Of that mountain that looked like it was acting as a fire break which helped slow the progress of this fire compared to 45 minutes ago. This is good news because they are homes closer to the daly city side of the mountain. Despite that, voluntary evacuations have been ordered. Acreage, 15 or 20 acres. No official word yet. Wind has been a huge story in the bay area this week. The red flag warning is up and running for tomorrow. Meteorologist mark tamayo joins us now. Some people were seeing wind. There is a dry winton place and its it defined wind direction coming out of the east and northeast. Im sure the fire crews are seeing that on the map. As a result this a good strategy to contain this in the short term. There is the mapping system. You can see wind coming in out of the easiest off of the bay. Typically a normal summer day we will talk about a wind coming in from this direction but as you know this has been a fire weather pattern with offshore wind setting up. Here is an idea of
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