Sonoma County Home Sales Plummet Amid Surplus Following Wildfires
Sonoma County home sales have plunged last month following a period of big demand after the wine country wildfires, the clearest sign yet of a housing market slowdown.
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Sonoma County home sales have plunged last month following a period of big demand after the wine country wildfires, the clearest sign yet of a housing market slowdown.
The head of Cal Fire spoke to KPIX 5 Friday during an exclusive sit-down interview, giving him a chance to discount President Trump's recent claims that California's destructive wildfires are a result of "incompetence" by state officials.
PG&E crews have restored power to all San Francisco Bay Area customers as of Tuesday evening after a precautionary shutdown Sunday night, a PG&E spokeswoman said.
Officials said that as of early Tuesday morning that 20,278 across Northern California were still without power,
Thousands of residents in the North Bay and the Sierra foothills had their power back Monday night as PG&E continued to restore power to customers effected by the utility preemptively shutting off electricity over potential wildfire risk Sunday.
In the wake of high fire danger warnings, Pacific Gas and Electric has shut off power in Lake, Napa and Sonoma Counties on Sunday night, affecting nearly 17,500 customers.
The sounds of recovery are all over the North Bay, but nowhere more than Santa Rosa's Coffey Park, where some of the heaviest damage was caused by the Wine Country Wildfires a year ago.
Amid concerns over the wine country's readiness for the next big wildfire, one North Bay law enforcement agency is using the anniversary as a way to promote its new emergency platforms.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' first experience cleaning up after a wildfire has turned into an expensive bureaucratic mess and California's top emergency official suspects fraud played a role.
The Branscombe Fire burning in southern Solano County has burned 4,700 acres and is 70 percent contained as of early Monday morning.
A fast-moving grass fire in Solano County has burned 1,000 acres and several structures near Suisun City.
A contractor doing repair work at the scene of the largest wildfire in California's recorded history has died in a vehicle accident.
The wall around Coffey Park, destroyed in 2017's North Bay wildfires, may be rebuilt at no cost to homeowners thanks to a company that has come under fire for not doing enough.
"If we don't know what causes a fire, we don't know how to prevent them," said Carrie Bilbao, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center.
The U.S. Forest Service says the largest wildfire in California history is now 100 percent contained.
The Snell Fire, which has burned almost 2,500 acres between Middletown and Lake Berryessa in Napa County, is now 100 percent contained.
One of the largest pet adoption events in the country was happening at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton. Many of the animals lost their homes to wildfires.
The evacuation orders issued for the Irving Fire in Marin County were lifted early Tuesday evening, according to Marin County Fire officials.
The Snell Fire in Napa County held at approximately 2,400 acres Sunday and was at 20 percent containment as of 7 p.m., Cal Fire said.
A fast-growing wildfire erupted near Middletown Saturday afternoon, triggering mandatory evacuation orders for residents along Snell Valley Road and in Berryessa Estates.
The Delta Fire in California's Shasta-Trinity National Forest was burning out of control Saturday with crews scrambling to prevent it from reaching mountain communities.
A stretch of Interstate 5 near the California-Oregon border will remain closed through the weekend as crews try to tame the Delta Fire roaring along the roadway.
The Delta Fire broke out Wednesday north of Redding, closing Interstate 5 in both directions. It has tripled in size and now fire crews have a long battle ahead.
