Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Mornings Weekend Edition 20240713

The neighborhoods of Fountain Grove and coffee park, which were devastated during the 2017 north bay fires. 90,000plus under mandatory Evacuation Orders. Buildings have been threatened along highway 128. An Elementary School in harms way. Some of the rhinerys, one has gone up in flames already, wineries, one has gone up in flames already. Hes cal fire. We were here on highway 128 observing fire behavior. The fire behavior was subdued and had not, the winds had not picked up very much yet. We monitored and observed as the winds shifted and became very gusty and strong sustained winds. And we observed increased fire behavior and there was containment lines installed in firing operations that were leave taken by the fire; overtaken by the fire. The fire behavior continues to increase. The strong gusty winds were forecast updated from 3 00 until 10 00. Were currently in that time period and the fire behavior is increasing. Take a look at some of the video from overnight. This is the winery, on hoe 128. This is a winery that is devastated by the flames. You can see the flames. The winier has been there since can 69. It was consider 1869. Considered the central hub for healdsburg. A devastating loss this morning. You can see a fire overtake that that. Its not salvageable. Come you talk about how quickly the fire spread. I am sorry were off of the video. You can see the fierce winds, how the flames are just flying. Look at that. That is look a natural billows going on that and that winery did not stand a chance. When youre talking about that and the wind, it takes the embers from these fires and continues to spread them to other areas. Of course, that is going to be the big concern all morning. You look at the map. This is the Sonoma County incident map. This map constantly changed through the night. The red area in the top of the screen is the kinkade fire, the active burn area we have been watching since that fire broke out. The areas in pinkishpurple, that is the evacuation zone. That is where the Evacuation Orders have been in for many parts of northern Sonoma County and that is the area that has continued to grow overnight. Right now, this area, yesterday at 10 this morning, yesterday at 10 in the morning, we covered the press conference in willca error error fire and they said we need to get the entire cities of healdsburg and windsorville new the area out and they added other cities and then the santa rosa area with the coffee park neighborhood. Fountain grove. Those are the areas that really, really suffered in 2017, when the tubs fire went through there there. We should mission new evacuation areas. People should be able to leave that area, or ready to leave they get the orders. They give you the warnings you might be in the zone. When they sathis ade that is not the suggestion. Grab your stuff, everything you wanted to bring with you and get in your car and get out of there. The fire, 10 containment yesterday. Ten containment today. It has grown. Sarah is on chalk hill road. Hopefully more daylight. Shes in healdsburg, mask and goggles on. What are you seeing, sarah . Reporter were on chalk hill road. Appears the sun will come up soon. Its smoky out here, youca cant tell. Within the last five minutes or so, another car on the property went up in flames. That is one of many vehicles, the big flames on the truck. There are a lot, there is a lot of wind, of course, out here. Embers keep flying all over the place. There is a loof land that burned and a house where you see the truck. Beyond that is a house and there is a fire engine from palo alto fire and theyre keeping the eye on the house. The house seems to be unscathed, good news. For the rest of the property, though, its not looking good. Like i mentioned in our last live shot, its hard to tell what has been damaged here. Its dark here and the winds, the gusts, they keep picking up. Were seeing the embers all over the place, causing the issues. And there truck, thick black smoke billowing from the truck. Obviously on, its fire and hot. Its hot out here. We have to keep a safe distance here. Again, this area is damaged by the kincade fire between 3 and 4 in the morning and we saw video from this area. There was to on both sides of the road and those houses, its not, you know, one house after another house and its another land and house and property. Once the sun comes up, well get a better idea. The wind is obviously an issue here. A lot of smoke and fire crews keeping their eye on this. Do you see a lot of apparatus not far from here. Its a mess. Sorry about that. I have to turn away. The embers. Be safe. This is the issue. The firefighters have been dealing with this nonstop. The winds picking up the embers, its calm. In a few moments, that you could pick up again. That is the biggest issues with the fire. That is the biggest concern, obviously. Were seeing a lot of fire truc out here. Monitoring the area and making sure it doesnt spread to the house there. Okay. I know the conditions change quickly. We appreciate the live report and well check in with you in a bit. Thank you so much, sarah. And we want to go to jonathan cox with cal fire. Can you hear us . I can hear you. Good morning to you, its been a long night. Can you tell us the situation now. The winds came as we expected them to come but made this an active situation, n terms of getting more people out. Yes, unfortunately, the