Weather

A scorching heatwave across most of the Bay Area on Saturday nearly overwhelmed California's electric grid.

PG&E will begin a tree hauling program in the burn scar zones of the Glass and LNU Lightning Complex wildfires in Sonoma County and is notifying property owners who have fallen trees on their parcels of land.

The Beckwourth Complex headed into Saturday showing no sign of slowing its rush northeast from the Sierra Nevada. It's tearing through bone-dry timber and prompted Nevada authorities on Friday to evacuate a community across the state line.

Dozens of people reserved spots at the Diablo Hills Golf Course in Walnut Creek as early as 6:15 a.m to beat the 100-degree heat. The course's operations manager says it's something they prepare for on a hot day.

Aftershocks have hit the region between Northern California and Nevada Friday after a magnitude 6 earthquake sent large boulders rolling into highways and knocked smaller items off shelves.

In the era of global warming and climate change, prolonged or repetitive heat spells take a toll on our aging infrastructure. Extreme heat is becoming an increasing issue as it relates to old infrastructure and how to build the new.

Temperatures may exceed 100 degrees in inland areas and the East Bay could be the hottest with some cities hitting close to 105 degrees.

Firefighting personnel from the Bay Area and Central Fire District were sent to assist in protecting communities from the Bootleg Fire in Oregon.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District said triple-digit inland temperatures and vehicle exhaust will be the biggest contributing factors, forcing the agency to issue a Spare Air Alert.

California's grid operator has issued a statewide flex alert for Friday July 9 due to extreme heat. The flex alert is in effect from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Several earthquakes struck along the California-Nevada state line Thursday afternoon.