Im liz kreutz. Following the american fire. How neighbors came together to help firefighters put out the flames and save their homes. Were watching our winds very closely because they will be ramping upstarting on wednesday and this will prompt a fire width weather watch for higher fire danger. Well have the latest details in the accuweather forecast. Im luz pena in San Francisco. Its fleet week. The ships have arrived and our military is getting ready for multiple events throughout the week. Abc7 news starts right now. Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. Tonight firefighters are still working to extinguish a brush fire burning in napa county, the socalled american fire has burned more than 500 acres. It prompted an evacuation advisory and some neighbors rushed to keep their homes safe. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Dion is off tonight. Abc7 News Reporter liz kreutz is live near American Canyon with the latest on this fire. Liz . Reporter eric, the fire is burning
Short time later. Deputies telling me they believe both of these people were struck in two different parts of the park before the vehicles took off but they are looking into why this happened. We dont have any motive relationship between the parties involved. But we do encourage the public to reach out to us as this is a frequently visited park. Anyone that has information please contact the sheriffs office. Reporter they wont say much about the victims or driver only that all of that is part of the investigation. Patel says he is shaken up because this is a place he and his parents love to visit. It is sad this has to happen. I think there are parents there and this is a family environment. You dont want this to happen in your community. Reporter the driver was taken to the hospital as a precaution. I am told he or she will be arrested on murder charges and other felony charges. As mentioned before the park will remain closed for the rest of the evening as investigators still have a l
See that. We smell a lot of smoke in the area. Its very potent. The wind that caused this fire to explode to hundreds of acres earlier today has since died down. On any other sunday evening this would be considered a picture perfect sunset in American Canyon, but there was no time to admire the beauty here because as the lights started to slowly disappear, there was an earnest effort to stop the spread of a wildfire burning in the hills nearby. Its like a worry out here all the time. Reporter wayne and his dog sonny watched the firefight totally aware he lives smack in the middle of a tinderbox, some of the dry brush that fuels wildfires like he can see from his driveway. It was burning bad. I was watching it come the fla were reported around 3 15 sunday afterthat often makes towards the city. Reporter as the fire grew to a few hundred acres, a major offensive was launched, two helicopters, five fixed wing aircrafts, 20 fire engines and seven water tenders brought in and a helping hand
Pg e began turning off power on saturday night. Outages affected cut r. Cut. Bute and yuma counties. The time is 4 30. Lets check weather and traffic where you live. Wednesday and thursday is our next chance for high fire danger. Ill touch more upon that as we head throughout the day. American canyon, the winds were like 2 miles per hour. Our fastest wind in livermore is 5. Its blowing off shore. So another day of stagnant air and warmer than average temperatures. A few high clough clouds out ts morning. Should be a colorful sunrise. 61 to 65. 70s at the coast by noon. 80s elsewhere. 90s by 4 00. Inland everybody in the 50s and 60s by 7 00. How is the commute . Its shaping ul wee ining up than that problem in tracy. In the immediate bay area, no major problems. We had a couple earlier stalls. Theyve been cleared. A live shot of the san mateo bridge, westbound on the right looking great out of hayward, foster city. 101 problem free at this point. 101 looking good in the south bay. This
Can see carquinez and phoenicia bridge traffic looking good. At 4 31, lets get steve with the weather. We are starting off mild with high clouds and not much of a breeze at the surface. A little bit in the hills but temperatures, this will be the warmest day of the week and cooling begins tomorrow. In this er in nevada, we will be cranking up the breeze with much cooler but windy toward wednesday. 80s just about everywhere and sitting at 65 and it wouldnt take much, 66 in berkeley with 40s, 50s and 60s on the temps and his high cloud deck is holding up the temps on the peninsula. Woodside, wa high cloud deck and for the area, the breeze is offshore with an easterly breeze and we will look for a warm to hot day today and cooler weather tomorrow tomorrow. A santa rosa doctor is accused of killing patients with opioid subscriptions and he will be back in court. Dr. Keller is charged with seconddegree murder after four of his patients died. Hes accused of writing prescriptions for hundreds