Which starts with a 48 hour notification. And then, we have a 24hour notification. Then i believe we go down to four hours . Is that correct . And, should things change, we will give notifications right up to the event. But, we have a plan and thats why as i said, we need peoples contact information. We use the files that we have. Starts at 48 hours. Goes through social media. Tweets, emails. Phone calls. With customers who identify as medical baseline. A rate classification. They have some equipment in their homes that take power. With those customers, we will do informative contact. We will go and knock on doors. I think we have a protocol we follow quite completely. Is it 100 . That i cant tell you, we work for it to be that way, but we have 48, 24, four hour notification and we will continue to notify if the weather shifts and it is urgent. We will contact right up to the point of the event. I would like to drill down on that a little more how are you communicating those shutdown times . Seems like you are saying one thing, pg e will say one thing through press release, then the local governments will say another thing from pg e. For example, the city of pleasanton said they announced the shutoff was pushed to 7 00 p. M. And that was sent at 4 00 p. M. But, you guys hadnt announced it publicly yet. So, where is the disconnect here . Are you satisfied with the way you are communicating these things . Let me start with the point we can always improve our game on everything. We are very in tune to learning from experience and improving our game. Now what i will say, we do multiple calls out of eoc with state level agencies. County agencies. Tribal governments. And those go on all day. We have embedded representatives with every county. We coordinate to make sure the most important thing is people actually do know whats happening. There are a lot of sources of information that dont come from us. Mark,ly have you talk to what we do at the state level. And i will ask our chief customer officer to talk about our coordination down to the counties. It takes a lot of communication. Theres a lot of information. And a lot of it is quite detailed. I think we are doing a very, very good effort at the moment. We always have an opportunity to improve. But i would like you to understand the baseline of the plan and what our protocols are. So maybe i will start with you mark and go to lauren. Thanks andy. So every day, while we are activated for a psps event even before it starts, even in the planning phases, as soon as we activate our Emergency Operation center, we make notification to the cpuc for that activation and we look to understand when we believe we will be deenergized and we work backward from there. We work backward from there, 234 hours, 48 hours. 72 hours to andys point. Thats how we define when we start notifying all these agencies. I host two state agency calls a day. One at 1100. And one at 1600 or 4 00 p. M. And, attendees on that call are the state agencies not only the good folks that we have in our eoc that are working by our side, but also, levels that we have executive leadership for, you know, the counties. Not the counties. The state agencies. The cpuc. Cal fire. We also invite federal agencies depending on where the footprint of the fire is. Like, the u. S. Forest service. Department of interior. And, it is an opportunity for us to cover Situational Awareness and what we know at that time. So everybody is wearing it at the same time. And, so, i start usually those calls by providing just an operational summary. And our Information Officer updates what we are doing on media space. On social media. We go to our customer Strategy Office and cover the customer related things like the Community Resource centers. And we finish it up with our Liaison Officer to talk act what we do with counties and what we are hearing from government. Local government and tribal government. And then, close the call and do it at 1600. It has been pretty effective to stay tied in with the state so we are all speaking from the same data set. It is important we communicate not only to our customer base, but the state agencies an county agencies. They are doing everything they can to prepare, gear up, ramp up, put extra staffing on, take some actions to ensure stability in the public. So it is important for us to communicate, challenge a little bit to your point, the state call, the county call. These things happen sequentially. We dont want to get ahead of ourselves and the state gets some information from a tweet or Something Like that. We could get better, to your point, about always having the opportunities to improve to the timing. The things that could influence that are the weather and the timing of the weather. We are constantly looking at the timing of these events on the front end and the back end of the event. I do not want to deenergize anyone more than i absolutely have to. If weather conditions change and i can save an hour, im taking that hour off the table. One hour is a big deal. And on the back end of the event, if scott signals to me, weather conditions are starting