Need to attack this fire on the ground and in the air. We have a significant air attack. Right now, flying this fire are air tankers, even some of the very large air tankers, lobbing retardant ahead of the fire trying to slow down the fire. The winds are not as strong as what we saw overnight and yesterday. That is welcome news for sure but experiencing dry conditions and the fire does continue to grow. Its good to hear we have a little bit of relief at least, those high winds still burning at Higher Elevations. Our weather guy in just a couple of minutes. When it comes to the overall scope of things, earlier, we heard from the governor who said there are 27 wildfires right now. Give us an idea of where the glass incident ranks among all of those fires as we speak. With 27 major wildfires across california, the glass fire itself actually has the most amount of evacuations, more than any other fire. In fact, today, in all 27 fires, there are 66,000 people under evacuation orders. 53,000
Everything one has been extended and extended air alert is an effective from the bay area for scorching temperatures. Lets go straight to meteorologist john peck. Devon i want to go back to those concerning pictures we are still saying of the flames in napa valley. The exact example of what the red flag warning was sinus with the conditions were set up for. Take a look at the map behind me. Kind of a unique map. Lets get ourselves oriented on here. It is black and white. Firstly you can pick up the bather and severed cisco. You see a black dot appear. You can see the outline for napa county. That is the satellite reading the heat signature coming off of this new fire. No official name of this yet. Thats how new this is. We are only within the first hour of knowing about sarah. That is what is trending on socially at this point. We have got no acreage to share with you. One thing about map like this is, if the satellite table reads the heat signature from space, this is a fire that is g
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