Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 6pm 20240713 : compa

Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Fox 2 News At 6pm 20240713

Well. It is a level of anxiety that unless you experience it, it is hard to explain. That is the reason why we do ps ps to make sure that the opportunity for catastrophic wildfires to start associated with service is not something that is acceptable. When we go to the numbers, when we think of 970,000 customer accounts that were deenergized, it is also important to note that those 970,000 accounts were connected to over 20,000 miles of electrified infrastructure thats the infrastructure that was taken down because it was viewed as being to our analysis either where they were located in very high risk areas, the abundance of fuel, the wind condition, that any debris flying into those energized lines created the potential for admission. Thats why we do ps ps did as mark said, so far we noticed 50 incidents of damage. You can say well, millions of people impacted 450 instances of damage . The thing that we have to keep in mind if any one incident could be at travis fact catastrophic wildfire is significant. When you think about 27,000 miles of line, which as we said before can go around the earth just a bit more than one time. Where do you log . It is all high risk. How do you want to judge it, how do you want to limit scope, we work hard. We make sure we are impacting the minimum number of customers. But the scale of this event led to that outcome we continue to believe it is the right thing to do. We will not make secondary judgments on our models that we will not try to guess i think things will happen. As i said we will not roll dice when it comes to the Public Safety. 970,000 in the initial scope and as you also heard the additional 100,000 that had outages due to weather. You can make a conclusion that if you had 100,000 customers are nine high threat had we had more energized what would the results have been . Not once we find acceptable. Our progress as mark talked to the event 970,000 initial scope we currently have 375,000 and restored. Thats pretty good. That will continue as long as we have daylight. As mark indicated we would use aircraft provided by the state patrol. We will bring powerful forces to complete the restoration in the Daylight Hours tomorrow and try to get as much done. That is 6300 pg e employees plus up to 500 more mutual aid employees. Heres the thing i want to say again, we are still having instances with threats to the forces. There is a lot of anger out there and we get it. We are not saying that it is unjustified. But we ask again please do not take that out on the people who are engaged in restoring your power, it is dangerous work. It is hard work, and they are absolutely committed to work as quickly as they can to get your power back on. Please dont engage with them to harass them, because they will step back from the work, our people know they are never to do any work where they feel unsafe. Please dont create an unsafe condition for them to allow them to get the work done, and i will say even more having cruise, on from outofstate please dont harass them. Because heres the deal, they wont come. They are here to help you. I know the anger is there, but please please please dont take it on the people who are on the field. They were dangerous enough job to do to get your power back and theyre working very hard. I want to stress the other point that mark made 68 Community Resource centers open. I talked about this yesterday those will stay open through the duration of the event and into the next event. We will not be shutting them down. You will have electricity so people can recharge batteries, phones, batteries for medical devices, yet it is information you need to plan. They will be open 8 am until 8 pm in the evening that we are thinking about additional ways to enhance the support. The most important thing is to ensure electricity is off gives you the opportunity to recharge your batteries, so that you can be in touch with the company so you can at the latest information to plan for your own safety. For those who do not have devices and do not have contact with the internet please go there because our employees have it and they can help you get the information you need. Thats critically important. You been listening to pg e officials give an update on what the efforts are and the next round of pg e power shut off. As of tonight about 375,000 people now have their power back on. However, about 587,000 people still dont have power. They are out there inspecting the lines trying to bring as many people as they can back online. They have told us that they have found at least 50 cases in which there has been damage to transmission lines, power poles but they are inspecting before they are able to bring people back online. At least 587,000 people still without power and that is before we head into this next round of shut off. They say they have 6000 employees working to inspect and fix the lines. Also asked for 300 employees and they have gotten them for mutual aid the they have asked for equipment to up with the repairs and for more helicopters and they can purvey the damage. One of the headlines coming out of this press conference is that again there could be another round of shut off starting tomorrow. Anywhere between 240,000 through 605,000 people. They could lose their power starting tomorrow in Northern California and one other note here they announced tonight that a pg e contractor lost his life last friday. Just one other point we were listening to the president of pg e talk a moment ago and he was saying theres a lot of anger out there and we get it but then he was saying please dont harass our pg e employees there working as hard as they can and then he said if you do harass them, our pg e workers will not go in and fix the lines. Kind of an interesting statement. As we continued tonight is a race against time as firefighters on the front lines of the kincaid fire work to gain ground on arranging contained wildfire going out of control. Remains the most challenging with the winds that are going