to look pretty good, our field employees are telling us that winds are starting to die down and be more safe, every hour counts. Thats what i have on the state agency piece. Thanks mark. For the counties we are hosting three times a day calls with the counties. On those calls, we have all county oes representatives. Tribal representatives. And we cover the same information on the state calls. We do deeper into issues they might be experiencing at the local levels and what support they might need. In addition, we have embedded pg e employees in all of the county oes offices. So we have our folks on the ground so they have a person, we have the portal for all the agencies, the customers with the dynamics of the weather. We they have access to the addresses. Customer accounts. Medical baseline. Vulnerable customer accounts. In so far as our customers, i will will tell you, these events are dynamic. We are running a 24 7 operation. Our meteorology team. And the calling of customers can become dynamic and the windows can get tight based on the window that changed with the weather. We are trying not to alarm customers that dont need to be alarmed. Customers needing to get notified. It could be the first time they are getting notified but that is purely because the conditions have changed and they have been brought into scope. We continue to try to tighten that, narrow that. And make sure we are notifying customers at the right time in the right way. And making all of our channels for customers accessible. So customers can go online, they can put their addresses to determine if they are in or out of scope. And thats available 7and the call centers are available 24 7 to answer questions. Betty yu, kpix5. You referenced the High Integrity equipment that pg e owns that cannot withstand the wind. But thinfrastructure is old. Built 40, 50 years ago. How do you reconcile those facts . 30 or 40yearold infrastructure in this industry is not ancient. All right . What you have is a lot of structures that have to be maintained. Right . And they have to be inspected, maintained. You can have older equipment. But still relatively High Integrity. The integrity of those aspects depending on the maintenance program, if one does execute the appropriate maintenance, that equipment will last for quite a bit of time. And, will be replaced in kind by parts when they il. What i was trying to ke the point was that there is this narrative about the quality, the equipment, the lines falling down, and if you have listen listening to these press briefings, you would hear bill johnson talk about one of the first things he did when he arrived here was to institute a very broad and comprehensive Inspection Program of all of our assets. When there were deficiencies, they were repaired. So, we are quite confident that our equipment and our infrastructure is in a very good condition. There is also the issue about the confusion of our enhanced Vegetation Management program with additional tree trimming. Recognion was that the e requirements for tree trimming and right of way was not adequate for the conditions we are now seeing and what we have experienced. And so, we have an advanced program which looks to open up the aperture above lines to ensure that we have appropriate clearances in our distribution right of ways. So, we are relatively confident that the status of our system is not what we are dealing with here. With these winds, you declare these deinerrizations occur because of three general issues. Wind speed, the fuel that is available around electric equipment, and, the ability through all of these dead trees to have limbs that will fly into a right of way that you would not have dealt with if it was trimmed. What we are dealing with here is not the question of system integrity. But of fuel moisture content and wind speed. That are around most of these assets. That was the point i was trying to make. Follow up. Regarding the kincade fire and the priminary findings, the jumper cable, did that prompt the utility to be more cautious during this round to perhaps make the shutoffs more widespread or to decide to shut off more transmission lines versus distribution lines . Transmission lines are in scope when they need to be. We dont treat them differently. They are more complicated to take out, the higher the voltage, they tend to be in the volt Transmission System and not only impact our customers but other customers in california so there are different considerations but when they need to be taken down for safety reasons they will be. What i had mentioned yesterday andly repeat here, one o the things we have changed since the operation on one of our towers was that we wanted to make sure we were taking a much finer look. If a transmission line is affected by topography, we are taking a much micro look at that. So we have a better sense of wind speeds. That might change or give us a better cushion to take them out. Not to keep them in, but to take them out. By tightening up our criteria based on the opography. Ivan . From ktvu channel 2 here in the bay area. When you go out and talk to people, the first