Or cars. As the winds calm down firefighters started making progress. As massive air tankers laid down lines of bright red retardant. And dozers moved into cut firebreaks. We want to make as much progress as we can while conditions are optimal. Things are not going to be in our favor this weekend. Reporter from where we are we are seeing two of these water dropping helicopters making roundtrips to a pond right behind this house. This is part of an effort to get those containment numbers up. As of right now the official number is this fire is 0 contained. Cal fire is expected to give us an update around 7 pm tonight. We are hoping those numbers will be up by then. We know that 2000 people have evacuated. Where are they being evacuated to . Reporter there are a number of different Evacuation Centers that have been set up in the hills. Santa rosa areas. The Sonoma County Sheriff Department has done a great job on their social media pages and websites. Of being able to get that information
Cleaner air hopefully to get to as well look outside from berkeley is showing Crystal Clear skies overhead we do have a high wind watches that are effect right now but will be in effect later in the week and ill get to what that means here in just a second as for today we are actually seeing winds having really calm down this is good news. Of course for the blaze up in northern Sonoma County compared to yesterday communities like asti in cloverdale which were seeing gusts into the 40 mile per hour range are only looking at calm winds as we all are across the bay area this morning fire such as the one on mount tam and now having been contained and extinguished that is certainly get a good news. Calmer winds helped out with that calm winds across the east bay 2 blackhawk a scene around really unremarkable as far as wind speeds go this morning now as far as fire weather goes. It is diminished of noticeably from yesterday temperatures are still just as warm know right now were in the 50s 6
Burning buildings and we are working to confirm whether the buildings are outbuildings or sheds or homes. Weve obtained coverage of this fire with meteorologist Steve Paulson talking about the powerful wind driving the fire. First, we bring in Cristina Rendon. Talk to us about the conditions. I can see its windy. Reporter very windy and the winds have not let up whatsoever. Its gotten worse since weve been in geyserville at the corner of Alexander Valley road and pine flat road. This area has been closed off to the public but cal fire crews are deep in the trenches trying to get a handle on this fire burning outofcontrol. You can see the flames along the ridge line and this area is where red winery road is and to the left is an area where 128 is in the casino wed mentioned earlier, red rock casino is in the area in danger, as we speak. In terms of the structures, along the hillside we saw at least one of those structures burning but we cant tell you if it is a house or winery or some t
Commute. Giant generators were brought into the caldecott tunnel, a major traffic route in the east bay. Caltrans had to figure out how to keep the tunnel lights and fans on or face a traffic nightmare. The tunnels themselves have a very large fans that circulate to make sure that the exhaust from the cars are actually taken out of the tunnels. Caltrans first thought some of the four tunnels would need to be shut down but bringing in those generators may have fixed the problem. The lantos tunnel on highway one new pacifica is open. Caltrans brought in more generators there at double slide. Thousands of commuters use that tunnel on the san mateo coast every day. That is some good news. Sal, you have your hands full but great news about the caldecott and lantos tunnel. That is good news. The tunnels will stay open. We will keep reminding people of that even though the changeable signs out there say otherwise. That was before they change their mind apparently or got new resources. Westbou
Miles per hour at my house. Why are you shutting down the power . Beep because the humidity may be in the low digits. That means 50 Miles Per Hour may not be far away from me. You know how fast he can travel so thats why. And that very low humidity means the fire can spread quickly. We are bone dry. The soil was bone dry. We have a wind advisory that just started at 6 00 from the north and east bay above 1000 feet and you could get gusts up to 65 Miles Per Hour. Closer to the surface anywhere from 40 45 is likely. That tells you up in Higher Elevations, a few thousand or above, it could be rocking and rolling leader. More likely this afternoon into tonight into early thursday morning. The red flag warning goes for mendocino county, lake county out of the delta and also down to the Santa Cruz Mountains as well. Only San Francisco is not much of a breeze yet. Not too bad. Its variable in some areas. Summer west, summer itself. Its an Higher Elevations is starting to turn. Alice pete just