 Good evening. Welcome to the 6 p.m. press conference here on the CZU complex My name is Jonathan Cox deputy chief for Cal Fire San Mateo Santa Cruz unit and Line officer here on the incident as always if you could just keep your cell phones muted and take any conversations outside the press conference area As well as keep your masks on at all times There will be an opportunity after all the speakers as usual for some questions and answers and then one-on-ones after the formal press conference Just for an update. I know this is an as needed press conference We wanted to give the latest acreage this evening of eighty six thousand one hundred and two acres Eight six one zero two as you have been witnessing that number is changing a couple times a day We anticipate having the final acreage tomorrow sometime that we anticipate holding the fire at We are using IR infrared flights in the evening to get the latest perimeter And look for hot spots that may still be within the fire perimeter Kind of for what we call seek and destroy to kind of get that heat identified and cooled down The fire is at fifty one percent contained So we've crossed that fifty percent threshold We do still have seven thousand six hundred and forty seven structures that are threatened in and around the fire itself The number of structures destroyed has been finalized hundred percent complete on the initial damage inspection at one thousand four hundred and ninety That number has been published and will be continue to be published of those one thousand four hundred and ninety Fifty nine are in San Mateo County and one thousand four hundred and thirty one of them are in Santa Cruz County in Santa Cruz County That includes nine hundred and twenty five single-family residents and fourteen single-family residents in San Mateo County We still have eight thousand two hundred and twenty one people who are evacuated from the fire area And we have one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven firefighters on the line Including over three hundred National Guard firefighters With that the real focus at the moment now that the mitigation is winding down has been on the repopulation and recovery that's going on We have a lot of information and speakers here to really focus on that Because that is really where the interest is right now is the repopulation of this area and what recovery looks like So with that I'll pass it over to Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Chris Clark Good evening So I mentioned this yesterday That we've mentioned it before that it's a day-by-day process And we understand how frustrated that is for folks is your where you are displaced from your home And then wondering when am I going to get back home site I wanted to kind of give some perspective with regards to what's happening today and then what's happening over the coming days So with regards to how we make the decisions on who comes home It's based on really an immediate need to protect someone's safety from either electrocution or or potential crews and as that Transitions from a from an active fire operation which it is into more of a recovery and repopulation plan That focus is making sure that if we let you that if we say an area is okay And people can go back home that there's not a danger there which is going to cause an immediate risk to life And so we make those decisions through cooperation with Information from our partners at PG&E because obviously power it with the lines down and the poles being down There's there's that that needs to be repaired And then public works with regards to is the road safe You know is it is a large tree going to fall my you know fall across the road or fall on you as you're in that area So over the last couple days and the reason that we wanted to get back to these press conferences because There's a lot going on right now in this information. We know is is absolutely Vital for you wherever you are in trying to find out what's going on and when I get back when am I getting back home? So over the last couple days and today and this is going to continue till we get everyone back home We you know our planning team we drove around we looked at certain areas today an area of Southwest Bonnie Dune was was repopulated that information went out at three o'clock And as you've noticed these these notices on when you can go back home have been consistent And that's because we want to keep it that way So there's no surprises with regards to when you get the information In terms of what's to come tomorrow It's you know as we've moved basically from the less in fire impacted areas Into more fire impacted areas than that's basically going from east to west We're doing that again as we come from basically and then we're moving into Bonnie Dune and so they'll be coming information tomorrow and And so there's some things to think about as you get back into those areas especially you know the fire impacted areas of Bonnie Dune and so You know you get back home and say so say tomorrow you're turned to your home in an area of Bonnie Dune And you want to make sure that a that there's there's nothing smaller You know Cal fire still mopping up fires here in there, but there's a lot of nooks and crannies There was a lot of embers that flew out of this fire And so you'd want to make sure and the county is working on information to provide to you and so Matt Machado is with the County Administrative Office is going to be speaking here shortly on a lot of that That the county is doing to protect you and make and make things safer for you But you know just in terms of making sure that if there's anything smoldering on your property Make sure you search, you know your property and make sure there's nothing smoldering or smoking that might create a continued issue The other thing I want to talk about is is power so We you know getting you back home is is important You know I've heard basically we've heard through through different folks that contact this that that there's that Living in the mountainous areas that you know power you've gone without power before and so a lot of people have generators So there's gonna be a there's gonna be a while you know PG&E is working on it But that line that provided power to Bonnie Dune and a lot of areas of Boulder Creek was destroyed during the fire And their substations were destroyed so we're a little ways out It was like a week to three weeks potentially that's what I was informed by PG&E this afternoon On getting power back into those areas of Bonnie Dune and Boulder Creek So it's gonna be some time before you're gonna see power So say that because if I was living in that area, I'd absolutely want to make sure that you know my generator hat was full of fuel Or I had resources Matt's gonna talk about water too because water is also an issue as you get into those areas But yes, it'll be water district is working hard on repairing their line, which was also which was also destroyed In terms of activity that we saw so again heavy police presence on our end and again We're not going away our deputies and our officers aren't going anywhere until everyone's back home And so with that we had no arrests or citations over