W at me than 500 acres and it is eating through a Mobile Home Park among other things. Sandalwood fire burning near interstate 10 in the city of calimesa. 85 miles northwest of palm it started about ngri2 s. Pm. The wind fueled blaze is really destroying this Mobile Home Park. Evacuations have been ordered there. Watched the structure start getting. There is in the amount of fire there is no hope in this case because of the lack of firefighting equipment. That is in the neighborhood. This is in Riverside County in southern california. Not clear how the fire got started or whether there are any injuries. Forecasters say the strong nta ventura la orange riverside and san diego counties through itls out almost impossible. G th th cruze a ange drive. The flamesarked and a vacant field. Firefighters got things under control within 15 minutes. Here is a look at what has firefighters and pg e so concerned this evening. Parts o tracking the latest. We have seen the worst of it. At this point w
It comes to reinteract racism. Once the weather passes and pg e gives these areas the all clear. That is when all of their crews go out and the choppers go out. They physically look at all of those lines. Make the repairs and go from there. We want to get to that News Conference. Pg e is holding in San Francisco right now. Lets go to the podium. This is not how we want to serve you. This is not how we want to run our business. We are in the business of providing power. Not taking power away. So we feel the impact of the decision. I understand how it alters. How it disrupts the normal flow of life. In the normal flow of community. But there is another part of the reality we are in with winds like we saw the last 24 hours or so and the condition of the vegetation. We simply could not continue to run parts of the system given the risk to Public Safety. We struggled with the decision as we do with any decision to turn off power. We wave the level of acceptable risk given the circumstances.
Wildfire devastation breaking details coming in from Southern California right now. There is pretty much no hope in this case because of the lack of firefighting equipment that is in this neighborhood. News is 7 pm starts now with those pg in the blackouts that are slowly coming to an end. Good evening. Just minutes ago pg e ceo admitted the utility failed to get it right. We faced a choice here between hardship on everyone or safety. And we chose safety. I do apologize for the hardship this has caused. But i think we made the right call on safety. Bill johnson apologize for all the technical problems and me mised to get them right me. R xtour maneps are inconsistent. Perhaps incorrect. Our call centers were overloaded. Put it simply we were not adequately prepared to suppvern just a short time ago blaming everyones frustration and anger on the utility itself. This is not from my perspective a Climate Change story as much as a story about greed. And mismanagement. Over the course decad
From 15 to 30 . So we are still looking at those breezy offshore winds, but much, much lighter in the upper elevations, 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Theyll continue to dial back. Due to some of those fires we are looking at a wind advisory for the South Central bay, air quality wont be as great as it has been. We are going in the right direction starting off cooler. The relative humidity eventually recovering. Its 46 in vallejo. 43 in napa. A chilly start out there. Looking at numbering recovering throughout the afternoon into the 60s. Today will be the warmest day out of the next three. We have a big weekend with the blue angels. Anticipating a slight cooling trend throughout the next couple of days, sue . Looking at san jose for our Early Morning commuters. Those headlights are headed northbound on 101. This is the 880 overcrossing. This is southbound. Everybody is moving along nicely. Hoping for friday light. I dont want to jinx it. Well keep our fingers crossed. Slowing from tracy up 2
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