Midnight. Marin county will have its lightsout at 4 00 am. And then tomorrow at noon, Contra Costa County starts. Kpix 5 is your Survival Guide to navigating these unprecedented outages. Our team is mobilized to cover this story. Andrea borba is with people strbling to get ready. Reporter im here at the costco in concord where the lines have been wrapped around the boulevard and onto surface streets. People are concerned they wont be able to fill up their cars if the power goes out. I filled up prot pain too. Ill have a refrigerator, and ill have a generator for the house. The propane too. Ill have a refrigerator, and ill have a generator for the house. I put freezer Water Bottles in the freezer to freeze them up so i could put them in the refrigerator for later. Reporter in oakland, the preparations are moving from the personal level to citywide, with all cops having days off cancelled for all hands on patrols. We take this red flag warning extremely seriously. We all know the devasta
Taking a look at the east bay hills. Warm day out there. Heat continues to build. Many bay area communities now on the look out for wildfires. Good evening for joining us. Im thomas. Sme temperatures could hit 100 degrees or higher in the coming days. Now, that has led to read flag warning meaning there sa high risk for fire. Lets get to meteorologist drew. Yeah, strong gusty winds in late october usher in some warm temperatures but elevate our fire danger. So we do have the red flag warning that will go into effect until 9 00 p. M. Tomorrow much of the north bay areas. Winds gusting close to 40mileanhour not only bring dry but warm air. But fires could easily spread. Closer look at the communities affected as far as north as ukia, even marine county and east bay hills, even the East Foothills and Santa Clara County even the red flag warning as well. So take a closer look at the warm tem turls. Strong winds. And when this fire danger will cease. And full weather update in a few minutes
Lets go out with a look at who will see the potential for the highest fire danger and its also going to get hotter. Yeah, thats one of the things well be watching this time tomorrow night as that red flag warning officially begins p. M. This time tomorrow. Well already be under those red flag conditions with the north bay and east bay hills. One of the trends weve been seeing in the weather models is to kind of increase those wind speeds in the north bay approaching tuesday morning. Sustained wind generally 15 to 20 miles per hour. And that does include lake county, portions of of Sonoma County into napa county. Portions of under that power shutoff watch updated by pg e. So the red flag warning is one component to the story, but look at the high temperatures as we head to tuesday. 80s and 90s, bay side, so we could see some heat advisories in addition to the red flag warning conditions in the hills. Ill let you know how long the fire danger and hot temperatures last in our forecast com
Lets go out with a look at who will see the potential for the highest fire danger and its also going to get hotter. Yeah, thats one of the things well be watching this time tomorrow night as that red flag warning officially begins p. M. This time tomorrow. Well already be under those red flag conditions with the north bay and east bay hills. One of the trends weve been seeing in the weather models is to kind of increase those wind speeds in the north bay approaching tuesday morning. Sustained wind generally 15 to 20 miles per hour. And that does include lake county, portions of of Sonoma County into napa county. Portions of under that power shutoff watch updated by pg e. So the red flag warning is one component to the story, but look at the high temperatures as we head to tuesday. 80s and 90s, bay side, so we could see some heat advisories in addition to the red flag warning conditions in the hills. Ill let you know how long the fire danger and hot temperatures last in our forecast com
Abc7 News Reporter luz pena spoke to fire investigators and she joins us in the south bay. Luz. Reporter dion and erik, they will continue on scene investigating the fires on the perimeter around them. At least 40 is contained. Two columns of smoke where only Spring Valley fire chief needed to see to call cal fire. As he made his way in and as they were dispatching out for engines to respond, he saw a third, eventually we ended up with six separate fires. Reporter the call came in at 11 37 a. M. It shows the fire in the east hills of milpitas. Ground resources began to contain the six fires. Firefighters are now ruling out the possibility of arson. Arson is always a possibility in Something Like this, but you also have the possibility of you can have cars driving along the road and you can have catalytic converters kick stuff out of the exhaust, and he and we get road starts like that as well. Reporter according to cal fire, the six fires combined have burned a total of 128 acres in th