143 homes have been destroyed more than 26,000 structures are still threatened calfire post same this video on twitter today and you can see smoke filling the napa county sky near the Robert Louis Stevenson state park flames from the glass fire have devoured swaths of brush and trees as we mentioned a red flag warning has been issued as the weather is expected to take a turn for the worse. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here to begin our coverage tonight, yeah guys a little bit of a break the last couple of days we see more of a westerly wind that has been carrying with it. Some of that moisture right off the ocean to bring up the humidity slow down the fire, but also pushed the fire different directions. These some of the winds around the fire now you can see fairly light. For the better part of the day now beginning to pick up a little bit the very conditions you can see some of those winds now 11 miles an hour saying lena 10 miles an hour outlets peak 10 miles an hour in
Try to control the spread of this fire before more winds come in and fuel the flames. The glass fire has burned more than 51,000 acres and is 2 contained. More than a 140 homes have been destroyed in napa and sonoma counties, 107 homes alone just in napa county. More than 26,000 structures continue to be threatened tonight. And we want to show you a live look at the glass fire. This is the glow of the flames you can see the smoke. This is a camera on top of mount saint alina about 4300 feet up looking toward the napa valley and you can see this fire is still raging, this is a web camera kind of see skip frames here and there but this is a live image of how the flames look right now. Boy nsa terrifying images. Well we have Team Coverage tonight from 4 state of the sec is in anguish tonight where crews prepare for more wind first we want to turn things over to chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow with that red flag warning that goes into Effect Tomorrow or yeah, very pattern developing no
California air operations fixed wing aircraft air attack one 40 worked up until nightfall today supporting ground crews in the angwin in deer park communities in napa county and as communities get ready for bed. The mayor of calistoga says he is worried about tomorrow projected wins coming from the north and east. Direction puts it behind the fire moving in this direction toward downtown. Thank you for joining us on this wednesday night, im ken wayne and im pam moore, cal fire officials tell us tonight the glass fire burning in sonoma and napa counties has now exploded to more than 51,000 acres and is only 2 contained at this hour. The fire has now destroyed more than 107 homes in napa county and 36 homes in Sonoma County more than 26,000 structures are still threatened tonight. We have Team Coverage on the glass fire. We begin with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking the increasing fire risk to the glass fire area. Yeah guys this a very dangerous situation already setting
The afternoon and will last until 6 00 friday night. High temperatures, low humidity strong winds and hot weather and strong winds are expected. In the forecast. Our awareness is heightened we begin tonight with an update on the damage caused by him obviously, in preparation for that. There. Thats why we need to put in cal fire is reporting 51,000 the hard work today so we can acres burned Sonoma County. Be prepared for tomorrow. Reporter preparation thats up from 48,000, includes more than 2100 fire announced at 5 00 this personnel from all over afternoon. California and outofstate helping to fight this fire. But containment has not cutting line, creating improved. It remains only 2 . The Damage Assessment is higher barriers between the fire and unburnt fuels, using the natural barriers. What you see , the number of homes or a lot of the crews doing today businesses destroyed has gone up to 150 from 113 at last is going around some of the structures and clearing them report. Live cove
Effect lets get straight to the maps you can get an idea of who is affected and let me tell you basically the whole bay areas under this red flag warning you can see in the map most of the barriers that pink which means the red flag warning is in effect one this afternoon for the glass fire region in the north bay as we said earlier can be very difficult for firefighters up there facing these high winds and high temps east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains the last time we saw a red flag warning the class fire erupted over the weekend. So now more than ever its time to take this seriously. Theyre going to be northwest winds of 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour with gusts of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. We also have dry conditions throughout the whole bay area with low humidity which is a recipe for a wildfire. Scary to think that another one can or ups we have to do everything we can. To help out theres a power flex alert going into effect at 3 this afternoon youre being asked to conserve electrici