thing they say, they lay the blame on pg e. Whether you havent done, you can rattle off a myriad of things. How do you reconcile that with all the ways you are trying to communicate. Two calls to state agencies each day. How do shift the narrative and the Public Opinion . Let me be very clear. We are not trying the manage that right now. Theres a narrative out there and that is a conversation we can have out of fire season. Right now, we have a big historic event coming at us. We have twoandahalf million customers impacted. Theres a real threat to Public Safety. Thats why we are doing this. Once we deenergize, we want to restore as quickly as possible. We want to make sure that people are as prepared as possible to get through this. To reconcile these facts i will leave that to others. But we are focused on moving forward. Dealing with whats in front of us. Setting a new standard for operations. To ensure that our Maintenance Programs are what they need to be. And the other programs we are puting in place to deal with this. This should be the last resort. Right now, it has become a main lever to pull, psps. Because we have not gotten to the place where we have made this transition from the old world to the new. We think about the change in climate. Do we have to think about our subpoenas differently so they are not exposed to the same risks . And the things we have talked about is the enhanced Management Program we are proceeding on. The hardening of our system so it is more robust against these weather facts. The use of distributed generation within our franchise. We can limit the impact as we start to deenergize. And the last would be the implementation of micro grids so we can ensure that communities that would not necessarily be impacted can maintain power while we shut off power around them. We do have this program. What are we going to do Going Forward . No matter how much we focus on the past, we take lessons learned. We work responsibly. The other piece is something that is important. Is that the days of the unilateral action seem to be over. To come up with new answers for a new time. And a new reality. Thats what we are working at. But right now, we have 6,000 people in the field. When we get the all clear, we will have 42 aircraft patrolling 30,000 miles of lines. Our goal is to get the power back on as quickly as we can to limit the amount of disruption we have and make sure all our partners and customers are getting what they need to get through this event. It is our hope in the future that the scale, the length, and the amount of times we have to have these kind of events will diminish. That is pg e wrapping up their press Conference Live in San Francisco. This is the headline. Nearly a Million People in Northern California will be without power through monday morning. With staggered shutoff thats are already affecting the north bay. About 600,000 are having their power shut off in the bay area alone and the shutoffs started about 5 00 tonight in the knot bay. Pg e says it will take about three hours to turn the power off in an orderly way. First without electricity will be redding. Then the north bay, about 25,600,000 households will be affected and businesses without power. For the next few hours through at least 8 00 a. M. Monday morning. In the east bay and the south bay, a quarter Million People will be as pg e puts it deenergized beginning at 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Remember, they are just starting the shutoffs in the east and the south bay. It will take two or three hours to get everybody turned off that they want to turn off. But, they will begin in the east and south bay at 8 00 p. M. Tonight. It will end at 8 00 a. M. Monday morning. Bringing the power back will be staggered as well. Humboldt county will be without power tonight. In all, 940,000 customers will be without power within an hour. Now slightly delayed by delaying the onset of the strong winds. Its the strong winds and the dry humidity causing these problems to begin with. In the Weather Service describing it as a strong and dangerous event. Winds will pick up to 80 miles an hour in the downtown areas. 50 miles an hour in the downtown areas and the 80 miles an hour in the mountains. There is much more when the power will be restored and the latest on the massive kincade fire. Kpix5 news at 6 00 starts right now. Sheriffs office. An additional 50,000 people ordered out ahead of ferocious winds that could push the kincade fire toward entire towns. Chopper 5 live over the fire zone where a relatively calm day is about to give way to a fearsome night. It will be lights out for close to a Million People tonight. In Northern California, more than half a million in the bay area alone in pg es attempt to head off an even bigger disaster. Good evening, im brian hackney. Im juliette goodrich. We are about 30 minutes away from the next cal fire briefing if not sooner on the kincade fire burning in Sonoma County and we will bring that to you live. Here is where things stand right now. The mandatory evacuation zones include all of hillsburg. Windsor, and all the areas