A lot of these questions whats going on with red flag warning john yeah, robin is something weve seen a lot so far this season, its a pairing of the already hot temperatures that weve had that are only getting hotter dry conditions and the noticeable increase in wind speeds today these offshore winds will be pushing into the bay area consistently starting today lasting through tomorrow into early friday, too. And red flag warnings are officially in effect as of just a few minutes ago looking outside at our sutro tower right here skies are crystal clear. No fog. No cloud cover it is dry at least it is a beautiful start to the morning as i mentioned red flag warnings really just took effect from 05 00am this morning until 11 00am on friday and really lighting up the vast majority of the bay area here upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains from the inland east bay all the way out to the hills right above oakland, san leandro down through fremont and then all across the north bay to
Calm down in the afternoon giving firefighters the upper hand really trying to get everything we can get done. Done before the wind picks up and then of course nighttime brings additional complications, firefighters unable to catch a break many coming from other fires in the region, the glass incident fire broke out during a red flag warning about 200 pg and e napa county customers were scheduled for a Public Safety power shutoff down more than a 1000 homes under an evacuation warning really urge you to do what you can. To clear Defensible Space around your home. The ready water things to evacuate with that you need know what you need to pick up so youre not trying to find important papers things like that at the last minute. And this point in time it is too early to tell and many buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Firefighters are focusing on structure protection and stopping the spread of the fire the cause is under investigation. In saint helene gayle ong kron 4 news. And wer
Acres so far. It is 0 contained. Look at how tiny the firefighters and the trucks look up against the glow of the huge fire that is burning more than 2 1000 structures right now are in harms way threatened by these flames low once again were used to that site, heres a map that shows you. Where the fire is burning now burning east of saint helena and calistoga in napa county and then again just east of santa rosa in Sonoma County the cause of the fire still unknown, but that red line is the perimeter of where these fires are burning right now we know that it started in an area that was under a red flag warning which as john was preparing us for as were going into the weekend we knew temperatures are going to get awfully hot as we head into sunday, yeah it was so hot last night and you can smell. That smoke i did write when i woke up this morning plus there are 2 other fires in napa county believed to be a spot fires of the glass fire, lets take a look at the napa Sonoma County line is w
Tonight kron fours closely monitoring the spread of the glass fires burning in the north bay and at this hour, the wild fire has burned more than 48,000 acres, it is at 2 containment joining us now via zoom islington much off with cal fire when thanks for being here again tonight what can you tell us about the conditions right now and. What firefighters are up against as we brace for the red flag. And one has been pretty good the past couple of days of firefighters have been making progress on and obviously able to get 2 containment out of been working really hard today. Particular because we are expecting those reflect a kick in early for afternoon bringing got the win put that. So the take away we we were listening in at a press conference earlier with cal fire what i did here was that we are bracing for really bad couple of days. In terms of the weather who. Who is in the bulls which community are you most worried about. You know its probably most likely going to the communities on
2 contained it has destroyed 80 homes in napa and sonoma counties and more than 22,000 structures are threatened right now. Nation, this red flag warning has been issued for the north bay mountains takes Effect Tomorrow afternoon. At 1 oclock and that could certainly spell trouble for firefighters already stretched pretty thin as it is. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now with what were looking at. Alright scary as were going to see those winds make a return to the bay area, the winds. Going to be stronger now weve had the effect of that sea breeze kicking in some higher humidity in around the fires to kind of slow things down now very dry northerly wind is going to start to move in and gusting 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour humidity dropping way down 15 to 25 . So certainly were watching that very closely. Weve got active fires already right now and certainly in and around those are going to be very dangerous right now the winds are beginning to pick up a little bit were sta