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KRON KRON 4 News At 5am July 13, 2024

Where were seeing the evacuation which of course has grown since weekend or since friday over the weekend we saw this entire area in purple expand right before it was just sort of the facility around the fire right up to one to one, but now the mandatory evacuation area continues all the way out to the coast and down one on one as well in the direction of healdsburg and santa rosa and this area in red is the active fire zone these dots actually represent the thermal heat. Coming from these fires and theyre colored in a way that tells you how old some of these flames are the lighter the color the over that spot fire the redder it is the more current it is and you can see the most current burn is happening on the southern edge of the fire zone burning to the south in the direction of more Populated Areas thats the concern on friday last time we chatted of course the burn area was more to the north and you can see by the coloring thats the older fire. The more current blaze is happening to the south and thats where firefighters are really bracing for the worse and thats why the evacuation area long want to one for places like healdsburg in places like santa rosa, really picked up over the weekend and so were really going to be tracking this carefully again this is going to be this situation, a changes moment by moment as the winds change and as the firefighting effort continues to evolve so keep it tuned to kron 4 will keep you updated on more in napa and sonoma counties and the fires that are burning right now dorian lets go up to the fire and the destruction has done so how burning some homes and properties in healdsburg. And thats where kron fours will tran is station this morning live with a look at the damage and what theyre doing right now will. What theyre doing right now area is locking down this particular area healdsburg. I had to go through 4 checkpoints just to get to this location and it is dark most the power is out just to get to this location you have to go from one checkpoint drive a quarter mile go to another checkpoint because they want to make sure that the public as away from this area, so only authorities and the media are allowed to go through this area and you could see a couple of police cars right behind me in fact theyre getting help from all over the bay area i saw a police car from coma just drive through this location, it is dark right now let me set the stage for you it is not windy, definitely smells very smoky of course the fires still burning out of control yesterday morning when we woke up it was sitting at 10 contained, but the winds just passed howard. The flames throughout the area that actually containment numbers went down from 10 to 5 . It is at a burning approximately 84 square miles of one of the most famous places in the world wine country fortunately, no fatalities at this time we do know that a couple of people were injured, including some firefighters, one received massive burns that this person had to be airlifted to the hospital but at last check should recover from the injuries as far as the fire is concerned it is still spreading that at one point one oh one was shut down in both directions because visibility was so poor as the fires, were sending smoke all all of the place and if youre wondering this morning. Yes, it is very smoky, but terribly bad as far as breathing at all see the embers floating around it has been destructive soto rock winery near healdsburg its been around since 1869 firefighters. They dont care about the historic value. They want to say property they want to save lives. But in this particular case. It is very sad that this winery went up in flames so many people go there every year they tried to save it. But instead, it is pretty much gone this morning of course all of this comes under the watchful eye of governor Gavin Newsome who says more health needs to be on its way. We have been blessed i want to once again, thank the Trump Administration and fema for their Quick Response and support with what we refer to as f magdy federal declaration that allows reimbursements and a often its that we can scale are efforts. Underway resources are secondary to the immediate needs of our communities. Thank fema for all their extraordinary work. More than 3,000 firefighters are being thrown at this and theyre fires all over our state for right now it appears that the kincade fire james and area seems to be the Top Priorities since it started a little bit earlier than the previous of skis made in the other fires in Southern California. So theyre throwing everything has a possibly can afis the aircraft should come up a little bit later this morning once the sun comes up, but dont even think about coming to this location you can see theres a fire truck there and theres heavy equipment off to the side. Theres a chp officer right next to me. This area is pretty much guy under lockdown back to you all right, thanks william was all those evacuations there still 80,000 structures threatened thats why theyre a vacuum eating absolutely and that was willing healdsburg want to go south on 1, one just a touch head down to windsor. Where the fire lines getting pretty close nets were proper Sarah Stinson as kron 4 sarah says then youve been on the fire line for so many days now whats the difference or what do you notice this morning. Were seeing some hot spots behind me in flare ups here on shiloh ridge, this is a shy little rant Regional Park you can see a tree on fire. And some flames and this is what firefighters have been battling for the last 24 hours hot spots flare ups. You ksow the fire traveled from guys all the way down here to windsor and its just in case abul to see just how much is burning. I was out here yesterday. And it really became clear as to why the fire at that time was 10 contained and now. It is 5 contaiaed because its just grow and size so much as you remember from the first day 10,000 acres and now were looking at over 54,000 acres, so thats firefighters are dealing with and they were here all. Last night making sure that this fire didnt spread to homes