Which starts with a 48 hour notification. And then, we have a 24hour notification. Then i believe we go down to four hours . Is that correct . And, should things change, we will give notifications right up to the event. But, we have a plan and thats why as i said, we need peoples contact information. We use the files that we have. Starts at 48 hours. Goes through social media. Tweets, emails. Phone calls. With customers who identify as medical baseline. A rate classification. They have some equipment in their homes that take power. With those customers, we will do informative contact. We will go and knock on doors. I think we have a protocol we follow quite completely. Is it 100 . That i cant tell you, we work for it to be that way, but we have 48, 24, four hour notification and we will continue to notify if the weather shifts and it is urgent. We will contact right up to the point of the event. I would like to drill down on that a little more how are you communicating those shutdown t
The neighborhoods of Fountain Grove and coffee park, which were devastated during the 2017 north bay fires. 90,000plus under mandatory Evacuation Orders. Buildings have been threatened along highway 128. An Elementary School in harms way. Some of the rhinerys, one has gone up in flames already, wineries, one has gone up in flames already. Hes cal fire. We were here on highway 128 observing fire behavior. The fire behavior was subdued and had not, the winds had not picked up very much yet. We monitored and observed as the winds shifted and became very gusty and strong sustained winds. And we observed increased fire behavior and there was containment lines installed in firing operations that were leave taken by the fire; overtaken by the fire. The fire behavior continues to increase. The strong gusty winds were forecast updated from 3 00 until 10 00. Were currently in that time period and the fire behavior is increasing. Take a look at some of the video from overnight. This is the winery
If thats something youve seen driving by before and youll go, ahha, its that place. Sadly, that is no longer here. The only destructure that remains on the property is this wooden barn. It was established in 1869. Cal fire had some crews out here to do some structure protection on this to make sure it didnt set on fire. Look south now beyond the vineyards here and you can see the smoke in the hills. Thats card of the main kincade fire. Doesnt appear the main part went through this specific area but the spot fires is what caused this place to burn and that im speaking to the itself, just because youre thy with these winds. And when they do, you can end up with something lyingif example of how dangerous it is. Even if you cant see the fire, you can have embers come and get things like this. You want to heed those warnings. Very devastating. Its got to be so hard to watch. You were saying they had a recent renovation . Its been taking ten years. Just looking at their website as bob was sa
Like i said weve on red wine or erode for at hours i just covering some of the destruction here and about an hour around half ago. Thats when noticed a lot of fire trucks and driving very fast down red winery road and heading toward that plume of smoke we also saw an ambulance and that was the first one that weve seen sense covering this fire. Yesterday in today and the same ambulance. Also just came back down heading towards unclear if theres any injuries at this point. I understand there will be a press conference that looks like at 6. 30 so hopefully well get some of our questions answered them, but for now were just kind of concerned looking at this big plume of smoke i i also drove down red winery road to try to get to the plume smoke and i got as far as pine flat road. And cal fire a stop there. They are not letting us in. Reporters stopped right there just to checking out that plume of smoke that first time i believe that weve been tonight. Covering this kinkaid fire. Fire truck
You have some information about when wearing it might be beneficial. And when it is best to stay indoors. With a layer of choking smoke blanketing hazy hillsides of the east bay west Contra Costa County Unified School District counsel class at noon. Sending 30,000 students home. Concerns about air quality hung over the community. The air is supposed to be normal. There is fire. It feels different. He and his brother wore the mask the parents had given them to protect them from the smoke. Officials warn most masks dont fit children securely enough to be effective. If we dont have any mask benefit children of the can seal if you have facial hair. If it is well sealed and you dont feel short of breath you might get more benefit from wearing a mask. Reporter the best advice is to stay indoors if you can. Officials with west contra costa schools close in part because many of the classrooms dont have air conditioning or Filtration Systems that would remove particles from the air students bre