Tens of thousands of pg e customers are expected to remain in the dark for a day, maybe two people in the montclair neighborhood in the Oakland Hills enjoyed the evening as best they could before the lights went out. Restaurants were busy serving customers all they still had power. Many restaurant and storeowners said they anticipate losing thousands of dollars in business during this latest shutoffs. A pg e map shows where the outages are happening. Inverted purple triangles indicated its power the power has been turned off. In those areas pg e has set up Community Resource centers where customers can plug in their devices. We have Team Coverage tonight. Our chief meteorologist is monitoring the red flag conditions. First, on the tens of thousands of people who lost their power. Reporter for many it will be friday evening, 10 00 p. M. Before they get their power back. Two full days and nights of getting by. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part
Darkness for a day, maybe two. The reason is red flag warning for high fire danger and fear that dry, windy conditions could damage Utility Equipment and start wildfires. We have Team Coverage tonight from our chief meteorologist bill martin. We begin with Debora Villalon in the north bay where the first doctors happened shortly after 6 00 tonight. Reporter thats right, frank. We are talking about 53,000 customers across 24 counties. The south bay and monterey started deenergizing at about 8 00 tonight. Sonoma and napa counties even earlier. Generators start their roar as much of calistoga goes dark for the better part of two days. And watching the wind and its only like four Miles Per Hour on mount st. Helena and three down here. Reporter residents know the overnight hours may intensified. Anyhow sprung for generators and more. Solar panels and batteries, its kind of a pain in the butt , but it beats getting burned down. To make the fire storm that roared from calistoga to santa rosa