Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live from are Treasure Island camera. Looking at the city of san francisco. On a monday morning, a good monday morning to you. , 28. Im len kiese. Im michelle griego. Night to the latenight evacuations for Sonoma County. This map shows the outer, extension east of calistoga road, north of and north of highway 12. Evacuation orders also expanding this morning in napa county, mandatory evacuations shown in blue, and impacting communities on the west and east sides of st. Helena. The evacuation warning area shaded in orange includes the Howell Mountain area. Interrupted before 4 00 sunday morning and has exploded across 1500 acres so far. There is zero containment. The blaze is called the glass fire because of how close the flames spoke to Glass Mountain road. The cause is under investigation. A check of the weather now and how the winds will play a factor today and this firefight. Here is mary lee. I walk in the winds picked up.
In less than 24 hours the flames have scorched 2500 acres and containment stands at 0 . The blaze, call the glass fire because of how close they start to Glass Mountain road. The flames are dangerously close to structures, threatening 2200 buildings. The wildfires are adding a lot of smoke to the already hazy air. Chopper 5 was over the massive plume of smoke in napa county. Spare the air alert has been extended through the day. Is get over to mary lee on an update on the dangerous weather conditions. This is a big concern, michelle, were watching the winds pick up through the overnight hours and this morning. I want to give an update on Current Conditions for the glass fire and what firefighters are up against. Definitely low relative humidity values, down to 14 . The northerly wind winds gusting 18 Miles Per Hour currently. Where the glass fire is burning, i think a as high as 31 Miles Per Hour for this area. And it is warm, temperatures in the low 80s right now. A red flag warning r
Evacuate via deer park road. This is the latest evacuations and warnings in place in napa county this morning. In Sonoma County this map shows the order in place in orange and under evacuation morning within the yellow zone. The orders extend east of calistoga road, north of road and north of highway 12. There is an Evacuation Center open at Crosswalk Community church on first street in napa. We have Team Coverage on the wildfires burning in the north bay. We begin with emily turner, who is in santa rosa. Reporter since i last spoke to you have an hour ago, the good news here is that firefighters have been able to save the barn over the ridge behind me. Flames were pretty much bearing down on us, down this hill. They have been put out so that is some good news. Unfortunately there is not much when it comes to good news out here. This fire continues to grow. It is being blown by winds that are up and over the ridge line. Is eerily similar to 2017. This fire started on the napa sonoma li
12 right now right there on the edge of the fire line yoli joining us now live with her pictures and last we talked you goalie were just off of highway 12 theyre really road where are you now, and it looks like we still obviously some activity in the distance. Right right, i further down the legal road they saw a lot of fire trucks also saw some plans but theyve been asked i mean the firefighters have been doing such an awesome job. They were able to get this under control and im a leader road is definitely one of those roads were people were evacuated their homes along this road. And this is just like on the backside of one of the homes that was just up in flames, but theyre all out there just not that up pretty quick or in fact, im just going to walk down a little you can see another. A fire truck right out here and theyre really just trying to get. You know some of the flames that on behind these homes that are on the hillside. Because just right over here hold up for second. Theyre
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