Strikes. Look at that picture. Now, lets go back for 24 hours or so to sunday night, and look at this. Now, this is something ive never seen before in the bay area. Okay. Here comes the first wave. This is what woke you up, right . Strike, strike, strike, strike. A little bit of a break, and then a second wave, equally as strong in not stronger, 6 00 a. M. Wait, im not done. And then you keep going. 7 00 a. M. These are lined strikes, many cloudtoground, and then you get into sunday morning . Look at this. Okay. Then we get into the afternoon. It brakes off a little bit. Not bad. Get a little bit of a break. Thunderstorms die down, and then next wave comes through. That started late last night early this morning, and youll see this. Ive never seen backtoback storms like this. Here comes the next wave, next wave, and next wave. Look at this. So no wonder we have spot fires. No wonder cal fire is returning around just crazy out there. That has to do with all of the spot fires. Now, we ar
Care of us and theres others that are elderly. While that was happening. A short period of time. Pg and e was also using voice mail and Text Messages to get the word out. Rolling blackouts are going to be with us at least for awhile. Because there was not sufficient supply to meet the demand in the state of california. The outages mean she, her husband and their three kids are in limbo. Nothing gets done. My husband doesnt work. My kids dont go to school and you know, its right now it is a necessity in life to have our power. If youll lose power today youre less likely to lose it again in the near future. Really the primary factors are how many mega watts need to be taken off the grid and who has already experienced a rotating outage and we try to do our best to make sure that folks that already experienced one do not have enough one. They know people are nervous. One message this morning from pg and e saying possible Power Outages. Mean while, san jose mayor this afternoon blamed the
Before. We want to protect the winery and the house and the things that cant be replaced. Though they were ordered to leave by the sheriff the family plans to stick with the property. Jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. We want to show you how quickly fires can grow in heat with just a little bit of wind. You can see it starts and then it really explodes over the next three hours. There are two other significant fires, one in contra costa county. So far it burned more than 1,100 acres and is 0 contained and evacuation orders are in effect. A brush fire in sonoma burned about 1,700 acres there. Ten homes are under mandatory evacuation orders. I want to show you this that was caught on camera in downtown sonoma. The storms cut the temperatures a bit cooler. Places still in the triple digits and if you notice haze in the area, you are not a lone. A lot of smoke in the sky and the air quality is poor right now. Yeah. Unfortunately it is the perfect storm for unhealthy air around the bay are
Lightningsparked fires. One is he hennessy fire, and by midafternoon, it had already consumed 750 acres, according to a spokesman for cal fire. While cal fire isnt a cant say for certain it, too, was caused by a strike from the key, the flames did start during a storm. An Evacuation Order has been issued. Theres 20 residents, but theres a number of residents below that Hennessy Ridge road. Reporter it affects those who live at Hennessy Ridge road and sage canyon road from childs pope valley rode to lower childs road. Close by neighborhoods are also under evacuation warnings, standing by just in case. As of right now, we do have resources on these fires, and then using those aircraft with weather permits. Reporter the other blaze, the gam fire at no, sirville road is in a much more rural nare at the north end of lake vari esa. An Evacuation Center was set up. We stop bid. No one had take then county up yet on the offer to use it as a structure. Trying to grapple with this fire and make
Of rolling blackouts to ease demand on the states electrical grid. Its all happening amid days of long heat wave that is also fueling a number of wildfires more than a dozen active wildfires are currently burning across the golden state, including several in here right here in the bay area that have prompted evacuation warnings. Tonight we have Live Team Coverage of the ongoing heat wave in the impacts from it Ashley Zavala is live in sacramento with the governor with what the governor is now demanding in light of those blackouts kron fours dan kerman though joins us live from the east bay on the deers own fires but first kron 4 meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is tracking the dangerous conditions now fueling these blazes or so. Hi there. Jonathan yeah lets take a look at stormtracker 4 plenty of thunderstorms rolling through parts of ukiah in clear lake right now we do have a red flag warning so high fire danger in effect right now for lake and mendocino counties but for us here in the