To minimize that impact. Day one has been a challenge. That was the pg e Vice President essentially acknowledging the inconvenience. Good evening, everyone. Im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Pg es big concern has been the red flag fire conditions and potential for high winds later tonight. The first phase of the Power Outages started in parts of sonoma, napa, and marin counties for this morning. That is the red on the map that included some 2000 pg e customers. Phase two involves the east bay and south bay, and another 169,000 homes and businesses. It was supposed to start at noon, then it was pushed back to 8 00 tonight, then it was pushed back again until right now at 10 00. Jana katsuyama live from downtown orinda where the power can go out at any moment. Jana, is there any sign of wind out there tonight . Reporter not very matchup here, frank and julie, and weve been throughout the county. You can see there are still some businesses open that have lights on, but it has been
Is not fun. The subject to high wind because its not that big. Now they are back over this area. Look at that burn area on the zones. You have to tip your hat to the firefighters that jumped up at 1 am and did what they had to do to protect the structures right there. All mentioned i will mention, this has power shut off in phase 2, power went off after 10 pm last night, so electricity not a issue, so it is really easy to start a fire out here you christ. Eight hours later, most evacuations have been lifted, it burned more than 40 acres. Right now, firefighters are trying to find the cause of fire. It mentioned at 1 am this morning, this was after pg e had shut off power so we know it was in the power power lines that spark is. Steve, a lot of people that turn their power off, said its not that would be where i am . You have to understand something. A lot of these transmission corridor lines the Higher Elevations and a lot of these grades are linked up. So, if you 70 mileperhour wind a
Of that mountain that looked like it was acting as a fire break which helped slow the progress of this fire compared to 45 minutes ago. This is good news because they are homes closer to the daly city side of the mountain. Despite that, voluntary evacuations have been ordered. Acreage, 15 or 20 acres. No official word yet. Wind has been a huge story in the bay area this week. The red flag warning is up and running for tomorrow. Meteorologist mark tamayo joins us now. Some people were seeing wind. There is a dry winton place and its it defined wind direction coming out of the east and northeast. Im sure the fire crews are seeing that on the map. As a result this a good strategy to contain this in the short term. There is the mapping system. You can see wind coming in out of the easiest off of the bay. Typically a normal summer day we will talk about a wind coming in from this direction but as you know this has been a fire weather pattern with offshore wind setting up. Here is an idea of
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