Any that might be there. Well bring updates when we learn more. Back to the other fire, you can see how close it came to homes as firefighters worked hard to get the fire under control and take a look at this video just how intense the flames were at times. That fire was reported just before noon at the South San Francisco hillside sign. Cornell bernard joins us live with the very latest. Cornell . Reporter dion, so many neighbors breathing a huge sigh of relief that fire got way too close to homes, burning up to a few backdoors. Thats where it happened burning across the famous sign hill. Luckily, firefighters stopped it just in time. It took off in seconds flat. Reporter neighbors living near sign hill in San Francisco had moments to react. A fastmoving fivealarm grass fire took off through trees. I ran down to the end because this hill is full of trees and brush and being city owned and i was concerned there would be fire here and sure enough, there was. Reporter neighbors on ridge
In the bay area are in the dark this afternoon pg and e has turned off the power to prevent wildfires during this critical fire weather. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman 24 counties in the state are affected including several counties here in the bay area. So lets take a look out pg es outage map this is the latest information all the purple triangles are the affected areas. Thats where the power is currently out. Here in the bay area customers in alameda contra costa napa san Mateo Santa Clara santa cruz solano and sonoma counties are without power right now we can see that from the map. Pg says some customers may not see the power back on until 10 oclock tomorrow night. So we want to check now on just how hot and windy it is outside kron fours meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez is here now shes tracking the latest temperatures for us good afternoon, the breeze its hot out there mixed really hard especially along the coast and the east bay shor
Reporter matt boon in oakland, matt . Reporter liz, its been warm and windy out here all day. Those gusts causing issues overnight behind me they toppled over part of a tree into power lines causing additional Power Outages for people here in mt. Claire. As crews clear the fallen branch, pg e says its working to restore power to the 800 or so customers that have been affected. But just down the road in mt. Claire village, the stoplights are off and signs like this dot many of the businesses. We did find julia, owner of this store in the dark. Her world upside down. The power is out but youre here working. What are you doing . Im working on my taxes. Reporter the old faxed way. The Old Fashioned way. Reporter while the shut offs may impact her business, she understands the importance thinking back to the oakland fire of 19 91. It best not having business for one or two days than not having business for almost a year. Reporter up in the hills, resident richard fills up the gas generator
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Destroyed. Check out this maam that shows all the fires burning across california right now. The fires in gray are contained. The orange ones are still burning. These are major fires in california. We have crews coveringfires. We begin with Laura Anthony live in north bay, covering that lnu complex fire. Laura . Hi. We are in vacaville again today and i can tell you from ground here, it appears at least the conditions have greatly improved. About 10 degrees cooler. Oler. Ol. Ol once the smoke has cleared for some families, what theyre finaling is a total loss. At th top of the hill within hours to the bottom of the hill. Brian was one of the unlucky ones when it comes to the hennessey fire. One of those who fell victim to the happen hazardndom march thr. His home, a large garage, a barn now lay in ruins when so many others around him survived. Normally i would see cal fire trucks, bumpertobumper, rolling down the road, any time there is a fire up the road toward berryessa. This time th