Near windsor. Tim . Well, life is returning to normal here in towns like windsor, with the winds down, containment on the fire lines is up. Neighborhoods are opening up again. Now earlier today, we did find some folks who had never left the fire zone. Well before Evacuation Orders had been lifted, windsor area wineries were busy with workers. Theyve been given temporary passes that allowed them to check and prep their facilities. For all the damage dunavin yards, somehow seem immune to the flames, and there is an explanation. The violence are so moist, and with the surrounding ground not cluttered with leaves, well, fires tend to run out of here. It works as a great firebreak. If you look at the divisions hit by the fire front, you see one, two rows that just dried out and near re stopped right there. Windsor told to leave followed through with those instructions. The blaseys, who grow 15 acres of chardonnay grapes were ready to leave if they had to, but they stayed. All of our vineyar
Be coming. Sonoma Valley Hospital lost power in the october 9th shutdown. Bill borum sits on the board of directors. It wasnt expected because hospitals are not supposed to cut off. Reporter pg e never responded to repeated phone calls during the outage and the utilitys website crashed repeatedly leaving customers in the dark about whether theyd be cut off or not. They need to fix their website. Reporter Sonoma County supervisor shirlee zane is steamed over the utilitys lack of specific information. They basically made a lot of promises that they were going to improve how they notify people and how they break down the grid. Had they done this yet . No, we havent seen it. Reporter a pg e spokesman tells me the next time it will be better, that the utility has compartmentalize the grid to company told minimize the areas that have to go dark. The manager of the nughereget i another blackout like the one they had two weeks ago. The Company Purchased a shiny new generator to take care of ou
Independent mostly, taking over Power Distribution from pg e and setting up its own microgrids to power the population. How we can ensure distribution of local generation and storage of energy. Reporter liccardo admits it would be an expensive undertaeking, one that would first have to pass public opinion. I think its a great idea. Reporter would you be willing to pay more in taxes . Yeah. Reporter its not without precedence. Nearby santa clara has had its own utility for more than 120 years. Last weeks power outage was really related to the distribution lines. So, we own, maintain, and operate our own distribution. So, we were not affected by what pg e was doing. Reporter something san jose would like to say in the future. Mayor liccardo says he will present the plan next wednesday but pg e says south bay facilities are not for sale. Scott budman, nbc bay area news. In ma ryme county, a close call here, this brush fire burned up to the edge of the highway 37 this afternoon. This is ne
Vehicle. Reporter police say the suspect ran a red light three miles away on lawrence expressway and slammed into a rideshare car. In that car was 28yearold carol major and the male passenger. Carol died at a local hospital. The other passenger and the Rideshare Driver have serious injuries. Youve got one person, young person who has lost their life and two other people whose lives will never be the same, innocent people, who did absolutely nothing wrong, and this person who has just no care in the world for them. Reporter Police Arrested 32yearold Claudio Perez of san jose. Before the crash Sunnyvale Police put spike strips under a stolen car at this Shopping Mall and watched it until perez got inside and drove off. The strips didnt work for some reason. Then the crash. Oh, its a terrible tragedy. Reporter her Facebook Page shows carol major was from san diego, attended cal and was a Technical Program manager at apple. Tonight neighbors in san diego tell us carols griefstricken family
Theyre also pulling their money out of banks, worried about their futures. They send 30,000 to mexico just to make sure everything was not behind. Mexico got the most money last june from people from united states. Reporter over at this restaurant on Willow Street business is off by half and those who are here no longer talk about soccer while eating dinner. They Start Talking about everything else. They talk about the i. C. E. Its getting so bad for the community. Everybodys scared about it. Reporter the owner says even the sidewalks arent as full as they used to be just a few weeks ago. No one is talking about closing their doors. Not yet. But everyone is looking for the magic message that will convince customers its okay to come out of hiding. The owner says that the items he sells are luxury for shoppers, items theyd love to have but items they dont really need, and they have sold zero items today. Were live in san jose. Im damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. . Thank you so much, d