Now its 3 of the glass fire cutting through neighborhoods in napa and Sonoma County people are trying to remain optimistic even as their belongings burned to the ground. Thousands of homes remain threatened this afternoon and now theres a red flag warning for the glass fire area thats expected. For thursday. Thank you so much for joining us here this afternoon. Im Justine Waldman we continue to follow our breaking news today here on kron 4 news at 3 and thats the devastation across sonoma and napa counties where the glass fire burns out of control right now this is video of the fire burning off highway 29 on Greenwood Avenue in calistoga the glass fire has burned over 48,000 acres and is currently only 2 contained over 22,000 structures are threatened. The fire has burned more than 80 homes and napa and sonoma counties and now were getting a closer look at the damage caused by the glass fire joining us live as kron fours brian calley she is in santa rosa. And shes been talking to peopl
Jose. But no one compares to the poor air that youre the poor air that youre currently seeing in easter sonoma and northern napa counties right now where conditions are as you would expect near the glass fire at their very worst 50s and 60s for current temperatures with concord at 64 livermore in pittsburgh of 65 little cooler in the north bay thats good news for firefighting efforts, a cool start to the morning in a pretty calm what at that as well San Francisco, upper 70s for you later today, oakland in the 80s. Well a lot of us back into the 90s like in san jose, ive got the rest of your forecast. Still ahead robin. Thank you john were checking back in on the bay bridge. The traffic is still a little sluggish into San Francisco. Its recovering from 2 earlier crashes, they were minor crashes. But traffic just never completely recovered so if youre heading into San Francisco this morning. Get out there a little early its logo from west grand and youre averaging 40 minutes which is not
With a building resembling a medieval castle lost lost, embodying all its wine. I dont know what i could have done had i stayed up. Yes. Lets begin with andria borba in napa county. Reporter the damage leveled by the glass fire has taken a particularly hard toll on the marr family. The long time residents of the valley, the 87yearold dick marr lost the home where he raised his five children last night. You hear about it and read about it, but when you see where you spent 45 years of your life, it is really, i dont know i am crying. I am sorry. Reporter but the ruin didnt stop there. This glowing orange spot in the cell phone picture is his son seans home. This is our sons home, sean. He lives right down the trail. Reporter and in an almost too cruel twist, a second son lost his home, as well. My ore overtimer brother kelly lost his home, as well. We are resilient. We are full of love and blessed with so much, but it keeps hitting us. It is like come on, all right . It is enough already
Looks like crews are still blocking the left lane near the ramp that was a headon crash and its still under investigation. So you will not you will its unclear if the ramp is completely blocked but its saying the left lane at the offramp blocked by emergency crews because of that multi vehicle accident so you may just want to use 5. 80 instead of the southbound to get around it and save a lot of time by the way 5. 80 looks great 24 looks great. No problems for the east shore freeway just a Little Pocket of slowing for you leaving san jose, its the usual crowd, north one oh one between 6 ad and 80 thats it a great trip to the peninsula. Sure the Doctors Today think im in great shape. I think i want to try doing a rally on saturday night. If we can that we have enough time to put it together but we want to do a rally in florida probably in florida saturday night. Might come back and do one in pennsylvania. In the following night and incredible whats going on i feel so good. Thats Preside
Includes highway 29 at livermore road and east 2 etma mine road. Evacuation orders for the city of calistoga have been reduced to warnings. That allows thousands of people to return home. New aerial video just coming into the newsroom. It shows the burn scar out of Sonoma County. You can see firefighters were actually able to save all of these homes. About two hours ago evacuation orders were reduced to warnings south and north of oakmont with the exception east of fairfield drive. The fire has destroyed 64,000 acres in napa and sonoma counties. But there is good news coming from the fire lines. Crews have nearly doubled containment from yesterday to 17 . We have Team Coverage on the glass fire. We begin with kpix 5s john ramos. Evacuations continue in napa county, and now the clearer air may actually cause problems for firefighters. This morning napa valley got some of its beauty back. The air cleared and fires on the west side were mere wisps of smoke compared to a week ago. Todays f