Many understand its not in the same of safety but just weeks after a major fire, the timing wouldnt be worse. Im stocked up on batteries, flashlights, lanterns. Reporter she has what she needs. Im here to service the community. Reporter shes assistant manager at Outdoor Supply hardware with a possible safety power shutoff hours away, most of the portable generators have sold out. This could easily do a refrigerator, couple lights, tv. Reporter john was buying extra flashlight batteries and hes not happy about it. As a general sense of disappointment to pg e. I think one place seems to be under control and another comes in after that. I dont like it. Reporter the utility says it has to cut power to thousands of bay area customers due to hot, dry windy conditions or risk parking a fire from an active power line. At the end of the day we have to stand by the side of safety and if its necessary, we have to do this to prevent healthcare reforms emergencies from occurring. Reporter nancy jus
It certainly has felt that way. Thank you, jeff. Pg e says the power will start going out in parts of napa and sonoma counties as early as 6 00 p. M. And could stay off for days. Heres a look at the planned outages across the bay area. More than 22,000 customers in total. Heres a braekds of outages by county. Napa is expected to have more than 9,000 customers without power including much of calistoga. Alameda county will have 5,300 customers without power, a majority in the Oakland Hills. Santa clara county will have more than 2,000 customers in the dark, including in the santa cruz mountains. Pg e says it will provide an update at 6 00 p. M. Tonight. Well be monitoring that News Conference and pass along any new information. So as people across the bay area start to prepare for the possibility of two scorching days in the dark, fire crews in the Oakland Hills are patrolling an area around the clock. Nbc bay areas melissa colorado joins us live with more on the work being done. The Oak
Affected by this power shut off for a closer look at the areas that are losing power. Kron fours Justine Waltman in our newsroom tracking the latest information right now justine you can find all of the maps on our website kron 4 dot com. But lets zoom in now so you can see. Whats being put out by pg e right now here are the current outages here is the north bay and ill zoom in a little bit so you can see that. In calistoga right now there is a kurd p s p s happening at this moment, same as we move down a little bit just to the west of saint people are in the dark right now, and that also goes for people in sonoma and just west of napa these are where the Current Power outages or and this is been updated. Throughout the day today power will continue to go off. Till about 8 oclock tonight. But as we zoom down just a little bit you can see there are no current p s p s outages and any other part of the bay area but well go to the future p s p s outages and thats when things really start t
Thats because heavy winds and hot dry air are creating ideal fire conditions. Just what we do not need. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Once again our coverage begins with abc 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian for whats happening right now and in the days ahead. Spencer . Okay, dan. Ama was right. We have ideal fire conditions. We have rising temperatures. Very low relative humidity and gusty winds that are only getting stronger. Right now as you look at current temperature readings you can see we have mid 90s, mid to upper 90s in many inland areas, even a couple 90s around the bay shoreline, and its 80 degrees in San Francisco. As we move along you can see that the wind gusts right now in the Higher Elevations are getting stronger and stronger. They will likely get Even Stronger in the nighttime hours. So as a result we have a red flag warning for high fire danger in effect until midday friday. This is not only for the hills but the hills
Power lines lurking overhead, a recipe for disaster. Were on top of the hill here. I feel fortunate i live next door to a firehouse. So i dont think theyll let that burn down. Reporter pg e says the Fire Prevention shutoffs will be phased into 13 different blackouts across Northern California affecting tens of thousands of customers in 24 counties. We expect for these to be smaller by a third and thats thanks to equipment that we have been installing that helps make these more focused and targeted. Its ridiculous. Its almost like saying oh, theres bricks down here. Somebody could trip on it. Lets outlaw bricks, you know. Reporter thats the concern, that power lines could spark some of the fires. Well, we have been alerted to the situation by phone calls and texts. Reporter so that is the plan for pg e to affect the fewest amount of people possible during this latest round. Pg e saying anything else about the latest shutoffs, how its going to affect other customers . Reporter yeah, they