Parked in the arabian sea is continuing to really bring a lot of problems across parts of coastal oman were talking about storm surge in this area as well as very dangerous rip currents and as we go towards friday the system slowly makes its way down here towards the southwest now for solid that means we could be seeing some showers in the forecast but all up the coast that is where were going to see some of the heaviest rain and the rip currents will continue as we go towards friday and then it would make a way down here across parts of Southern Africa it is going to be a rainy day for durban with a cool temperature few of 80 degrees a little bit warm up here towards the north at 26. 00 and as we go towards friday more clouds in the forecast at 21. 00 for cape down and heavy rain for johannesburg at 22. 00. A survivor of the genocide there are people who beg me to kill the person when theyre suffering new but it didnt have the power to do it hes dedicated his life to searching the woo
Im liz kreutz. Following the american fire. How neighbors came together to help firefighters put out the flames and save their homes. Were watching our winds very closely because they will be ramping upstarting on wednesday and this will prompt a fire width weather watch for higher fire danger. Well have the latest details in the accuweather forecast. Im luz pena in San Francisco. Its fleet week. The ships have arrived and our military is getting ready for multiple events throughout the week. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. Tonight firefighters are still working to extinguish a brush fire burning in napa county, the socalled american fire has burned more than 500 acres. It prompted an evacuation advisory and some neighbors rushed to keep their homes safe. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Dion is off tonight. Abc7 News Reporter liz kreutz is live near American Canyon with the latest on this fire. Liz . Reporter eric, the fire is burning
See that. We smell a lot of smoke in the area. Its very potent. The wind that caused this fire to explode to hundreds of acres earlier today has since died down. On any other sunday evening this would be considered a picture perfect sunset in American Canyon, but there was no time to admire the beauty here because as the lights started to slowly disappear, there was an earnest effort to stop the spread of a wildfire burning in the hills nearby. Its like a worry out here all the time. Reporter wayne and his dog sonny watched the firefight totally aware he lives smack in the middle of a tinderbox, some of the dry brush that fuels wildfires like he can see from his driveway. It was burning bad. I was watching it come the fla were reported around 3 15 sunday afterthat often makes towards the city. Reporter as the fire grew to a few hundred acres, a major offensive was launched, two helicopters, five fixed wing aircrafts, 20 fire engines and seven water tenders brought in and a helping hand
Is they did that evacuation about this fire. They do not they say its not drill in december of 2018. Forward advancing anymore. Im sure. They had a sense of okay, if i want to show you video of what i have to evacuate, this is the it looked like and what a scare route i need to take to get to it was. Highway 24. This is what i need to do. Firefighters telling us when they pulled up the sky was even in the middle of the night, orange. In the middle of the dark you it was a huge orange glow. Get a better sense of okay, i they knew they needed to get to work quickly. Know exactly or have a better you do not gw sense of what to do. Iss t gthey dave goode o moraga was able to turn out this Evacuation Center real th burning in the hills of moraga. They say it burned about 60 quick. So kudos to all the people acres. They did have to evacuate one neighborhood. Working on this and the its burning near merrill circle firefighters. North and off of Sanders Ranch they got control of this road. Its
About 100 evacuated when the fire started at 1 00 this morning. The captain was telling me how erratic the fire behavior was and how dangerous it was. It was initially about a half acre to an acre. When they arrived it quickly took off. It jumped to 20 acres. They credit stopping the fire they had a lot of resources on the fire. They were staged throughout the area and it goes to show and i was asking about this, the state of readiness firefighters have now begin what happened in paradise two years ago in the north bay. They were prepared for Something Like this. He told me up here he felt the winds had gusted up to 30 miles an hour. You get a sense how steep this terrain is. A lot of work that was done. Officially the containment downstairs is at 60 . The captain said they have fire lines around the entire perimeter of the burn area. They have dozers out here cutting lines. Theyll be able to cut the containment numbers but telling me about the firefight, you can see some of the burned