Calistoga is very quiet right now. The entire city has been evacuated. I am at the motor lodge along lincoln avenue and behind me, we have watched glowing fires disappear, looking east near the silverado trail. Hopefully, that is some good news. We are waiting for the latest from cal fire once the sun comes up. However the weather conditions are pretty good for firefighting. It is a lot cooler compared to yesterday. Not a lot of wind to speak of but the official count is 113 structures destroyed and that number could go up as firefighters explore the areas that have already burned. By the afternoon, the entire city population of calistoga, 5300, was being evacuated. The fire had crested the hill where they are. People had to evacuate immediately. We got back to the house a couple weeks ago and we were evacuated for 17 days and there we go again. It is dad. Those evacuation orders are in effect in napa and sonoma encompassing about 70,000 people. No idea when they will be able to return
Pg e is the phrase that the high winds could cause power lines to fall and spark a fire. This isnt just a Public Safety issue, its a business issue. Within minutes of the blackout, Stores Closed and intersections got dicey. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez is in santa rosa with the latest details. Jodi. Reporter when we got here at about 2 45 this afternoon, all of these businesses were open. But just a few minutes after we got here, the lights went out forcing the businesses to close. Without power, they cant operate. Many businesses in santa rosa had to close early this afternoon as pg e turned off the power for the second time this month. The manager of this pool shop says hes thankful he started powering down the stores computers early. I shut everything down at 2 44. It was off at 2 45. That was the end of the day. The power just went out. This pet store has a lot on the line. Cheddar, the bearded dragon needs heat, so do the stores fish. Tropical fish need the warm water and the filt
Wind advisory coming up. Two separate Traffic Alerts. Traffic is tough on the east shore freeway. On the westbound connector working your way into the maze the number two mac lane is blocked for an injury accident with traffic taking up into berkeley. A busy right. You will see slow and go conditions as you get the bay bridge. The Traffic Alert is westbound 580 at 35th street with a major injury accident. I just got new information. The two right lanes blocked until further notice and they are running traffic breaks to ease the traffic heading through their. It is slow and go and traffic is building quickly. Use 880 in the meantime. I will have more details and a new crash to tell you about coming up. 6 01. Almost all of napa county is bracing for pg e to shut off its power. They say the outage could go on five days or longer. The outage impacts Rural Communities and also includes downtown areas. Tourists whose plans revolve around winery visits said this could have a longterm impact.
From mount tam. Around knoxville creek is where it is gusty. Here is a look from mount diablo, walnut creek, where it is 56 in santa rosa. From our exploratorium camera, mid 50s to upper 50s around concord. Theres the sea breeze, staying with us today. 80s around the bay, 90s inland. Chris. Thank you. We start with developing news from san leandro where fiert are at the scene of a major fire that damaged several businesses late last night. It broke out inside a building along east 14th street near georgia way. It quickly spread to businesses next door including a popular san leandro jamaican restaurant called sweet fingers. Firefighters say the conditions were extremely chal and it is combustibles in the building, a heavy fire load. So the fire rapidly expanded on them and they had to pull back, and now theyre in a defensive mode where were trying to extinguish the fire from the outside. There are no injuries reported. People living on georgia street were evacuated because of the inten
Last sunday monday that we say were finishing up winter on a warm note, but were going to start spring on a cooler one, last few days of winter have been 70s for us. Lots of sunshine. And today. The very last day of the season is eventually going to bring plenty of sun with it. And another day with some of those 70s that i hope you got a chance to enjoy this weekend. Tomorrow, your first day of spring, just the opposite. We start our downhill slide back into cooler and eventually wetter weather where were sitting right now, the east bay hills getting a few peeks of sunshine, but still pretty clouded out areas that had been foggy this morning are getting increasingly clear as that fog lifts and begins to burn off. Skies are going to be nice and sunny this afternoon and temperatures under all that sunshine will rise really quickly. Were still hanging out in the 40s to 50s right now. Fremont and dublin, 8 at 47 48 degrees. Berkeley nsf at 52 right now later on today, sunshine prevails. Da