Any injuries . I havent heard of any injuries at this time. What can you tell us about nustar . I cant tell you a lot about nustar at this time. I dont know if theyve had significant incidents. There was a vegetation fire up interstate 80 a little west of here last summer. But i dont think it was associated with the refinerys operation. Im unaware of any other incidents in the refinery itself. Are you confident that another tank is not going to eplode . I am not confident of that. I know theyre doing a lot of what theyre doing right now to prevent that from occurring. Youre attacking that hillside pretty aggressively with water drops and so forth. Why is that . Are you concerned about it spreading to other tanks up above . It could be that. It could be that the vegetation on that side is a little bit thicker. It looks like theres more brush and trees as opposed to the grass you see on this side. They may be concerned about fire spreading to the vegetation and to the tanks at the top of
80 and 64 the city. The average is 69 and 53. Not in record territory but still warm enough. We make it a slight dip in temperatures tomorrow but it wont be that much. Still in the 80s. 90s possible on thursday and friday. Fire weather watch may be upgraded to a warning later. Drive fuel. Low humidity and gusty northerly breezes. 40s60s. Berkeley at 66 petnup airport, 48. Its going to be this way and everyone will end up with 80s if you 70s by for us and a very warm week for us. Lots of 80s to near 90 today. Sal is here. Solano county drive . We are looking at the we do have some slow traffic that way. We had a crush on westbound 580 at greenville road still partially blocking lanes and the traffic will be slow. There is greenville road and heres the Altamont Pass. This is right after the pass and we do have slow traffic which is slower than usual. You may say, its always slow come and you all rights, but this morning its slower and if youre waiting for someone coming in from tracy or
And no buildings burned. Lucky indeed. If you lost power, this fire danger is the reason. Pg e trying to reduce the threat of wildfires sparked by equien malfunk because of strong winds that can spread the fire easily. These Power Outages, a look at the overnight map from pg e posted about 2 00 a. M. The purple areas dont have power. Thats a screen capture. Pg e has been unable to keep the website going. Too many people trying to look at it. The second round got under way about midnight. Pg e projectedth quarter million homes and businesses to lose power in phase two in addition to the hundreds of thousands of homes without power yesterday. So where are we today . Hopefully a lot of people will be getting their power back. Theyre probably not going to turnt back on unt the threat is over. We have the red flag warning until 5 00 this evening and then we know that from what pg e has told us they have to check the lines before they flip the switch and turn it back on. We will still have g
About the pg e power shut off in the south bay and we will bring it to you live. The time is 7 01 and lets get to breaking news weve been telling about all morning with a wildfire in moraga forcing evacuations overnight. Its called the barrel fire and appears to be knocked down. The all clear was issued for the Sanders Ranch neighborhood of moraga, great news and the fire started just before 1 00 this morning and burned 40 acres. It was burning near merrills star colonel north and sanders road south of st. Marys college and Moraga Police originally ordered evacuations for those along Sanders Ranch road, merrill drive and harrington road and now they say about 70 households out of the 140 evacuated are allowed to go back home. The people who live above merrill circle, you are still being evacuated. They are told to meet and gather at Saint Monica Church and there is another gathering area for evacuees, the safeway supermarket on moraga way. Officials with the Fire District there are clo
Is not fun. The subject to high wind because its not that big. Now they are back over this area. Look at that burn area on the zones. You have to tip your hat to the firefighters that jumped up at 1 am and did what they had to do to protect the structures right there. All mentioned i will mention, this has power shut off in phase 2, power went off after 10 pm last night, so electricity not a issue, so it is really easy to start a fire out here you christ. Eight hours later, most evacuations have been lifted, it burned more than 40 acres. Right now, firefighters are trying to find the cause of fire. It mentioned at 1 am this morning, this was after pg e had shut off power so we know it was in the power power lines that spark is. Steve, a lot of people that turn their power off, said its not that would be where i am . You have to understand something. A lot of these transmission corridor lines the Higher Elevations and a lot of these grades are linked up. So, if you 70 mileperhour wind a