More than 1800 acres. Right now theres no containment on the fire which is burning east of saint and calistoga in napa county. Kron 4 has Live Team Coverage for you tonight on this fire thats still burning right now kron fours dan thorn. As an Evacuation Center and napa county with more on what is being done to help victims right now, but we start tonight with kron fours gayle ong who has been on the front lines all day long with those fire crews trying to battle this fire sale. Jonathan justine im here on highway 29 and lena and the fire see that orange glow right over there in the burning of the deer park area. Now the concerns tonight are the winds. The fire ignited early sunday morning in saint when the winds were at its worst firefighters up against walls of flames while trying to evacuate roughly 1500 people this is still vrbata trail road near Crystal Springs road take a look still very active fire and this is around the area where first broke out and you can see over there. Cha
Fire which is an extension of the glass fire and on the right part of your is the shady fire which is on the hills on the napa Sonoma County border along Spring Mountain road. A number of evacuations have already been we just learned a second ago that santa rosa fire issuing an evacuation. For the area of north calistoga south calistoga and the party in zones because of that approaching wildfire which is indeed the shady fire which is burning. Northeast of the city. According to state senator mike Mcguire Calfire local firefighters are trying to divert resources around they can contain all 3 of these fires that have started up. Santa rosa. Again the Fire Department theyre saying its no longer safe to remain in those locations that jonathan just said north calistoga south calistoga and people though that live in riken valley skyhawk and lows almost are being encouraged to review their evacuation and preparedness information right now theyre just being told to be ready because so far the
Now at 11 00 a live look outside. It is about to get hot. The areas that could see triple digits. And the red flag warning started 2 hours ago but whats more impressive is when it ends. Were going to talk about this. Amy Coney Barrett will decide cases based on the text of the constitution as written. President trump makes his Supreme Court selection official. The big challenges that could come into play. Good evening to you. Im bryan, well take a live look outside right now. A red flag warning in effect again and tonight the bay area is bracing for scorching temperatures. That has prompted a spare air alert for tomorrow. We will begin with meteorologist. Theres a lot there to unpack, bryan. The main thing we are going to experience is the heat and im going to talk about that next but first the headline has to be the red flag warning. Doesnt expire until 9 00 on monday. The number one reason for this in addition to the winds is how dry the air is going to get in the mountains overnight
Bay area. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus but the man we really need to know is our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow because if this weather is going to stick around lawrence tells us going to get that yeah i think its going to get better just going to be slow going this is going to be just slowly. Stay. I think we saw some improvement up above we had some mix in the atmosphere bit. Little more sunshine pop up in spots still some very poor air quality no getting around it that sits there tonight you can see up toward sfo you see the light you see all the smoke down below and as we look toward the Golden Gate Bridge weve got some fog rolling on shore thats good. Unfortunately. It just kind of a thin marine layer so there again nice pressure off the ocean but that is just mixing with some of the smoke out there as well and theyre just so small so much smoke around right now back weve got some very poor air quality in quite rapidly in fact last hour it was all across the bay into
Visits to the respiratory urgent care center. Now at 10 wildfires continue to rage up and down the west coast leading to some of the worst air quality on the planet. Right now right here in the bay area, thank you for joining us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis a thick blanket of smoke has been hovering over the bay area for days now making it. Hard to breathe unhealthy to be outside. This is what many people experienced today. And unfortunately that smoke is expected to linger right on through the weekend chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us live as we went from orange on wednesday to gray worse today and the air quality really deteriorated as the week progressed, yeah, you know all that smoke from up above all the orange skies. That all makes down to the surface down thats where we sit we dont have a real way to get out of town unless were to get a storm. Good wind event to start to mix that out were not even seeing the heating that we normally see