We are monitoring a live update from the cal fire at the base camp for the kincaid fire and santa rosa. We are also waiting on a press conference with pg e officials in the next half hour with an update on the Current Power shut off and another one that is on the way. We will bring you that live as it happens. Good evening. Back east the school kids have the snow days. Today around the bay area students had something you might call a power shut off day. That part of our story. Reporter the entire Pacifica School district is closed for the day. The superintendent made the tough call largely because of traffic. Yes traffic. With power knocked off to the stoplights getting up and down the main road in town highway one was a pain. Even with crews directing traffic it was still backed up for much of the morning. It has been nonstop like this all day. It will continue for the rest of the day. Reporter besides not having power at the schools it would be hard for a Police Officer firefighter o
Bay area passengers terrified on their flight to europe. What happened inside the cabin. I flown many times and never experienced anything like that. The unprecedented potential for widespread Power Outages because the huge risk for catastrophic wildfire. Good evening. If you live in napa county there is a good chance your power will be cut. The counties at the shaded areas will go dark early wednesday morning. The power could stay out for five days or more. Napa is one of seven bay area counties put on notice. Statewide 29 counties are on alert. We have Team Coverage tonight beginning with andrea live in Contra Costa County. Reporter if it happens this would be the first Public Safety power shut off here in Contra Costa County. I talk with highway 24 near the caldecott tunnel. Where the mountains are. Where all the of the dry vegetation is. Inside the Pg E Emergency Operation Center inow San Francisco calls texts and emails are going out his red flag warnings a potential fire weather
Looks like guys are bills been spared. Yeah which is the fortunate news now there are still embers blowing around out there. Despite the fact the winds of calm so the threat is still in existence. And so kaiser feel still cordoned off nobody allowed back in i want to illustrate once again. The evacuation area and also the intensity of the fire were getting a better handle on that as well and thats what this map shows us on both those levels but will begin with evacuations as we zoom in here on the map and give you a closer and look as i mentioned the town of guys are bill still under mandatory Evacuation Orders there it is along highway one oh one. The majority of the evacuated area, however, as you can see our into the hills east of one oh one but for guys fill and a certain stretch north and south about 5 miles or so youre not allowed there until they get a better handle on the actual fire and thats what these red dots illustrate each one represents a hot spot that theyre currently b
Looks fantastic. No delays right flow, and upper east shore freeway, no major issues. Youll notice this red in the squiggling section. Thats the portion of 101 affected by the work on the muir fire. And that area is still closed because of the kinkade fire. Its breaking news we continue to follow as the wild fares tear apart parts of california. Right now theres more than a dozen fires up and down the state so far the kinkade fires has burned 16,000 acres being fueled by strong winds and its only 5 march contained. At least 49 buildings and homes have now been destroyed. About 2,000 people in geyserville and hillsberg you are under evacuation. Our crew discovered broken equipment that may have sparked the fire. Pg e cut power to quite a bit of the north bay, but we have learned that they did not cut power to highpower transmission lines until after the flames broke out. Well, the changing winds will certainly cause a lot of problems. Look at the smoke billows into the bay area as well.
Under Evacuation Orders, everybody got out yesterday they cannot go back to their homes to see what is left and that is because theres still a risk of fires james, fact as we take another look at the evacuation fire map will show you once more that the. Mandatory evacuation zone runs right up against one oh one and the town of guys are ville right there we just talk with calfire live on our air a moment ago, and we posed the question the winds are calm today. The looks like the downtown area guys the bill has been unaffected. So why cant people come back and take a look. Well, the reason is because the winds are expected to pick up and theyre still embers flying around and falling in with the winds flaring up this weekend this whole fire could re energize and could begin burning towards populated areas. They want everybody to stay out until they know the coast is clear for now though the fire still raging and thats what all these red icons indicate each one of these dots represents a h