Many understand its not in the same of safety but just weeks after a major fire, the timing wouldnt be worse. Im stocked up on batteries, flashlights, lanterns. Reporter she has what she needs. Im here to service the community. Reporter shes assistant manager at Outdoor Supply hardware with a possible safety power shutoff hours away, most of the portable generators have sold out. This could easily do a refrigerator, couple lights, tv. Reporter john was buying extra flashlight batteries and hes not happy about it. As a general sense of disappointment to pg e. I think one place seems to be under control and another comes in after that. I dont like it. Reporter the utility says it has to cut power to thousands of bay area customers due to hot, dry windy conditions or risk parking a fire from an active power line. At the end of the day we have to stand by the side of safety and if its necessary, we have to do this to prevent healthcare reforms emergencies from occurring. Reporter nancy jus
See more on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the cspan radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. Joining us this week on the communicators is alan pratt, he is the executive director of the National Rural Education Association and he joins us from chattanooga, tennessee. What is that association and what do you do . Our association is the voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve a rural schools and communities and right now we are looking at a Digital Divide and we are looking at the reopening of schools in a very different way. That is what i a lot of our work has been focused on over the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit and in rural, remote areas or areas outside
Any that might be there. Well bring updates when we learn more. Back to the other fire, you can see how close it came to homes as firefighters worked hard to get the fire under control and take a look at this video just how intense the flames were at times. That fire was reported just before noon at the South San Francisco hillside sign. Cornell bernard joins us live with the very latest. Cornell . Reporter dion, so many neighbors breathing a huge sigh of relief that fire got way too close to homes, burning up to a few backdoors. Thats where it happened burning across the famous sign hill. Luckily, firefighters stopped it just in time. It took off in seconds flat. Reporter neighbors living near sign hill in San Francisco had moments to react. A fastmoving fivealarm grass fire took off through trees. I ran down to the end because this hill is full of trees and brush and being city owned and i was concerned there would be fire here and sure enough, there was. Reporter neighbors on ridge
Thank you for joining us. This map highlights where people are likely to be affected by the Public Safety power shut off. In total 22,000 local pg e customers could lose power. The shut offs are starting now in the north bay and three counties, napa, sonoma. It a fresh round for residents who lived through fires, smoke and other Power Outages. Lets go to abc 7 news Cornell Bernard live in st. Helena. Reporter dan and ama, if folks havent been through enough, thousands could lose power again. Its in the name of safety but the timing is really tough. Im stocked up on batteries, flashlights, i have more flashlights, lanterns. Reporter she has what napa needs. Im here to service the community. Reporter shes assistant manager at Outdoor Supply hardware with a possible pg e shut off hours away, most of the portable generators have sold out. This could do a refrigerator, couple lights. Reporter john was buying extra flashlight batteries and not happy about it. There is a general sense of disi
Thats because heavy winds and hot dry air are creating ideal fire conditions. Just what we do not need. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Once again our coverage begins with abc 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian for whats happening right now and in the days ahead. Spencer . Okay, dan. Ama was right. We have ideal fire conditions. We have rising temperatures. Very low relative humidity and gusty winds that are only getting stronger. Right now as you look at current temperature readings you can see we have mid 90s, mid to upper 90s in many inland areas, even a couple 90s around the bay shoreline, and its 80 degrees in San Francisco. As we move along you can see that the wind gusts right now in the Higher Elevations are getting stronger and stronger. They will likely get Even Stronger in the nighttime hours. So as a result we have a red flag warning for high fire danger in effect until midday friday. This is not only for the hills but the hills