Now at 11, the glass fire creeping dangerously close to calistoga. We are on the front lines as crews try to keep the flames from reaching town. Last time it was really close to the house. We still have a lot of trees, so we are worried. Im tracking high fire danger, record height temperatures and a continuation of poor air quality in thursdays forecast. New rules are on the way to prevent a repeat of last nights debate debacle. Good evening, now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area, the glass fire ranging dangerously close to calistoga and now shifting winds are raising the threat of new fires and bringing suffocating smoke back to the bay area. Andrea nakano is in calistoga tonight with the effort to keep the flames at bay. Reporter air resources and ground crews attacked this fire north of calistoga all day, and they did a really good job. But as you can see behind me there is still an intense fire burning on a hillside. And the problem is, calistoga is surrounded by flames. Air tan
From reaching town. Last time it was really close to the house. We still have a lot of trees, so we are worried. Im tracking high fire danger, record height temperatures and a continuation of poor air quality in thursdays forecast. New rules are on the way to prevent a repeat of last nights debate debacle. Good evening, now at 11 and streaming on cbsn bay area, the glass fire ranging dangerously close to calistoga and now shifting winds are raising the threat of new fires and bringing suffocating smoke back to the bay area. Andrea nakano is in calistoga tonight with the effort to keep the flames at bay. Reporter air resources and ground crews attacked this fire north of calistoga all day, and they did a really good job. But as you can see behind me there is still an intense fire burning on a hillside. And the problem is, calistoga is surrounded by flames. Air tankers made drop after drop as the fire raced up the hillside, just up the highway 29 a dc10 and a 747 were part of the aerotec
Medical evaluation as well as that nature. Strong winds pick the first one minor medical treatment. Is saturday night and the overnight shelter and as needed is a major concern and we need everyone to keep on moving. Second one was sunday night there are some people who just into early this morning pick dont know which way to go. Thankfully your past those two especially if they have medical maybe they take a route to work challenges so the winds have conditions that we can, not backed up quite a bit. Accommodate using any types of every day or they leave their looking at the forecast, still neighborhood a certain way and very hot around the fire zone equipment. And provide Mental Health with 90s around 102 degrees. Counseling and connect meibrys of 1525 miles meibrys they get stuck once there is a individual social services. Road closure. What we do is encourage them to of 1525 mph and we are scaling the county social Services Back on the wins but still very network as well as support
Businesses there in the north bay. In what is being called the glass fire, 11,000 acres have already been burned. Thats about 17 square miles since it first started sunday morning. Its just so disheartening when you take a look at the scenes. The gross fire is freding room itly. Causing destruction r fires hav with the glass fire, possibly spot fires from the original plays, forcing more evacuations there on the outskirts of santa rosa along highway 12. We have Live Team Coverage for you this afternoon. Greg lee covering the napa side of this fire. Tom vacar taking a look at some of the damage done if Sonoma County already. We want to start with meteorologist mark tomaio, tracking the latest on the weather conditions in the fire zone. Thankfully today were starting to see those winds pull back. Thats right, alex. We have had two big wind events, and we are past those two events. Here is a look around santa rosa, mount st. Helena. Those winds gusting to 55 miles per hour. We take a look
Effect lets get straight to the maps you can get an idea of who is affected and let me tell you basically the whole bay areas under this red flag warning you can see in the map most of the barriers that pink which means the red flag warning is in effect one this afternoon for the glass fire region in the north bay as we said earlier can be very difficult for firefighters up there facing these high winds and high temps east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains the last time we saw a red flag warning the class fire erupted over the weekend. So now more than ever its time to take this seriously. Theyre going to be northwest winds of 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour with gusts of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. We also have dry conditions throughout the whole bay area with low humidity which is a recipe for a wildfire. Scary to think that another one can or ups we have to do everything we can. To help out theres a power flex alert going into effect at 3 this afternoon youre being asked to conserve electrici