surrounding them. That is south of geyserville to north of the county line. They are being directed to the santa rosa and petaluma Veterans Hall and fairgrounds. The fairgrounds will be open for horses an livestock but not for people. Take a look at this map. You are seeing some of the smoke and haze. We are talking the evacuation zone. The blue area extends the new evacuation warning zone. The Sheriffs Office has extended it all the way out to the shoreline. That doesnt mean people within the blue zone need to leave, but they need to be ready to leave. Heres a look at the fire lines from chopper 5. A total of 23,500 buildings are threatened at this hour. 49 have been destroyed. The fire currently sits at just over 25,000 acres burned. It is just 10 contained. But, the real problem is the winds are going to explode over night. When the winds explode, so can the area of the fire. There are 1300 firefighters on the ground working tirelessly to do everything they can. While they can. Just minutes ago, pg e wrapped up its latest update on the latest round of Public Safety shutoffs. Nearly a Million People in Northern California will be in the dark through monday morning. Some shutoffs started around 5 00 this afternoon in the north bay. Another round begins at 8 00 p. M. We know how disruptive this is. We work very hard, very hard to minimize the impact on everyone. We have to Work Together on all of this. We are also not out of the woods yet. We are dealing with this Public Safety power shutoff. We watch the weather all the time. And one of the things we are seeing emerging again is a pattern where we is may have another weather system not with this intensity that may hit us early to middle of next week. People who lose power wont get it back before monday. When pg e will begin restoring it in phases. We have Team Coverage on the outages. The new evacuations and the fire weather prompting it all with some of the strongest winds of the season, well have all of that when we continue. And Katie Nielsen is live in down downtown hillsburg. Reporter we are right on the square. A place that would normally be packed with people on a saturday night in the fall but right now its a ghost town because everyone here and in windsor had to evacuate by 4 00 p. M. Deputy withs the Sonoma CountySheriffs Department went door to door to mark the homes where people already evacuated. While others scrambled to finnic packing up what they could. You cant take it all. Just the things you figure will be more challenging to replace. And, the rest of it you have to mentally let it go. Reporter but how do you explain that to your sixyear old son . He knows whats going on. He says the word fire and thinks about it. Reporter the threat of another massive wild fire isnt far from anyones mind. Especially for those who survived the tubs fire that threatened the Community Two years ago. Everybody is on edge. The fire is right around the corner. Its pretty bad. With the wind thats predicted we dont want to take any chances. We want to make sure people are out. Reporter two years ago, the fires moved so fast, people had to evacuate with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. But now, theres more time to pack up whats important. Everything is replaceable except for our pictures. Grabbing the essentials. Any keepsakes. And clothes and stuff. The financial documents. The phone numbers we need. Birth certificates. That was really it. And, lots of diapers and milk. Reporter 50,000 people trying to leave at once, traffic was practically gridlocked on the city streets. The fire is here. Thats why we are leaving early. Just be calm. Youll get there. Reporter cal fire is going to hold another press conference at 6 30 where we will get some updated information. But, the last time we talked with cal fire, they said they expected the strongest winds overnight between midnight and sunrise with sustained winds around 40 miles an hour and wind gusts between 60 and 80 miles an hour. All Fire Fighting techniques go out the window. Mother nature will be in control tonight. Katie nielsen, kpix5. And stay with kpix5 and kpix. Com for continuing fire coverage throughout the newscast. And through the weekend. If your power is out, our newscasts are streaming on the website on our cbs local app. And well be right back. Announcer 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Its an epidemic fueled by juul with their kidfriendly flavors. 