Im liz kreutz. Following the american fire. How neighbors came together to help firefighters put out the flames and save their homes. Were watching our winds very closely because they will be ramping upstarting on wednesday and this will prompt a fire width weather watch for higher fire danger. Well have the latest details in the accuweather forecast. Im luz pena in San Francisco. Its fleet week. The ships have arrived and our military is getting ready for multiple events throughout the week. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. Tonight firefighters are still working to extinguish a brush fire burning in napa county, the socalled american fire has burned more than 500 acres. It prompted an evacuation advisory and some neighbors rushed to keep their homes safe. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Dion is off tonight. Abc7 News Reporter liz kreutz is live near American Canyon with the latest on this fire. Liz . Reporter eric, the fire is burning
About 100 evacuated when the fire started at 1 00 this morning. The captain was telling me how erratic the fire behavior was and how dangerous it was. It was initially about a half acre to an acre. When they arrived it quickly took off. It jumped to 20 acres. They credit stopping the fire they had a lot of resources on the fire. They were staged throughout the area and it goes to show and i was asking about this, the state of readiness firefighters have now begin what happened in paradise two years ago in the north bay. They were prepared for Something Like this. He told me up here he felt the winds had gusted up to 30 miles an hour. You get a sense how steep this terrain is. A lot of work that was done. Officially the containment downstairs is at 60 . The captain said they have fire lines around the entire perimeter of the burn area. They have dozers out here cutting lines. Theyll be able to cut the containment numbers but telling me about the firefight, you can see some of the burned
Breaking news, weve been on the air since 2 30 this morning covering a fire that was burning in the hills of moraga. Not too far from st. Marys college. Great concern there. Good morning to you and thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im scott mcgrew. Fire burning in the Sanders Ranch Community Near merrill drive and Sanders Ranch road. Just about a mile away from st. Marys college. It backs up to the back of the college. The college itself not threatened. A lot of homes in the area were and people had to evacuate. Sharon katsuda is at the safeway parking lot that was being used as a staging area and youve been talking to a lot of people out there, sharon. Reporter we had so many evacuees here. They came because it was sort of overflow with the Church Parking lot. Now with me now is ted from the Sanders Ranch neighborhood. Tell me this morning how were you alerted about the fire . We got a phone call and my wife looked at the phone and the caller i. D. Said invalid caller and so
Counties. Sonoma county with the most, 65,000. Santa clara county, 38,000. Contra costa county, 37,000. Pg e says it continuing to monitor weather forecasts and th let us know when theyre turning that power back on. Now, we could take a look at the area thats burning, as you just mentioned, scott. But even closer, take a look. When you zoom in to the actual site, it kind of gives y breakdown of the actual areas where the power remains off. This can take you down to even individual street levels there as well. Its happening throughout the bay area. We have seen a little bit of improvement along the way, especially in some of the outlying areas of san jose and what have you. You continue to monitor whats going on, hoping for updates from pg e. Even deanza community college, half of it without power, the other half with. Take you to live pictures from nbc bay areas sky ranger. This shows you the actual burn area from that fire in moraga. Power lines were already shut off when this fire st
Announcer news the build a better bay area. This is abc7 mornings. Its sunday, june 16th. Good morning, and thanks so money for joining us. Im chris nguyen. Lets start with a first look at the accuweather forecast. Lisa . On live doppler 7 a lot of cloud cover for this fathers day. The marine layer is extensive. Heres a look from san rafael, a lot of cloud cover, numbers in the 50s, 58 in oakland. Mountain view is at 59. 60 in san jose. From the airport, 44 minute delays at sfo. The peninsula, in the upper 60s later on. San mateo, low 70s redwood city. Right now in the east bay, upper 50s to low 60s with the cloud cover. San francisco, you will be below average, many cities today continue that trend. Slightly warmer than yesterday. Numbers, cool up the coast, warmer inland just by a few degrees today. Developing news on the peninsula, all lanes of highway 101 in redwood city are back only after multiple crashes. The first happened just after 2 00 in the north bound lanes. The chp says