Tonight kron fours closely monitoring the spread of the glass fires burning in the north bay and at this hour, the wild fire has burned more than 48,000 acres, it is at 2 containment joining us now via zoom islington much off with cal fire when thanks for being here again tonight what can you tell us about the conditions right now and. What firefighters are up against as we brace for the red flag. And one has been pretty good the past couple of days of firefighters have been making progress on and obviously able to get 2 containment out of been working really hard today. Particular because we are expecting those reflect a kick in early for afternoon bringing got the win put that. So the take away we we were listening in at a press conference earlier with cal fire what i did here was that we are bracing for really bad couple of days. In terms of the weather who. Who is in the bulls which community are you most worried about. You know its probably most likely going to the communities on
143 homes have been destroyed more than 26,000 structures are still threatened calfire post same this video on twitter today and you can see smoke filling the napa county sky near the Robert Louis Stevenson state park flames from the glass fire have devoured swaths of brush and trees as we mentioned a red flag warning has been issued as the weather is expected to take a turn for the worse. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here to begin our coverage tonight, yeah guys a little bit of a break the last couple of days we see more of a westerly wind that has been carrying with it. Some of that moisture right off the ocean to bring up the humidity slow down the fire, but also pushed the fire different directions. These some of the winds around the fire now you can see fairly light. For the better part of the day now beginning to pick up a little bit the very conditions you can see some of those winds now 11 miles an hour saying lena 10 miles an hour outlets peak 10 miles an hour in
Effect lets get straight to the maps you can get an idea of who is affected and let me tell you basically the whole bay areas under this red flag warning you can see in the map most of the barriers that pink which means the red flag warning is in effect one this afternoon for the glass fire region in the north bay as we said earlier can be very difficult for firefighters up there facing these high winds and high temps east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains the last time we saw a red flag warning the class fire erupted over the weekend. So now more than ever its time to take this seriously. Theyre going to be northwest winds of 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour with gusts of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. We also have dry conditions throughout the whole bay area with low humidity which is a recipe for a wildfire. Scary to think that another one can or ups we have to do everything we can. To help out theres a power flex alert going into effect at 3 this afternoon youre being asked to conserve electrici