Begin this tuesday here on kron 4 news at 5 thanks so much for joining us. Im jonathan mccall. Right now mandatory Evacuation Orders are in place for several communities across the bay area as wildfires continue to burn out of control at this hour. In the north bay mandatory evacuations are in effect across napa county in the following areas from a school we corner to wouldnt valley road including the community of circle oaks atlas peak road to the dead in from loma vista road slash soda canyon road to the dead in all of his the ridge road sage canyon road from charles pope valley road to lower Charles Valley road. Highway 2128 from lower child valley road to monticello road. And the butts canyon road and snow valley road to spanish valley, including the various us states. There are also evacuation warnings in these locations highway one 28 and silverado trail to charles pope valley road, including the pritchard hills area. Highway one 28 and lore Childs Valley road to turtle rock and
Continue. Governor newsom signing a proclamation to allow some of the emergency and energy users and utilities to use backup energy sources. This is to relieve that pressure on the grid during those peak times. We have Team Coverage for you this midday. Nbc bay areas bob redell is live for us in brentwood. This is where several crews are fighting those fires. But we want to take a look at the weather with meteorologist kari hall. We saw lightning yesterday. And lightning has been the cause of some of these fires. Right. And were seeing the sky just lit up once again. I want to show you whats going on as we take a live look outside in San Francisco. If we were to just sit here and look at this shot, you could see the sky lighting up as we are seeing another active morning for the bay area. As we get a look at the radar and whats happening right now, a lot of storms across the north bay and right off the coast that are getting ready to move into the bay area. So this round of storms for
Before. We want to protect the winery and the house and the things that cant be replaced. Though they were ordered to leave by the sheriff the family plans to stick with the property. Jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. We want to show you how quickly fires can grow in heat with just a little bit of wind. You can see it starts and then it really explodes over the next three hours. There are two other significant fires, one in contra costa county. So far it burned more than 1,100 acres and is 0 contained and evacuation orders are in effect. A brush fire in sonoma burned about 1,700 acres there. Ten homes are under mandatory evacuation orders. I want to show you this that was caught on camera in downtown sonoma. The storms cut the temperatures a bit cooler. Places still in the triple digits and if you notice haze in the area, you are not a lone. A lot of smoke in the sky and the air quality is poor right now. Yeah. Unfortunately it is the perfect storm for unhealthy air around the bay are
Lightningsparked fires. One is he hennessy fire, and by midafternoon, it had already consumed 750 acres, according to a spokesman for cal fire. While cal fire isnt a cant say for certain it, too, was caused by a strike from the key, the flames did start during a storm. An Evacuation Order has been issued. Theres 20 residents, but theres a number of residents below that Hennessy Ridge road. Reporter it affects those who live at Hennessy Ridge road and sage canyon road from childs pope valley rode to lower childs road. Close by neighborhoods are also under evacuation warnings, standing by just in case. As of right now, we do have resources on these fires, and then using those aircraft with weather permits. Reporter the other blaze, the gam fire at no, sirville road is in a much more rural nare at the north end of lake vari esa. An Evacuation Center was set up. We stop bid. No one had take then county up yet on the offer to use it as a structure. Trying to grapple with this fire and make
Are going to do everything we can to protect it. Getting word, another wild fire is burning nearby . Thats right, the gamble fire is off of knoxville road west of berks somewhere around 375 acres right now as of 1 00 this afternoon. It has 0 containment so a couple of different hotspots burning from the Lightning Storm here in napa county this afternoon. The trouble can be traced back to this ind yon see the ou clouds in this timelapse. Lets get to paul heggen tracking these Lightning Storms as well as this extreme heat. Paul . The fire crews are going to be battling over the next several days as a continuation of the heat wave even as the Stormy Weather pattern quiets down. These heat indices are the feels like temperature, the equivalent to the wind chill. Its officially 89, the feels like tempter in napa itself north the purple shading indicates plenty of heat indices around or above 100 degrees. Tomorrow is going to be another day of extreme heat. Temperatures from 12 to 17 degrees