Or cars. As the winds calm down firefighters started making progress. As massive air tankers laid down lines of bright red retardant. And dozers moved into cut firebreaks. We want to make as much progress as we can while conditions are optimal. Things are not going to be in our favor this weekend. Reporter from where we are we are seeing two of these water dropping helicopters making roundtrips to a pond right behind this house. This is part of an effort to get those containment numbers up. As of right now the official number is this fire is 0 contained. Cal fire is expected to give us an update around 7 pm tonight. We are hoping those numbers will be up by then. We know that 2000 people have evacuated. Where are they being evacuated to . Reporter there are a number of different Evacuation Centers that have been set up in the hills. Santa rosa areas. The Sonoma CountySheriff Department has done a great job on their social media pages and websites. Of being able to get that information out about where people should go. We do know one of those evacuation sensors is already full. It is important to check those websites before heading to any of those sensors. Very early but authorities are trying to zero in on the cause of the fire. Reports indicate it all started near some geothermal plants in the geysers area. Wilson walker is near geyserville with pg e announcing it had trouble with one of its transmission lines last night. Reporter all of this moving very quickly. Just in the very preliminary hours of figuring out what caused the fire. Pg e has made a filing with the cpuc about an event that happened last night where exactly in the time frame of the start of the fire where the problem comes in. It is all still really early. We are going to show you what they had to say about it. According to pg e at 920 pg e became aware of a transmission level outage on the geysers number nine. This is the area we were going to tell you more about in just a second. When the line relayed and did not reclose. Remember this the system is set up to chip itself and then re fire if it can. This is pg e saying there was some kind of a problem with the line. Up in this area. In fact as we can play for you the first call that came in about this fire. Was in the same location. Have a listen. Vegetation fire reported as in thgeysers. Couldbe john kincaid road. Burning mountain road. Possible powerlines down in the area. All units acknowledge. Reporter that we believe was the first call out on kincaid road thus the kincaid fire. Cal pined the operator of the geothermal facility telling me the lines were deenergized at the time the fire was reported. The cause of the fire risk in these hills. We are waiting to hear more from cal pined in pg e as to what if anything was energized in the area. Around 930. This is where the fire was first used reported this is where fire crews first responded. Resources arrived to find a large fire a couple Hundred Acres already in size. With a rapid rate of spread. Reporter talk about a rapid rate of growth. When they first got there the fire was 3 to 400 acres. By early this morning it was closing in on 10,000 acres. That is how fast the fire group. Lets talk about how fast it was moving. We are at 2000 feet. Katie is down below us. Sort of down to the valley. We are halfway up towards the geysers. I want to show you some video of what the road looks like. If you head up toward the geothermal facilities. You can go through places where they her husband fire and you can go through places where fireeall rscorched the earth. There is quite a bit of that. That fire was blowing downhill. As it went down towards those homes where people live. Firefighters talk about how fast it moved. You can see by what is left on the land just how fast the fire was moving as it raced downhill. Again the investigation into the cause of the fire very early stages. We will learn more live in Sonoma County. The moment of the fires ignition appears to have been captured on camera. A sudden glow erupts on darkene geyserville. A time lapse of the cameras recording shows just how fast the kincaid fire blew up. First the ridge erupts in the entire mountainside. Flames being pushed by winds gusting more than 70 miles per hour. Darren peck joins us with more on the role the weather plays. Espely those annihilating wins. It is like a blowtorch. There is one weather station near where the fire took off. That has been really pointed out is the example of what was going on. I want to show that to you on the map this map by now if you have been watching highlights were the strongest winds e. Take a look near the top. Healdsburg hill. That is where we recorded 76 mileperhour gusts. At midnight last night. That is also very close to the proximity of this fire. The same story look across the rest of Sonoma County. We were not experiencing much in intense wins. Nothing like what we were having happening in the mountains. What happens next was mac red flag warning is allowed to expire and stay. There is a fire weather watch issued for sunday. More on that coming up. In terms of the rest of today if we look at the point of interest that is where the fire is burning. The colors fade away the rest of tonight. By the time we get to 9 pm we are down to single digit wind speeds. That is good news for this one. Back with more on the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. Earlier katie nelson mentioned Officials Say the healdsburg Evacuation Center is at capacity. They are now telling people to go to the santa rosa Veterans Memorial building. That is at 1351 maple avenue in santa rosa. People started pouring into the healdsburg committee since her early this morning. Most were told to leave in the middle of the night. Some barely had enough time together any belongings. Others say they saw the fire coming right their homes. I had a flashlight. I was outside on my deck. I shined the flashlight down on the deck. Sot arnd the other side and i looked up. I could see the hills were on fire. I looked out insall flames within 400 feet of my house. 