There as far as the core cause of that blaze, but we can be thankful that at least back here at home our winds have subsided but still very breezy down there in Southern California. Much the office of yesterday morning at the same time we are calm across the bay, a nice view out there from berkeley which nearby murrah, yesterday remember at this time were talking about plays that crews were getting the upper hand on a calm conditions across the bay area very nice to see that your temperatures theyre cooler than they were yesterday morning. All these factors really adding up this morning to good news for those of us here in our own backyard of course were going to be keeping updated and ill have more information on that blaze in Southern California in just a minute as we make our way outside this morning do expect temperatures to be cool. But later on today, were actually a bit warmer than yesterday back up into the 80s for more areas, a warm up but calm start to the weekend talking mor
Didnt really didnt have an idea of how massive him look at how those winds are really whipping in fact at one point closing down for ive the 5 and the 2. 10 freeway you see where i 5 disappears at the top of the screen. Its that ridge line those sets of mountains there that are on fire this morning in that stretch of 5 shut down which means all traffic getting off of of the the great fine are trying to head that direction cant go and thats an area that youre familiar with in the bay or if its going to disneyland and you come out of the great bright bind right when you come out, the valley, safernando valley and then theres a burbank i and thats thats the whole area. Thats on fire right now is up in the hills there, but also coming way down to Populated Areas and the embers have been blowing in starting homes on fire that are you know of miles away from the actual wildfires burning and its been those winds thats been the real culprit in pushing this fire to spread as fast as it has and
And as daria said the winds are blowing up to the south towards the bottom of your screen where homes are seeing these spot fires pop up. And those winds have been pretty press yesterday mile an hour well video for one 2nd if we can they started to widen out the shot you could really see the smoke and how is blowing. And that is something that youre john in Southern California wednesday have today are. Peak which was yesterday in the bay area. Yeah, what ive been looking at this morning is just widespread strong winds all across Southern California this morning and yesterday. Obviously we had some good wind gusts but they were really tempered off pretty quickly and the sides are mountain peaks. We didnt see anything very excessive now thats not the case in l a theres been some very strong winds even at some lower elevations and that has really spread this fire fast those embers having a chance to be carried into some of these neighborhoods. Well were going to continue to follow that be
I was texting with friends in Southern California, the general sing consensus, here we go again. Obviously theyve had problems like this before. If we look at the look at the firefighters trying to save the neighborhood, the winds will play a part. We see the right screen. One stream of water seems so insignificant against flames that forced 100,000 people to evacuate. The weather is pretty much what we had in the bay area yesterday. Santa anna winds, 60 or 70 mileperhour winds are. I dont know if they were clocking where the homes were. The area by the way, the creek fire, 15,000 acres. They are no stranger to fires in this particular area off of the 210 interstate 5. Lets check in with sue paulson and see if he has an update. 45 to 50 is what im hearing. Ive seen video. It looks stronger its coming down the hill and it looks like 50 . Also there are major freeways close. It can be isolated in the canyons as well. Theres no doubt about it, east, northeast breeze all the way much of th
As we know, theyre saying that 95 of the fire are started by people. Yeah, this was started by a trash truck. I dont know if thats true. I heard something about trash and burning trash as well. The la Fire Department said that. Yeah. Take a look at the stuff of heading down there. This is the porter ranch area and dave is familiar with it. Theres a high wind and flag warning out. And thats for everybody and then going three miles and then going 25. Thats stronger than that and for us, we have everything dropping. Were not out of it yet. Thats out of the red flag until 10 oclock in the morning the humidity is up in the surface. We have not done that yet and then thats a whopper of system. Its 30s to 0s on the temperatures mostly sunny today and not as breezy and upper 70s to low 80s. It doesnt sound like a bi fire but of course these days anything is taken very cyst seriously with trees on fire on i80. San pablo dam road. Her response was big but not a big deal. Well keep an eye on it i