This is an interactive map on pg es website website showing exactly where those shut offs are happening. You can Lake Berryessa there to the right to to the east and all of these areas along highway one o one in the of napa and sonoma counties this is where thousands and thousands of customers have lost their power in Sonoma County more than 17,000 customers have been affected in napa county its more than 5,000 customers without power. The utility says power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night. 9 oclock wednesday night most of these bay area customers have seen it all before and while its no less they are no less frustrated. They are a bit more prepared this time kron fours dan kerman live for us tonight in santa rosa with the latest from there. Dan. Well good morning or good evening. I should say ken and pam, especifically many people now have generators that they did not have before theyve done most of their shopping they have their flashlights theyve been thr
Good evening, everybody thanks for being here tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining kron 4 news at 8 our top story tonight more than 167,000 customers have been left in the dark this evening. This result of the planned power shutoffs by pg and e because of wildfire concerns. The impact has been felt by more than 22,000 customers in sonoma and napa counties, 17,000 customers in sonoma county. 5,000 customers in napa this is the current interactive outage map shut offs here indicated by those pink triangles you see the area just west of lake hennessy there is inundated with shut offs. Power for some customers may not be restored until tomorrow night according to pg and e and while most of those customers have dealt with these power shutoffs before they are no less frustrated. Kron fours michelle kingston reports now from santa rosa. I mean were becoming experts and being flexible up here in santa rosa street lights are out atm is not working thousand
Power cut off to try to prevent wildfires can planned to be in the dark into tomorrow night, thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everyone im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis the Power Company announcing no changes for sonoma and napa county and their update tonight blaming critically dry conditions out there. This is an interactive map on pg es website shows exactly where the shut offs are happening at last check pg e reported that they turned off electricity to 167,000 customers across Northern California as part of what they call a Public Safety power shut off. 17,000 in Sonoma County most of which is in santa rosa and 5,000 in napa county and some of that in a in calistoga or sell sogomonian live in our newsroom tonight with when the power may come back on l a. Pg e is Incident Commander expects most of their customers will have their lights back on by the end of the day tomorrow with a widespread all clear in the morning. The weather is driving their decisionmaking taking a look at
Lotus and im Vicki Liviakis some gusty winds mean that any fire that has sparked a can spread rapidly chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow here tracking those winds for us tonight want various he has some breaking down guys down below me the urban areas where most of us live not much in the way of wind 5 mile an hour winds in oakland youve got 6 right now in the nevada 6 in the petaluma but certainly up above. Its a completely different story in fact those winds getting very gusty across some of the mountain tops and thats what were concerned about thats red flag warnings have been posted weve seen winds over 30 almost 40 Miles Per Hour across some of the peaks in the north bay expected to pick up here as we head through the next few hours and probably top out about one 32 oclock in the morning. Before we watch the winds begin to subside so red flag warnings are posted of course we just had a record heat wave things very dry out there now weve got the gusty winds above a 1000 feet also
Only a few short miles away we have some unhealthy stuff, especially for the inland east bay and or upper elevations on the peninsula. So some of our upper elevations up in the and closely because its bound to be changing a lot this morning as we do still look at some winds stirring up both smoke across the region as well as resulting in higher fire danger now it is not as windy as it was yesterday nor into the evening last night but still windy enough that we will have fire danger concerns all through the day because its still hot and we still do have some pretty low humidity. That means any potential spark could result in a fast growing wildfire specially for east bay upper elevations where winds will be the stronges and then across the north bay worse a lot of county still under red flag warning across the entire county. All the way through the evening tonight, so that is something you would be especially mindful of as you spend any time outside use extreme caution, 60s and 50s for