A red flag warning due to wildfire weather conditions is set to last from 11 p.m. Wednesday to 5 p.m. Thursday in the mountainous parts of Napa and Sonoma counties.
already had raised concerns for North Bay residents Wednesday.
"I think now that we've had a couple really serious fire seasons in the past, people take these warnings very seriously and they're really important to the locals," said Emma Salvestrin of St. Helena.Low humidity and the possibility of high wind gusts up to 30-miles-an-hour on area mountain peaks prompted the red flag warning.
Cal Fire also has a new, high-tech network of cameras. The St. Helena Emergency Command Center helped beta test and launch the statewide Alert California network, training the remote-controlled camera system to spot potential fires using artifical intelligence. "It will pick up something that it thinks is smoke. It could be fog. It could be a light, whatever it might be, so we're teaching it, no it's not smoke, it's this. So it learns," said Captain Smith.
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