Continued hot weather tomorrow with the possibility of thunderstorms tonight. Topping the news today. Some cloud build up and lightning activity predicted in your area. [thunder crashing] with winds from the northeast expected to reach 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour in Southern California narrator californias summer and fall months are traditionally a time for vacations, time for traveling and camping in the great outdoors. A time to seek quiet shade on a mountainside. And a time for fires. The area is teeming with people, cooking, smoking. And some even working. Ground vegetation has been dehydrated by weeks of hot sun with little or no rainfall. Inevitably, there will be fires. Some caused by natural phenomena such as lightning strikes, but most caused by human beings. Californias Fire Protection problems are unique among the 50 states and probably among the worst in the world. It is the most populous state in the union, with a network of freeways and secondary roads affording access to mos
For joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 oclock this afternoon. Im justine waltman unseasonably hot temperatures mix with dry and windy conditions fuel this fire. Now this fire burned very way too close to homes and a lot of people are still evacuated now here are the evacuation orders for South San Francisco. The mandatory evacuations include current million road. Sonia road Mountain Road Ridge View Court view mont harris thats where the mandatory evacuations are in place. Now there is an Evacuation Center that has been opened. It is set up at the municipal social hall at 33 arroyo drive in South San Francisco that is a temporary Evacuation Center. Again we have just learned that the fire while it was under control has just flared up in the past 15 minutes or kron fours Maureen Kelly is live there for us shes gathering more details and shell join us later on this hour to bring us the very latest information. Now lets turn now to our Weather Forecast because we have been under a red fla
Service film telling the story of smokey the bear. In an hour from 1949, your Fire Department documents firefighting in the los angeles area. Continued hot weather tomorrow with the possibility of thunderstorms tonight. Topping the news today. Some cloud build up and lightning activity. [thunder crashing] with winds from the northeast expected to reach 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour in Southern California narrator californias summer and fall months are traditionally a time for vacations, time for traveling and camping in the great outdoors. A time to seek quiet shade on a mountainside. And a time for fires. The area is teeming with people, cooking, smoking. And some even working. Ground vegetation has been dehydrated by weeks of hot sun with little or no rainfall. Inevitably, there will be fires. Some caused by natural phenomena such as lightning strikes, but most caused by human beings. Californias Fire Protection problems are unique among the 50 states and probably among the worst in the wo
Restoration should happen. At least by 10 oclock tonight. And heres a look at pg es outage map this hour the areas highlighted in purple on the ones theyre still those calistoga and other parts of the north bay some power though is beginning to be restored first want to get to our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow who has the latest on these temperatures and winds large where do we stand, yeah, you this just updated guys right now so part of the red flag warnings have just come down across parts of the valleys in the east and also in the north bay you can see now the a red flag warnings can find the mountaintops above a 1000 feet still expecting some gusty winds there may be 2030 mile an hour gusts thats a down a bit the last couple of nights where gusting to 5060 plus but the humidity, the air so dry still very conditions of the oakland hills, the diablo range and also to the north bay youre going to see some gusty winds theyre continuing maybe 20 maybe a 30 mile an hour gusts acros
Status. I can tell you its a lot better than it was just about 3 oclock this afternoon when this fire behind me that happen in a where a wholesale bakery on starlite road. A rough day at around 3 oclock today you can see right now they have their firefighters here theyre wrapping up their hoses so obviously this is becoming under control here at this hour. Its been a crazy afternoon 9 alarms have been wrong in the city of South San Francisco. This fire only about a mile away from another grass fire that broke out around noon. A massive column of smoke could be seen pouring out of sine hill in South San Francisco today blowing over the 2. 80 freeway burning the grass around the iconic sign that greets people driving north on one oh one that reads South San Francisco, the Industrial City with the hot temperatures and breezy conditions, lots of resources were thrown at this blaze, it went to a 5th alarm plus a cal fire alarm which brought in air support. It got uncomfortably close to home