Of the northern napa valley, not only to here in angwin, but to the towns of st. Helena, and calistoga, 1500 feet below. The fact is, this is a big fight, and this is a fight to the finish. Unfortunately nobody knows where the finish line is. The fight against the glass fires eastern flank took place uncomfortably close to angwin, population 3,400, already under mandatory evacuation. This is largely an intense and relentless aerial battle, putting aircraft including Air National Guard helicopters against the fire that could still make it way to angwin should continues make it possible. Thats because this part of the glass fair is too big and too close to ignore. Angwin is higher and a little further up the road from deer park, which was destroyed fire coming up slope towards angwin from below. We mote john be a both, an evacuationee in st. Helena, who loves the angwin, but has been staying in the valley for the last threes. I monday afternoon about noon, i went to a mandatory evacuatio
Its. Wildfires destroy entire communities on the west coast of the u. S. And leave several states scrambling to control the spreading blazes. And in school the. Series to a deciding game the defending n. B. A. Champions beating the Boston Celtics to level the semifinal series at 3 games. Welcome to the news hour firefighters are battling a blaze in the lebanese capital at the site of last months court explosion it started at a destroyed a warehouse which was storing oil and tires the red cross say its threatening your warehouse with food aid this comes just a month after the blast in beirut that killed at least 200. 00 people xenophobes are reports from beirut. Another fire at the port another scare for residents of the lebanese capital port. In fear it was here a little over a month ago that a massive explosion tore through neighborhoods across beirut killing at least 190 people on. Memories of then still fresh now those living close by left their homes as the fire spread. Their westp
When you have the sun and you have the smoke moving through, different wavelengths of light are able to pass through. Red and orange is able to pass through that smoke while shorter wavelengths in the blue color are not. So it leaves us with this red to orange color. Now, check this out. Even though we have all that smoke i showed you, air quality is reading moderate to unhealthy, but the way it looks, youd think it would be reading very unhealthy. Ill explain why it looks very unhealthy but were not breathing in very unhealthy air. Pretty complicated but ill see you back here in about 18 minutes. That does sound complicated. Thank you, jeff. So how are we coping with 22 days of bad air . Live from San Francisco to continue our coverage. Pete, how bad is the air there . Reporter yeah, well, jessica, surprisingly the air quality isnt as bad here in San Francisco as weve seen recently, but as you guys mentioned, were in this long stretch of that 22 days straight of the spare the air aler
Filling their buckets and making their way back into the rough terrain. It is tough there, we are trying to establish control lines. We have had to take a step back and set up new line spear folks were told to get out, leave town at once, many neighborhoods look like ghost towns. Many mailboxes are tagged, to let First Responders know that the house is empty, not everyone left. If i see flames, i am out of here. Until then, we will probably hang out. This man says there are about 50 people here still. He and his friend dave are making the rounds to check on thosewho are choosing to stay. To be ready is the biggest thing here the sheriffs are patrolling the streets. As we mentioned, evacuations on the west end of this fire have lifted or downgraded at this hour. Eastern santa rosa is no longer under a warning. It affects the springlake areas, the middle ring con and skylake areas. For many, it is too late. This video was shot in the skyhawk neighborhood, where several homes were destroy
Now forced to relive a painful past and a grim warning of whats ahead. We still have months to go for fire season. Talking about chaotic Evacuations Homes destroyed and fire spreading unchecked but for 10s of thousands of people. Fire fatigue is setting in thank you for joining us at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im tahernia and 4 vicki liviakis. Heres where we stand tonight, the glass fire burning in napa and sonoma counties has charred at least 42,000 acres and remains at 0 containment. Cal fire says 80 homes have been destroyed including 28 in Sonoma County and 52 in napa county more than a 1000 structures remain threatened. And the Sonoma County, the city of santa rosa has also suffered immense fire damage. Many homes have been damaged or completely burned to the ground thats where we find kron fours morning. Kelly tonight what is the situation out there how are things tonight. Well great ill tell you that the weather is definitely improving out here for firefighters in fac