is a lot of homes in this area and as you said theres 80,000 structures that are. And thats what theyre doing out here making sure that none of them spread. And even people who stayed behind which is not recommended for small, but those who did they were trying to help out there. Hoses out spring them trying help firefighters and help themselves defend their home. But cal fire says you know is much better for you to evacuate because it can cause a a big concern for the they have to try and save your life for one man retired firefighter, he was just doing the best you can to help everybody get the hose out take a listen to what he had to say. House i can reach this has its about 250 about 10 houses. Retired across the street. I didnt want anything like a little spot. The us extinguished so. You can see the abundance of leaves here. It just what night. It does get wet. And what hes talking about is this dry brush that is all. Religion is so dry you can hear. Just good night when the flames and embers come here and then it just takes off. I mean yesterday the wind was insane. And to hold on to my camera because i was concerned was going to blow. National Weather Service actually clock the wind at some point in the foot hills 100 Miles Per Hour that is insane. So firefighters are not only trying to but the fire. Just so difficult today. The winds are supposed to calm down thats really going to help their firefighting efforts as they try to contain the kincade fire. All right, thank you very much. Sarah for that will be visiting with sarah throughout the morning story were talking about the air quality in the smoke from the fire john a i live in 2 different areas now. Its funny because i live in marin county where we have no going on a second day here but look at our air quality has been fined not so as windy maybe thats why it was absolutely fine by see the darker the color, the worst air quality are sometimes on the wind calms down it settles down so youre going to have an impact up in marin county today but yesterday the winds were so strong anything from the kincade fire was being shot straight out to the southwest ok so it was pushed immediately offshore in the pacific. One of the concerns we do have about today is now the winds are calming down. You may actually see some of that smoke thats been pushed offshore now actually pushing back on into the day. More smoke in the north and the east bay, too im really surprised. So far away from the fire that you see these high numbers of that air quality yeah, definitely areas like right around a where we had the cartoon as fire yesterday still definitely dealing with some smoke thats being put up from that right up so youre definitely seeing an impact fill a hole right now as well as on into the east bay we had smoke from lafayette drifting on into the east bay yesterday just kind of so their issue is really the fires, the smaller fires that broke out yesterday on east bay and our issue up here is exactly i could see those different impact those areas in between that actually are sitting pretty nice like napa right now is great sonoma itself surprisingly. Not too bad meantime santa rosa, theyre all evacuated. Said are a lot of them, yeah, so definitely a variation as far as what youre seeing some areas this morning. Youre not smelling youre not seeing anything other areas its not good at all and its funny i want to say San Francisco seems unaffected by everything. There seems to be no problem was smoking i a little in the studio. Then it traffic wise it is been a mess and thats because people in the surrounding areas have no power or theyre evacuating ive seen. Cars filled wpth people, you know theyll have 5 people tiny carcass they got to get out. People are getting gas there. So you know do know that its not on affected you really feel a crash in San Francisco you definitely do driving around really anywhere in the bay this weekend and helical weekday, almost really does everyone was on the roads. Especially people moving south from Sonoma County trying to get out of the evacuation zone. So youre saying is going to be away differ weather pattern today thats going affect air quality and and maybe Power Outages to right yeah so today you may see a air quality actually a bit worse because we dont have the winds that are pushing it wrong right out of the area today, its just all going to settle in and you can actually see in some of our web cams this morning, a just a little bit of haze thats hanging out over areas like San Francisco, so its definitely going to be hovering across the bay today as winds continue to calm down. You may see power restored briefly but with another wind event just around the corner now its likely to be very brief if you do see power restored moderate rate winds up in the north bay currently asti on over to Hidden Valley lake in the vicinity of the kincade fire still enough to be talking about that a lot calmer than yesterday was after what will be some breezy conditions at times this morning winds are only going to continue to come down into the afternoon. Still in excess of 10 Miles Per Hour for your gusts in san ramon pittsburgh antioch brentwood. These areas certainly still breezy at times red flag warnings expiring today at 11 00am thats because those winds are calming down enough that fire danger is going down with it so nice calm afternoon ahead of us but look what happens tomorrow. Wind speeds are going to pick back up especially into tomorrow evening and into tomorrow evening and on eventually into wednesday morning were going to see gusts back into the 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour range for the north bay regularly and the peak gusts on top of that anywhere from 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. So were jumping back up to some very breezy conditions wont be as windy as yesterday and the night before that was but still enough to be noted 50s for your morning temperatures by the afternoon were only in the 70s this is certainly good news for those of you without power, at least theres no 80s or 90s on the map 70s we can handle that. I will be talking more about what to expect the rest of