Wave and a pandemic. We will bring that to you live when he begins. First, a snapshot of the fires around the bay area right now. Cal fire is grouping them into a few named complexes. Each one made up of several fires spanning several counties. We have Team Coverage from the fire lines, tracking the latest evacuations and updating the latest weather conditions. Evacuations underway right now in napa county near the lightning complex fire. People on monticello road, hope valley road, Aetna Springs road, budd canyon road, and daines creek road are all being asked to grab what they can and leave. Hadestroyed or damaged about 100 homes so far. It has burned more than 46,000 acres, almost the size of the city of oakland and still no progress on containment. 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 fires path like this one, were saved. We also saw plenty of livestock caught in the path of the fire. The fate of these donkeys is unknown. But, workers, with the hopes of sheriffs deputies were able to evacuate these courses. These horses going to be okay . Yeah. Reporter on soaring eagle trail, it became clear that therre firefighters to be every they were needed. Flames surrounded this home and burned out of control with no one around except this man. Are you crazy, brave, or stupid . All of the above. Reporter wearing flip flops, cargo shorts, and a hawaiian shirt, john borrowed the keys and made a fire break around his home himself. I aint gonna let my house burn down willingly. Reporter there was no obvious answer as to why the flames would take one house and not another. The branigan family home on Pleasants Valley road burned to the ground. The garage, vehicles, barns, all gone. The home of ray anctor gregory across the street was spared. Ray credits a good buffer of Defensible Space and divine intervention. Are you a religious person . Yeah. I am thinking our creator right now and i am praying for everyone else. Reporter in vacaville, melissa caen, kpix 5. We will take a pause now to listen in on governor gavin newsom speaking live right now. This bears repeating, the prospect of a world record, 130 degree temperatures here in the state of california. 130 degree temperature. The highest recorded, certainly in modern history, potentially in Human History in death valley. We have seen wildfire activities as a consequence of this heat wave, as a consequence of all of these lightning strikes. We currently have actively addressed 6754 fires since the beginning of this year. You contrast that and you can see in the slide where we were that time last yea, rather than over this year, we are now battling by contrast, we have battled just over 4000 fires last year. This fire season has been very within the state and in terms of our mutual aid system, across the western United States. I will talk more about that in a moment. Obviously, i will draw down federal support as well. Currently, we are battling some 367 known fires that are burning statewide. I say known fires because when you see this amount of lightning strikes by the way, it was june 2008 where we had roughly half the number of lightning strikes, june 2008. That is a memorable date here in the state of california, particularly here at the state Operations Center and the work cal fire had to do to address those lightning strikes. Roughly half, 5146 lightning strikes marked on that date compared to over 10,000 over the last few days here in the state. As those lightning strikes spark, you have a lot of smoke, a difficult time determining total number of fires until certain things clear and we have the opportunity to go to more remote parts of the states. I say 367 known fires based on the lightning activity but the prospect of the number going up is very real. The number that is most impactful at the moment are the 23 major fires in what we describe as complexes of fires. That is an area that has multiple fires not concentrated together but concentrated in space apart but within a Geographic Area that is approximate. 23 major fires that we are currently addressing aggressively through our efforts both the local, regional, state, and federal level. Lets talk about some that we have highlighted over the last number of days. The apple fire in and around riverside county. You have seen the lake and ranch fires in and around l. A. County. You can see the containment of some of those fires. Good progress, so much so in the apple fire that we have been able to pull resources from southern california, from the apple fire into Northern California where we have experienced the majority of these lightning strikes and new fires. You can see containment, the lake fire getting to move in the direction that gives us confidence that we got our arms around the conditions. You can see a number of other fires with containment. When you get into the 35 range , you dont have major conditions changing as it relates to windy conditions, humidity, and the like, it gives you confidence in the capacity of our frontline heroes to really take control of those conditions and mitigate the spread and the damage of those fires. They are still active. They are major fires but we are seeing some real containment. We are seeing real progress. Here are the number of fires where we are not yet seeing containment. Brandnew fires, you see these lightning complex fires, this easy you which is around san mateo, santa cruz. That is a complex of fires, 22 fires within that complex, working aggressively to contain those fires. The lnu lightning complex , similarly, a number of different fires in and around lake county, napa county, a little bit around sonoma county. These fires break out the gamble fire, hennessey fire , etc. Again, working aggressively to contain the environment in and around those fires. The carmel fire and the jones fire, which has gotten a lot of attention in and around grass valley, nevada city, that more of a brush fire at the moment. There has been evacuations related to that. The 5 containment looks modest but there is a sense of optimism. The optimism can dissipate pretty quickly as the wind conditions change, humidity, and