Thread by @sbaxter_sc

Cal Fire takeaways from 6am update #CZULightningComplexFire
-110 square miles burned, 8% contained
-129 buildings destroyed
- 1,349 firefighters, including out of state
-Damage reports for specific addresses will go through County of Santa Cruz, San Mateo @sccounty No info yet.

-Trees on North Coast have been burning for days and fall on the road randomly. Don't go. Unsafe and draws authorities off the firefight.
-Secondary fire break installed above #UCSC
-Kept fire well away from downtown downtown Boulder Creek, Ben Lomond
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-Firefighters PLEADING for people to stay out of evacuation zone. "It's against the law," said SO Chief Deputy Chris Clark. 94 law enforcement out securing area
-T-storm forecast: Priority on air tankers is to douse any NEW fires.
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Dozer-built fire breaks near #UCSC and Wilder Ranch "takes one of the potential issues off the board about the fire running hard to the south and getting into the city," said Cal Fire Deputy Chief Jonathan Cox. "Large wind events can make fire activity...

jump fire lines. However, it gives us much higher confidence that we can stop the fire in the southerly direction than if we didn't have that in place."

-Still no evacuation order for City of Santa Cruz.
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#CZULightningComplexFire Cox Cont'd: "Our big fear right now is that this lightning produces additional fires, right? The good news about lightning fires is that if you can get to them quickly, you can keep them small. As we saw, a lot of these 22 fires that we're dealing ...

access was just the issue. How do you get in the middle of this area and start to take action and get equipment? So we do have our local government resources throughout the county to respond to new fires. We also have the aircraft that if a new fire ... #CZULightningComplexFire

starts we'll get diverted, our priority on aircraft is to divert to new starts. So there'll be immediately sent to those new fires ... (we know) what resources they will send to new starts from this incident to keep those from going into big issues. #CZULightningComplexFire

-East of Hwy 17 and #Soquel Hills, #Aptos etc., firefighters remain at county fire stations in case there are flare ups on ground Sunday-Monday #CZULightningComplexFire

-Driving on North Coast, a large burning tree branch fell in front of the vehicle of Ian Larkin, unit chief of Cal Fire's San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit.
-It's dangerous and irresponsible for lookie-loos to cruise and take pictures in evac zone. Stay home.
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-A fire commander's wallet was stolen out of his vehicle Saturday and his bank account was drained, per Cal Fire's Mark Brunton. #CZULightningComplexFire

Firefighters worked "tirelessly" Sat+Sat night to protect #BenLomond. Fire fought to "probably the top quarter of (Alba) road and has not progressed any further than that into the community," said Cal Fire's Mark Brunton "Significant amount of resources" #CZULightningComplexFire

CZULightningComplexFire has not reached #Felton and community is protected, per Brunton