Bay area almost have fires. In the last hour, two fires also sparked in Sonoma County, forcing evacuations there. Lightning suspected as the cause of most of these fires. Now, fire danger not the only concern tonight. Power outages are also possible as the states grid is once again pushed to the max. Pg e is asking people to conserve electricity through 10 00 this evening. We have a lot going on right now and a team of reporters in place on the Power Outages and the wildfires. Lets start with nbc bay areas ian cull live in San Mateo County. Ian. Reporter yeah. Hey, guys. Very active scene up behind us here. You can see the plumes of smoke hundreds of feet in the air. This is what you can see from Silicon Valley throughout the bay area as more than 350 firefighters are onscene up there along that ridge. On officer who th a cal fire tells me that this is very steep, difficult terrain to be fighting a fire. Its also very dry up there because of this heat, and thats also a worry and a diff
Just a few moments. And, of course, air quality still a huge concern. Here is a live look at the air quality tracker on our website abc7news. Com. You can see the air is unhealthy and in the south and east bays. Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, august 25th. A lot to get to. But, first, we want to check in with you, mike, to see what our forecast has in store today. We know that will have a big impact on how theyre able to fight these fires. Exactly. We have a mixture of fog and smoke this morning. And the fog the closer you are to the coast, that is where the marine layer is the deepest around 1,100 to 1,200 feet and visibility down to less than a quarter of a mile on the peninsula coast and with the winds blowing ashore lightly some of that fog is making it all the way into napa. Now, i want to wrap it up right here and send it back to you guys because we have a press conference on the fires. Okay. The czu lightning complex fire burning were hoping to get some updated numbers.
State. We have Team Coverage across the bay area. Fires are flaring and evacuations are underway as we speak. One of the most destructionive fireses is in sonoma county. 50 structures there have been damaged so far. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony live in vacaville with more on the situation. Laura . Reporter well, hi. I can tell you from what weve seen, that number will go much higher. This house behind me in the English Hills area, a very recent casualty. This home started burning right about 2 00. A beautiful twostory home on top of a hill. We can see it go up. The roof was on fire. And within less than two hours, really, this is all thats left of it. This is a harrowing night for the folks who live in this neighborhood. Were in northwest vacaville. Im told by the neighbors around 3 30 in the morning, they started to get the calls via loud speaker. The warning that there was an imminent threat to their lives. We had a go list dug up last night, fortunately. We grabbed everything an
Road. Theres an Evacuation Order for the Paradise Valley neighborhood on the east side of 80. We have our j. R. Stone on the phone with us right now. J. R. , where are you and what are you seeing . Reporter well, i am in the Rolling Hills neighborhood right now, and it is a neighborhood that has been evacuated. Im going to get back into up. From where i am, and i know youll be able to see some of my video of what it looked like when i came in on i80, you could actually see smoke from some of the hilltops and see flames near the area near travis boulevard. That is the video that youll be able to see on the screen in one moment. Thats a very busy section of fairfield. But where i am now is in that Rolling Hills neighborhood. Im looking at normal homes on the block. Then you look above at the hilltop and im seeing that hilltop right now and it is charred black and there are small flames with a lot of smoke. Coming into this section, there was this long line of cars just trying to get out
Is much larger. You can see it over my shoulder. The hen see fire is moving. It didnt have air support today. Those resources had to go to other areas that need the help even more. First came the smoke. Then a few licks of flames. Then they served notice. After a quiet note, this would be a day for moving and moving fast. Neil and his wife kathleen knew all about that firsthand. Looked down at the window and theres a small area of fire. It was rapidly increasing in size. They live a few yards from the Lightning Strike that started all this. It was thunder and lightning all evening. It really got loud. What had been one fire yesterday became three this morning. With the gamble fire and now the 155. Yesterday toward the end of the day, 155 and gamble were a couple hundred acres. Overnight they yue to 4,500 and 5,000, respectively. From 60 known line strikes yesterday. There are all little spots, smoking up there. Even some trees in the crotch at the bottom where they come out of ground.