Tonight kron fours closely monitoring the spread of the glass fires burning in the north bay and at this hour, the wild fire has burned more than 48,000 acres, it is at 2 containment joining us now via zoom islington much off with cal fire when thanks for being here again tonight what can you tell us about the conditions right now and. What firefighters are up against as we brace for the red flag. And one has been pretty good the past couple of days of firefighters have been making progress on and obviously able to get 2 containment out of been working really hard today. Particular because we are expecting those reflect a kick in early for afternoon bringing got the win put that. So the take away we we were listening in at a press conference earlier with cal fire what i did here was that we are bracing for really bad couple of days. In terms of the weather who. Who is in the bulls which community are you most worried about. You know its probably most likely going to the communities on
143 homes have been destroyed more than 26,000 structures are still threatened calfire post same this video on twitter today and you can see smoke filling the napa county sky near the Robert Louis Stevenson state park flames from the glass fire have devoured swaths of brush and trees as we mentioned a red flag warning has been issued as the weather is expected to take a turn for the worse. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here to begin our coverage tonight, yeah guys a little bit of a break the last couple of days we see more of a westerly wind that has been carrying with it. Some of that moisture right off the ocean to bring up the humidity slow down the fire, but also pushed the fire different directions. These some of the winds around the fire now you can see fairly light. For the better part of the day now beginning to pick up a little bit the very conditions you can see some of those winds now 11 miles an hour saying lena 10 miles an hour outlets peak 10 miles an hour in
Rosa and silverado trail in napa. More than 60,000 acres charred so far. 30,000 in the tub fire, and another 25,000 acres scorched in the atlas fire near napa. Right now, we go to pete who is in Solano County with no evacuations this morning, right, pete . Reporter yeah, good morning to you, marcus and laura. New evacuations put in by Solano County. The authorities of Solano Solano last night telling folks to evacuate. Green valley road were told to evacuate, and the smoke is billowing in from over the mountain top from the atlas fire behind the mountain behind me. Right here, you see that orange glow. Authorities are telling me that orange glow is coming from the napa county side. The concern why they told folks to evacrate, theres fears it jumps over the mountain into the Solano County area, hence why folks need to evacuate. We have video from overnight our crews got. Sheriff deputies going door to door telling people that they needed to evacuate, and, in fact, there were trucks pull
The pocket and nuns fire are 25 contained. Power outages are another big issue of the wildfires. They are making progress on g getting the lights back on. More than 300,000 customers lost power. Only 23,000 people are without power. 18,000 in is a sonoma county. Right now dispatchers are badly needed. Police tweeted that 93 shifts of dispatchers have been filled by 24 outside agencies. Its part of the mutual aid resources. Some of the dispatchers have come from as far as menlow park, redwood city. The fight to contain and extinguish the flames is not over. Want to show you new numbers. Since monday, aircraft across the state have dropped over 2 million gallons of retardant to try to help aid firefighters on the ground. Many of the tankers have been flying into wine country. As you see on this graph, wednesday and thursday have the heaviest workload. That may be because of two days of the most favorable weather conditions from the air. Governor jerry brown toured some of the worst hit a
Crews are making progress on containing more than a dozen fires burning in the north bay seven days after they were sparked. We are waiting for updates from napa county officials. A press conference is expected to start any minute now. This is a live look at the Napa County Sheriffs Office where they are gathering. Well bring that conference to you live as soon as it begins. Heres a live look from sky 7 of the map feature giving residents of the north bay information about where many of these fires are burning. Geo locates by streets, highways and local landmarks. You can see spots like wildwood Mountain Road which has some flames in the background. Richards road is on that sky map 7, montgomery drive as well. Sky map 7 is a feature you will see only on abc 7 news. Lets check in now on wind conditions and temperatures in the fire areas. Heres our meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, caroline. The winds are still breezy and thats allowing temperatures to be really warm at the coast a