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First lets go to meteorologist darren peck and go to the press conference as soon as it s starts. I will do my best to lend some perspective about why we are seeing the evacuations of entire cities. Satellites are showing us where the fire is burned. This is an excellent tool to give us an idea of where and how it is burning there is geyserville. The flames show up by the at lite. The areas in yellow are places that burned more than 24 hours ago. Those were the flames that got close to geyserville on thursday night. These winds at 80 miles an hour will be northeast winds. It does not take much to take an ember and throw it les from the flames. They are talking about maybe as far out toward the coast which must sound dramatic. Guerneville is right there. But considering what we saw two years ago, under a similar wind scenario in the tubs fire, nobody expected coffee park to be at risk in such a short period of time. We will switch to the weather computer again. And i will show you the headline. From 8 00 tonight to 11 00 to monday. And i need to stress here, this is issued from the national Weather Service. We have heard so much from pg e. This is a total different issue from a total different organization. The national Weather Service puts out a red flag warning specifically with firefighters in mind. To let them know that the conditions are going to be primed. When we talk about the time frame, thats all we are talking about with a red flag warning. Gusts to 80 miles an hour. Let me show you whats different about this event. In addition to the fact the gusts will be a lot stronger in the mountains. The other item that is different is this number. 50 miles an hour gusts down in the communities where we all live. So, this is a wind advisory. This one not issued for firefighters. This one issued for you. If you are in santa rosa, anywhere in Sonoma County that is yellow. You will notice this wind event a lot more than you have the last ones and a 50 miles an hour gust on the high side of the possibility here. But, it is possible. Is more than enough to break tree branches. And send debris flying. So, thats the wind advisory. Not only for the north bay, this include it is east bay valleys as well. It also includes Alameda County over here on the ohs side of the bay. We could see some of the pretty strong gusts. And, to play it forward, lets get into the event on the wind speed. It starts going by about midnight in the mountains but the real highlight is in the predawn hours of tomorrow morning. I stopped it here at 5 00 a. M. Gusts to near 50 in santa rosa. We dont want to pin these numbers down exactly. It is best to come away with a general take away. Gusts could be as high as 50 miles an hour in any location here and it will stay that way through much of the first part of the morning. And once we get through the afternoon, things calm down a little bit. What i just showed you were the gusts for the communities. Lets not leave out what will happen up here in the ridge tops. The communities we spotlighted, theres hillsburg. Guerneville here. Picture the 80 miles an hour gusts here. The kincade fire had already worked down to the south. It is now moving in this direction. If you get the 80 miles an hour gusts, everything changes direction wise. Thats why the big concern comes into play. As dramatic as it is to see entire communities filling highway 101 to evacuate, hopefully that explains why it is happening. Cal fire is just beginning their press conference. The latest we have is the 25,000 acres had been burned. 49 buildings have been destroyed. There are 1300 firefighters that are working the blaze. Those are the numbers in cal fires last update. The press conference should begin momentarily. They are talking extreme fire circumstances. Mandatory evacuation zones include hillsburg, windsor. Around well listen in. This is a 6 30 p. M. Press conference. For the kincade incident here in Sonoma County. We do have an aos interpreter to my life. I ask that you keep her in your shot while broadcasting this press conference. We will have time to ensure that everyone can ask questions and have breakouts for one on one interviews. We will ensure you get the conference. I want to set the context and invite our imt6 meteorologist to come up to the stand. Goodnight everybody. Ryan walbrin, national Weather Service. The red flag warning officially goes into effect for the entire north bay includeing the kincaid fire. It will run through monday. What we expect between 10 00 p. M. And midnight, we are getting a strong burst of northeast winds that will hit the fire area. Those winds will increase overnight and peek through sunday morning. , we are expecting 80 miles an hour wind gusts. Again, thats a Long Duration event. It will blow upmost of the night and midday sunday with very little reprieve in the wind speed. So thats the situation we are looking at in terms of the weather. Speaking next will be our incident fire behavior analyst steve mulner. Over the last 12 hours we ran multiple models. Multiple scenarios with this fire. It is going to have dangerous rates of spread. Spotting over one mile. And very high flame lengths as it gets into the canyon drainages with the northeast push. At midnight. We will see those rates increase dramatically and the fire behavior increase dramatically. Just an updated numbers on the fire itself, the fire has now grown to 25,955 acres. The fire is now 10 contained. We can now confirm that theres 77 structures that have been destroyed. Of those, 31 of them are residential. 