I was texting with friends in Southern California, the general sing consensus, here we go again. Obviously theyve had problems like this before. If we look at the look at the firefighters trying to save the neighborhood, the winds will play a part. We see the right screen. One stream of water seems so insignificant against flames that forced 100,000 people to evacuate. The weather is pretty much what we had in the bay area yesterday. Santa anna winds, 60 or 70 mileperhour winds are. I dont know if they were clocking where the homes were. The area by the way, the creek fire, 15,000 acres. They are no stranger to fires in this particular area off of the 210 interstate 5. Lets check in with sue paulson and see if he has an update. 45 to 50 is what im hearing. Ive seen video. It looks stronger its coming down the hill and it looks like 50 . Also there are major freeways close. It can be isolated in the canyons as well. Theres no doubt about it, east, northeast breeze all the way much of th
As we know, theyre saying that 95 of the fire are started by people. Yeah, this was started by a trash truck. I dont know if thats true. I heard something about trash and burning trash as well. The la Fire Department said that. Yeah. Take a look at the stuff of heading down there. This is the porter ranch area and dave is familiar with it. Theres a high wind and flag warning out. And thats for everybody and then going three miles and then going 25. Thats stronger than that and for us, we have everything dropping. Were not out of it yet. Thats out of the red flag until 10 oclock in the morning the humidity is up in the surface. We have not done that yet and then thats a whopper of system. Its 30s to 0s on the temperatures mostly sunny today and not as breezy and upper 70s to low 80s. It doesnt sound like a bi fire but of course these days anything is taken very cyst seriously with trees on fire on i80. San pablo dam road. Her response was big but not a big deal. Well keep an eye on it i
Emergency Management Agency says the agency has already deployed an assistance team. 0ur Correspondent Peter Bowes is in la with the latest. We expect it to make landfall in the next few hours in a very remotely populated part of barger california in mexico. Tijuana, the border city in mexico. Baja california. Concerns it could cause some serious damage there. Before moving north into california as a Tropical Storm, and that is the unusual part of this, a hurricane come Tropical Storm would get to california. And its expected to continue moving north as opposed to west, which is what a hurricane would generally do and then dissipate over the ocean. So the likely consequences are going to be extremely heavy rain in california, some of the neighbouring states as well. To put that in perspective, palm springs, the desert resort, searing temperatures, a0 degrees plus, this time of year very dry, is expected to get maybe ten or 12 centimetres of rain over the next 12 hours. We are just not
Six others were damaged force and no one was hurt. Darya we have a crew headed to the scene. Michelle apon 13,005 under a is a little but overton about the football field the brush is very dry in a steep in that area of the awful dilemma with some pretty warm conditions as of right now 71 degrees will have some live north wind that is not too bad but later on today customer to one of multiple digit heat but mid90s still pretty one does with the firefighters will be dealing with this afternoon along with a string shower thunderstorm chance donald from the mobile application in the news you can follow exactly whats happening but were looking at a little bit closer to the bay area we have mostly cloudy skies. Michelle apon 4 isolated showers and thunderstorms may bet if youre traveling man off to the east heading into top of this weekend your bill will showers and thunderstorms possibly tomorrow but as of right now most of the bay and is pretty much dried. Michelle apon looking at the nor
By bill zane. We are doing the same thing all evening long. Starting at 5 30. If you would like to see what your home and neighborhood looks like. Heres what you have to do. Download the kron four mobile app and click on the report it tab. You can also do this on our website. By clicking on the report it tab. Provide us with your address and cross streets and then tell us a little bit about what happened to you. When you were evacuated, what did you see. And we will do the best we can to get it on the air. Weve been getting a lot of reports so please be patient we have also posted this link on our webside kron four dot com. But the website tends to crash as so many people are trying to get a look at their homes. Again, we will be doing this throughout our evening newscasts. And its aonlya for the city of santa rosa. Which was one of the hardest areas hit by the firestorm. Nearly 3thousands homes were lost in that area alone. steve hard images to see there. Kron fours Spencer Blake is i