Story. Reporter it has been one week since the last Public Safety power shut off, we could see another tonight and it could affect nearly every bay county. If you live in one of these counties there is a chance you could lose power. 7500 customers in the bay area are under a power safety watch the majority are in the north bay. It is an annoyance but the fire danger is so extreme and scary, you know, i am rightfully they are doing something. If pg e decides to move forward, power could be cut on a rolling basis from late tonight until friday morning. 54,000 customer accounts across 19 Northern California counties and two tribal communities could be affected. When we get the weather cleared we could start patrolling our lines, our goal would be to turn our customers back on within 12 to 18 hours. The goal is to lower the chances of equipment sparking another wildfire during this weather. Dry conditions are forecasted. This will go into effect tonight, which means fires can spark or spre
Containment 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to this wildfire in parts of Sonoma County napa county they are under Evacuation Orders tonight. Including what we have been told us the entire city of calistoga so certainly if you need to leave that area, the open evacuation routes include route 29 south and north along with one 28 north for more on the Evacuation Orders for sonoma and napa counties were joined by kron fours Jonathan Mccall johnson, the largest of those evacuations 68,000 ordered so far for folks in Sonoma County want to show you the map of where things stand right with those Evacuation Orders you can just in the last few hours from when we last saw you for kron 4 news at 6 oclock weve seen. Evacuation warnings now being closer to an area near santa rosa weve been talking with cal fire officials all day long and theyve been saying that those flames have been creeping closer to santa rosa. Throughout the but what we were saying earlier is that the enti
This says it all. Fire danger today is high as we approach another heatwave this weekend. Firefighters are gearing up to respond to potential fires. Fall heatwave, fire danger, and smoke. Ill have your weekend forecast coming up. The doj says San Francisco may be violating the constitution with its rules around indoor worship. Tonight opposing reaction from the religious communities. George washington, Abraham Lincoln, dianne feinstein, names that could soon be scrubbed from San Francisco schools. Why alumnis say the efforts are misguided. Abc7 news starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. Temperatures are about to soar in the bay area as dangerous fire weather returns. Tonight pg e is warning about potential blackouts, some in napa county. Abc7 news meteorologist sandhya patel begins our Team Coverage with what we can expect this weekend. Sandhya . Yeah, dangerous conditions are expected this weekend, dan and dion. Two rounds of gus
Out ok getting away unscathed the fire 10 tearing through this area early this morning but crews remain here on the scene tonight. They are putting out some hot spots and mopping up the area roads in this area also remaining closed police making the rounds out here hillsides surrounding these communities also have been charred throughout the day today an into that into tonight. Theres been thick smoke in the air and theres also been a lot of ash that has been falling from the sky. Other communities all along highway 12 also having to deal with the flames buildings there and property there burned and destroyed. We actually spoke with one man who says that he was lucky that he did lose his home. But unfortunately his neighbor did. We got here they were you know a lot of activity this house was you know and claims are trees are on fire. The backyard with on fire the backfield behind us. Does seem like. If properties are starting to flare up. The house to my left is completely burned down.
Several days with high temperatures that will keep getting hotter as the weather goes on. The weather will bring the risk of power outages. And its why we have Team Coverage on whats to come and how to handle i. We start with sandhya patel. Hot enough to make you sweat, dion and dan. Lets take a look at the red flag warning first. That goes into Effect Tomorrow night. It runs until 8 00 a. M. The winds at 35 to 50 miles an hour. The diablo winds will dry it out even more and any fires that develop will quickly spread. Heres a look at the hour by hour wind forecast. As we head into tomorrow night and sunday, the winds begin to increase. These are lower elevation winds, cal stoeg, a 29 miles an hour. 24 miles an hour at middletown. Now on sunday we have a second round of gusty winds coming. That has prompted a wind advisory from 2 00 a. M. To 10 0 a. M. Tree limbs may get knocked down by the gusty winds. The human with the down sloping wind is really going to drop. So tomorrow afternoon,