14 structures have also been damaged and we are now at over 2,830 personnel on the line. As far as the actions taken today, we saw moderate fire growth on the east side of this fire. We had a lot of resources including four very large air tankers. The 747. The dc10s as well as an aggressive assault on the ground to build containment line for the anticipated wind event. With that, we are announcing additional evacuations that went out for Sonoma County. They include both orders and warnings and i will read them off for everybody. Evacuation orders have been placed for zones four, five, and seven of the fire. Zone four is the dry creek valley. Includeing the upper portions of west side road and mill creek road. Zone five is largefield and mark west drainage. And zone seven is all areas west of healdsburg through the Russian River valley and bodega bay. Additionally, we have initiated evacuation warnings for zones 6 8 of the fire. That includes zone six cawastoga road. Petrified forest road to the sonoma and napa county line and zone 8 which is west of fullton. And south to hessel. I will note that there is a live evacuation map hosted by the county. These Evacuation Orders and warnings were placed in anticipation. Good evening. We have updates for you on the evacuation. Earlier today, we placed Evacuation Orders. Very happy to report we have completed 100 of our notifications in excess of 95 of our notifications in the windsor area. However, i want to point out, and take a moment to talk about some of the reports im seeing in the media. Im seeing people reporting they will stay and fight this fire. And this is really serious. I want people to Pay Attention to this. Fire is not something you can fight. October of 2017, we lost 24 lives in Sonoma County because we didnt have a warning. Now we have a warning. We have all these experts behind me and people on the field. You cannot fight this. Please evacuate. If you are under an Evacuation Order you must leave. We have over 200 peace officers in the field right now. We are putting two officers per car because we are worried about our own officer safety. Two people r car patrolling. We have over 140 allied agency thats are helping the Sheriffs Office. And your Public Safety partners. As a huge thank you to all those coming in from the bay area. What you can do, if you are under an Evacuation Order, please leave. Please heed the warning. If you are under evacuation advisory, be prepared to leave immediately. Pack your belongings. If you hear the sirens in your neighborhood, that means its time to go. The high low sirens. The Sheriffs Office will be in your neighborhood and get you to safety. Be vigilant. Look out for your neighbors. If you know somebody who is unable to walk or disabled or needs extra assistance, be a good neighbor. Reach out to them. Talk to them tonight. The Sheriff Office as hauls been there you and will continue to be but we need your cooperation and we need tow will listen to the Public Safety officials. Please evacuate now. Speaking next for the california Highway Patrol is chief noise. Tim noise, assistant chief california Highway Patrol. Just want to say that we did bring in Additional Resources to help with the traffic. We brought in additional personnel from the sacramento and Central Valley area. We appreciate everyone that did leave the area. We know traffic was quite heavy on the 101. And it has lightened up a little bit. And we continue to work to try to get the traffic continue moving safely. I would like to thank our First Responders that have helped us and continue everybody else to be safe. We are starting to see some of the power shut off. And, it is quite common if you are driving around out there, some of the intersections that were originally Traffic Signals may be blacked out. Please remember, there are still people driving around and treat that as a fourway stop. We want everyone to be safe. So please just try and remain orderly like you have been and continue that and we will get through this as safely as we can. Thank you. The incident expanded in the unified command structure. We have commanders on this. Beyond cal fire. And the Sonoma CountySheriffs Department. That includes Sonoma CountyFire District for windsor. As well as the heels burg fire department. And santa rosa fire department. What that mean is the Decision Making process now includes representatives from all of the agencies in this area. With that,ly hand it over to supervisor rabbit from the Sonoma County board of supervisors. Im david rabbit. And i speak on behalf of supervisor hopkins and supervisor zane. Tonights winds could match those of october 8, 2017. That coupled with the large uncontained fire have called for us to call for these evacuations. This event, we have had and continue to have time. The opportunity to provide time for residents to pro pair and evacuate in an orderly fashion. If you are in an evacuation zone, you are in the path of danger. If you are in the evacuation zone, there is an imminent threat to you. Material goods are not as important as your life. Tonights winds will impact the entire county. Be vigilant. Be fire safe. Watch for falling objects. Be careful around trees. Best yet, stay off the roads. Stay home if you can. Take care of your family. Watch out for your neighbors. Be supportive. Be