It includes a battalion chief and about 22 people on five fire engines and a water tender.Įach vehicle will be used for individual patrols but will converge when necessary, Heine said. Heine said roving patrols will be done by a task force comprised of firefighters from the Santa Rosa and Cloverdale fire departments, and the Sonoma County, Monte Rio, Bodega Bay and Sonoma Valley fire districts.
#cawx #cafire - NWS Bay Area 🌉 September 9, 2021 #TBT - Who remembers "Mars Day"? 🙋♀️🙋♂️One year ago the Bay Area was blanketed by heavy smoke leading to orange skies. “Even a few fires could become problematic.” “It’s a high probability that, if we get lightning, it will start fires and that’s the main concern,” Walbrun said.
Nonetheless, the North Bay’s drought-parched landscape has only increased the threat posed by wildfire at this time of year. “We’re hoping it won’t generate as much lightning as last year,” said Chris Godley, Sonoma County’s emergency management director. That storm produced lightning strikes that erupted into the Walbridge and Hennessey fires. Walbrun reiterated forecasters don’t expect conditions to be as bad as the historic August 2020 lightning storm that sparked three giant Northern California wildfire complexes and hundreds of smaller fires. “The ingredients are in place for it to blossom” Thursday evening. “That should be making a bee line toward the greater Bay Area,” Walbrun said. The front moving into the North Bay was taking shape west of Big Sur in the Pacific Ocean and will head inland to the northeast. The warning came on the one-year anniversary of what the weather service dubbed “Mars Day,” when wildfire smoke turned the Bay Area’s sky an ominous orange amid last year’s unprecedented siege of wildfires, including the August Complex, the state’s first million-acre inferno that burned for weeks over a half-dozen counties in Northern California. This device is unable to display framed content. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that the fire “activity” was being assessed, but did not specify if lightning was the cause. Smoke and flames could be seen rising from the fire into the night sky, but it did not appear to be spreading. Just before 11:30 p.m., fire and lightning activity was reported in the eastern hills south of Hopland in Mendocino County.Ī small fire that was being called the Rock fire was captured on one of Alert Wildfire’s cameras in a grassy area purported to be in the eastern hills in Mendocino County. There also were reports of fires across the North Bay late Thursday, but officials were slow in confirming whether any of them were caused by lightning. #CAwx #BayAreaWX /N0BYeGnMIl- NWS Bay Area 🌉 September 10, 2021 Thunderstorm activity over this region should diminish and shift eastward in the next hour or two. Another view of the high-based thunderstorms moving over Sonoma County this morning from Mt.
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