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Acres so far. It is 0 contained. Look at how tiny the firefighters and the trucks look up against the glow of the huge fire that is burning more than 2 1000 structures right now are in harms way threatened by these flames low once again were used to that site, heres a map that shows you. Where the fire is burning now burning east of saint helena and calistoga in napa county and then again just east of santa rosa in Sonoma County the cause of the fire still unknown, but that red line is the perimeter of where these fires are burning right now we know that it started in an area that was under a red flag warning which as john was preparing us for as were going into the weekend we knew temperatures are going to get awfully hot as we head into sunday, yeah it was so hot last night and you can smell. That smoke i did write when i woke up this morning plus there are 2 other fires in napa county believed to be a spot fires of the glass fire, lets take a look at the napa Sonoma County line is w
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot
Blaze. It just moves so quickly over the weekend that attract more than 200 people in Madera County National Guard helicopters were brought in to airlift them to safety and as i said before they are still working on rescuing more people. Good morning, everyone and thank you for waking up with us on the kron 4 morning news, its tuesday september 8th, im robin when said lets start this morning with a check of your forecast well check in with john and see how the day is shaping up another spare the air day fire crews are dealing with the rescues and the weather of course is going to impact the fires burning so lets check in with john to get a robin thats exactly right. We saw the massive growth of the creek fire and now here in the bay area were looking at heightened fire danger ourselves. As we work our way through this tuesday now last night we had a welcome sea breeze pushed back through our coastal areas this really resulted in a nice overnight cool down. For areas like San Francisco