Burning buildings and we are working to confirm whether the buildings are outbuildings or sheds or homes. Weve obtained coverage of this fire with meteorologist Steve Paulson talking about the powerful wind driving the fire. First, we bring in Cristina Rendon. Talk to us about the conditions. I can see its windy. Reporter very windy and the winds have not let up whatsoever. Its gotten worse since weve been in geyserville at the corner of Alexander Valley road and pine flat road. This area has been closed off to the public but cal fire crews are deep in the trenches trying to get a handle on this fire burning outofcontrol. You can see the flames along the ridge line and this area is where red winery road is and to the left is an area where 128 is in the casino wed mentioned earlier, red rock casino is in the area in danger, as we speak. In terms of the structures, along the hillside we saw at least one of those structures burning but we cant tell you if it is a house or winery or some t
Oakland and out to fairfield. 40s and 50s on the temps with a blustery day on the peninsula and mid50s for everybody. Woodside 51 and 57 over to fremont with mostly sunny skies and breezy to windy at times with a cooler pattern the next couple of days and we will see temperatures holding where they are today into friday and then by the weekend we will see warmer patterns. 60s and low 70s. Sal is here and what do you focus on first . The east bay commute. We went on the air at 4 00 a. M. And it was wet in some areas but now it has dried off in some spots. As steve said, the wet weather has moved out and it may be damp but it did kind of miss the morning commute and that is good for us. If you are driving on the east bay commute, 580 at the tracy triangle is very, very slow because of earlier crashes and we also had slow traffic on vasco road because of an earlier grass fire near Camino Diablo with the fire out now but it did damage with traffic on 280 and san jose slow. Its better than
About the pg e power shut off in the south bay and we will bring it to you live. The time is 7 01 and lets get to breaking news weve been telling about all morning with a wildfire in moraga forcing evacuations overnight. Its called the barrel fire and appears to be knocked down. The all clear was issued for the Sanders Ranch neighborhood of moraga, great news and the fire started just before 1 00 this morning and burned 40 acres. It was burning near merrills star colonel north and sanders road south of st. Marys college and Moraga Police originally ordered evacuations for those along Sanders Ranch road, merrill drive and harrington road and now they say about 70 households out of the 140 evacuated are allowed to go back home. The people who live above merrill circle, you are still being evacuated. They are told to meet and gather at Saint Monica Church and there is another gathering area for evacuees, the safeway supermarket on moraga way. Officials with the Fire District there are clo
This is one of the areas where it could be targeted by pg es few program to shut down power, to help prevent fires. It feels just like it did over the fire, supreme weather, hot, windy. Reporter mary lou and derek ericson recently moved into their home after losing their previous one after a fire two years ago. While trying to settle if, they are dealing with unsettling weather conditions. Were definitely more on all of us, all of our neighbors, everybody that has been through it on high alert and they are showing you the awareness of the winds and what it could cause. Reporter pg e has parking lots of the north bay at an elevated level. Public safety power shutoff, psps, a new utility where they shut down to help during the wildfire. We have not contacted any customers in the forth bay yet. I think its a good thing, having been through the fires. Reporter while mary lou ericson supports the psps, her neighbors do not. I think that is an easy way out for them. Than them maintaining dec
Miles per hour at my house. Why are you shutting down the power . Beep because the humidity may be in the low digits. That means 50 Miles Per Hour may not be far away from me. You know how fast he can travel so thats why. And that very low humidity means the fire can spread quickly. We are bone dry. The soil was bone dry. We have a wind advisory that just started at 6 00 from the north and east bay above 1000 feet and you could get gusts up to 65 Miles Per Hour. Closer to the surface anywhere from 40 45 is likely. That tells you up in Higher Elevations, a few thousand or above, it could be rocking and rolling leader. More likely this afternoon into tonight into early thursday morning. The red flag warning goes for mendocino county, lake county out of the delta and also down to the Santa Cruz Mountains as well. Only San Francisco is not much of a breeze yet. Not too bad. Its variable in some areas. Summer west, summer itself. Its an Higher Elevations is starting to turn. Alice pete just