We know more than 100 homes have been lost in the fire and dozens more damaged. So far, though, no one has been hurt. Heres a look at where the fire is burning. Firefighters are preparing for more dry and breezy conditions. A red flag warning goes into Effect Tomorrow afternoon. Firefighters are hoping the progress theyve made pays off as those red flag conditions bear down, and they try to protect the town of calistoga. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony has the story. Reporter it seems counterintuitive, to set fires when theyre trying to stop one. But thats exactly what firefighters are doing high atop Diamond Mountain road just a few miles from downtown calistoga. The goal, to gain the upper hand on the glass fire. While the winds are down. So thats why were really trying to button up the lower parts of the fire with our burn operations and aggressive operations there. Reporter in downtown calistoga its raining ash but no homes or businesses in town burned overnight. A night that pro
Filling their buckets and making their way back into the rough terrain. It is tough there, we are trying to establish control lines. We have had to take a step back and set up new line spear folks were told to get out, leave town at once, many neighborhoods look like ghost towns. Many mailboxes are tagged, to let First Responders know that the house is empty, not everyone left. If i see flames, i am out of here. Until then, we will probably hang out. This man says there are about 50 people here still. He and his friend dave are making the rounds to check on thosewho are choosing to stay. To be ready is the biggest thing here the sheriffs are patrolling the streets. As we mentioned, evacuations on the west end of this fire have lifted or downgraded at this hour. Eastern santa rosa is no longer under a warning. It affects the springlake areas, the middle ring con and skylake areas. For many, it is too late. This video was shot in the skyhawk neighborhood, where several homes were destroy
Now forced to relive a painful past and a grim warning of whats ahead. We still have months to go for fire season. Talking about chaotic Evacuations Homes destroyed and fire spreading unchecked but for 10s of thousands of people. Fire fatigue is setting in thank you for joining us at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im tahernia and 4 vicki liviakis. Heres where we stand tonight, the glass fire burning in napa and sonoma counties has charred at least 42,000 acres and remains at 0 containment. Cal fire says 80 homes have been destroyed including 28 in Sonoma County and 52 in napa county more than a 1000 structures remain threatened. And the Sonoma County, the city of santa rosa has also suffered immense fire damage. Many homes have been damaged or completely burned to the ground thats where we find kron fours morning. Kelly tonight what is the situation out there how are things tonight. Well great ill tell you that the weather is definitely improving out here for firefighters in fac
Parts of lake county, 24 customers would be impacted. This is a situation that is developing right now well have more information coming up in a live interview with pg any i lets going to check in on the weather is the live picture right now over downtown San Francisco. A hot one all day long red flag warning its going to be in effect for upper elevations across the bay area starting at 10 oclock tonight. Kron fours a chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is standing by with the wet in the Weather Center with the very latest laura you guys remember that after that last big he way we had. We had a Lightning Strike so were primed with the hot weather. Were not going to the Lightning Strikes this time. Now were going get the gusty winds so should a fire start in those kind of conditions extremely dangerous. Look at the temperatures we had today now is on top of the record breakers we had yesterday numerous records falling a 112 in livermore say one 11 in the napa valley, one 10 and santa ro
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot