The latest news from around the world. The latest news from around the world. Facing, not just the temperatures, the Daytime Temperatures in the redding area are in excess of 105 and closer to 110 degrees. And it that is taxing to the firefighters. Let alone the heat that the fire generates and all that plays into the fire behavior and i talked to many veteran firefighters in the wildland arena and heard almost verbatim from every one of them that the fire behave yoior that they witnessed and experienced on thursday evening into friday morning, they had never seen before. And these are Men And Women that have many, many years of experience and training under their belts. Climate change is making an impact. I was reading hear since 2012 there has not been a month without a Wildfire Burning in the state and the governor has called this a new normal. This is a completely different situation that anyone is trained
for. I know we have more video that you have also supplied to us to show fir
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That corresponds to the winds. But the power would be turned off several hours before the winds. Everyone needs to get prepared today and before tomorrow afternoon. Pg and e customers are being told this outage could last at least several days. It could be shorter, and hopeful loi hopefully it will be. This is to prevent another catastrophic wildfire, as you get a look at the conditions here from sky 7. Its just impossible to contend with, and youre dealing with this both in Northern California as well as Southern California, where they have raging fires down there as well. Right. This is the kincaid fire, which has burned, certainly, a lot. It exploded overnight again, its now at 21,000 acres. And we have 49 structures that have been destroyed. We know that 21 are homes and 28 are outbuildings or i should say were, because they are no more. And you can see the spot fires. They keep spreading as the
embers pick them up. Although today is not terribly windy. So firefighters were trying
a moment. but, the reason why we re packing up the deenergization is because it s going to take us a little bit of time to ensure that we are safely de-energizing the system, giving the complexity of the integrated electrical system. so in the northern sierra foothills, which includes 13 counties, we anticipate if the weather currently holds as scott discussed, beginning the deenergization around 3:00 p.m. we would next move to the north bay and the mendocino area, where we anticipate the deenergization of eight counties or portions of eight counties around 5:00 p.m. on saturday. the third area being the bay area, the coast and the southern portion of the sierra pofoothil, we would anticipate initiating
the state. and the governor has called this a new normal. so this is a completely different situation that anyone is trained for. i know we have more video that you have also supplied to us, show firefighters going down a highway, you see flames on both sides of the highway, so the question is, how do you sustain this? how do these brave men and women work in these conditions and, you know, we re looking at a huge swath of the state. these aren t just small pockets. no, no, they re not, natalie. in fact, there is two other fires in the mendocino area and lake county areas that have just sparked up today that are causing a lot of concern, but the video you re seeing, what you re those are highly trained men and women, the equipment that they have both the personal protective gear and the fire apparatus are it is all designed to accomplish one