A massive fire explodes just east of napa valley, forcing mandatory evacuations. Cal fire is putting everything into it, including that huge dc10. Im dion lim. The glass fire broke out early this morning and in the hills of north of st. Helena and to the east the glass fire is at 1,500 acres. It is 0 contained. 600 homes are under mandatory evacuation orders. An statement 1,500 people were included in that order. Another 1,400 homes are under evacuation warnings with 1,400 people being told to get ready to go. Lets begin with meteorologist drew tuma. Drew, these look like pretty dangerous conditions for firefighters here. Were tracking the gusty offshore winds. Were not even halfway through our red flag warning. We have a bust of winds coming in overnight tonight. Current conditions in the glass fire, hot and dry. We were advertising this would happen today with this weather pattern. Winds out of the north gusting right now around 13 Miles Per Hour in the vicinity of the glass fire. Bu
vo good feeds our connections. Good feeds us all. Hormel Natural Choice lunch meats. Now, from abc 7, live, breaking news. Flames intensity. Fires now multiplying in sonoma and napa counties the relief residents hoping for not enough as winds pick up overnight. Thank you for joining us, im dion lim. Im eric thomas. Two new fires burning not far from the glass fire. You can see them here on this live alert wildfire camera. On the left side of the screen and to the east of highway 128 is the glass fire. On the right, you newly named fire. On the far right is the shady fire. Both west of highway 128. And this is the way it looks on a map. These new fires already forced evacuations in sonoma county. The glass fire already forced lot of evacuations today. We do have crews fanned out across the north bay but as winds could pick up overnight, lets begin now with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma. Drew. Yeah, we are seeing those winds pick up as we speak, especially in the north bay hills right no
That woman in oakland tonight, one of many who feels the decision to clear those officers is unjust. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. Here in the bay area we saw protesters making a statement tonight with their cars. Take a look, traffic on the bay bridge slowed to a crawl around 6 30 tonight as caravans of protesters collectively slowed the evening commute this video from scott fox shows the unusually heavy traffic on the upper deck headed into the city. Because of the backup some transit agencies, including muni , temporarily suspended their trans bay service. We also saw slow traffic on the dunbar bridge in another display of civil disobedience. This was shortly before 6 00 as a small caravan of slow moving cars made their way west across the bridge. In oakland protesters gathered outside city hall tonight to display their displeasure with the term events and also to recognize lives lost in california at the hands of police. Tran wants amber lee joins us now a
In the glass fire, 2,500 acres burned so far. The night sky in the north bay lit by an ar roing glow. Flames tearing through the rugged terrain. Conditions are extremely dry. The winds continue to fan the flames. Thousands of people under evacuation orders in napa and sonoma. Lets bring in rob now who is tracking everything for us. Rob . At the very latest, very challenging conditions. What is unique about the situation tonight is this area has not burned, considering its a narrow wedge between the tub fire and the nunn fire. Lets show you the conditions again. Somewhat dry as you see. Numbers in the 90s still with some gusty winds at times, up to 25 miles an hour. Humidity down to about 15 . And you can see the area. It is beginning to impact there. This is the urban wild fire interface as we sometimes refer to there. These blue areas are structures in the populated areas. You can see the shady fire in that zone of unburned terrain to the southeast of the tub fire and to the north of
Forecast. Thank you for joining us. Lets get right to our breaking news in napa county. Taking a birds eye view of the blaze from chopper five come you can see the white smoke blanketing the area not far from surrounding neighborhoods. This is all happening near deer park to stop the silverado trail about 4 miles east of calistoga. And 5 miles or so northeast of st. Helena. Jewels has more on when it broke out. Scorching the back arrange east of st. Helena and calistoga. In the last hour, we have learned the fire has grown to 1500 acres, containment still stands at 0 . Mandatory evacuations in place right now for the Deer Park Community with the flames already destroying homes, and right now fire crews are most concerned about the wind picking up tonight, and fueling the flames. We find out more about that from darren. About 2000 residents have been forced to flee their homes in napa county, dozens of hospital patients have been evacuated. Those evacuations covering 660 homes and wine