Contained. It broke out about 3 15 this afternoon off American Canyon road near highway 80. People who lived nearby were asked to evacuate, but that advisory has been lifted. Ktvus andre senior is in American Canyon tonight with an update on the efforts to put out the fire. Reporter were in the parking lot of American Canyon high school where the command center has been set up here. The smell of smoke is very potent in the area, but the good news is for firefighters the winds that caused this fire to explode to hundreds of acres earlier today have since died down. Any other sunday evening this would be consideredcture perfect sunset in American Canyon, but there was no time to admire the beauty because as the lights started to sl disappear, there was an earnest effort to stop the spread of a wildfire burning nearby. Its a worry out here all the time. Reporter wayne with his dog sonny watched the firefight totally aware he lives smack in the middle of a tinderbox amid the dry brush that
Im liz kreutz. Following the american fire. How neighbors came together to help firefighters put out the flames and save their homes. Were watching our winds very closely because they will be ramping upstarting on wednesday and this will prompt a fire width weather watch for higher fire danger. Well have the latest details in the accuweather forecast. Im luz pena in San Francisco. Its fleet week. The ships have arrived and our military is getting ready for multiple events throughout the week. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. Tonight firefighters are still working to extinguish a brush fire burning in napa county, the socalled american fire has burned more than 500 acres. It prompted an evacuation advisory and some neighbors rushed to keep their homes safe. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Dion is off tonight. Abc7 News Reporter liz kreutz is live near American Canyon with the latest on this fire. Liz . Reporter eric, the fire is burning
Pg e began turning off power on saturday night. Outages affected cut r. Cut. Bute and yuma counties. The time is 4 30. Lets check weather and traffic where you live. Wednesday and thursday is our next chance for high fire danger. Ill touch more upon that as we head throughout the day. American canyon, the winds were like 2 miles per hour. Our fastest wind in livermore is 5. Its blowing off shore. So another day of stagnant air and warmer than average temperatures. A few high clough clouds out ts morning. Should be a colorful sunrise. 61 to 65. 70s at the coast by noon. 80s elsewhere. 90s by 4 00. Inland everybody in the 50s and 60s by 7 00. How is the commute . Its shaping ul wee ining up than that problem in tracy. In the immediate bay area, no major problems. We had a couple earlier stalls. Theyve been cleared. A live shot of the san mateo bridge, westbound on the right looking great out of hayward, foster city. 101 problem free at this point. 101 looking good in the south bay. This
Our exploratorium camera at pier 15. Dont worry, no rain is coming. Well have above average temperatures, already nearing 80 around the bay. Well stay in the 70s at the coast. Well hit 80s to 90 by 4 00. A spare the air all day today with the air quality usually getting worse as we head throughout the day into the evening hours. In the east bay valleys and the south bay, unhealthy for those most sensitive. Talk more about the commute with frances. The commute is looking great. A live shot of the bay area, you can see the only sloei ingslowi seeing is through tracy. There was an accident on westbound 580 through tracy that has been cleared. It is slow on 280 approaching the tracy area. And 205 heading through the altamont pass. The drive time on this stretch is yellow at 42 minutes. Southbound 680 looking good, dublin to mission boulevard south. We have a live shot of 680 in walnut creek, that southbound traffic on the right near geary, looks good towards highway 24. No problems in the
Thanks. Were tracking developing news in napa county. A fire is burning in American Canyon. Firefighters are calling this thamicfi. They say its about contained. 500 acres. The fire started around 3 00 yesterday afternoon west of interstate 80. People quickly jumped into action to protect their homes. One neighbor shared this video with us. Nobody was hurt. One outbuilding was destrod. Evacuation advisory which has since been lifted. Another firing happening now is closing one of the entrances to yosemite. Youre seeing what firefighters saw as this brush fire forced them block off one of the west entrances. This is mariposa county. At last check this is burning 45 acres,nment. Ai 5co nt the u. S. Is pulling troops out of Northern Syria setting the stage for turkey to invade the country. This is new video of u. S. Military vehicles leaving syria today. The white house announced withdrawal last night. Youre looking at video of syrian troops removing defense barriers last month. Kurdish f