other conditions change. Nonetheless, those are the larger fires that we are addressing in real time. Again, 23 all up and down the state of california that we mark as major fires. Hundreds of fires throughout the state of california because of this extraordinary weather that we are experiencing with all of these lightning strikes. This is what the state does. We are quite familiar with these challenges and anybody watching is quite familiar with the challenges of wildfires here in the state of california as well but there is no question. Last year, we experienced some fires in southern california. The total number of fires last year was substantially lower than the activity we are experiencing. What has occurred over the last 72 hours has really stretched the resources of this state. That said, we are in a better state of preparedness. We have had multiple press conferences like this over the course of the last few months, talking about some of our efforts in vegetation management, forest management. A few days ago we announced a partnership with the u. S. Forest service to match californias commitment to address some of our vegetation and force management by matching the total number of acreage that we are currently addressing each and every year. New partnerships forming with the u. S. Forest service. In addition to the partnership we formed with the California Legislature this year that provided us an additional historic challenge with budget shortfalls, we were able to increase the budget for cal fire by 85. 6 million to get and bring on permanent full time firefighting forces. In addition to that, we started to see one activity after the budget was signed that was potentially leading to some indication we might be where we are here today. We supplement it with an additional 72. 4 million. The availability of seasonal firefighters, the time we announced 858 seasonal firefighters. We wanted to bring in to the total number of available cal fire personnel. 830 of those 858 have already been brought on, this over the course of the last few weeks. That the supplement commitment was timely and we certainly are now beneficiary with some of the new firefighting resources. By the way, in addition to the cal fire personnel we brought on , we try to supplement some of the work at the california conservation corps. Those core members were part of the 72. 4 million. They have come on board and they are out there at the front lines helping support our National Guardsmen and women, supporting the local line personnel as well. We have requested what we prefer to as our Emergency Assistance program with states across the western United States. We have now requested 375 emac, meaning engines, to come from several other states. We had the pleasure and i want to think publicly governor ducey of arizona for his support. They have sent equipment here to the state of california. Governors is a lack from nevada has sent equipment here to the state of california, pending requests that has been greenlighted by governor abbott. I want to thank him as well in texas. They will be sending some crews and some support. The stretch of these requests is not lost on anyone who is following this space. When you have a west coast heatwave, we have fire activity all across the western United States, putting pressure on those assets within the states and that includes up in the Pacific North coast and areas of oregon and Washington State as well. Complicating this picture, a challenging time, but one we are very familiar with, when we are more than capable of stepping up and doing everything we can to meet the moment. Worldclass firefighting force, worldclass equipment we have made. We have spent many occasion together out ghligh f the new firefighting Suppression Technology that we have. Our capacity satellite technology, reconnaissance efforts have been supplemented and supported with National Guard among others. We have been forming local partners as well. Some of these procurements have been highlighted as it relates to well, no longer the vietnam war suppression era but now finally bringing on some of the black hawk helicopters that will allow faster time to suppression. Ultimately, when the training is fully advanced, we will allow some nighttime suppression as well. Putting everything we have on these fires. They are stretched all across the state of california. We are not getting the support of some of our partners in the western United States again. This extraordinary weather event has also put pressure on the energy supply. That has been evident with our flex alerts that we have put out since friday night. We experienced some d energization on friday and saturday but none on sunday, none on monday and none on tuesday. That is good news. We took action sunday and monday as it relates to emergency orders and efforts with executive orders to put into place, into practice, another of aggressive strategies to shift our Energy Consumption here in the state of california, as well as temporarily utilize backup sources of power and the like. We have worked with our partners , l. A. , dwp, state water partners to get more hydroelectricity into our portfolio. San francisco, hetch hetchy, now providing more hydro resources today than they even were yesterday. I want to thank my providers, not only our investor owned utilities but the providers out there that have done everything in this power to flex the power during the critical hours from 2 00 to 9 00. I have set 3 00 to 10 00 in the last couple of days. That was accurate. Today we are advancing a flex your power from 2 00 p. M. This afternoon to 9 00 p. M. Today we believe will be another challenging day but we are up to the task. You have proven that on sunday night. We are looking for upwards of 47,000 megawatts of power today that may be utilized because of these high temperatures. Tomorrow, we believe that will drop down to 45,000. On friday, about 43,000. Tonight, we believe in the immediate is the last night we really need everybody to do everything in their power to flex their power use. I will show you a slide in a moment of what that entails