winds surfaced last night and challenged our firefighters. We can confirm over 30,000 acres have burned, over 31,000 structures that why threatened. Over 3,000 firefighters assigned to the incident. Overnight, we got spot fires occurring ahead of the main fire, and soy that occurring. That is in that area of 128 where the winery is and the school. That was the most activity we saw and the threat. That was all powered by the unfortunate offshore winds. We did, about 4 30 this morning, the unified commanders made a decision to call for additional evacuations in northern santa rosa, including some of the areas that were evacuated two years ago. The decision was made based on fire projections and models, looking at the worse Case Scenario. With that, we have a lot of fire apparatus on the line and we have another 24hour crew. Being briefed right now for another 24hour shift. And we had an air attack in the sky overnight during the fires progression and obviously, their biggest issue, they were flying in 80, 90 Miles Per Hour winds. And they just, relatively unsafe conditions. Its frightening. Today. Jonathan, can i ask you what was the last time you slept . Judge it tell you the truth, its been a few days. I had a couple hours of sleep the last few days. Certainly, were worried about everyones safety out there. Is there, you know, are you prepared for the worse Case Scenario and that is why you get everybody out, to make sure they can, you know, they not in the fires path. Where does this land in tomorrowies of the models youre doing and continue to do to see where this can go. How high on the scale is the worse Case Scenario. What were seeing, the evacuations called throughout the area. At worse case, getting highly Populated Areas. We havent seen it hit highly Populated Areas this morning yet, but this wind is supposed to continue throughout the morning and into the afternoon tomorrow. So, were not out of the woods yet. The fire has a lot of potential and that is why we have so many fire resources in place and why we have called for a large evacuation. And with the winds still kicking in and supposed to be fierce again today, what is priority number one . Containment . , although, the safety of firefighters and those in harms way. In terms of the fire, what can be done. Today, its going to be two things. One, structure protection and defending wherever the areas the fire is progressing. Getting in there and protecting structures. Sick to that, building the containment. The targets of opportunity. That would be on the outskirts of the fire itself. Third would be to get over the fire and start to use any movement of the wind and smoke to get them, the retardant on the ground and work from the helicopters from above. What are the conditions. Know than. I know you talk about the winds were talking about, it has to be dangerous and where do you say we cant get them up. When and how do you determine that . You know, its at the discretion of the officer in the sky. He has the latest readings of effectiveness. The conditions for the pilot. You know, its dynamic in the air. We may have 12 resource the resources in the air one minute and none a minute later. The constant dance we do to get the aircraft up is there at the right time. Even though you dont see a helicopter, we have highlevel air attacks at high elevations over the fire during the daylight hours. Constantly at any moment they can, pooing in the air resures for drops, wherever they can. You not so something in your backyard, rest assure, there is an air attack officer above you. And i know you have, you set 3,000 fight on the ground there working on this fire. Tell us how big of an operation, are you getting crews from other states . We know there are fires in Southern California as well. I dont know the exact breakdown. I saw sparks, the Fire Department here and that would be in nevada. We have a lot of resources, essentially posted up in santa rosa. We will continue to request and get resources until we contain the fire. We can pull from out of state and all over the u. S. If necessary. That is something well continue to look at based on our needs and the fire behavior. We were talking to the sheriff and talking about the evacuations. Some of the people who had to be moved when some of the original Evacuations Centers were closed or at capacity in petaluma a. In terms of how many people are being carned they could have warned they could have to leave, how many people are we talking about in terms of how this area could grow and how many people do you think this could hate towards . I hate to give a number. As of this morning, were at over 100,000 people who were under an e vacation order, obviously, a significant amount of people for Sonoma County. I would imagine it would be thousands more should. Were only in part of northern santa rosa. Facilities are being used. Do we expect this to continue moving south of in terps where the evacuation warnings could potentially go . If the fire behavior increases significancely today. Makes runs towards the populated communities, its feasible the evacuation areas could grow. At this moment, what we have in place is relatively aggressive, as far as making sure were doing a big swath as we believe is necessary. How far is the fire from santa rosa, do we know . That is a great question. I dont know the exact assistance and miles. Its not imminentlyapproaching right now, but the progression overnight was along the 128 corridor and in that