Catholic church which is serving as a Community Resource center. Here they have a water snacks, wi fi and much more of course charging stations as well but just a mile down the road were starting to see those power shutoffs in full swing. Pg and e customers in napa county prepared for a Public Safety power shutoff wednesday evening for some folks in saint the shutdowns already begin people like pat mcgrail foot up several gas cans to get through the next couple of days, im gasoline for generators. I have my house and my neighbors house. She lights going. Weve had to clean out the refrigerator which is a horrible job. And then be able to run them again and the generators. Were on wells so we have no water. And to go good. Water she could flush something the girls all too familiar with. He had to evacuate for the lnu lightning complex fire and was evacuated again for 17 days with the more recent glassfire he lives off Glass Mountain road or power was already down from the fire no cable.
East bay will be windy at times maybe some gusts over 30 Miles Per Hour down below the 4050 up above already started to see a change in the winds and youll see numbers running in the 2030 mile an hour range across the north bay mountains right now the 31 right now that lets be 33 so discreet 27 spanish flat, so these winds start to ramp up and then notice the direction too coming out of a northerly direction that is that very dry hot wind now developing looks like it will intensify overnight tonight. You see all the color of the Central Valley start to see the winds picking up already. This is going to kind of settle in overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. So you can see a lot of colors, the red even some purple beginning to show up those are gusts over 40 maybe 50 Miles Per Hour. Now as we head to the middle of the day tomorrow love the winds are going to move a little further to the south so stay blustery in the north bay, but i think picking up in places like the oakland h
Bay at red flag warning in effect as well so weve got Team Coverage once again we have will tran hes standing by in napa county covering the power shut offs Sarah Stinson is in San Mateo County with the latest on those red flag warnings. First lets start in the Weather Center with john trouble. Yeah guys, those red flag warnings definitely concerning still across the bay area weve been seeing them for much of the week so far and we are keeping them going for yet another day extended last night in fact now what were going to be seeing today are dry conditions across the bay which definitely contributes on top of the windy and warm weather that we also have you look outside right now at San Francisco shows you clear skies makes for a beautiful view, but definitely not a lot of marine layer to be talking about out there thats why we have red flag warnings that the coast in areas like Half Moon Bay pacifica up in upper elevations in the Santa Cruz Mountains inland east bay, all of us a in
Red flag warning has been issued as high winds and warm temperatures cause increased fire danger putting the bay area on high alert. Thank you for joining us at 3 im Sanaz Tahernia the genie is also ready to shut off power to try to prevent a major wildfire. The utility says the potential power shut off could happen as early as tomorrow afternoon affecting more than 22,000 customers take a look at what bay area counties could be affected by the power shut off. Those counties are alameda contra costa santa clara and san mateo napa sonoma and solano counties, the highest probability areas or the north bay mountains near mount saint helene small pockets in the east bay near mount diablo the Oakland Hills east of piedmont and portions of the santa cruz area. And the power shutoffs do need to happen in your area you will be notified in advance via text call or email. Again thanks for joining us here at kron 4 news weve got Maureen Kelly shes joining us live from napa high morning. Thats why
Public safety power shutoffs right now. More than 50,000 Northern California customers are impacted here in the bay area about 22,000 pg e customers are expected to lose power in seven counties. The utility hopes to restore service by 10 00 p. M. Friday. Pg e is stressing this power shutoff is shorter than last years when some customers were in the dark for about a week. That was a tough time for people. Yes. Thank you. The outages are having a big impact on people all across the bay area. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan is live in walnut creek with more. Good morning. Walnut creek had power shutoff last night. No street lights, no homes with lights on. The light you see is from our news van. Pg e has been informing residents since monday that power may be shut off due to the threat of wildfires. Here in the east bay, the psps event will affect over 6,000 customers, mostly in walnut creek, danville, oakland. Pg e opened 40 Community Resource centers. These are places people can go to i