to start coming back in next 12 or so hours. The efforts seem to be working with several the mandatory Evacuation Orders now downgraded to evacuation warning. The concern is that more strong winds are in the forecast. Expect cal fire to update these numbers later this hour but heres what we know. Is already burned more than 66,000 acres. Containment is still at just 5 in at least 96 homes and businesses have been lost. Nearly 80,000 other structures remained threatened. Yours video from skybox taking a short time ago we can see the flames. It is still very active. Essentially out of control. The smoke in the area is very thick and it is impacting air quality. Spec we are taking you to andre at the base camp. We are monitoring the wind conditions. We begin with greg lee who is live in hillsboro. Reporter behind us some buildings 150 years old, we are seeing the helicopters dropping water. Firefighters trying to take advantage of the lull in the winter if you look behind the this is the devastation. As the fire pushes out fire crews remain on high alert. Firefighters quickly put out a hotspot in an area of dry brush near where flames raced through the area. We still lost the fuel. We want to make sure that any area where the fire is is completely out. Several water dropping helicopters circled the area all day putting out fires. The lull in the high winds getting a chance for firefighters to build containment but we are told every available resource is on the line today but they want to get ahead. The winds pushing embers into unburned fuel. When his caring debris that far it is difficult to determine when and where to be. The fire did land at the historic winery. Video shows flames ripping through the landmark property early sunday morning. The owners posting about the devastation. Grateful for First Responders. The winery was just a victim of circumstance. The house next to the winery untouched. The owner didnt want to go on camera but says she kept sprinklers on the home during the fire. Downtown hills park remains empty people heating orders to evacuate. There is still fire burning and the wind on the horizon and we dont want to get lulled into a false sense of security. Back here live, [ indiscernible ]. The winds have been calmer today but firefighters are concerned about it in the red flag warning. That will happen tuesday night into wednesday the winds get going again they got a break today. Six Miles Per Hour right now. You can see the arrows going that way pushing west. It is increasing the humidity so deftly getting a break today but lets took a look at the model. You can see this is where we go, right now the fire, these are the wind speeds. As you push forward, still not bad. Tomorrow morning you see the winds go back up. Thats when you start seeing the average shift with impressionable wind giving us a fire danger. It gets going, around 10 am and will be noticeable in the fire zone and by 5 pm tomorrow night it is gone and blowing and it keeps going through the Early Morning hours of wednesday morning. That is the concern. The other thing we will note is a lot of smoke will end up in the bay area tomorrow morning. The air quality will take a hit. This is one of those situations where we are losing power. This is an all encompassing bay area events. Pay close attention and we will keep an eye on it and i will let you know what you can expect. Things should look better after wednesday. A good portion of the kincaid firefight centered around the santa rosa area but Evacuation Order was issued. Some of the residents returned home to see if the properties were still standing. Reporter the man youre about to meet [ indiscernible ]. Monday afternoon he is doing something he wasnt sure he was able to do. We left. As the fire crept over ridge and raced toward his home on santa rosa. We were here until about 9 pm last night. He abandoned the very property which he built for his family. This structure was actually give to my wife. Any fun barn which he finished last week. Nervous about losing most of this. He showed us just how close the fire god. There was plenty of evidence that the firefight was far from over. Water was provided to combat the flames. The other ingredient, the firefighters. They did an unbelievable job. He even saved this old structure. We saved this for you. He insists the story is and about his property. These things dont matter. The men and women who save the property. They were amazing. A sentiment echoed by his neighbors. Stroke reporter he is helping his friends rebuild their homes. On the other side of the bridge homes were lost. [ indiscernible ]. The fire is causing air quality issues. Take a look at the map. The entire bay area is orange which is deemed unhealthy for sensitive groups. Officials say the smoke from the fire is expected to move south will likely continue to impact air quality through tomorrow. Coming up, we are learning that pg e equipment may be responsible for yesterdays fire in lafayette. Tv just keeps getting better. How you watch it does too. This is xfinity x1. Featuring the Emmy Awardwinning voice remote. Streaming Services Without changing passwords and input. Live sports with realtime stats and scores. Access to the most 4k content. And your movies and shows to go. The best tv experience is the best tv value. Xfinity x1. