Gus gusts mt. Hood 19 miles an hour that will change, 11 00 a. M. Sunday to 11 00 am tuesday. It covers valleys and hills. Gusts up to 50 at the lower elevation, 60 and 70 over the ridges and humidity 5 to 15 . Critical to extreme fire conditions are expected. Damaging winds are possible. A high wind watch until 10 00 am monday. There is a possibility of downed trees and power lines as you look at the hour by hour wind forecast, the winds pick up first in the north bay and then spread late sunday night into monday. Were going to toss to cornell bernard with more on how people are preparing for the upcoming fires. Reporter hey, sandhya, were in santa rosa where this air attack for cal fire is very busy. Check it out. This tanker just returning from fighting that wildfire in rural napa county. Planes have have been coming and going about every 15 minutes. Its about 4 00 p. M. Reloading with retar dent. Done the for but extreme fire danger is ahead for a lot of firefighters all over North
With a building resembling a medieval castle lost lost, embodying all its wine. I dont know what i could have done had i stayed up. Yes. Lets begin with andria borba in napa county. Reporter the damage leveled by the glass fire has taken a particularly hard toll on the marr family. The long time residents of the valley, the 87yearold dick marr lost the home where he raised his five children last night. You hear about it and read about it, but when you see where you spent 45 years of your life, it is really, i dont know i am crying. I am sorry. Reporter but the ruin didnt stop there. This glowing orange spot in the cell phone picture is his son seans home. This is our sons home, sean. He lives right down the trail. Reporter and in an almost too cruel twist, a second son lost his home, as well. My ore overtimer brother kelly lost his home, as well. We are resilient. We are full of love and blessed with so much, but it keeps hitting us. It is like come on, all right . It is enough already
Kenny . Reporter elizabeth, there are plenty of residents here who are staying put, you can understand why, because their homes mean so much to them. Throughout the day, we have seen air drops in this area, not too much air support, every once in a while, you will hear helicopters and cal fire says that is because the skies are smoky and gray and that limits the amount of air support throughout the day. We do hear the helicopters every once in a while. The bulldozers have come through, and created a line to protect some of these homes, on the ground, residents are helping each other out, before what could be a very long night and a big fight. Days ago, rogers sister lost her home in deer park. The one really special part of that was the American Flag was still flying. I am sorry. Reporter the glass fire has shifted directions and now his property to the north is closer to the raging inferno. You can see the helicopter above, up to the northwest direction, making some drops right now. I
Complex in the east bay, and the czu august complex in san mateo, santa clara, and santa cruz counties. We have new aerial images of the czu august lightning complex fire. That fire has burned more than 40,000 acres or about 62 square miles in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Cal fire says it is still 0 contained. Cal fire has now ordered a mandatory evacuation for the entire town of felton and the mountains a few miles north of santa cruz. Everyone in feltons population of about 4000 is being told to leave. Lets get right to kpix 5s kiet do who joins us live from felton this afternoon. Reporter cal fire issued the Evacuation Order at 8 30 this morning. Since then, we have seen a steady stream of cars, everyone pulling their jet skis, lawn equipment, rvs. It is interesting to see what people take with them in these situations. Now it is looking more like a ghost town. Make no bones about it, the fire is coming. We were warned to be on the lookout for extreme fire behavior and it did
The fire has burned over 23,000 acres. Fire officials are bracing for the wind. New round of power shut offs. Businesses and residences tired of it. Powerful wind and power shut offs, dry gusty conditions are expected to put parts of the mountains in the dark. We have two breaking stories were following to want. Theres the kincade fire. Which is more than doubled in size in 24 hours. Firefighters are battling the weather. Which has led to pg e putting millions of residents on notice. This time tomorrow night you could be without electricity. We are preparing for whats likely going to be a widespread safety shut off. This will be the strongest event of the year. And if models are right. Stronger than the october 8 and 9, 2017 fire event. So were lez than 24 hours from the pg e possible power shut off. Effecting 850,000 customers across 36 counties. From the north bay. The shut off would begin tomorrow at 5 00 p. M. For the rest of the bay area 7 00. We begin with hayward. She found lots