Now at 11 00, breaking news. Pg e beginning to turn off power to thousands of people in the north bay and beyond to reduce the threat of wildfires. Hundreds of homes in danger in Mendocino County after a new wildfire exploded in size. Another day of record heat, another day for airquality, now tracking dangerous fire weather conditions now. We will take a look at efforts to keep visitors from local beaches. It is unfortunate but people are not Wearing Masks when they are supposed to. They are having big plates. Good evening i am elizabeth cook. Good evening, i am ellen martin. Breaking news as new evacuation orders have been issued in sonoma county. This map of the evacuation area shows the area shaded in red just west of windsor being told to get out now. This is north of Sweetwater Springs road west of westside road and east of palmer creek road. Also breaking, the first planned power shutoffs of the wildfire season getting underway. More than 22,000 bay area customers lose electrici
The north bay and beyond to reduce the threat of wildfires. Hundreds of homes in danger in Mendocino County after a new wildfire exploded in size. Another day of record heat, another day for airquality, now tracking dangerous fire weather conditions now. We will take a look at efforts to keep visitors from local beaches. It is unfortunate but people are not Wearing Masks when they are supposed to. They are having big plates. Good evening i am elizabeth cook. Good evening, i am ellen martin. Breaking news as new evacuation orders have been issued in sonoma county. This map of the evacuation area shows the area shaded in red just west of windsor being told to get out now. This is north of Sweetwater Springs road west of westside road and east of palmer creek road. Also breaking, the first planned power shutoffs of the wildfire season getting underway. More than 22,000 bay area customers lose electricity. Most living in sonoma county, but also more than 5000 customers in napa county. Kpix
Blaze. It just moves so quickly over the weekend that attract more than 200 people in Madera County National Guard helicopters were brought in to airlift them to safety and as i said before they are still working on rescuing more people. Good morning, everyone and thank you for waking up with us on the kron 4 morning news, its tuesday september 8th, im robin when said lets start this morning with a check of your forecast well check in with john and see how the day is shaping up another spare the air day fire crews are dealing with the rescues and the weather of course is going to impact the fires burning so lets check in with john to get a robin thats exactly right. We saw the massive growth of the creek fire and now here in the bay area were looking at heightened fire danger ourselves. As we work our way through this tuesday now last night we had a welcome sea breeze pushed back through our coastal areas this really resulted in a nice overnight cool down. For areas like San Francisco
Sonoma county who live south of mill creek road and west of westside road and east of palmer creek road. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is live with with pg e Public Safety shutoffs. Good morning, amy. Hi, good morning, kumasi. Pg e started shutting off the power overnight in parts of napa and sonoma county. The utility said this should impact 172,000 customers. We are on our way up to napa county right now to check out the situation. Pg e says its doing this because the forecast is calling for dry and windy conditions. Calling this critical fire weather with a high ignition risk. They are afraid a power line could fall and start a fire. Pg e says while this weather calls for being on high alert, it does not look like the weather we saw in 2017 when the fire happened. This event doesnt have as much as we call upper level support with it. So, we dont anticipate it being as strong. They are also watching the walbridge fire jumped a containment area. Evacuations have been ordered there
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 out east. And new mandatory evacuations overnight in the north bay. We have more on that in a bed. Good morning, it is tuesday, september eighth. I am Michelle Griego. I am len keise. We are trusting gusty winds. Lets get a check of the weather with meteorologist mary lee. Wind gusts are up to 40 miles an hour in north bay mountains. Critical fire weather conditions and we are watching the winds take that turn out of the north and northeast. It is very dry air with that onshore flow. Red flag warnings are in effect for the north bay. Until 8 00 on wednesday, we are looking at low relative humidity values for the north bay mountains from 5 00 until 11 00 because of the possibility of downed trees and power lines and wind gusts up to 15 miles an hour in the north bay mountains. It is a big concern. Our