Right now, on a special edition, the glass fire is advancing. They are not seeing many firefighters for addiction. Tonight, the glass fire is marching away from santa rosa where evacuation orders have been reduced to warnings, west of calistoga road. A much different story in napa county where the community of england has been added to the mandatory evacuation zone as the had, the flames had east york 112 buildings have burned so far. 80 were private homes. The fire covers an area nearly the size of oakland about 73 square miles across the two counties. The entire city of calais yoga of calistoga is a ghost town. That is where kpix 5 s reporter giants, joins us live. Firefighters have quite a battle on their hands, dont they . Reporter i am here at the silverado trail just on the eastern edge of calistoga this hillside behind me was completely covered in flames last night. As you can see, now, there is an orange glow right over there as the fire has now moved north and is just northeas
This. Right now, mandatory evacuation orders are in place for parts of napa county. It includes west of highway 29 from whitehall lane to madrona including areas within the city of st. Helena and between silverado trail and highway 29 from vince and dale to lark mead lane. We heard from cal fire this morning. I do want to remind our public to make sure that you are being mipower ge things can quickly. This wind event will be serious enough for everyone to pay attention. Whether you live in a warning zone or an evacuation zone, you need to pay attention. So far, the glass fire has consumed 49,000 acres. That is about the size of the city of oakland. It is 2 contained. At least 115 structures have been destroyed in napa and sonoma county. It has been a devastatingth has started to lay down which means it has made it easier for the firefight. That is good news for firefighters and locals but they dont have much of a break. I am praying i am in the clear. Reporter this is running on 1. 5 h
Rosa. How the fire started still unclear, we know that it obviously broke out during red flag warning conditions on sunday now raging out of control yeah and so its grown now to more than 65 square miles. Part of that fire zone is the city of calistoga theyre concerned about it. It hasnt burned and they dont want it to and with the way the fire can and the wind can travel the entire town was evacuated yesterday for good reason crawfords will trend of fact choosing an example now of homes that are getting pretty close to the fires will. You can i get any closer than this home and ill quickly show to just a few moments, but you can see the fire burning right behind me this is a hillside that was intentionally set by the firefighters they came out here they take advantage of the overnight conditions. High humidity. No when they walked from the top of the hill down set it on fire they had their fire trucks ready to go just in case it got out of hand so they can pounce on it with their wate
And while we should not be an island grid, storage is essential especially with these fires that are going on that can be problematic for transmission lines that serve our great city. So, seeing were a densely packed city, we should put batteries in and solar panels to help and be able to ride through difficult times as well as be able to store electricity that you can purchase in the overnight when it is inexpensive and send it out to the grid for our customers when market electricity is much more expensive. So continue the acquisition of renewables as we work toward a 100 renewable power, all electric San Francisco and keeping the Value Proposition commercial utility power. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Next caller commenting on item number 4, you have two minutes. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, president caen, member of the commission, protection alliance. Ill speak further about the peer review that mr. Nelson and the other caller discussed. I think theyve given you a fair bi
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