kind to our First Responders who are working hard to ensure that we get through these challenging times. Thank you. Our final speaker will be senator mcguire. Good evening. Thank you. I cannot stress this enough. Sonoma county has seen significant struggle before. Especially during the 2017 fires. This is going to be a potentially unprecedented event for the county of sonoma. With unprecedented winds. With this kincade fire. If you received an evacuation notice you need to get out now. I want to take a moment to say thank you to sheriff mark essec. And the entire Highway Patrol. A Lesson Learned in the 2017 fires, get folks out early. And often. That is the lesson that was deployed here today. And we owe him a debt of gratitude. All available resources. All available resources by the state of california is flowing into the county of sonoma. I want to say thank you to cal fire who has swelled their ranks and hit this fire hard. We need to take a moment to say thank you to Office Emergency services. He has been advancing and with special thanks to our director. Finally, Governor Newsom has been deeply involved in this, keeping in touch with all responders as well as cal fire. And the office of emergency services. We greatly appreciate his support. Ill say it one last time. If you receive an evacuation notice tonight, its for a reason. Evacuate now. With that, i will ask if theres any questions. I would ask that we stick to one subject matter so. Doesnt seem like anything has changed in the weather forecast. So, what prompted the call to evacuate . Yeah, the process going on is the contingency plan going on since early yesterday. As far as the projection of the models. You listen to the fire behavior analysts, he is running models based on the meteorological information that he is getting. That takes into account moisture, vegetation, the weather that is anticipated. And it constantly gives us the most accurate prediction for a fire model based op what we are seeing. We have to make the determinations as the models progress. So, that is the methodology behind it. As that occurs, our operations folks embedded with Law Enforcement and liaison come up with the progression for it and it gets messaged out. So it is a very methodical process based on science and weather. That obviously, the most frustrating part, it changes until the event starts. I have a brother injured in a fire once. Trying to get people out of a building. So speak to the advantage that the firefighters have going to a building or a home that may have caught fire and have the assumption that people are gone so they dont have to worry about that aspect. So, i think it is important to realize firefighters are inherently selfless. Right . They want to go and help as many people as possible. The problem tonight is the conditions of 60 miles an hour wind. It doesnt matter how much gear we have on. It doesnt matter what equipment we have on us. The fire intensity has the potential to overwhelming even the professionals. So, when people make decisions about staying an going, they are making decisions for firefighters, police officers, fathers, brothers, dads. That is really important to remember. Its not just you and your family. It is all of us up here who will be there as well. It seems the reason for the early evacuation is the wind to give people plenty of time to get out. Are there concerns about the right time of evacuation . I think it comes back to the question about how these roll out based on the models. Unfortunately, we have to depend on the fire weather modeling and the weather inputs that we get and make our decisions based on that. One of the priorities early on was to aggressively evacuate potential highly populated areas. And move them out of the path of danger. So that was the early call this morning. We also called early because of the power shut off so we had time to get people messages while there was still power, so there was a lot of input going on throughout the night. To make sure that happened. As far as the areas kind of west of here we were called for recently, that is really based on the weather and the fire behavior. I can attest to watching fire behavior analysts and opations folks point out the direction of the new anticipated growth of the fire. And that results directly into Evacuation Orders and warnings. Can you tell us how many more people you are evacuating . Our best estimate on this new Evacuation Order is that it will affect approximately 39,000 additional people. There are not. We have forestville. Can we take a look here . Forestville, guerneville, monte rio. Hacienda, villa grand. Occidental. Bodega bay. All the way up the coast to stewarts point. Approximately 39,000 people. Yes. Additional from earlier today. Sheriff, what do you plan to do . We have a lot of work on our hands and we are not going to go door to door dragging people out of their houses but we are encouraging people to get out on their own and not try to fight this. It is truly a selfish act to stay at home and try to fight at this point. You are placing other people at risk. Last night, you talked