400 yards. It was time to get out. We have not gotten any word about any injuries so far. That is good news. The evaconnterill remain open for as long as people need to go there. Visitors forced to evacuate when a small fire broke out there. Firefighters moving in an aggressively and holding it to just three acres. It was only vegetation burning. No injuries or word on the cause. Fire crews getting on a vegetation fire that has been burning since this morning. This is near sly branch between stinson beach. The fire burning on the west side of highway one. It has grown to nearly 50 acres. It is now 20 contained. Forward progssstpe highway one remains close. A closer look of the smoke from our sutro cam. Smoke being pushed by those offshore winds towards the ocean. Coming up at 5 30 pm john ramose takes a closer look at how ns actually help the fight. I want to give you a perspective of the evacuation zone from the kincaid fire. 2000 people have been forced to leave so far. Sonoma countys office of Emergency Services released this map. The yellow area that is the evacuation zone. We have an overlay in red that you are seeing now. That is where pg e shut off power to customers in Sonoma County. You can see how the zones are overlapping here. It is not clear if the power was out where the fire started. Here are the latest numbers on those outages. 35,000 customers in napa and sonoma counties are without power right now. Another 1000 in san mateo county. To north bay counties. Pg e said it is expecting powerlines and making repairs as needed. Work is essential before power can be restored. Pg e said it hopes to have the power back on throughout Sonoma County by tomorrow night at 7 pm. Earlier today the governor voiced his frustration over these largescale blackouts. It is infuriating beyond words to live in a state is innovative and extraordinarily entrepreneurial and capable as a state of california to be living in an environment where we see this kind of disruption blackouts. We are already getting a sense of what the next power shut off could look like this weekend. When strong winds return. Contra costa county releasing this map of potential areas that can lose power. Starting saturday from 10 pm until 2 pm. Pg e plans to provide an update on the situation about 5 30 pm. We will bring you that press conference live. You can find an emergency power shut off a Survival Guide on our website. Kpix. Com. Stay with kpix 5 for continuing coverage of the kincaid fire. One air and online. We have posted a Photo Gallery with pictures of the devastation kpix. Com. I am tracking our air quality. I will show you our smoke forecast coming up. It is a major complaint from bart rogers. Why the agency just shot down the chance to ban panhandling on board. Writers. A new era for the warriors. We are live adjacent to her as the team opens the regular season against the clippers. Chopper 5 live over geyserville. Hundreds of firefighters continued to battle the kincaid fire. Still officially stands at 10,000 acres with 0 containment. We are expecting the numbers to changes soon as we get another update in less than two hours. From the ground the scenes painfully familiar to people in the area walls of flames eating through everything in their path overnight. Fleeing cars against the orange glow. Dry brush and trees being consumed by tornadoes of fire. Of course structures may be a home incinerated by that heat and flames. Something no one wants to see. A power pole burning. Daylight brought things like this a vineyard on fire. The planes moving to the Alexander Valley wineries. As of right now the chronicle is reporting the family home belonging to the makers of Kendall Jackson chardonnay was destroyed in the fire. Of the news this evening it is a top frustration for writers on bart. Today bart decided not to move forward with a proposed ban on panhandlin some passengers believe the directors are making a big mistake. Reporter simply panhandlers have more rights than the paying customers. On the flipside people say to criminalize begging is simply wrong. It happens every day. Some make it a job. Walking up and down train cars begging for money during the morning and evening commute. Today five bart directors say yes panhandlers and buskers are okay to ask for money on bart trains. They struck down a proposal that would have banned people from begging beyond the fair gates. We are not interested in panhandling band. Criminalizing panhandling does not improve Public Safety. We think about public spaces. Busking is critical to that. Reporter performer oliver is happy the majority of the board is on his side. Saying a band would end his livelihood. And hurt the pour. I dont like when they say this is helping safety. What we are doing is increasing safety. And bringing positivity. Reporter many passengers say it can be disruptive. Especially in a packed train car. The directors are wrong. The direors dont ride it every day. That is where they are wrong. If you rode it every day you will be against it. Reporter the director was overruled when she tried to push the proposal forward. I hope the public pays attention they vote for bart director next year. Because there are five directors who were up for reelection next year. Reporter director suggested a partial ban but at this time not enough volts. Those directors who struck down the panhandling band say they want to introduce a new Ambassador Program instead. By next month. If you still have your mask from the smoky fires last year you might want to get them back out. Smoke from the kincaid fire could be coming to the bay area. We have Team Coverage for you. Mary is live on the kpix 5 weather deck tracking the fires impact on air quality. Reporter the air quality is about to get unhealthy for the entire bay area due to the smoke from the kincaid fire. Right now on top of the roof just hazy conditions. That is going to change very soon. The air quality is about to get worse. Within the next 12 to 24 hours. For today we have to spare the air alert. Y aiunhealthy for sensitive groups for the north bay closer to the massive kincaid fire. Moderate air quality today for the east bay santa clara valley. Good air quality for the coast essential bay and southcentral bay. Tomorrow another spear the day alert. Their quality will be healthy unhealthy for the entire bay area. Here is the reason why. Thiss our smoke forecast. The winds are going to take a turn from the northeast to the northwest. That slight turn in wind direction to push the smoke across the bay