The fire north of fresno has scorched more than 152,000 acres since friday and it is still 0 contained. The flames have forced more evacuations and even more rescues. Y i the Sierra National forest. The smoke is so intense, rescuers have had to use night vision goggles. It was such an anxious wait not knowing when they would be here. So it is just surreal having them here in the flesh. Smoke was so thick, that the pilots dont have a visual of the terrain to land safely or identify locations. I know she was glad to see them. Flames have destroyed dozens of structures and at least 60 homes. And a san jose father and son were escorted out of the fire area with flames on both sides of the road. Their story. The abrupt end of what was supposed to be a fun fishing weekend for father and son. Their car still reeking of smoke after driving hours out of the fire zone, burning in fresno, madera. You could see smoke coming off the trees, you could see flames. There were stumps that were still on
Happening right now, thousands of pg e customers are still in the dark this morning. And the power might not be back on until tonight. So here is a look at the outage map. Pg e cut the power in nearly two dozen counties across the state, august because of the high fire danger. The purple triangles indicate those Public Safety power shutoffs. Calistoga is one place that is impacted. The mayor says the shutoff was a necessary step because of the threat of high winds. At one point, there were half a Million People in the dark statewide. Crews will be working to restore power once the sun comes up. High winds and dangerous heat are making it difficult for firefighters battling dozens of fires across california right now. And i really want you to Pay Attention to this number. So far wildfires have burned about 2. 3 million acres in comparison to this same time last year. And this same time last year, just during a press conference yesterday, Governor Newsom said that he has had it with Clim
Backing up beyond that 880 overpass and ki theres still a lot of brake lights southbound 880 working freeway due to road work around the oakland area. Use 580 as an alternate route. And that drive along 580 at least the portion through the Altamont Pass, still pretty as well. Westbound 580 a slow ride working your way outhe Altamont Pass, a new crash reported near dougherty. Thats coming up in the next report. Anne . Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are keeping our eye on a couple of large fires burning right now causing evacuations near lake oroville. This is new video from overnight from plumas county. Just tearing up the hillsides there. This flared up yesterday and these new evacuations ca last night an is called the bear fire and its part of the north complex fire and it is now moving in a in plumas and yuba and butte about 1 00 morning from the and fa heard from one. And we are going to have that coming up at 6 30. We know some homes wn. Also want to let you know abo
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Today, it might seem odd but yesterdays marine layer that created that orange glow actually provided us with some relief from the smoke but today, the air quality has dropped to his unhealthiest in days, youre all just want to issues out there and joins us now with the very latest orange, yeah, this looks very similar to a couple years ago with the paradise fire. We have the offshore winds. And all the smoke up or back in the bay area boy just very thick out there right now this looking from timber on back toward the Golden Gate Bridge lost in some of that smoke and fog outside right now the air quality. Very bad around the bay area in extremely unhealthy specially in a San Francisco right now i want you to look at this you see the darker shade here the purple here that is the most unhealthy air quality in the entire bay area right now very unhealthy but everywhere you go just about in the san mateo you get Fremont Hayward you names in the areas shaded in red here actually a little bit