Multiple wildfires are burning in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties. Cal Fire is referring to them collectively as the CZU August Lightning Complex. CZU stands for Cal Fire's San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit. The biggest fires are:
Warrenella Fire: Cement Plant Road Highway, 1,120 ares, 5% contained
Waddell Fire: Old Coast Road Highway 1,500 acres, 0% contained
San Mateo
5-14 Fire: Olmo Truck Trail and Butano Fire Road, 3,000 acres, 0% contained
5-15 Fire: N. Butano Truck Trail and Dearborn Park Road, 3,000 acres, 0% contained
5-18 Fire: N. Butano Truck Trail and China Grade Road, 3,000 acres, 0% contained
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LATEST, Aug. 19, 8:35 p.m. New evacuation orders issued at 8 p.m.:
— Pescadero Beach Area
— Pescadero Creek County Park Area
— Beach Hollow Area
— San Gregario Area
— La Honda Area
— Red Barn Area
— Russian Ridge Open Space Area
— Skylonda Area
— Langley Hill Area
Find complete evacuation information including zones here.
Aug. 19, 7 p.m. New evacuations ordered for Santa Cruz County in the areas of Alba Road, Hubbard Gulch and Fanning Grade (ZONE BEN 1). Also, Davenport South. See the complete order here.
Get the latest evacuation information at the Cal Fire San Mateo - Santa Cruz Unit Twitter feed.
Aug. 19, 6 p.m. Cal Fire provided an update on the CZU August Lightning Complex Fires burning in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties Wednesday night, saying the group of blazes had burned more than 25,000 acres and remains zero percent contained as of 6 p.m.
Cal Fire Deputy Chief Jonathan Cox confirmed 20 single-family residences have been destroyed. "That is just the beginning of the damage," Cox said.
Cox said the fire is growing rapidly and many of the smaller blazes have combined into larger conflagrations.
The fire has been divided into a North Zone that includes San Mateo County where the communities of La Honda and Pescadero are threatened. and a South Zone encompassing fires in Santa Cruz that are threatening Bonny Doon, Ben Lomond and Felton.
Due to the heavy smoke, Cal Fire has been unable to operate complete aircraft operations and they don't expect these conditions to improve for 48 to 72 hours. The focus now is on protecting "life and property."
The fire conditions are constantly changing, and Cal Fire said it doesn't know "where evacuations will lead next."
If you are asked to evacuate, Cal Fire said, "Get out, do not hesitate, do not wait."
You can find the press conference here.
Aug. 19, 3:05 p.m. Additional evacuation warnings were issued from Cal Fire Wednesday afternoon for the CZU August Lightning Complex.
The areas west of Highway 9 to Empire Grade, and south from Bear Creek Road to Felton (including Ben Lomond), were added to a longer list of evacuation warnings issued earlier Wednesday morning (the full warning list is below).
Aug. 19, 2:45 p.m. A number of state parks located near the CZU August Lightning Complex are now closed until further notice.
• Big Basin Redwoods State Park
• Portola Redwoods State Park
• Butano State Park
• Rancho del Oso Unit
• Año Nuevo State Park
• Castle Rock State Park
• Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, including the Fall Creek Unit
Read more about Big Basin, which is California's oldest state park and affected by the fires, here.
Aug. 19, 2:20 p.m. San Jose State University cancelled its classes for Wednesday due to the air quality from the fires, and will decide at 6 p.m. whether classes will continue for Thursday or will be cancelled as well.
According to a press release, SJSU is closing all of its buildings with the exception of its residence halls and University Housing Services, dining commons
and the Student Health Center.
Students and faculty will be updated on the status of campus closures via email, or can check in with the university's Twitter account, @SJSU.
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A group of large fires tore through a dry landscape in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties overnight, triggering evacuations, threatening homes and pushing suffocating smoke into the Santa Clara Valley.
The CZU August Lightning Complex is named for the blazes that were sparked amid the rash of thunderstorms that moved across California early this week.
A Cal Fire spokesperson told KCBS Radio Wednesday morning that on Tuesday there were about 22 fires and at least 20 new ones sparked overnight.
As of Wednesday morning, the blaze had burned 10,000 acres and there was zero containment, Cal Fire said in its status report. While no structures have been destroyed, 6,000 are threatened.
More than 22,000 people have been ordered to evacuate the following areas:
Evacuations order for San Mateo County:
• Communities of Loma Mar and Dearborn Park Area (Zone SMC E018)
• Pescadero Creek County Park Area (Zone SMC E024)
• Butano Community Area (Zone SMC E098)
• Butano State Park Area including Barranca Knolls Community (Zone SMC
E019)
• Butano Creek Drainage (Zone SMC E055)
• South Skyline Blvd. Area near Highway 9 (SMC E049)
• Russian Ridge Open Space Reserve Area (Zone SMC E027)
• Middleton Tract Area (Zone SMC E044)
• Portola Redwoods State Park and the Portola Heights Community Area (Zone SMC E048)
Santa Cruz Sheriff Office released this map of the recommended evacuation areas for the CZU Lightning Complex Fire on Aug. 19, 2020.
Santa Cruz Sheriff OfficeEvacuation orders for Santa Cruz County:
• Waterman Gap Loop, Upper HWY 236, Boulder Creek Golf Course, Heartwood Hill, Lodge Road, Community of Little Basin, Lower China Grade, Upper China Grade, Community of Kings Hwy, Lower Jamison Creek, Gallion Heights, Fallen Leaf Neighborhood, Foxglove Lane (Zones CRZ10, CRZ13, BOU36, BOU20, BOU30, BOU31, BOU36, BOU37, BOU21)
• Saratoga Toll Road, San Lorenzo Park, Riverside Grove-Community of Teilh Drive, Wildwood Road (BOU38, BOU39, BOU40, BOU41, BOU42, BOU43)
• Everyone on Empire Grade Road, from Felton Empire north, all of Pine Flat Road, all of Ice Cream Grade, Bonny Doon Road, in between Pine Flat Road, Martin Road, and all associated side streets are under an evacuation order. (CRZ1, CRZ2, CRZ3, CRZ4, CRZ5, CRZ10, CRZ11, CRZ12, CRZ13, CRZ14, CRZ15)
• Bonny Doon south of Ice Cream Grade, to include Pine Flat Road South is now under an evacuation order. (CRZ7, CRZ8)
Evacuation warning for Santa Cruz County:
• All areas adjacent to the Bonny Doon and San Lorenzo Valley should be prepared to evacuate if necessary. (CRZ7, CRZ8)
• Highway 9 to Empire Grade
• South from Bear Creek Road to Felton, including Ben Lomond
Evacuation Centers
• Pescadero High School, 360 Butano Cuttoff Road in Pescadero
• Santa Cruz County Fairground, 2601 E. Lake Ave. in Watsonville
• Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St. in Santa Cruz
Road closures for San Mateo County
• Pescadero Creek Road between Alpine and Cloverdale Rd.
• Cloverdale Road between Pescadero Creek Road and Gazos Creek.
• Alpine Road between Pescadero Creek Road and Skyline
• Whitehouse Canyon Road at Highway 1
• Portola Heights Road at Skyline
Road closures for Santa Cruz County
• Highway 236 between Highway 9 and Jameison Creek
• Highway 9 between Skyline and Western Avenue
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Amy Graff is the news editor for SFGATE. Email her: agraff@sfgate.com.
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