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity. The future of awesome. New area use taken a short time ago over the fire. Right now hundreds of thousands of people remain under Evacuation Orders or warnings of people who are not in the fire zone are still without power. A short time ago we learned that power has been restored to about 375,000 customers. About 587,000 do not have electricity and pg e announcing a short time ago it does in fact plan another power outage tomorrow into wednesday. That means that several of the shelters set up for the evacuees have been forced out because of the flames have now reached capacity. Christian caption tells us some of the evacuees are traveling all the way to San Francisco for shelter. Reporter the kincaid fire has already destroyed homes and forced evacuation close to 200,000. The mayor issued a proclamation open a temporary shelter shelter and 76 miles away from the fire Opening Doors at 8 am monday morning. The family had to leave their home and winced her first evacuating the santa rosa saturday morning then relocating again here to San Francisco. [ indiscernible ] the red cross will not allow the camera inside about 40 evacuees are temporarily housed in the basement of st. Marys that the red cross saying 200 accommodated this site. Where planning for it. We are preparing for so we are ready. The city saying it stands ready to help with the state ride emergency. Request came in through the state and counties and we immediately started working with the partners. Evacuees are hearing they could be out of their homes for more than a week hopeful they can go back soon grateful they have a place to stay. I am glad that [ indiscernible ]. This evacuation children will be open until at least friday the city will evaluate at that time. A quick look at the weather, we will talk some of the winds in the fire zone. That is the big story. We have the winds way down at six Miles Per Hour. The winds going from the west so that is good news. Theyre getting a break today. We will notice tomorrow the winds stick around. It turns around in the morning. The fire zone starts to get hit with the wind at last into the Early Morning hours into wednesday morning. You can see these winds compared to the wind event before it is not a big deal. The last wind event was truly a big story. Youre getting a break, there is a red flag warning, it is not as severe and it will be shortlived than the last one. We will have the five day forecast when we come back. Fire sparked a lefty at yesterday under investigation. They broke out on both sides of highway 24. We are looking into why pg e may be to blame. Utility has filed new reports with state regulators that pg e says for the third time in less than a week its equipment may be responsible for both fires. One was near diablo road north of highway 24 a power pole and transformer crashed down firefighters believe that ignited the fire. The fire destroyed the tennis club in nearby buildings another fire was parked near pleasant hill. Pg e says broken wires may have set things off. Neighbors feared for their safety and homes. Despite the winds they explained the power never shut off. It is kind of ironic that from what i understand the two places where the fires started is a place where the power should be shut down. You wish looking back your power was off . Yes. Names her father was located in parts of lafayette that is considered a high fire zone. One of the employees addressed the situation and said shutting down the system would be a responsible. We learned that the California Public Utilities Commission is opened an investigation into the Public Safety power shut off managed by pg e. Regulators are demanding the utility to do a better job to keep the public safe. We will have the latest on the kincaid fire next. The juul record. They took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. Five million kids now using ecigarettes. The fda said juul ignored the law with Misleading Health claims. Now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn San Franciscos ecigarette protections. Say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. Pg e says power has now been restored to about 325,000 customers. About a third of the 970,000 who were affected. The next plan of outages land for tomorrow will affect 605,000 customers. The kincaid fired Sonoma County has burned more than 66,000 acres and unfortunately is still only 5 contained at least 96 homes and businesses have been destroyed. Close to 80,000 other structures are threatened the winds eased up giving firefighters a little bit of a break but again, another high wind event is expected tomorrow. As heather mentioned that could mean another 605,000 pg e customers will lose their power starting tomorrow. Right now cal fire is just about giving an update of the status of the fire. This is a live look we will carry this live as soon as it begins but it should home, happened momentarily, 4100 firefighters are on the line 85 cruise with 10 helicopters, 444 engines, 53 dozers and 30 water tanks and as of tonight, 66,000 acres burned. Only 5 contained. You recall a couple of days ago is actually 10 contained. The containment has gone down as the wind conditions have gone up. It has made fighting the fire incredibly difficult. We will join this News Conference in progress as soon as it begins. The the fire has led to the largest evacuation in Sonoma County history but the changing conditions even forced the evacuation of some of the Evacuation Centers. Rob ross reports from an Evacuation Center in petaluma. Reporter difficult days and disrupted lives here at the community center. It is hard. She and her family all got the word to evacuate their homes early sunday. It was like 10 minutes. You need to get out. They came to the center but was told that there was no more room so they slept in their cars. They said that overnight they would keep the doors open. As we met there just caught a break at a nearby church who had room for them. Still the grownups worry about the homes they had to leave but not nearly as much as they were about how their kids are handling this. We dont want anything to get scared. When the fire broke out last week hillsboro became the closest center then they were forced to leave and petaluma has become a focal point. They are housing a lot of people. We are at capacity. Among those here is this man evacuated from his home. He is angry that his power was shut off and just angry at the whole situation. My refrigerator, my freezer i have a lot of food. I am on a fixed income and how can i replace that . We found many people asking themselves the same question. If you have your power shut off evacuations and the fear fires is the new normal is it worth staying . I dont want to go through this every year. If i had the money i would move. For many people the big question is how long is the evacuation goin

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