the week. Still ahead, james, all right, thank you john and just a reminder makes you download the kron on app from your favorite app store weve removed the pay wall so its free for you this is our 24 hour streaming news service, not only does it simulcast our broadcast here the morng news. And the evening news but in between youll have 24 7 live updates from our newsroom as we keep you updated on this fire crisis and the Public Safety power shutoff so again this has been a lifesaver for a lot of folks whove had power turned off to their neighborhoods if it got cell signal. They can still continue to watch our continuous updates, so just remember that if you havent already download kron on now lets get to the Traffic Center and rob and one of the roads like this its not too bad a couple of trouble spots to talk about, but i want to go back to the power shut off. That is impacting the smart Train Service in the north bay. So if you normally commute out of sonoma moran that smart train that runs through there. Not operating today at all because of the pg e power shut off so youre gonna after choose and alternate source of transportation bay bridge traffic 80 west looking good but because its been so windy just watch out for all the debris and items scattered across the road i saw a lot overturned trash cans and debris and objects scattered out there when i was driving to work so 12 minutes to make it in and then westbound 24 after 6. 80 just getting word of a crash blocking or 2 left lanes. So a little heavy theyre leaving wannacry can to lafayette 12 minutes to make it over to oakland chains. All right. Thank you robert. Still ahead on the kron 00 04am morning news, millions of pg customers in the bay area course without power and it could be dark for the next few days were going update you on the blackouts and what pg thinking in terms of turning it back on. 1850 coffee. Inspired by the year the Folger Coffee Company began. With a bold yet smooth taste. 1850 coffee, begin boldly. With an update on the breaking news this morning, not only following the fires that are burning in the north bay and in portions of the east bay but were also tracking. The power outage, the Public Safety power shutoff that pg e is implemented to try prevent the spread or the eruption of more fires this map shows us where the fire where the power has been turned off and obviously the purple colors what we really focus on because that is a complete power shut off north bay peninsula, south bay east bay all corners of the bay impacted by this in one shape or another. Lets zoom in on the east bay because were looking at a variation of power shut off says you can see a lot of the power shut offs are along the east bay hills from it looks like a richmond all the way actually from the parking as bridge all the way down towards hayward and fremont and then as we slide the maps further easter farther east right along 24 in out towards lafayette, you can see large sections of highway 24 without power and again the situation along 6. 80 for martinez all the way down towards dublin and pleasanton without power. The number of communities around mount diablo as well dont forget, we have the clayton fire break out over the weekend so a lot of the surrounding foothills of mount diablo are without power. And the situation is that today with the winds calming pg e expects that some communities will see their power turn back on today and again its going to be one of those rolling situations where communities will be turned on on a rolling basis depending on how quickly they can assess the stability and the safety of the power lines in those areas. But heres the catch. We are also looking at another wind event kicking in tuesday night into wednesday and for some communities. The power could be shut up once again at that point. What happens between now and then well for some theyll get a brief respite with the power coming back on today but potentially going back off tuesday night. But for others it might not be possible to get you. Bacu up with power, so you could be without power throughout the extended period that covers both today and that tuesday night wednesday morning events you could be without power for most of the week ahead depending on where you are and thats going to be critical issue that were going to try track for you as as much as we can in his real time as we can with pg e today and throughout the rest of the week so keep it to the kron 4. And james things really got worse when there were more fires fueled by those strong winds around the bay in vallejo a fire burns near homes in the glen cove area. It jumped i 80 forcing the car keen as bridge to close the fire also burned on the campus of the california maritime academy, look at that one of the maintenance buildings there was gutted several cars look at their or destroyed lanes were open on the bridge nearly 3 hours later so for 3 hours. The bridge was closed there was a fire near crockett and that also burn about 200 acres. 2 small fires destroyed a tennis Club Building the roof of a home and 2 outbuildings in lafayette, youre looking at the damage there. These fires broke out in that area behind the tennis club and blow. It was only about a 5 acre fire. But still right Contra Costa County firefighters. I had to deal with several downed power lines that were spotted in that area were issued but in that area in lafayette. The evacuees have been allowed back in. Thank you a for a neighborhood in southern martinez. After this fire which reached 50 acres it broke out on a hammer avenue near forest way around 4 oclock in the afternoon. And there were crews from the oakland and hayward departments, theyre helping Contra Costa County fire protection. Put that fire out no structures ended up being burned in that fire. All right says we just talked about a moment ago with outage map it looks like the winds calm down enough that maybe some folks get power but thats were not out of the woods because we have more wind come later this week, yeah for the 3rd time guys theyre going to spike back up again. Tomorrow night wednesday looking espec

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