Fire. The governors visit comes as theres growing concern about the glass fire heading into the next few days. Reporter its hot, dry conditions with these winds, the vast majority of those embers will ignite fires. Its not exception, its almost the rule. Its incumbent upon people to take these mandatory and recommended evacuations very, very seriously. We continue the governors visit comes as thousands of people are still under evacuation orders and as we heard him say, weather conditions are worseningening. Lets bring in al li. We got an update from the batallion chief on the glass fire. To summarize the main points, it hasnt reached the city limits. Its active in the north, in the pal said area and mt. Helena. Theyre getting resources from pope valley and Sonoma County is optimistic that the containment lines will hold and protect the communities of oakmont and santa rosa and theyre hoping if the containment lines will hold the communities. And theres higher than normal temperatures
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Commissioner moran here. Commissioner maxwell here. Commissioner paulson here. And we have a quorum. President caen good. Will you please read the announcement . During the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. For those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 087 5808, pound, pound. And star 3 to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done so. Madame president , the first order of business i
Structures, a lot of homes out here, including this one youre looking at. While the fire did spare the vines, it took the familys home, as you can see, and, unfortunately, weve seen scenes like this all over wine country. This was the scene as we made our way toward calistoga this morning. Fire burning along highway 29, smack in the heart of wine country. Theres just no words. Theres no words for it. Reporter haley christopher and her parents are devastated. The family who splits their time between here and Ventura County lost their calistoga home, their twobedroom house, barn and storage tanks that provide water to their vineyard all gone. You dont believe it. You dont believe it until you see it. And its still surreal. You dont we were just here last week for the harvest. Reporter the entire city of calistoga remains evacuated as the flames move closer to the main part of town. Firefighters are letting hillsides burn, hoping that might create a barrier around the downtown area. Well,
Northnortheast winds gusting in excess perhaps of 45 miles an hour. So even at the surface by the delta, winds are gusting to 33 miles an hour, red flag warning with us until 9 00 tomorrow, and this entire area from the north bay to the east bay upper and lower elevations as well as the bay shore now is under a heat advisory. So this is the heat advisory area through the day tom re. You can see well expect a lot of dry heat today. Look at the camera there. It is shaking and looking at not only the spare the air alert today for poor air quality but it looks like temperatures already are in the 60s. So gusty winds gust beginning, liz, another burst will be with us throughout the day tomorrow but they will be subsiding throughout the afternoon today. Thank you, lisa. Were already feeling the impact of the winds. Back to breaking news in the north bay, again, following this brand new mandatory Evacuation Order in the st. Helena and calistoga area west of the silverado trail by Crystal Spri