Pg e cuts the power, so when a Business Owner tries to do the right thing by turning on his generator, coming up, the cautionary tale that ends with a bigger loss. Crews in Solano County monitoring the fire situation after hundreds of acres went up in flames. Ill show you what it looked like. Fire danger remains elevated. The holidays are on the horizon and food bandank banks desperate. 345,000 pg e customers had their power cut as the utility tried to prevent wildfires, but we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the fire danger, because the red flag warning has now been extended. Well begin our coverage with meteorologist sandhya patel. Critically dry conditions continue. Take a look at the wind gusts right now. The diablo winds still going, not as strong as they were 24 hours ago. 22 at knoxville creek. So were still watching very dry conditions, antioch, fairfield, 15 in napa. That red flag warning for the east bay hills and Solano County. Gust 5060 Miles Per Hour not out
Pg e cuts the power, so when a Business Owner tries to do the right thing by turning on his generator, coming up, the cautionary tale that ends with a bigger loss. Crews in Solano County monitoring the fire situation after hundreds of acres went up in flames. Ill show you what it looked like. Fire danger remains elevated. The holidays are on the horizon and food bandank banks desperate. 345,000 pg e customers had their power cut as the utility tried to prevent wildfires, but we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the fire danger, because the red flag warning has now been extended. Well begin our coverage with meteorologist sandhya patel. Critically dry conditions continue. Take a look at the wind gusts right now. The diablo winds still going, not as strong as they were 24 hours ago. 22 at knoxville creek. So were still watching very dry conditions, antioch, fairfield, 15 in napa. That red flag warning for the east bay hills and Solano County. Gust 5060 Miles Per Hour not out
The flames. At one point powerful winds pushed smoke into contracosta county. It took views about two hours to get control of the area. Winds were Strong Enough to take someones backyard trampoline over the fence. Fremont Police Tweeted this picture as a reminder to secure things in your yard. Pg es website shows all the places where the power is out now. And recently released updates from the Utility Company indicate it could stay out longer than originally expected. The purple triangles on this map youre looking at indicate a Public Safety power shutoff. San francisco is the only bay area county not affected. The north bay is bearing the brun of all this. About 25,000 customers are without power in Sonoma County alone. Along with nearly 14,000 in marin county, 11,000 in napa and about 1,500 in Solano County. In the east bay there are roughly 16,000 customers without power in both alameda and contracosta counties. Santa clara county and san mateo counties also have a number of custome
So, lets jump right in to weather. Let me take it from here. We have some issues out there as kumasi talked about. You can see it over my shoulder. The red flag warning in effect for the diablo range and east bay hills and also the north bay mountains and this goes through 5 00 this evening as winds could still gust 50 to 60. That is looking less likely but still possible but extremely dry out there. 8 to 18 relative humidity. We could have extreme fire behavior because of that. Winds are still running anywhere from 35 to about 41 in knoxville. So, that is still pretty critical as far as fire starting and fire spreading. Look at this. 8 in the Oakland Hills to about 10 , 11 relativi relative ty ty rest of us. For the rest of us extremely dry air and temperatures in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Away from the coast in the mid 70s. Okay, mike. Thank you. Oakland police are investigating an incident along mcarthur boulevard. One person is dead and we have reached out to investigators for more i
Urging people to avoid standing underneath trees when winds are blowing like they did overnight and late today. Check out this trampoline that toppled over a fence in fremont. Police tweeting the picture to remind everybody, make sure that your items are secured, tied down during heavy winds. Its all part of the Public Safety power shutoffs. Hundreds of thousands of californians are affected, authorities trying to prevent their equipment sparking wildfires in extreme winds. Take a look from pg e. You can see exactly where power is out right now across the bay area. All the dots there in purple. You can see thousands of people are still affected in the bay area. Although the situation is getting better. We have Team Coverage today on the Power Outages and the winds. Abc 7 News Reporters Laura Anthony and Wayne Friedman are checking in on customers affected in the east bay and north bay. Lets begin with abc 7 meteorologist drew tuma and the forecast. The red flag warning still on. Yeah,