hike in and manage troops getting in and out of very thick heavy fuels. >> the area seeing unusual dryness but they're hopeful that the ma

all of these are in vacaville. animals can be brought to the animal shelter, fairgrounds, solano county fairgrounds or solano county animal shelter. if evacuees are heading to any of the evacuation shelters, it is asked that you bring a mask and practice social distancing. >>> let's go over to the coast, evacuation orders are in effect, that is an parts of san mateo and santa cruz counties. that is all because of a separate group of fires that was started by lightning strikes. these fires have now all can find to burn 7500 acres, and the flyers are now zero percent contained. parts of dearborn park,creek, a community area have been evacuated. pescadero high school and the santa cruz civic auditorium have been opened as relief shelters. california fire is going to hold a news conference at any moment, and when that happens, we will take it live and bring it to you. in the meantime our coverage of the wildfire continues throughout the morning. we will be here on air and online, and we are sending out breaking news al

we also have poor to moderate air quality around vacaville. spare the air due to smoke for the wildfires tomorrow, poor to unhealthy and that continues right on through sunday. right now north bay fires, it's hot, mid to upper 90s, very dry. 15% to 16% relative humidity and the winds is up which is not going to help those firefighters. gusty winds around the la honda fire. it is also warm, dry winds, though, thankfully not as strong in that vicinity. i'll be back with a full look at the forecast which includes the smoke and heat coming right up. dan and ama. >> thank you, sanldhya. >>> now we want to get to the peninsula where there are more mandatory evacuation orders. this is from the czu lightning fires. it includes loma mar, pescadero creek county park. there are communities around the boulder greek golf course and areas around empire grade road and bonny ad is live on the sit there. >> reporter: good afternoon, ama. wee we're in scots valley where cal fire has a staging area. it's very smoky, hazy here, soot flying everywhere. earlier tod