southwest direction youre saying the spot fires go a half mile into the area. When youre talking about the heavily Populated Areas and how quickly you can move into them, can you say the fire is a descent distance,way from that even with the high winds or is that potential and could be imminent, get into a heavily populated area sooner than later. I would hate to get timely. We cant predict down to a, what is going to happen the next five, 10 minutes. What we can say is based on the fire progression overnight, additional evacuations were made as a result of what were seeing. Is that may mean the fire activity will slowdown. The sun comes up. It will give a sense of ease to the immediacy of the areas evacuated. From our perspective, the decision was made to ensure that we got people out in a timely fashion. Now, our firefighters are on the front line trying to hold the area to prevent it from moving toward the populated centers. Feels like daylight cant come soon enough. That sn ough that is going to be a welcome sight. I bet. Can you talk about the fires . What is is a typical shift for them . Are they on 12, do four, eat and go back, what is it like for them. They work 24hour shifts, 24 hours on, 24 hours off. As they do that, they go for a briefing, get assignment maps, Logistical Support and head out to the line and relieve the crews theyre working. The crews coming until get 24 hours rest and take the shift up tomorrow morning at 7 00. And theyre all staged right now. In santa rosa, you said . Theyre having the briefing now as we speak. So the next big briefing from you, jonathan will be at 10. Hopefully well check in with you perfect then. The official briefing is at 10 00, sounds like, when you get the day light and another view of what is going on and plan the day ahead. That is correct. Well have a full press conference at thi know its bee john than, i know its been a very long night in addition to a long few days and i appreciate you giving us an update, we wish a very, very safe day to everybody on the line. Putting life on the line for us. Thank you guys. All right. Jonathan cox with cal fire. He said he hasnt slept in a couple of days. He briefed us yesterday morning and in the evening. I have been watching him. When you talk about this, it changes. When do you close your eyes when the winds pick up at 80 Miles Per Hour or when, you know, were constantly falling and residents are clicking to their homes. This is what we were talking about earlier. You talk about the theyrual attack. Really, they talked about how important the aerial attack is in a firefight. When the winds are blowing fast and lard, its not safe for the pilots. What theyre dropping moves. A very coordinated and impressive drop when theyre making the runs over the fires. The wind exactly. Alyssa joins us now. Where are you and what is your scene . I am in healdsburg at the soda rock winery. Behind me, you can see burned down because of the fire. You can see the smoldering debris and a large structure. One of the centerpieces of the winery. A man told us that he lost his home, drove down the street and saw the house was gone. He looked shell shocked. He was p ale and people are in this area devastated by what theyre seeing. This is the soda rock winery in healdsburg. Completely destroyed by the fire. The winery has been here for 150 years. Is there is a lot of history build into this place. Sad to see. On our drive up here, there was a lot of traffic on highway 101 and heading away from the fire. At this point, were surrounded by spot fires. We also saw a large globe and clear the winds, you know, really picking up. Still a very dangerous situation. If you come back to us alyssa harrington, ktvu fox 2 news. We were talking to cal fire and they were talking about how the fire and the embers were going, you know, a half mile out from where the original fire was. Where this winery is located, is it up on top of the ridge where embers would have come over, you know, up to meet it. We were imagining the embers would be travelling elsewhere. Right. Yes. Its located down the hill. But i can tell you there is a house next door, actually. There is the winery on fire. Light push the camera next door. The homes are standing. Yes, relieves and depending on where the wind is blowing, and where theyre going. How are conditions now . Looks like the wind is not blowing too hard where you are. Its very gusty. Its government and cold win, extremely windy almost the entire drive. What was the drive like once you got off 101 to weve into the hills there in healdsburg . I am sorry, frank. Could you say that again . Was curious what the drive was like when you got off of 101 and headed towards the winiery there. Once we got off of 101, it got really smoky really fast. 101 was closed once we got to santa rosa. Is that is when it got smoky, we understandy and narrow. Firefighters along the road and that is why they wanted people out of the area. A lot of firefighters staged near homes, trying to protect structures as the fire continues to spread. We can see it and hear that wind whipping up there as well. Alyssa, stay safe. Well check in with you for a bit. Thank you. All right, rosemary. Show called it gusty. We heard a lot of descriptions of the wind. How quickly it can pick up. Feels like it dies back down a bit. Its not going anywhere for awhile. Youre right. Were looking at the strongest gusts over the area. The current conditions, reporting wins gusting to 69 miles