Today. That adds to the fire danger, mary. Thats right. Here we go again, dealing with extreme heat, dangerous fire weather conditions as we go through the day and into tomorrow. In fact it gets even hotter still. First, looking at that red flag warning in effect for the areas highlighted in red, inland valleys, Santa Cruz Mountains already seeing gusts 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. The peak winds with the offshore wind event is happening now. I am continuing to watch winds ramp up this morning. Low relative humidity values and extreme fire danger and a wind advisory because of the strong wind gusts for north bay mountains, foothills, possible downed trees and power lines, record breaking high temperatures. This is 20 degrees above average for this time of year and tomorrow we will see temperatures sky rocket and get even hotter tomorrow. Well talk more about what you can expect in your neighborhood coming up. Lets check with gianna who is tracking the hot spots including the altamont where
Fire map continuing north through the rural hills, it will run right into the burn scarred from the complex fire. Any shift in wind direction could easily spell disaster. Katie nielsen joins us with coverage, and there was some change in the air tonight. Diablo wind picked up, moving this fire southwest. Exactly what firefighters did not want to happen. You can see some of the smoke, the reservoir is buried beneath all of that smoke. This is more toward the road with the smoke plumes coming up , the wind pushed this fire toward the south. This fire is burning in a populated area near deer park. Air tankers paint the rages around bill canyon with fire retardant. It helps them get into areas that they may not be able to go into. Backfires were started along the east side of the trail to protect nearby structures. Tom lives on the west side of silverado trail. He decided not to evacuate. He is using garden hoses to try to save his home care we hope we dont end up like the guy across the s
Forecast. Thank you for joining us. Lets get right to our breaking news in napa county. Taking a birds eye view of the blaze from chopper five come you can see the white smoke blanketing the area not far from surrounding neighborhoods. This is all happening near deer park to stop the silverado trail about 4 miles east of calistoga. And 5 miles or so northeast of st. Helena. Jewels has more on when it broke out. Scorching the back arrange east of st. Helena and calistoga. In the last hour, we have learned the fire has grown to 1500 acres, containment still stands at 0 . Mandatory evacuations in place right now for the Deer Park Community with the flames already destroying homes, and right now fire crews are most concerned about the wind picking up tonight, and fueling the flames. We find out more about that from darren. About 2000 residents have been forced to flee their homes in napa county, dozens of hospital patients have been evacuated. Those evacuations covering 660 homes and wine
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Daytime highs looking at 86 in concord and 82 for san jose and 74 in oakland and 68 for San Francisco. As we head into our weekend, offshore winds will kick in and that does mean a high fire danger with a fire weather watch from 11 00 a. M. Saturday until 8 00 a. M. Monday for the north bay mountains and east bay hills and interior valleys. Well talk more about those critical fire weather conditions as we head into the weekend coming up in a few minutes. Now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic and its the slow drive right now through the Altamont Pass. Yeah, it sure is mary, i mean, tough look at this. All this red on our maps this morning. The problem is, a broken down big rig stuck in that right lane. Theyve got tow crews on scene as well. A large flatbed to kind of try to get this one out of lanes but its causing a big problem for whats already one of the bidsiest rides for the morning commute. So supercommuters, gear up. Its going to be a tough one this morning. And unf