Almost 3thousand acres. As live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, this big fire in napa explodes to almost 3,000 acres. Hundreds of people evacuate their homes. The fire is burning east of calastoga and saint helena. It has jumped buck canyon road. Kpix5s Christin Ayers is there tonight. Christin . Reporter well guys, the night, though the temperature has dropped, things have cooled off, but the fire continues to burn brightly. Like over my shoulder. You can see the orange glow there. Every so often, we see the fire catching onto a tree and the flames going straight up. There is much more of the fire left to fight, we hear. From a distance, mandy thought she was looking at a bonfire. 911 asked if it was the size of a football field and at that point it was. And at that point, it just started getting bigger really fast. Reporter alarmingly fast. Within just a few hours, the flames consumed 2500 acres in pope valley left defecated by a punishing drought. This i
Almost 3thousand acres. As live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, this big fire in napa explodes to almost 3,000 acres. Hundreds of people evacuate their homes. The fire is burning east of calastoga and saint helena. It has jumped buck canyon road. Kpix5s Christin Ayers is there tonight. Christin . Reporter well guys, the night, though the temperature has dropped, things have cooled off, but the fire continues to burn brightly. Like over my shoulder. You can see the orange glow there. Every so often, we see the fire catching onto a tree and the flames going straight up. There is much more of the fire left to fight, we hear. From a distance, mandy thought she was looking at a bonfire. 911 asked if it was the size of a football field and at that point it was. And at that point, it just started getting bigger really fast. Reporter alarmingly fast. Within just a few hours, the flames consumed 2500 acres in pope valley left defecated by a punishing drought. This i
Until the work is complete only pedestrians, cyclists and buses can cross the bridge. Heres the latest on the work. The project involves placing 3500 steel clad concrete blocks to separate the north and southbound lanes. More than 80 of those blocks are now in place and bridge Officials Say the project is on schedule. They anticipate a first run of the zipper truck tonight the truck that places the blocks. And there have been no major traffic incidents today. Cornell bernard is live now at the bridge with more on he progress. Reporter no cars on the bridge makes this a very, very quiet place tonight. But far so so good. The bridgees scheduled to reopen monday morning at 4 00 a. M. Lets go in sky 7hd where the piece office the puzzle are in place. Restriping to the pavement hassles begun. The countdown to a safer bridge underway. The golden gate truly a bridge to nowhere this weekend. Not a car in sight. He rode the span on his bike twice to take it in. Its stir reel. Theres no car traf
Its landmark and its just amazing. Sky 7hd was over the span as crews hammered the new moveable barrier into place. 1. 7miles of steel and concrete. Engineers say the project is on track. We are on schedule and as of 3 00 p. M. , we have we installed 10,000 linear feet of the barrier. So this is about 87 of its length. The bay area designed to prevent headon collisions. Theres been 16 fatilities since 1970. I think its good that the barrier is being put up. Surprise i it took this long. I think a lot of things take a long time to get done. You can walk there. In the marina, lots of confusion and questions about the bridge closure. Traffic control officers had their hands full. Whats the biggest question today . How due you go to the Golden Gate Bridge. I say, its closed. I didnt know that. Hard to say you werent warned. These traffic signs are virtually everywhere. Detours are in place. Trying to see the Golden Gate Bridge. Did you know it was closed today . No. No. All weekend. Disapp
Quarter mile visibility for san jose and halfmile for santa rosa, 2. 5 in napa. Throughout the Morning Hours with the cloud cover maybe a few light sprinkles and by the average we are hazy again. Temperatures seasonal. We will talk about some changes which include rain in the sevenday outlook. Thats coming up. Carolyn. Lisa, thank you. The longest closer in the histories of the Golden Gate Bridge continues this morning as workers install a new median barrier system. Take a live look right now at the bridge from the marin county side. The closer began at midnight friday. The span is scheduled to reopen in time for tomorrow mornings commute. I cant feel 7 News Reporter nick smith is with us from the Golden Gate Bridge with the latest. Good morning there. Good morning carolyn. I was wondering if i ran on to the middle of the highway there if you would see me from the marijuana bridge camera. But you know what . I thought the better side of me said just stand here. The sane behind me reads