San Mateo Opens County’s Second Evacuation Center

SAN MATEO, CA — San Mateo County has opened a second evacuation center, the city of Half Moon Bay announced on Twitter.

Donations of clothing and household items are not being accepted at this time. An additional evacuation center has been set up at the San Mateo County Event Center as well.

Monetary donations can be made to Puente de la Costa Sur Emergency Fire Relief Fund
— City of HMB (@CityofHMB) August 21, 2020

The San Mateo County Event Center has been set up to will be open to county residents who have been forced to evacuate their homes or are facing evacuation warnings due to the CZU Lightning Complex fires.

The county on Wednesday moved its evacuation center form Pescadero High School in Pescadero to Half Moon Bay High School (1 Lewis Foster Dr.).

The centers will be open to San Mateo County residents as the CZU Lightning Complex rages.

Separate lightning-sparked fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counites that started around 3 a.m. on Sunday have merged and have burned through a combined 40,000 acres with zero percent containment as of 8 a.m. on Thursday according to Cal Fire. The blaze has destroyed 20 structures and 8,593 others are threatened.