area. Timing it first that smoke will push in across the north bay. Tomorrow morning. And then across the rest of e bay area tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night. Watching that very closely for you. The air quality will get worse for tomorrow. Lets go tdarr peck in the weather center. What is so concerning about this we have this wind event. We have a second possibly stronger wind event for this weekend. Coming on sunday. Going to highlight that. I want to pickp where you left off on the kincaid fire. With that excellent explanation on how smoke could be brought our way. A unique view on where the kincaid fire is likely spreading. To do that im going to show you a unique view of it using satellite. Take a look at the visual of Sonoma County. If you look in the upper right hand corner of Sonoma County see the yellow and orange boxes. The satellites are able to detect the heat signature coming off the fire. We are able to really get an excellent outline for where it is burning. If it is a yellow burnt 12 hours ago. If it is red it has burned in the last six hours. The yellow boxes show you where it started. These are the Higher Elevations just on the edge of Sonoma County. Up in the hills. These were northeast winds. The winds took the plant flames and spread them across the mountains. We are looking at the edge down here. Right across from geyserville. The colors are important. There is red boxes up there. Red boxes down here. That is where the fire is now moving. It has stopped progression in the valley for the most part. At least as far as the satellite is telling us. Cal fire can give you a more detailed description. A quick snapshot overview to gain perspective on these things that is an excellent tool. Will help us get a handle on these things through fire season. Coming back here to home. The story other than winds or fire for a moment. Warm today. Look how close we were to the 90s at this point. 89 in concorde. 86 San Francisco. Maybe lost in some of the message with red flag warnings and fire what the watches. We have a heat advisory. Everywhere in yellow. It is the entire bay area. It goes until 7 pm. We have seen the worst of this. We had our daytime highs. It is hotter than you expect. B take it easy on yourself. If you start to feel lightheaded it is probably the heat getting to you. Those are tomorrows daytime highs. We are doing pretty much the same thing. Lets talk about the sunday wind event. Ive advance us to sunday morning at 5 am. Two things about this wind event. First of all and most importantly it looks stronger than what we had last night. More important for the rest of us as we go about our daily lives. These are the winds that are going to spread over a broader area. If you look at the numbers where we could see gust to 40 in santa rosa. This is not only going to be a wind event for fire concerns. This could bring down branches in your neighborhood. We havent seen those with these last few systems. That is something we will keep an eye on as we get into that saturday and sunday. The worst of the winds come through sunday morning at this point. Some of the forecast models are hinting had 80 mileperhour gust. For the higher peaks. We were in the middle 70s this time. Back over to you. Live at the chase center. Warriors and clippers for real tonight. Im going to take you to the commercial break with the. Have a look. Take a live look at the new chase center. Players and fans are gearing up for the first regularseason game just about two hours from now. Dennis odonnell is there right now. With what we can expect tonight. Reporter im jacked out of my mind. I didnt have to drive over the bridge in the coliseum. It is in San Francisco. Basketball game tonight with tip f for real. Warriors. In the la clippers. The warriors have nine new players on their roster. They are young. Steph curry at 31 can make you feel old. He is the oldest player on the roster. Klay thompson could miss the season as he rehabs from knee surgery. Other preseason predictions have the warriors finishing behind both the clippers and the lakers in the pacific division. They are not giving up the throne without a fight. This year we could surprise a lot of people. I say that we dont really i dont really care what other people have to say. It is hard not to hear. Someone doesnt want to hear what we have to say. There will come a time they will be back. Im excited. Reporter the bottom line is typical years past five years running. The warriors nba championship or bus. Now the question is can they even make the playoffs . People are excited about turning the page. Seeing some new faces. And see what happens tonight. Beginning tonight warriors in the clippers. Pg e takes a first step to restore power in the north bay. More outages could be coming this weekend. We are just minutes away now a live update we are starting to learn the scope of the damage from the raging kincaid fire in Sonoma County. The race to contain the flames before strong winds return. Why fire crews in marin county say this wind actually help them get a handle on the fire near your beach. Announcer 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Its an epidemic fueled by juul with their kidfriendly flavors. San francisco voters stopped the sale of flavored ecigarettes. But then juul, backed by big tobacco, wrote prop c to weaken ecigarette protections. The San Francisco chronicle reports prop c is an audacious overreach, threatening to overturn the ban on flavored products approved by voters. Prop c means more kids vaping. Thats a dangerous idea. Vote no on juul. No on big tobacco. No on prop c. Here is a live look at pg e. The Media Briefing that is just getting underway in a few minutes. Officials are providing an update on the current Public Safety power shut off. Wanda started yesterday. We will get back to that briefing in a few minutes. Firefighters hoping to gain ground on the explosive kincaid fire in Sonoma County. 10,000 acres have been scorched. Crews hope to announce containment shortly. That evening. This thing blew up literally overnight. The flames first spotted northeast of the town of geyserville. Pushed so fast by the gusting winds and excess of 60 miles per hour. That all 2000 residents of the town were ordered out. Right now we know there are 10,000