Higher fire danger yet again we may be. Well into fall now, but as we know in the bay area that doesnt mean youre out of the woods as far as the fire danger is concerned especially not this week. Us clear skies all across the bay, San Francisco east bay looking beautiful, it is a lovely start to the day. I hope you get out there enjoy the cooler temperatures. Well weve got them, we are already in the midst of red flag warnings those took effect 05 00am this morning for the Santa Cruz Mountains all of the inland east bay and pretty much all the north bay aside from the immediate coastline. Winds will begin to gust as high as 45 Miles Per Hour, especially into the evening tonight thats when these winds really going to start picking up even more so already breezy for spots in the north bay by the afternoon even breezier yet and then come the middle of the night vacaville outlets p calistoga winds 2030 even 40 Miles Per Hour. Regularly for your gusts peak, wind gusts could amount to 50 mil
Try to prevent fires. We start with weather. Tracking those off shore winds, returning for us. Right now here is a live look at the Sales Force Tower camera as we look north and light conditions for the most part looking at 12mile an hour winds in santa rosa. Its up in the Higher Elevations where we are watching the stronger wind gusts. 44mile an hour wind gusts, mount diablo44, mount tam is 33. Nevado is 26 and 22 in the oakland hills. We will continue to watch the winds as we head through tonight into tomorrow morning. Red flag warning in effect until 11 00 a. M. Friday for the areas highlighted in red. That is the north bay and east bay mountains and the inland valleys and Santa Cruz Mountains all under that red flag warning due to gusty off shore winds. We are looking at gusts as high as 35 to 55 miles an hour, especially up in the Higher Elevations, above a thousand feet and low relative humidity values and extreme fire danger. Critical fire weather conditions as we head through t
Hour. Lower relative humidity and then the third off shore wind event will be the strongest. That arrives for this weekend. Ly have details on this and show you future cast wind gusts coming up in just a few minutes. As we take a look at the roadways right now we are starting to see traffic stacking up at the bay bridge toll plasa. Starting to get a little busy here. Just keep that in mind as you are working out of the east bay. We are also getting the reports of a trouble spot on the antioch bridge northbound near the toll plaza. Construction is about to start on 92. Your bay area bridges getting busy. Too breaking news. A cliff rescue. The effort to reach the person stranded spanning hours over night. Lets go live to emily turner who is at the scene talking to rescuers. Emily. Yeah. The first call for 911 came in about 1 30 in the morning it. Happened here at the end of this trail on whats called battery crosby but more marshalls beach is the more obvious landmark. What happened is t
Calm down in the afternoon giving firefighters the upper hand really trying to get everything we can get done. Done before the wind picks up and then of course nighttime brings additional complications, firefighters unable to catch a break many coming from other fires in the region, the glass incident fire broke out during a red flag warning about 200 pg and e napa county customers were scheduled for a Public Safety power shutoff down more than a 1000 homes under an evacuation warning really urge you to do what you can. To clear Defensible Space around your home. The ready water things to evacuate with that you need know what you need to pick up so youre not trying to find important papers things like that at the last minute. And this point in time it is too early to tell and many buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Firefighters are focusing on structure protection and stopping the spread of the fire the cause is under investigation. In saint helene gayle ong kron 4 news. And wer
In less than 24 hours the flames have scorched 2500 acres and containment stands at 0 . The blaze, call the glass fire because of how close they start to Glass Mountain road. The flames are dangerously close to structures, threatening 2200 buildings. The wildfires are adding a lot of smoke to the already hazy air. Chopper 5 was over the massive plume of smoke in napa county. Spare the air alert has been extended through the day. Is get over to mary lee on an update on the dangerous weather conditions. This is a big concern, michelle, were watching the winds pick up through the overnight hours and this morning. I want to give an update on Current Conditions for the glass fire and what firefighters are up against. Definitely low relative humidity values, down to 14 . The northerly wind winds gusting 18 Miles Per Hour currently. Where the glass fire is burning, i think a as high as 31 Miles Per Hour for this area. And it is warm, temperatures in the low 80s right now. A red flag warning r