Area above highway 13. So certainly that was on everyones mind. This is the memorial to that firestorm but this time fire crews were in the right place at the right time. Black smoke rising from the Oakland Hills at 9 40 Tuesday Morning sent an ominous wave of panic. Oakland fire says what ignited the blaze is a gasoline generator hooked up because power was cut off by pg e because of the red flag warning posted for the east bay hills. It was a huge explosion. Its like i hear a neighbor saying its the generator that explode and then we see the fire all over the place and i started to shake and everybody just get panicked and started to run all over the place. Reporter this family lives next door. It was a second explosion and the fire went across the street into the other peoples yard. And the whole house just went up in smoke and flames, and then the cars exploded right after that. At least two cars. Reporter there were a total of four explosions as the fire tore through two homes, fl
Have Team Coverage this morning out in the field with kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in napa county and then also with will tran. Who is live in Alameda County. Well see what the conditions are like first though in the Weather Center with john yeah guys were going to be seeing strong winds returning yet again and that on top of what has been such a dry year so far. Is why we do have the concern for another rapid growing wildfire. Right now were in the midst of cool weather and relatively calm conditions so souter tower cam showing you what is an inviting looking picture and well it is going to be inviting morning before winds do pick up later on today. Now the areas impeach that youre seeing on the screen are actually or second round of advisories that dont go in effect until tomorrow through friday. Its the red flag warnings up in the north bay that are in effect right now for upper are in and sonoma counties all of lake and then on most of areas of napa and solano counties winds in these
Preparing for the possibility pg e could cut their power. Good evening and thanks for joining usmism im. Im dion lim. That red flag warning will last for two days. Now in effect and it will continue to remain in effect until 9 00 p. M. Monday evening. As you see offshore winds begin to develop. Were tracking those winds out of the north and northeast will gust anywhere from 35 to as high as 50 Miles Per Hour in our hills. And these winds this time of year we know this pattern, they drop humidity levels very low, and they drag in some very warm air, which does increase our fire danger. So its in effect in the north bay, the inland east bay and the east bay hills. Look at the winds right now in our hills. Already gusting to 40 atop mt. Diablo. We do expect these winds to strengthen in the Early Morning hours tomorrow. Future weather show you these wind gusts early tomorrow morning at 5 00 a. M. We do expect winds to strengthen especially in the north bay with frequent gusts over 30 Miles
Northnortheast winds gusting in excess perhaps of 45 miles an hour. So even at the surface by the delta, winds are gusting to 33 miles an hour, red flag warning with us until 9 00 tomorrow, and this entire area from the north bay to the east bay upper and lower elevations as well as the bay shore now is under a heat advisory. So this is the heat advisory area through the day tom re. You can see well expect a lot of dry heat today. Look at the camera there. It is shaking and looking at not only the spare the air alert today for poor air quality but it looks like temperatures already are in the 60s. So gusty winds gust beginning, liz, another burst will be with us throughout the day tomorrow but they will be subsiding throughout the afternoon today. Thank you, lisa. Were already feeling the impact of the winds. Back to breaking news in the north bay, again, following this brand new mandatory Evacuation Order in the st. Helena and calistoga area west of the silverado trail by Crystal Spri
Dangerous rate of spread. Well bring you anyup dates as soon as they become available. Good morning everyone. Its september 27th. Im liz kreutz. Lets get to the sunday folks with meteorologist lisa argen. What should we expects today . Were under the red flag warning for another 30 hours and the winds gusting in the upper elevations 30 to 60 miles an hour and so that is why the firefighters are concerned because the water is not working in our favor. Right where the fire is, it is 75 degrees. This is the best the relative humidity will be. Its going to drop from 8 to 13 today and thats due to the northnortheast winds. Right here it looks at 8 to 19 miles an hour. If you look at the overall area, it is much gustier than that, in the vicinity from 20 to 30mileanhour gusts but as you go count to mt. Diablo, 52mileanhour north winds. At the surface theyre beginning to mix down, you can see around va vacaville 24 miles an hour. Theyll on it mix down to the surface by sunrise. Here is our re