but i want to acknowledge the work that has been done by some of the Largest Energy providers and producers and consumers in this state. Not only the state of california and its operations with pumping water, not just being beneficiary with electricity procured from hydroelectric dams but also the work that was done by tesla, some of their efforts by chevron and by mar that really read into our efforts. The navy, i want to thank them for all their good work with their ships that are in port that generated a lot of use of electricity, or rather consumed a lot of electricity, that really met this moment had helped support the efforts sunday, monday, and tuesday. A lot of partners, a lot of participation. A lot of good work that has been done by users and by the utilities, by each and every one of you that got us through these last few days in ways that were rather remarkable considering what many had anticipated. I want to thank all of you, those major consumers, for the reduction in usage. I want to remind everybody that we have our investigation underway. We have a spirit of collaboration in the California Energy commission and the iso, the California Independent system operator. Today they will be providing a response to my request of those three agencies in terms of their shared responsibility, to forecast the need for megawatt usage, to look at exactly how and what is necessary to procure and produce that as well as some of the applications to the Public Utilities commission. This will never happen again. We are working aggressively to see to it that this is the case. On a typical summer day, we are using about 38,000 megawatts. Again, today wi power, we are looking at upwards of 47,000 to be exact. We are projecting 47,284 megawatts of energy being utilized here today. Over 47,000 typically. We will see about 38,000 megawatts on any summer day. Clearly, we have a lot of work to do. I want to remind everyone of the importance of cooling your home, offices overnight, doing what you can to set your air conditioning to 70 degrees or higher, particularly between the hours of 2 00 and 9 00 as it relates to a we project is the most important time period today. Again, try to do your best to avoid using your dishwasher, your dryer, your washing machine, major appliances during the hours of 9 00 and 10 00 to the extent possible. It would certainly accommodate our efforts to get through what we think is the last challenging night as it relates to this energy use. We also want you, as always, to do what you can to turn off all of the unnecessary lights that you possibly can. I want to thank you for everything you have done the last few nights. I want to now turn to what is happening with the total number of positive cases here in the state of california. We have challenges, not only with energy , but challenges as it relates to conditions with wildfires. We continue to be challenged by this pandemic. Here are updated case numbers. 6164 numbers of people that we tested, tested positive in our last reporting period. That is an average of 7539. You can see the retained a positivity rate. You have been watching an update from governor newsom. Our live coverage continues now on cbsn bay area, streaming on www. Cbssf. Com. The governor addressing the coronavirus, our Energy Issues , and also the wildfires burning across our state right now, saying way are way ahead of the fire season this year. This time last year we were about at 4000 wildfires. This year we are seeing more than 6000. 367 known fires burning right now and 23 of them are major fires that include fires in sonoma county. In sonoma county, the walbridge fire and myers fire remain a vingapricola check,mys fire had rned res the walbridge fire ix 5swilson walker is up in greenville with the latest on the walbridge fire. Reporter this morning, officials t Witching Hour at 3 00 a. M. The fires can do things that are not expected adequately dangerous. That is what happened appear overnight. The 13 fire, now the walbridge fire fire. At this time, cal fire has assigned one helicopter and one tanker to the walbridge fire. We do not expect to see a significant increase in the number due to the large number of other fires that are currently in other parts of the state. Reporter with researchers stretched across the state, firefighters know they will have to work smart. Crews have been holding the fire along Sweetwater Springs road. They are expecting afternoon winds to pick up and change dir how fast will the wind blow . How far will the embers go . Will there be fires that are put challenging to access . Reporter i am at the hills north of granville. The walbridge fire is up to my left. Where i am standing, you can also see the other fire burning in sonoma county. That is the myers fire. It is out along the coast. There are also Evacuations Associated with that fire. Sonoma county dealing with two significant fires, limited resources. As you heard, the concern that the weather would change later today, move that fire back down through the middle afternoon. We will be following it for you. Here in sonoma county, wilson walker, kpix 5. Even if youre not near a fire today, chances are youre smelling the smoke or seeing the ash. We are taking a live look from our Salesforce Tower camera as we look over the bay. You can see those hazy skies. Meteorologist mary lee as a closer look at that. Conditions keep on getting worse. Unhealthy air quality, watching all of that smoke and tracking it for you. Here is a live look at our mt. Hamilton camera. Temperatures are in the mid70s. Into the 90s for concorde and for livermore. We will continue to watch those temperatures climb especially inland. Lets talk about our air quality. We are looking at unhealthy air quality for sensitive groups. Oakland, concord, unhealthy air for san francisco, livermore and very unhealthy air for back a more. Spare the air alert in effect for today. We loiple gid, fairfi, int remat upr 90s livermore. Mid70s for san francisco. We will catch a little bit of relief on the heat as we look ahead to tomorrow. 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