The bay itself and fire danger has increased due to that especially across the north bay and for inland east bay areas, were winds overnight have been gusting consistently on up to a range of 45 Miles Per Hour at times winds this morning in calistoga snowman vacaville have regularly beget been gusting into that 30 mile per hour range. Fairfield in danville also quite on the breezy side so these are windiest of areas as of right now as we work our way through the day youll continue to see strong winds on through the morning, a bit of a calmer afternoon and then wind speeds picking back up again into evening hours tonight with the vacaville atlas peak calistoga in sonoma. All seeing yet another breezy evening from thursday night into friday morning friday midday winds begin to back off and after that we are in for a much less higher fire risk weekend. And still a toasty one but not as high of that fire danger for sure. Now right now temperatures are mostly in the 60s to 70s, although a c
Until 11 00 this morning. Its been a noisy evening because of the trees rustling. High fire danger continues until 11 00 tomorrow. Moderate risk of heat illness starts at 11 00 today through 00 tomorrow. Tonight will be warmer than this morning. Temperatures 90s everywhere except for the coast. Thank you. Extreme fire conditions forced pg e to cut the power to thousands of people across the bay area. They could be in the dark for the next two days. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with more this morning. Good morning. Pg e is hoping to prevent fires from sparking from damaged power lines or power lines knocked down by high winds. The utilitys website shows who is affected right now. Heres a look at that map. More than 50,000 Northern California customers are impacted. In the bay area, about 22,000 pg e customers are expected to lose power in seven counties. The cruelyoul utility hopes to power by friday. Pg e is stressing this power shutoff is shorter than last years when some custom
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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Valleys and the hills, the Santa Cruz Mountains and the north bay valleys and mountains. Kron fours dan kerman spent the day in santa rosa were firefighters and residents are getting ready for high heat and gusty winds. I temps and high winds a bad combination when you couple it with this very dry brush 90 degree temperatures were already bearing down on santa rosa tuesday afternoon. But by wednesday, a red flag warning kicks in with even warmer temps wind gusts to 55 Miles Per Hour. And exceedingly dry grass and brush just ready to ignite. Santa rosa Fire Department will be staffing to additional wildland fire engines of those 2 fire engines will join a number of other Fire Departments from across noma county that will form a ploy for to a strike teams and task forces right now were looking at a least upwards of 12 Additional Fire engines that will be staffed across the county and likely many more to come. Residents are being told they might have to evacuate thats something beth phil