Dangerous air quality, smoke and fire damage and power outages. Pg e is warning it may declare a psps, Public Safety power shutoff. Thats possible in these 22 counties, including lake, and sonoma counties. We begin our Team Coverage with j. R. Stone in a santa rosa neighborhood thats about to go dark. Reporter yes, larry. While all of this is going on here, the walbridge fire in Sonoma County is causing issues. It jumped a containment area east of gernville. Evacuations have been ordered. While thats happening, theres fears of the wind picking up in this neighborhood. This address is going on for sure. No question. Reporter jill is describing the emergency message that she received monday, where her new home is being built in santa rosa. The last one burned to the ground in the 2017 tubbs fire. Pg e says this is a Public Safety power shutoff. About 23,000 customers in sonoma, napa and lake counties could lose electricity. If it goes, it will likely be out for 48 hours. Here with go aga
Or cooling off with a fan when you can. United we are always stronger. Stay well, california, and keep it golden. No servi service. Residents say Living Conditions are keeping them away. Firefighters are responding to incidents throughout the area. Coming up, what theyre concerned about in the next several days. Fire danger, in an area ravaged by fires. Now, thousands expected to lose electricity. Red flag warnings now in effect. Well have the latest on our fire danger and how high they will go, in our accuweather. Breaking news out of fresno county, where an attempt to rescue people failed. Emergency personnel were loading up at a California National guard base. And ambulances were seen leaving. Two people are trying to be reached. 14 at china peak and 50 at lake edison. The locations are east of the fire. Crews are trying to get to the trapped people by helicopter. They are going to try using night vision goggles. The bay area is dealing with dangerous air quality, smoke and fire dam
Sonoma county who live south of mill creek road and west of westside road and east of palmer creek road. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live with with pg e Public Safety shutoffs. Good morning, amy. Hi, good morning, kumasi. Pg e started shutting off the power overnight in parts of napa and sonoma county. The utility said this should impact 172,000 customers. We are on our way up to napa county right now to check out the situation. Pg e says its doing this because the forecast is calling for dry and windy conditions. Calling this critical fire weather with a high ignition risk. They are afraid a power line could fall and start a fire. Pg e says while this weather calls for being on high alert, it does not look like the weather we saw in 2017 when the fire happened. This event doesnt have as much as we call upper level support with it. So, we dont anticipate it being as strong. They are also watching the walbridge fire jumped a containment area. Evacuations have been ordered there
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Before you head outside to take part in any activities. Because we are dealing with some poor air quality. We have Team Coverage for you. Nbc bay areas kris sanchez is outside in san jose. But first we want to start with meteorologist kari hall. Kari, just how bad is it out there . It doesnt matter which one of these cameras we look at. It just looks so smokey right now. You can barely see anything. This is looking over the santa cruz mountains. You dont have very far visibility. As we look at these numbers, from the past few days the smoke has been a little bit higher in the atmosphere. But now its being pushed down and its not moving. Weve had such unhealthy air quality that even Healthy People may start to experience some symptoms from this feeling nauseous or having a headache or even some breathing problems. Look at these very unhealthy numbers spreading across the bay area as we see a lot more of the fog moving in as well and not much of a wind. So this is not mixing out. And as