We want to show you what i would like. It looked like this. And wildfire lore in science, where there is a smoke column, you will almost find a fire at the bottom of it. The current problem in napa county, lots of smoke column, some small, some enormous. The robert craig winery is only about two miles from the center of this town. Here, fullcourt ground and air assault is underway. They drop bucket after bucket after bucket of water blaming brush. Firefighters are concerned that this fire is going to get up and angling, it is going to have to come up through this valley. And they are doing everything humanly possible to keep that from happening. Another major problem, this area has already burned once, but not hot spots are flaring up. And next to the hospital, almost an unlimited amount of burnable fuel. Even as firefighters battled fires all around, and gusty winds from the red light morning bearing down, essential repairs were going on. Here outside of santa rosa, concrete barriers
Quality, not just in wine country can, but across the bay area. San francisco walnut creek, san jose, and fremont. Jeff, here we go again. With the aqi, what do you see . Yeah. Unhealthy air, definitely as we move through the next 24 hours. But we are looking at bigger changes next weekend and next week. We have that to offer up right now. We want to get you in the red flag tire warning. It will be expanded to the Higher Elevations of the bay area, a thousand feet and above. And the critical danger is near the glass fire in the north bay. Wind gusts of 1530 miles an hour coming out of the the north. These will be on and off wind gusts. We will take you in the wind map. You can see the colors on the map. Its showing that gusts at the highest elevations in the yellow to red color, so some of the highest peaks are getting up to that 2030 mile an hour range. But down at the lowerer elevations, you see the contrast here. Only 510 miles an hour. So, for a lot of folks in the Populated Areas
Anglin, as 2100 firefighters decide to fight the flames, and build containment lines in an effort to keep the fire from encroaching into the town. Structures engaged in the area as a talk more about aircraft usage in that area trying to get the fire skirted around the community, and then also pope valley. Reporter the santa rosa fire chief reports that nearly 13,000 people are under evacuation orders now, with another 32,600 under an evacuation warning. It comes as Law Enforcement urges people to get out fast, as major arteries such as highway 29 and napa county and highway 12 in Sonoma County close to traffic. More evacuations are possible, although, we have been talking about evacuations in some areas, many people are and just to get home, but there is a real certainty that we could have additional evacuations as the fire begins to burn into the areas that have been described today. Reporter the new closures coming hours after Governor Newsom toured a Fire Ravaged Community thursday
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look south down the peninsula. It is tuesday, september 29th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. The glass fire continues to burn out of control. Governor newsom has now declared a state of emergency for napa and sonoma counties. This as flames of written homes and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate. The entire city of calistoga is under a mandatory evacuation order. The glass fire has exploded in size and it was just 25 Hundred Acres and is now more than 3600 acres and is still 0 contained and 113 structures have been destroyed in nearly 1500 fire personnel are battling the flames. We have coverage all morning long and we are tracking the dangerous weather conditions and of course, we are tracking all closures. We have the battle to save calistoga. The glass fire continues to ripped through
Good evening everyone. I am frank sommerville. The fire is reporting a dramatic increase in the number of homes and businesses that have been lost in the fire still burning out of control in that napa and sonoma counties. The latest update shows 58,000 acres have burned and that is up from 51,000 this time last night and containment has improved slightly and now 5 compared to 2 yesterday but the Damage Assessment is higher. Cal fire so the number of homes and businesses destroyed has gone up to 419 and that number was 150 last night. We are tracking the weather conditions that firefighters are facing and we will hear from him in a moment but first we go to amber lee and describe the situation there. Reporter christina, we are in downtown calistoga and it is deserted and the entire city is under a mandatory Evacuation Order and the smell of smoke is strong and it has been raining ashes and in the meantime firefighters are trying to get the upper hand. Reporter in st. Helena near highway