about the difficulty of getting out when there is no power. Go through that again. Ill do my best. Last night, once we lose power, much of our technology starts to disappear. We could lose communications. Cell phone towers. So we have to revert back to our high low sirens. Once we lose power, we lose street lights. We lose Traffic Control lights. So that just adds a layer of complexity any time we try to do an evacuation. You. If you are trying to pack your house, with no power at your house, maybe you are doing that with a flashlight. If you are worrying about your children, your pets, it does add a layer of complexity to this certainly. An for those going door to door. You are listening into the press conference from cal fire still ongoing with reporters asking questions. The main thing they emphasized was evacuating. If you have that mandatory evacuation to get out. The winds will increase dramatically in the fire zone. Overnight tonight. 80 miles an hour gusts are possible. That means communities in the line of those winds are under mandatory Evacuation Orders right now. As for the kincade fire itself, cal fire now tells us it only grew a little bit today on the east side because the winds died down. That will change tonight when the winds ramp up. So far, the fire has burned about 26,000 acres. Thats a thousand more than we reported last time. But it is still just 10 contained. 77 structures have been destroyed. 31 of them residential homes. It is been fought by four air tankers. And there are more Evacuation Orders tonight. Which go beyond healdsburg and windsor. Out through the Russian River drainage to bodega bay are now under orders to leave. The county has a live evacuation map. It includes more details an more evacuation areas. And cal fire reminded people that if they are told to leave, leave. Residents cannot fight a fire driven by extraordinarily strong winds. Fire crews say the county could also see an unprecedented wind event tonight. Stronger than the wind by the way that whipped through the wine country back in october of 2017. So, it is a serious situation. It is fluid. It is changing. Power outages are already underway in the north bay. They are expected to spread to the east and south bay as the evening progresses. Thats the latest from cal fire. Well have more after a break. In the human brain, billions of neurons play in harmony. For people with parkinsons, some neurons change their tune, causing uncontrollable tremors. Now, abbott technology can target those exact neurons. Restoring control and harmony, once thought to belost forever. The most personal technology is technology with the power to change your life. Shouldnt mean a change in standards. Thats why thanks to you were rated number one in Customer Satisfaction by j. D. Power. I will tell you what to expect wind wise. North bay, then south bay. As far as the north bay is concerned the winds pick up around midnight in the mountains. After that, we all start to feel it. We hit the peak wind gusts around sunrise. Gusts the communities up to around 45 bo 50 miles an hour. It stays windy through the morning on sunday. And by sunday afternoon, things start to get a little bit betterment now, that showed you the communities, of course, the real concern in the mountains is the top speeds over the peaks. 80 miles an hour gusts. Heres the south bay. 40 miles an hour gusts here in the east bay. This is different. Than the last weather systems that have come through here, we will feel this where we live on this one overnight. And of course, things will calm down again in the afternoon. But lets not forget the east bay hills have their concern. 75 miles an hour gusts will be possible over mount diablo and 65 miles an hour gusts through the east bay hills is also concern to keep in mind. More on this coming up on the evening news cast. Thank you darren. Within the hour, pg e wrapped up its latest update on the next round of Public Safety shut offs. The head layoff is nearly a Million People in the north bay will be in the dark. Some shutoffs started around 5 00 in the afternoon. Pg e emphasized the shutoffs were variable and they take a while. They are kind of like staggered shutoffs. Another round of deenergizing is pg e put it will begin at 8 00 tonight. In alameda. Contra costa, santa clara. And san mateo counties at 8 00. People who lose power probably will not get it back on before monday morning when pg e will begin restoring the power in phases. You can check out our Survival Guide on kpix. Com for updates on the outages and tips for dealing with them. Be sure to stay with kpix5 for continuing fire coverage through the night and weekend and if your power is off, we will be streaming all of our newscast on our website and our cbs local app. You can check there and we will certainly have more updates throughout the evening. And a bright live newscast for you at 11 00. Thanks for watching. We will see you back here at 11 00 tonight. [announcer] the following program is a paid advertisement for dr. Ho. [narrator] how do you deal with your pain . 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