Evacuate via deer park road. This is the latest evacuations and warnings in place in napa county this morning. In Sonoma County this map shows the order in place in orange and under evacuation morning within the yellow zone. The orders extend east of calistoga road, north of road and north of highway 12. There is an Evacuation Center open at Crosswalk Community church on first street in napa. We have Team Coverage on the wildfires burning in the north bay. We begin with emily turner, who is in santa rosa. Reporter since i last spoke to you have an hour ago, the good news here is that firefighters have been able to save the barn over the ridge behind me. Flames were pretty much bearing down on us, down this hill. They have been put out so that is some good news. Unfortunately there is not much when it comes to good news out here. This fire continues to grow. It is being blown by winds that are up and over the ridge line. Is eerily similar to 2017. This fire started on the napa sonoma li
California air operations fixed wing aircraft air attack one 40 worked up until nightfall today supporting ground crews in the angwin in deer park communities in napa county and as communities get ready for bed. The mayor of calistoga says he is worried about tomorrow projected wins coming from the north and east. Direction puts it behind the fire moving in this direction toward downtown. Thank you for joining us on this wednesday night, im ken wayne and im pam moore, cal fire officials tell us tonight the glass fire burning in sonoma and napa counties has now exploded to more than 51,000 acres and is only 2 contained at this hour. The fire has now destroyed more than 107 homes in napa county and 36 homes in Sonoma County more than 26,000 structures are still threatened tonight. We have Team Coverage on the glass fire. We begin with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking the increasing fire risk to the glass fire area. Yeah guys this a very dangerous situation already setting
Show you this map and that shows the 3 different fires. Theyre calling them the glass fire because thats where it started up in napa county. Top righthand portion of your screen started with 20. Acres and quickly grew to 11,000 and you see those 2 fires burning on the lower part of the screen thats whats burning into eastern portions of santa rosa and that is where we find kron 4 Sarah Stinson for us this morning giving us a perspective. Of neighborhoods that have been ravaged by the flames overnight. So sarah again are you still in the sky hawk neighborhood. Theyre still in the sky hawk neighborhood above skyhawk park this time on son hawk drivein ive been telling you for the most part. They did a good job controlling the flames from burning all of these have found one home here that has burned not completely but it is to a total loss you can see smoke billowing from it and theyre making sure that any hot spots are put out all the speck here are this persons back yard next door was al
Strong winds could spread the flames from the glass fire and spark even more destruction. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 oclock im Justine Waldman the bay area is getting smacked with smoke intense heat, a red flag warning and a flex alert. This all happening on the first day of october what a of a day and october is usually are most intense months for fire. So lets get to it now as we start now with a look at our forecast Rebecca Strom us here now with a closer look at the wind speeds and the triple digit temperatures good afternoon. Rebecca. Afternoon justine yeah were actually under a heat advisory across the bay area as well because the temperatures are so hot were seeing anywhere from a 15 to 25 degree difference force what we normally see at this time for the year. And you can see outside right now this or live shot overlooking and the east bay in berkeley right now and very hazy very smoky that were seeing around the entire bay area and yes talking abo
Thunderstorms are possible and more south and closer to the proximity and with the moisture background around Solano County so the low is not moving very fast and as it does we will see break and a little bit of rain, so were not done yet and you can see some of that continue to move back as well and that is the theme with temperatures below. Now would check with sal on the highways. That is something we started to see with a couple rashes although none are causing major delays at the moment you can see northbound 280 there on the right and it looks really good as you drive through and the commute has been all right with no major issues. Lets go back to the desk at 6 01 am. Protests are planned in San Francisco is the grand princess cruise ship was due to docket peer 35 to refuel and restock. Two passengers and two crewmembers died from coronavirus on the ship and a quarantine for the cruise ship was lifted on saturday. Among the planned protests, one will demand safety protection for