Begin this tuesday here on kron 4 news at 5 thanks so much for joining us. Im jonathan mccall. Right now mandatory Evacuation Orders are in place for several communities across the bay area as wildfires continue to burn out of control at this hour. In the north bay mandatory evacuations are in effect across napa county in the following areas from a school we corner to wouldnt valley road including the community of circle oaks atlas peak road to the dead in from loma vista road slash soda canyon road to the dead in all of his the ridge road sage canyon road from charles pope valley road to lower Charles Valley road. Highway 2128 from lower child valley road to monticello road. And the butts canyon road and snow valley road to spanish valley, including the various us states. There are also evacuation warnings in these locations highway one 28 and silverado trail to charles pope valley road, including the pritchard hills area. Highway one 28 and lore Childs Valley road to turtle rock and
Bay area almost have fires. In the last hour, two fires also sparked in Sonoma County, forcing evacuations there. Lightning suspected as the cause of most of these fires. Now, fire danger not the only concern tonight. Power outages are also possible as the states grid is once again pushed to the max. Pg e is asking people to conserve electricity through 10 00 this evening. We have a lot going on right now and a team of reporters in place on the Power Outages and the wildfires. Lets start with nbc bay areas ian cull live in San Mateo County. Ian. Reporter yeah. Hey, guys. Very active scene up behind us here. You can see the plumes of smoke hundreds of feet in the air. This is what you can see from Silicon Valley throughout the bay area as more than 350 firefighters are onscene up there along that ridge. On officer who th a cal fire tells me that this is very steep, difficult terrain to be fighting a fire. Its also very dry up there because of this heat, and thats also a worry and a diff
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from Solano County right now as you can see unfortunately, a house on fire. New evacuation orders just issued as numerous wildfires burn in several bay area counties this morning. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, august 19th. Im michelle griego. And im len kiese. This morning, wildfires rning in several locations across the area. Are forcing more evacuations. And blackening the bay area with unhealthy air. All the details on the fires in just a moment. But first straight to mary lee for all the latest on the heat and the air quality. Yeah, len and michelle, firefighters will be up against the heat once again. So extreme heat continues. We are not done yet with our heat wave. Looking at excessive heat warnings that remain in effect today due to the dangerous heat. Now lets show you our temperatures. So looking at mid 70s in San Francisco. 83 in oakland and mid 90s in san jose and 102 for concord. So 8 to 15 deg
This is my least favorite time of the year. There is nothing good, there is nothing good, unless you get rain or a big time cooling trend. Tomorrow looks a little better. Today looks like a hot day. I cannot get around it. There are so many fires. I put the arrow on the Santa Cruz Mountains and the san mateo fire. It is being picked up on satellite. There are high clouds to the north. It is going to be one of those days. I will focus on this one first. It is not good. Everything is an east wind or a northwind. Temperatures are in the 60s and 70s. Temperatures are in the 60s and 70s. San francisco and oakland are trending down. We have had 62 to 74. The high clouds seem to be to the north. There is so much smoke in the air. There is a little cooling. Inland temperatures are relentless. Tomorrow looks like a 10 degrees drop. Today, we are looking for highs to be above average. San francisco and oakland are averaging near 100. We cant seem to stop. Sal, is anything going on . I hope not.
Some of them burning dangerously out of control tonight. Here is a map of where those fires are burning at the moment, the u. S. See you a lightning complex that has burned the most scorching more than a 137,000 acres across 5 counties. Then closer to the coast. The seas eu august lightning complex fires, those are burning in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz counties and finally the l a new lightning complex fires are burning in the north bay, including napa sonoma and solano counties. The lnu lightning complex fire. So far have scorched a combined total of a 131,000 acres imagine that a 105 structures have been destroyed 70 have been damage and right now the entire fire is 0 contained and we want to share with you the evacuation map now for sonoma county, heres a look at the Evacuation Orders and warnings in that county as you can see there anyone living in the red area they are under mandatory Evacuation Orders. The yellow area. Thats under an evacuation warning, which means