Under way to a critical Water Pipeline damaged by the czu lightning complex fire in Boulder Creek impacted by the broke away from our fighting in Oregon Health airlifts this badly needed pipe to the fire. Ravaged it the the work was done in the Santa Cruz Mountains kron fours rob fladeboe talks with the helicopter crew rob joins us live now with the latest rob is the water. Okay to drink now. Well it is for some folks and not so much for others up am i here at the fire camp in scotts valley, this is all going on farther up the seller on valley high above Boulder Creek where the fire destroyed a key Water Pipeline that supplies for Boulder Creek and the only way to get the replacement pipe up to this remote site is by helicopter, lets take a look. This was downtown Boulder Creek Tuesday Morning as a helicopter airlifted heavy duty replacement pipe to a remote job site in the fire zone, a nearby been lowman mountain at the controls was veteran pilot glenn smith whos been fighting wildfir
Lot of us have had these shut for its nothing new but while we have seen it. There are no less frustrated as for sure many residents now are a bit more prepared kron fours dan kerman was in santa rosa, he has that part of the story tonight. This is a typical intersection that youre seeing east of santa rosas downtown lights are out stop signs in place, but just one of the many frustrations for those who are living in the power outage areas. I think this is going to be the new norm. Santa rosa residents have seen it all before pacific gast and electric shutting off power so adverse weather conditions dont down power lines and start a wildfire after living through this 2017 2018 2019. We know exactly what to do. But knowing what to do doesnt mean santa rosa residents are happy about it i blame lot of the staff on kg me i really do. Sorry but i do. Theyve had since 2017 to get their act together this man and his family run santa rosas urban pizza company. He says covid19 has already been
Good evening, everybody thanks for being here tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight more than 167,000 customers have been left in the dark this evening. This result of the planned power shutoffs by pg and e because of wildfire concerns. The impact has been felt by more than 22,000 customers in sonoma and napa counties, 17,000 customers in sonoma county. 5,000 customers in napa this is the current interactive outage map shut offs here indicated by those pink triangles you see the area just west of lake hennessy there is inundated with shut offs. Power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night according to pg and e and while most of those customers have dealt with these power shutoffs before they are no less frustrated. Kron fours michelle kingston reports now from santa rosa. I mean were becoming experts and being flexible up here in santa rosa street lights are out atm is not working thousand
Power cut off to try to prevent wildfires can planned to be in the dark into tomorrow night, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everyone im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis the Power Company announcing no changes for sonoma and napa county and their update tonight blaming critically dry conditions out there. This is an interactive map on pg es website shows exactly where the shut offs are happening at last check pg e reported that they turned off electricity to 167,000 customers across Northern California as part of what they call a Public Safety power shut off. 17,000 in Sonoma County most of which is in santa rosa and 5,000 in napa county and some of that in a in calistoga or sell sogomonian live in our newsroom tonight with when the power may come back on l a. Pg e is Incident Commander expects most of their customers will have their lights back on by the end of the day tomorrow with a widespread all clear in the morning. The weather is driving their decisionmaking taking a look at
Lotus and im Vicki Liviakis some gusty winds mean that any fire that has sparked a can spread rapidly chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here tracking those winds for us tonight want various he has some breaking down guys down below me the urban areas where most of us live not much in the way of wind 5 mile an hour winds in oakland youve got 6 right now in the nevada 6 in the petaluma but certainly up above. Its a completely different story in fact those winds getting very gusty across some of the mountain tops and thats what were concerned about thats red flag warnings have been posted weve seen winds over 30 almost 40 Miles Per Hour across some of the peaks in the north bay expected to pick up here as we head through the next few hours and probably top out about one 32 oclock in the morning. Before we watch the winds begin to subside so red flag warnings are posted of course we just had a record heat wave things very dry out there now weve got the gusty winds above a 1000 feet also