Effect that cover a population of about 2 million pg e customers. The english language. Additional we will have time for pg e has revealed in Court Questions and answers for those on the stage and we will have documents how easily its power time for oneonone interviews at the conclusion of the entire lines can be brought down, sparking a major wildfire, even press conference. With that, i would like to take just a bird hitting a zion a moment. I know a lot of people standing stunning how quickly it can happen. Dan noisy is live with the stor behind me at these press conferences, a lot of the decisions comes from who stands tonight from pg e. Does pg e is about to face a behind this podium. Lot of questions from me and i want to recognize a few people other reporters here. That have been here through the they are facing a lot of criticism on many fronts, and entire incident and are an this Court Document filed last equally contributing member of night is not going to do much to the succ
If youre wondering what that is, so are we. And just now, ceo and president bill johnson explained what that is. He says that the jumper is a piece of wire that basically jumps the conductor over the insulator. We know that it was broken. We also know according to johnson that this is a 43yearold tower that had been inspected four times. Now as you said, this transmission line was not deenergized, and johnson explained why not. Transmission lines in the area remained energized during the wind event consistent with our established protocols and procedures. In other words, they did not meet the conditions that we forecast for transmission level outages. We didnt see the wind speeds in the forecast that we typically would see for transmission outage. And so we relied on the protocol, and we still at this point do not know exactly what happened. The utility turned off power in the area at 9 48 last night, nearly half an hour after the fire started. Pg e is working closely with cal fire to
Raging wildfire in Sonoma County explodes. Get ready for all that smoke to start hitting your neighborhood. Tonight pg e officials admit they knew about a failed transmission line minutes before the kincaid fire broke out. Their answer when i asked him why it took them 10 hours to inspect the area. Another power outage planned for the weekend. But third this month. The areas that could be impacted. Good evening. Is get to the latest on the kincaid fire. It is burning out of control still. In Sonoma County near geyserville. Here are the latest numbers from cal fire. 16,000 acres have burned. 2000 peoplehave been ordered to evacuate. At least 49 structures have been destroyed. Right now that fire only about 5 contained. Here is a look at the evacuation zone. Cloverdale gu road red winery road Alexander Mountain road pine flat road and all the roads east of highway 128 to geyserville. We have live coverage tonight beginning with andrea. First reporter on the scene last night. What a diffe
Neighborhood. Tonight pg e officials admit they knew about a failed transmission line minutes before the kincaid fire broke out. Their answer when i asked him why it took them 10 hours to inspect the area. Another power outage planned for the weekend. But third this month. The areas that could be impacted. Good evening. Is get to the latest on the kincaid fire. It is burning out of control still. In Sonoma County near geyserville. Here are the latest numbers from cal fire. 16,000 acres have burned. 2000 people have been ordered to evacuate. At least 49 structures have been destroyed. Right now that fire only about 5 contained. Here is a look at the evacuation zone. Cloverdale guises road red winery road Alexander Mountain road pine flat road and all the roads east of highway 128 to geyserville. We have live coverage tonight beginning with andrea. First reporter on the scene last night. What a difference 24 hours is making. Reporter it was absolutely crazy last night. When we reached th
The north bay, we still have looking at some air quality issues that well have for the next day or so. Current temperatures are in the 50s from frent to san jose. 69 in san ciscfran little cooler this morning. We are looking at that spare the air alert today for poor air quality throughout the bay area. That is due to the fires from the north having that smoke drift in. So throughout the day today, we will be in the 70s by 1 00. A few 80s in the inland valleys. Temperatures will be warm, not as warm, and well have that haze to the sky. Well talk about the next chance and the next round of offshore winds which we already have advisories for coming up. Thats as soon as tomorrow night. Jobina . Thank you. Across the bay area things are looking good. A live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Smooth this morning. Also looking good in walnut creek this morning. This is 680, smooth around the bay area. Some updates for everyone. If we go up, this is where the sigalert was in the north bay, st