the last 24 hours, which is which is a good thing Last night we had 20 officers and deputies that were patrolling the evacuated areas Today we had 34 which was 24 from our office and 10 again from our in-county partners tonight We'll have 28 and so again making sure that that everyone's there The note that there's no one there for the for the wrong reasons in terms of calls for service Over the last 24 hours we responded to five welfare checks and 10 suspicious people and our missing persons count still stands at two And as I've mentioned before those two people again, not missing from an area that was ravaged by fire But the so the detectives were kind of saying those folks are still potentially they were evacuated But we still want to make sure that we know where they are And then lastly their counties set up a recovery resource center at the Kaiser current arena in downtown Santa Cruz as we've mentioned before But I just wanted to mention as well that we'll have a deputy that's going to be there seven days a week between the hours of 11 and 3 So if there's anything that any questions you have with regards to you know, the sheriff's office or what we're doing up here and what we're seeing You know feel free to stop in there at the the Kaiser permanent or at the recovery resource center and And ask our deputy who'll be there again from 11 to 3 ask them those questions To be able to provide you more information. Thank you Speaking next from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office is Lieutenant Dan Reynolds Good afternoon. I'm Dan Reynolds with San Mateo County Sheriff's Office Like to share some information with you Today as of 3 p.m. We open the following areas and zones They're open to residents only areas north of Canyon Road, which make up zone 98 and Loma Mar and Dearborn Park, which make up zone 18 and again, that's open to residents only As residents begin to go home Please be mindful that traffic interruptions may exist due to fires and utilities equipment working in the area Please be respectful of our residents during this recovery phase give them time space to process and grieve if needed and We encourage you to visit our county parks that have reopened those that have reopened instead of coming to the beaches and As well take advantage of our other beautiful outdoor San Mateo County resources and for a list of the open parks and resources you may visit parks dot smcgov.org As for the closed zones the ones that still remain closed. It would be E 38 E 19 E 55 as well as Buteno Park and Lastly, I'd like to Remind you or share that there's a local assistance center open at the pescadero elementary school It will be open through Wednesday It opens daily at 10 a.m. And the address of the pescadero Pescadero elementary school is 620 North Street Thank you our final speaker this evening from the Santa Cruz County County Administrator's office and also representing the recovery efforts in the EOC is Matt Machado Thank you and good evening So I'm going to cover a bit about infrastructure both the private and the public side Yesterday we submitted our initial damage assessment to the state It totaled three hundred and forty million dollars that included thirty million of public infrastructure and three hundred and ten million of private infrastructure which includes homes and related structures The assessment will be updated multiple times So we'll continue to gather that information and so we're still capturing that Cal OES and FEMA are reviewing this information for us now so that we can get approval for category A and C Which is debris removal and permanent restoration? We hope to get that approval by the end of next week and then we can start the debris removal Program which will include a work plan out of the county's facilities our public infrastructure team Continues to remove trees and debris from the roadways We are focused on getting proper signage up for safety reasons. I would ask that everybody be extra safe Those roads are going to be dark at night and without all the standard signage be extra careful, please a Little bit about our Other work going on on the Swanton Road. We're still working on two bridges One of them is a full replacement that work should be complete by the end of next week And we have three culverts that are also being replaced. So please be patient in that area On our water and wastewater fronts both critical infrastructure in Davenport We did lose our supply line about 15,000 feet and as that route that line is being repaired and replaced We will be trucking water to the community. So we will have water for everybody that's there Please conserve water though In our Boulder Creek area, we have a wastewater plant that we lost as part of our CSA 7 It does appear that the the system that takes water from the home to the system is operational And it's the system from the wastewater treatment out is what's damaged. So we'll be trucking The wastewater out of there. And so it is going to be functional for homeowners But we'll be trucking it. So we'll please be understanding And then with San Lorenzo Valley Water District, they do have 3197 customers that are under the do not drink order They have 354 customers without water They're planning to get those customers back online They tell me that by September 12th. They'll have those customers back on but their system is is in a in a Fragile position. So please conserve water. They are offering bottled water available to everyone at their district office in Boulder Creek County building inspectors and environmental health inspectors are going parcel to parcel to conduct safety assessments for those structures They that safety assessment will result in placards those placards will be red So that means you can't inhabit yellow. So they'll have some issues or green For there is it they cover if there's no placard, that's a green placard To date the team has assessed 470 parcels they will be working through the weekend and into next week to complete their assessment as Areas are repopulated garbage service will return it will be back on its normal schedule. So please be patient Also as part of the Repopulation we are providing reentry kits. These reentry kits will be stationed at entry points to these areas These kits will include your standard PPE personal protective equipment and in 95 masks gloves water hand sanitizer and Information about the potential toxins that you may encounter on your home site Those sites will be open from three to seven as the repopulation occurs And finally I'd like to offer up and inform everybody or remind everybody that FEMA is still offering individual disaster Assistance to individuals. They have a $500 application program that you can receive $500 that is Dead Sun setting on September 5th. The county is pursuing an extension for that So check out disaster assistance Gov. Thank you. All right with that will happen answer any questions you might have All right, as usual everyone up here is available for a one-on-ones after this We are going to continue with press conferences as needed So please stay tuned to emails and social media with that. We'll go ahead and conclude the six p.m. Press conference. Thank you