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Then we maximized the use of those aircraft to fly them and help our ground resources. But the challenge has been with the lack of the clear air to be able to apply those aircraft to help our ground crews suppress the fire. Speaking next, one of our unified incident command its burning completely out of agencies from the city of santa control with thousands of homes in its path. Rosa, police chief ray navarro. Thanks for joining us for our midday newscast. We want to get to the latest for you. We just got an update about 7 00 thank you, jonathan. This morning from cal fire. The glass fire has burned more so, yesterday we had some good than 48,000 acres. News and we were able to it is only 2 contained right repopulate a few of the now. More than 113 buildings across evacuation areas within santa napa and Sonoma County are gone. And there are new evacuation rosa. Orders for People Li ....
Rosa where firefighters and residents are getting ready for high. Heat and gusty winds stand. Thats right those 2 things a bad combination, especially when you look at this very dry brush you see behind me you know typically october is when we get the big fires. Well we still might get a big one this month but weve already had 2 of them people have already evacuated that might have to do it again. Tuesday afternoon temperatures in santa rosa were already in the 90s but by wednesday, a red flag warning kicks in with even warmer temperatures wind gusts to 55 Miles Per Hour and bone dry grass and brush just ready to go up in flames. That is exactly why were of staffing again under these red flag warnings will have at least 12 if not more engine locally across the county. We are again urging our community be prepared for the potential to evacuate again evacuations have become routine for best film. Well back you waited or sky hawk nei ....
Includes all of the inland east bay and much of the coast on the peninsula too as we make our way through the day we will see winds very presence on through the evening tonight into tomorrow and even lasting into friday morning gust as high as 40 Miles Per Hour in upper elevations paired with our hot and dry conditions does mean that fire danger is still a concern as we work our way through the rest of this upcoming week as for winds right now we may lutz of lee calm but by the afternoon 02 00pm here, widespread rains winds kicking back into gear across the bay area into the evening tonight still continuing to be breezy with tomorrow actually expected to be our windiest day of this forecast with atlas peak in vacaville, especially breezy. Come the time we work our way into thursday evening. Friday we begin to calm down and a cool down that leads us into a much more comfortable weekend. A little bit more fall like come the weekend ....
On the forecast absolutely guys its the weather. The hot weather the dry conditions were still in the midst of. And then of course the winds that have been persistent so far this week and will remain throughout the rest of the week too clear skies towards the coast than we have seen in previous days. But a little less marine layer means that we even do have red flag warnings now in effect for summer coastal spots like Half Moon Bay, upper elevations on the peninsula. All of the inland east bay and those same areas as we had been saying up in the north bay so more red flag warnings as winds do gradually spread across the rest of the bay area, north northeast winds at 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour mostly but upper elevations that are more exposed to those higher gusts could see gusts as high as 40 Miles Per Hour all the way throu ....
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 theyr ....