Difficult to fight those fires in the hot conditions also continue number and those temperatures in the 90s but this going to be a oneday hit with these hot temperatures cooling off after that much cooler over the weekend. Alright an opportune lawrence, thank you now we want to go to next our nations nancy loo joins us now live from calistoga she has the latest on the wineries and in this area that have been damaged nancy. And as youve been reporting the fight against the glass fire still going strong in napa and sonoma counties as we just heard now we need to worry about more heat and new winds about to blow in. It is already too late to save about a 100 homes and businesses and wineries like this one fairwinds. In calistoga. Looks like a hit by a bomb. The ceo of fair winds Estate Winery returned to his property today for the First Time Since the glass fire destroyed most of it 2 days ago, this was one of our production repeats. Elegant wines. Today that room was still smoldering wit
Now forced to relive a painful past and a grim warning of whats ahead. We still have months to go for fire season. Talking about chaotic Evacuations Homes destroyed and fire spreading unchecked but for 10s of thousands of people. Fire fatigue is setting in thank you for joining us at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im tahernia and 4 vicki liviakis. Heres where we stand tonight, the glass fire burning in napa and sonoma counties has charred at least 42,000 acres and remains at 0 containment. Cal fire says 80 homes have been destroyed including 28 in Sonoma County and 52 in napa county more than a 1000 structures remain threatened. And the Sonoma County, the city of santa rosa has also suffered immense fire damage. Many homes have been damaged or completely burned to the ground thats where we find kron fours morning. Kelly tonight what is the situation out there how are things tonight. Well great ill tell you that the weather is definitely improving out here for firefighters in fac
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot
Air pushing on in your windows if you open and i would say you probably should because its going to be another hot afternoon today, and its going to be a hot and windy one this time around so this is where fire danger comes into play a lot of the bay area specially or upper elevations with up in red flag warning says were going to be seeing dry conditions hot weather paired with winds in the east bay gusting as high as 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour an hour. More exposed hillsides where temperatures will be in the triple digits still Solano County entire county lit up in a red flag warning 25 to 40 mile per hour winds. And as for murder in napa and sonoma counties also heightened fire danger specially in those upper elevations, these will remain in effect tonight into wednesday as that when really kicks into gear out of the northwest sonoma calistoga vacaville already on the breezy side and look at winds picking up later today. Sonoma petaluma down through fairfield in danville all going to b
From the flames and the smoke the fire thats still burning. Firefighters do say that they have stopped before progress on this fire. So again more breaking news that military helicopters now attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are trapped in the creek fire thats the one burning down in fresno county. This is a 3rd attempt now to get those hikers the rescuers had to be called or the rescues had to be called off last night because of the heavy smoke that was blocking visibility. Very scary. We actually have some pictures of the hikers you see that there they are right there sheltering at the vermilion valley camping resort thats at lake edison volunteers are out there and theyre helping the hikers a stay fed and hydrated hydrated excuse me as they wait to be rescued and then we also have a map here showing where those hikers are in relation to the creek fire. Itself and you can see that red outline is the outline of where the fire line currently is and the marker that you see th