SF News 'We Can't Keep Living Like This': Dave Eggers Offers Firsthand Account of the Early Hours of the Glass Fire One of the Bay Area's most renowned writers, Dave Eggers, has offered up his own account of the Glass Fire for The New Yorker.
SF News Predicted Mid-Week High Winds Means More Likely Power Shutoffs for North Bay Higher temperatures and gusty offshore winds later this week have PG&E warning customers in the North Bay and elsewhere that there could be another PSPS (public safety power shutoff) in their future.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 74% Containment; 1,545 Structures Burned The Glass Fire remains largely under control in Sonoma and Napa counties as we close out its second week since igniting, and Cal Fire reported Friday morning that it has reached 74-percent containment.
SF News Glass Fire 58% Contained; Toll of Destroyed Homes Hits 616 The Glass Fire is largely under control in Napa and Sonoma counties as of Wednesday morning, though several thousand residents remain under evacuation orders. Cal Fire reported reaching 58-percent containment, as damage assessments continue.
SF News Entire West Coast Marijuana Crop Threatened By Fire, Smoke, and Ash In not just California, but Oregon and Washington too, where even cannabis plants that are hundreds of miles from the fires suffer smoke damage that renders the pot unsmokable.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 30% Containment as Some Evacuation Orders Are Lifted Predicted high winds never materialized late last week or over the weekend, and firefighters were able to raise containment levels and tamp down the Glass Fire threat for much of Sonoma County. On the Napa side, Calistoga was able to breathe easy Sunday as the fire shifted east.
SF News Firefighters Still Bracing For High Winds After Calm Night Fighting Glass Fire; Containment Reaches 6 Percent Forecasted gusty winds failed to materialize with the new Red Flag Warning Thursday night, allowing fire crews in the North Bay to beef up containment lines on the Glass Fire and prevent any further structure damage.
SF News SF Air Quality to Worsen Thursday Night, Improve By Friday Afternoon According to the latest smoke forecast, while fires may get scarier to our north — and while the East Bay hills are under Red Flag Warnings too — the smoke situation in San Francisco will get worse before it gets better.
SF News Ignition Point Of Glass Fire Identified and It's *Possible* It Wasn't PG&E's Fault Cal Fire investigators appear to have found the general area where the Glass Fire first ignited around 3:30 a.m. on September 27. A PG&E transmission line runs through the area, but an initial investigation has not pointed immediately to PG&E as the likely culprit, for a change.
SF News [Update] New Fire Near Yountville Quickly Contained What's being called the Campbell Fire has just broken out Thursday morning in the vicinity of Oakville Grade Road and Campbell Creek Road in Napa County, just outside of Yountville on the west side of Highway 29.
SF News Glass Fire Continues to Grow As Containment Reaches 5 Percent Overnight Firefighters in Sonoma and Napa counties are bracing for two days of bigger and faster flames as high winds return, but containment on the Glass Fire inched up overnight to reach 5 percent.
SF News Glass Fire Gains 1,800 Acres Overnight As Dry Conditions and Another Red Flag Warning Are on the Horizon Wednesday morning brought news that the Glass Fire had not significantly expanded its footprint compared to the day before, and all but around 14,000 residents have been allowed to return home in Sonoma County.
SF News Glass Fire Grows to 36,000 Acres, Dozens of Structures Confirmed Destroyed The Glass Fire, which remains zero-percent contained as it continues burning in Sonoma and Napa counties, more than tripled in size between Monday and Tuesday, though calmer wind conditions overnight will hopefully lead to some containment today.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Rosa Senior Community Saved From Fire Three people have died in the Zogg Fire in Shasta County, Calistoga is a ghost town right now, the evacuated senior community in east Santa Rosa appears to have been spared from flames, and Oakland has had a disturbing recent spate of homicides.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Parts of Meadowood Resort, Including Michelin Three-Star Restaurant, Burn In Glass Fire In St. Helena Parts of the luxury Meadowood resort caught fire early Monday morning, and despite their best efforts firefighters were unable to save the restaurant building after they drained the pool and ran out of water.
SF News PG&E Power Outages Hitting NorCal Hard, Nearly 100,000 Homes May Be Without Power as Utility's Share Price Drops It’s that time of year, as the Napa and Sonoma fires have knocked out some 37,000 homes’ power, planned outages hit another 65,000 homes in the Sierras, and even Oakland and SF have a few areas without power.
SF News Glass Fire Merges With Sonoma Fire, Burns 11,000 Acres and Prompts Mass Evacuation The Glass Fire grew at least fourfold overnight as it merged with two other fires that it may have sparked — the Shady Fire and the Boysen Fire — and gusty offshore winds continue to help it grow to the south and west.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Air Quality to Hold Steady Around SF One person was killed by a fallen tree branch while picnicking in Burlingame over the weekend, California parents are protesting schools remaining closed with a "Zoom-out," and the TikTok ban is on hold.
SF News Wildfires Return to Areas of Wine Country Burned in 2017; Evacuation Orders Hit Santa Rosa, Kenwood, Glen Ellen Parts of Santa Rosa that either burned or were in view of the burning three years ago were under mandatory evacuation orders Sunday night as more fast-moving fire spread into Sonoma County from Napa earlier in the evening.
SF News Possibly Smoky Air, High Surf, High Winds, and High Heat On the Way What happens to the air quality in various parts of the Bay is still anyone's guess as winds are expected to shift and wildfire smoke from either Mendocino County or the southern Central Valley could move our way.
SF News Red Flag Warning Looking Likely For Parts of the Bay Area Saturday Night as More Dangerous Winds Take Shape Residents of the hill country in Sonoma and Napa counties and out in the East Bay should brace themselves for more fire weather and possible power shutoffs this weekend as another heatwave shapes up and more Diablo winds are being forecast.
SF News Three Major Bay Wildfires Now At or Near Full Containment, Five and a Half Weeks Later The destructive CZU Lightning Complex fire in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties was declared fully, 100-percent contained on Wednesday, five and a half weeks after it was sparked and 86,000 scorched acres later.
SF News SF, North Bay Air Quality to Improve By Monday Afternoon as Marine Air Kicks Up Cool air will prevail for most of this week, as the marine layer off the San Francisco coast gathers some strength after remaining pretty weak for two days. But then more hot weather may be on its way.
SF News Air Quality Will Not Hold As Temperatures Rise With High-Pressure System This Weekend Air quality in San Francisco and the Bay Area is predicted to slide into potentially unhealthy territory by Sunday, as an area of high pressure puts an end to the nice marine breeze we've been having for a couple of days that's pushed wildfire smoke away to the north and east.
SF News Bay Area Air Quality Clears As Smoky Air Blows Into Nevada and Tahoe Exactly a week after San Franciscans woke up to a dystopian, dark-orange sky, the city arose to fresh air and blueish/foggy sky on Wednesday morning. How sweet it is.
