Reported vegetation fire in th area of the geysers geothermal plant in geysers road in the area of geyserville, california. First arrived to find a large fire a couple Hundred Acres in size and with the rapid rate of spread. Moving in multiple directions through different drainages and rugged terrain. They quickly augmented the response where we add additional cal fire resources and reached out to local government partners for additional help from them as well. The fire turned out to be fueled by what we believe to be a 60 Miles Per Hour wind and the terrain in that area is very rugged. Throughout the night the fire continued to push, winddriven, toward the community of geyserville in that general area per pushed down into the geyserville area around 5 am, 5 30 am. At that point we initiated an Evacuation Order for the community of geyserville along with the Sheriffs Office, working with the Sheriffs Office and evacuated the community as well as other areas above the fire area. We had
Residents are preparing. Reporter andre, we spoke with people who live here north napa. They say they learned from the last outage what to expect. At the Retirement Community here in napa, these folks are all about enjoying life. They say theyre ready for the hand that pg e dealt them. They lost power two weeks a i go. No tv. It was terrible. We couldnt watch your news. That was the worst part. Yeah, no channel 2. Are terrible indeed, and they tell me theyre on pg es planned outage list again for wednesday. This time i took a lot of bottled water and froze it. Reporter patty suffers from congestive Heart Failure and need asthma sheen to help her sleep. The 80yearold did without it during last outage. I made due. I didnt sleep well. Reporter at nearby outdoor supply, workers say these shelves depleted during last out tambellini, was restocked during day. Calm instead of the chaos of the last outage. People were there buying last minute supplies. We set up an emergency station with bottl
It will pick up this evening. Very warm today. Nationally if its quiet here it must be active everywhere else and thats about the case. You could see how everything goes up in over the ridge of High Pressure and drops down. Montana and north dakota into the plains and look at the low in the great lakes. Most of the country has very active weather and as you can imagine, cool temperatures. Some very cold ones as well. A lot of snow coming in over the next 57 days. Not here. Its record heat. We seen this so many times. Sfo, 87 yesterday breaking the old mark of 85 in 1965. 80s for the forecast highs today. Near 90. They are all away above. 82 and 60 for the city. They hit 60 and are now at 63. Way above average on both. It looks like a pattern were not much will change but as that system digs into the intermountain region, the wind will pick up later tonight into tomorrow. Not too bad now but it is a north, northeast direction from many locations around the bay already. 40s, the fees and
Well. Warm to hot but the wind picks up later and fire danger goes back up again. Its higher tonight and morning, so that red flag warning has been issued for the north and east bay hills, gusts over 40 to 50 in the Higher Elevations. Almost 90 degrees, temperatures well above average for the rest of the week and probably warmest tomorrow. They are all pretty close. Some of these are wind dependent with that easterly or northeasterly breeze making a bigger impact than no breeze at all. It will still be offshore. 40s, 50s and 60s here, east bay upper 50s and low 60s for some. But 60 degrees already in lafayette, so some are out of the gate on the warm side with temperatures beginning to move near 90 degrees today. Sal is here to focus on . Well, the 80 freeway, which a lot of people want to know about. Yesterday we had problems on the bridge and today its kind of a normal looking commute on 80. 35 minutes, pretty good for this time of morning to get to the maze. The bridges, san mateo l
And Central California counties will lose power sometime today according to pg e. In the bay area Sonoma County will be hit the hardest with more than 28,000 pg e customers losing power starting around 3 pm. And napa county about 7500 will lose power and and San Mateo County more than 900 customers will lose power. Thats about double what pg e projected earlier however that outage is not expected to happen until Early Morning hours tomorrow. Lets talk about the weather conditions. Mark tamayo is monitoring a red flag warning. The red flag warning just kicked in for the north bay at 12 00. Its been in place and will be in place for the rest of today and into thursday. This will not be a strong, not as strong as the wind event we had two weeks ago but in the north and east bay lls we get high wind a 3040. The Santa Cruz Mountains around 35 Miles Per Hour and closer to sea level we could have wind around 2535 Miles Per Hour. The red flag warning come all the areas in red, that is in place