Customers in the bay area. We have life Team Coverage at the Pg E Emergency Operations Center and on the preparations being taken in the south bay. Our meteorologist is tracking the winds that are causing so much concern. We begin with greatly who is in lafayette where people are scrambling to get ready and stocking up on needed supplies. More than 40,000 customers in Contra Costa County alone will lose power tonight and that includes in lafayette where people have been rushing to places like this ace hardware to make sure they are prepared for the outage. Once ron got word pg e would shut off his power, he left work early and rushedto the sto up and he wasnt alone. Several pallets of water completely empty. People are getting ready because the stores are more crowded than ever. The Police Departments estimate 21,000 customers will go dark in the marinda area. Police departments sent notices to residents last night to prepare before pg e finalized its plans. Giving residence a heads up
This is the measure of last resort and given the extreme nature of what is being forecasted we think this is the appropriate approach from a Risk Reduction perspective to again ensure the continued safety of our customers and our communities. Were now just 2 hours away from the beginning of a massive power shut off across the bay area. Pg e is set to turn off the power to about 800,000 customers the earliest shut down set to begin at midnight and continue in phases. Thanks for joining us at 10, im can one and im pam moore, the power shut off coms as the bay area remains in extreme fire danger right now. Firefighters are at the scene of a vegetation fire mill valley, the Mill Valley Fire Department tweeted out this photograph uh what is being called the firm fire. This fire is burning at the top of fernwood and in and firefighters say that it has been highly visible from highway one oh one the good news at this hour. Fire crews say full what progress has been stopped no evacuation order
Power shut off. How they plan to keep running safely. Schools are also shutting down, uc berkeley is among those shutting down. The scope of this power shut off is unprecedented but so are the catastrophic wildfires we have seen in recent years. Pg e is set to pull the plug on 800,000 homes and businesses starting just after midnight. It will begin to our north and then roll south across the bay area as the day progresses. More than 200,000 of those pg e customers are in the bay area. The outages are happening in eight of the nine bay area counties. Only San Francisco is exempt. People across the bay area are scrambling to get ready. Our Team Coverage begins with amberly at an open gas station where there were lines of cars waiting to fill up today. Reporter we are at a busy gas station on mountain boulevard in the oakland hills. The manager here tells me there have been lines all day. There are still people here filling up. Everywhere we went, people told us they did not want to take
Carnival. Choose fun. In downtown napa where some businesses will be in the dark afternit. Preparingor the s sunanknowy arent exactly sure how to handle anticipated power shutoffs. Dm i huhte e. Reange on t ris ill show you the areas at greatest risk of extreme fir behavior. The utility finally gave specifics as to when they finally plan to cut power to coti california. Abc 7 new starts right now. Gbbin g water, grabbing ice and doing all this andt. Ha best. And that breaking news is a mad roundsc amb trahe ins a b hler aare pg e will starting off power totthu nearlyle affected. And that includes nine here in the bay area impacting around 300,000 customers locally. Only San Francisco is exempt. We have Team Coverage tonight fanned out across the bay area. Outages all because of the fire danger. Youre looking livet theogtan s. It is a very shaky view. Winds are beginning to ramp up gusting to 35 right now out of the northwest at mount diablo, 28 on mount. The red flagam t warning starts
Breaking news now at 11 tim. Are you ready for the power to go out . Were now less than an hour away from the largest planned shut off ever in california. Plus 100 acreburning on the Central Coast as we speak tonight. This is exactly what pg e is afraid of. Good evening im ken bastida. And im veronica de la cruz. Kpix 5 is your Survival Guide for this epic outage. In less than an hour pg e will start turning off power to almost a million customers because the fire danger is so high. 278,000 of you in 8 counties across the bay area. It will come in wave, starting in napa and santa rosa county, then santa clara, alameda, and contra costa counties. Tonight this is exactly what pg e is trying to avoid. In the past couple of hour, a wildfire has burned more than 1 hung acres off highway 101 right at the Monterey County line near camp roberts. Strong winds have been fanning the flames. Cal fire says that forward progress has now been stopped. Pg e crews are on the scene because there are rep