landing tonight acaliforniaa is under a state of emergency as wildfires continue to scorch thousands of acres across the state. Many of the firessparked by lightning from severe storms sunday morning. The fires are being fuled by winds record last 30 minutes Evacuation Orders were santa cruz county. Thats in addition to the orders already in place in sonoma san mateo napa alameda and contra costa counties we have a full list of Evacuation Centers is all on our website kron 4 dot com grown for has Live Team Coverage for you this tuesday night, michelle kingston is in Contra Costa County as crews try to get a handle on the deers on fire tale of the sec use in napa county has the hennessy fire continues to grow. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is tracking the threat of smoke moving into the bay area and also the money in his keeping is monitoring the threat of rolling blackouts across our area. Here is a map breaking down the major fires throughout the bay area tonight, the s see you
Temperatures are coming down a little bit but of course youre adding smoke into today. And thats just going make conditions all the worse you can see outside here. This is a picture from up in guerneville sent in from a viewer up there. Greg potter that smoke just being put into the sky around sunset last night you can see those smoke plumes across the bay area and the impact from them very evident. This morning, poor air quality for most parts of the bay are best towards the coastline but even then youre still looking at sinking air and making for some poor air quality there as well so this is not your ideal situation for spending much time outside this wednesday use it as an excuse to stay indoors, stay cool, especially if you have respiratory conditions you dont want to be doing too much. We have fire burning in eastern Contra Costa County still putting up smoke in that region also some fairly breezy conditions through the delta around oakley in brentwood this morning, north bay, mu
A speech ro speech roateep ro. So its a tough fight in there. A fight evolving situation. As far as the evacuees are concerned, theyre getting out of here. Theyre going to the Cross Walk Community church in napa. They are getting information there. So this fire continues to burn, sparked by lightning. Were hoping we dont get wind, and cal fire, as of now, is still saying zero containment. Were hoping that changes sometime soon. From napa county, wayne freedman, abc7 news. Wayne, let me ask you about the evacuees for a minute. Better safe than sorry. Anyone decided not to evacuate . Reporter dan, im sorry for the threesecond delay, but that has to do with where were at in our signal. Yes, there are people in there who have stayed. Most of them have left. If you go through the area and look at the gates, there are these tags, they say evacuate. We saw chp going in there, knocking on doors, making sure people were gone. I saw two people who stayed behind. The owner of the house, trying to
Lightningsparked fires. One is he hennessy fire, and by midafternoon, it had already consumed 750 acres, according to a spokesman for cal fire. While cal fire isnt a cant say for certain it, too, was caused by a strike from the key, the flames did start during a storm. An Evacuation Order has been issued. Theres 20 residents, but theres a number of residents below that Hennessy Ridge road. Reporter it affects those who live at Hennessy Ridge road and sage canyon road from childs pope valley rode to lower childs road. Close by neighborhoods are also under evacuation warnings, standing by just in case. As of right now, we do have resources on these fires, and then using those aircraft with weather permits. Reporter the other blaze, the gam fire at no, sirville road is in a much more rural nare at the north end of lake vari esa. An Evacuation Center was set up. We stop bid. No one had take then county up yet on the offer to use it as a structure. Trying to grapple with this fire and make
So a lot of people that live here theyve lost their food and they have lost a lot of other things since the blackout but pg e tells me that theyre still looking into this issue whether it was heat related or caused by something else. As many prepared for planned rolling blackouts. When neighborhoods power went out sooner and the rest with no warning it just went out. And then we got a message that said of the power has gone out. And then we got the one that said were doing rolling blackouts but this is not a rolling east at a constant blackout for pan be a saudi in her neighbors on port going drive who say they havent had power since 5. 30 sunday night. Saudi says she received a message from pg and e the crews will be coming out, but still no one has showed up got a message saying. Powers out for 25 homes and crews will come out some time tonight. Nobody came out we havent had any other messages as to whats going on neighbor michael ball lives in one of the 25 homes affected i get so a