Pam moore, it is all everybody is talking about today the orange red skies alacross the bay area that blow thanks to the wildfire smoke drifting across our area blocking out the sun, heres what it looks like right now you see the upper lefthand corner ats the Richmond Sandra fell bridge toll plaza. The right hand corner at the top the san mateo bridge. The lower right corner 6. 80 in walnut creek and the left lower corner, the bay bridge toll plaza and every place has that orange haze in the sky kron 4 seed meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now with the forecast lawrence how long could this be with us when you thought twentytwenty couldnt get any more strange here we go but. That smoke is going to be with us for a bit now remember were talking about. That offshore wind yesterday that north northeasterly wind we had a couple of to our north we had won the bear fire there near paradise where we had a fire there that provide a lot of smoke in the bay area a few years back also the au
Because of the weather. This new video from sfo. A plane taking off in the smokey skies, in the air and on the ground, no escaping the smoke and ash. Ihave allergies really bad. What will it take to clear out the bad air . A lot of it depends on the fire still raging out of control. Bay area tonight, surrounded. Not surprisingly the spare the air alert has been extended through friday. Tonight a lot of uncertainty remains. What will we wake up to tomorrow . Fire containment, the forecast and our air quality concerns. Lets begin in walnut creek where the streets and restaurants are relatively empty cheryl. Should people stayed in and others tried to be as normal as possible even though there was nothing normal about today. Reporter the clock says 6 00 p. M. In oakland but looks nothing like sunset. Lake merritt is almost empty. The orange sky, obviously, and the overcast turned people away today. Reporter an ominous looking sky didnt take people like al from taking his walk. Die hards l
One of the biggest fires is in the north bay. It spans napa, sonoma, and solano counties. Lets get to nbc bay areas cierra johnson. This is where the Evacuation Orders have just been issued. And i know youve been with us since early this morning. How have things changed . Reporter yes. Good morning. Since the suns come up, weve really been able to get a better feel for just how dangerous this fire was. At last check it was 46,000 acres that this fire caused by lightning a couple days ago has burned through earlier this morning before the Evacuation Order was even put into place, folks were leaving because of just how bad things were. This is a cattle ranch im on. And you can see bales of hay just going up in flames. Entire homes were destroyed. 50 structures in all is the latest count that were burned. Right now families were working to get their animals out. 100 acres and they were looking to make entire houses burned to the ground. We have video from English Hills road and canalo roa
Valley. When they begin speaking we will bring it to you live. A pg e worker died in the wildfire in solano county. He was clearing power poles. This would allow access to emergency responders. He was unresponsive. Cpr was performed on the individual. The employee was transported by ambulance and pronounced deceased at a local hospital. Gates canyon is in the hills above vacaville. They have not said how the worker has died. This is the first data reported in the fires. There is the hennessy fire. The lnu lightning complex this is named after the lake napa unit. Doubtfire destroyed dozens of homes on tuesday night. Officials lifted some of the Evacuation Orders. People into areas of fairfield were given the green light to return home. Travis air force base is under an Evacuation Order, only Mission Essential personnel will work today. The walbridge fire is part of the lnu lightning complex fire. The fire is 14,500 acres. There is zero containment. There are mandatory evacuation. Much o
Prepare for the final day of the work week began. We are live at the czu august lightning complex fires base camp. This is a look at what it looks like. These are the battalion chiefs and operations personnel. Theyre getting ready for an update that they will give us at the 6 am hour. Right where we are standing, they were going on as business as usual but now where we are standing right now, this is all or under an order. The city of Scotts Valley west of highway 17 is forced to leave. This how shows how vast of an area it is. It is bounded by la honda to the north and highway 17 to the east and uc santa cruz to the southern by the Pacific Ocean to the west. At last count that is 48,000 people in that dark red area. That is the fire itself that is still burning out of control with 0 containment. This is video that cal fire shot out of a helicopter along the coastline. The fire has burned all the way to highway 1, which is shut down now. Employees were able to beat back the flames and