an hour. Mount saint helena west, reporting wind gusts of 75 miles an hour. Atlaspeak reporting 31 miles an hour. We have seen them stronger than this, believe it or not. The relative humidity is low in the area. And reporting again. As we move through the morning hours, the winds are expected to eventually let up just a bit. We will continue with breezy conditions over the entire day. We have wind gusts reporting 32 at black diamond. And oakland south reporting 29. Some of the strongest gusts came in earlier this morning and hopefully there was it. Hopefully we wont see 93 Miles Per Hour again and healdsburg hills reported 93 miles an hour and mount saint helena, 87 miles an hour at one point and along the valley floor areas like santa rosa and petaluma. Anywhere from 49 Miles Per Hour to 53 in our Oakland Hills, we had 47 Miles Per Hour. This is i look into the 8 00 type, the winds are strong. The shade of yellow through the 9 and 10 hour, the winds let up just a bit. Into the second part of the morning and early afternoon, the winds continue and into the evening, continuing tomorrow morning when the winds finally begin to die down. When the red flag warning expires. The wind is blowing from the northeast. You can see the wind bars there. We do expect the smoke to eventually move out towards the pacific. I just checked the air quality and that is anywhere from 4 to the sensitive group. I would assume that its unhealthy. The red flag warning, again, going until 11 00 in the morning. Includes the north bay valley locations. Gusty along the coast line and ill continue to monitor the conditions. In a moment, ill send it back to you. Thank you very much, i want to mention we have new video right now. This is of red winery road. The fire was going well and that is santa rosa 17 miles. That is close to guyserville and that is vick in the kinkade fire. Close, that is the winds are whipping up. Talking about the irony with the wildfires. And if you look at the intenset of the fire. Yes. And the terrain around it, the trees and how much fowl there is for the fire to continue to burn and driving through there, that is frightening where you can see the sides of the roads are on fire as well, you know. I know we have apparatus and ends this of fies, you know, bots ond ground and talk about the fires stretching a half mile from the wind. And if youre fighting the fire, it jumps to a half mile, no way to get there. Especially if youre in harms way. Its a difficult situation. You see the flames written whipping up the rain. Were continuing to follow the developments this morning. The kincade fire and evacuations in Sonoma County. The Power Outages throughout the bay area because of the extreme fire danger were in. Were in the middle of this weather event right now. Well have more coverage when we come back. Welcome back to mornings on two. Im frankmallen coat. Im claudine wong. We have a full coverage of the kincade fire and 100,000 people under evacuation and this is an ongoing situation. We have crews everywhere. We have sky fox busy. First, stopping in oakley. Were getting word of evacuations there. There was a blown transformer. So you had, it broke out, about 25 acres. The summer lakes neighborhood is under evacuation. The okayly authorities are there trying to get a hole of the vegetation fire there and getting people out. That is something to keep in mind. We talked about the wins in the kincade fire. If you go outside of your door in the east bay and san francisco, theyre blowing as well. The strongest winds this morning, as we sort of saw that saw that develop overnight. At 10 00 or so, they begin to taper off to some, but expect it breezy for the entire day. Definitely seeing some very, very strong gusts. Healdsburg reporting 93 Miles Per Hour gust. Mount saint helena, 87 and an official referred to the winds as hurricane force. The Oakland Hills reporting 47; hawkeye, 76. Santa rosa, petaluma, reporting winds to 49 and a little bit above 50 Miles Per Hour. This is a look at the current conditions. We have a wind gusting to 69. Mount saint helena, reporting 75. Through the morning hours, the winds, again, will die down some. We have a relative humidity twins . Not bad there. Reporting relative humidity to continue and 15 . The wind is howling here as well. Mallory ridge, reporting 46 miles an hour and we have wind along the coast and in the mountains and you can see that how its hovering over the north bay. The visibility in and around santa rosa, reporting at the airport. This air quality, unhealthy for sensitive groups across the entire bay area. If youre out and about, we have that smoke with us. At least through the morning hours. Through the second part of the morning, going to notice the shade of orange turning into a shade of yellow. That doesnt mean the winds are expected to die down some. How far, if you look at the numbers there, breezy throughout the entire day. You will notice the northeast breeze, the arrows pointing toward the Pacific Ocean. The expick as is that some of this expectation is that some of the smoke will head in that direction and not towards the bay area. I am tracking this for you and continue to do so. In the mean while, back to you. Thank you. And we were talking about the evacuations underway this morning. You look and things began to spread. We talked to cal fire. Its been very, very busy . Terms of making sure, keeping the fire moving. Its grown to 30,000 acres, it was at 25,000 last night. 5,000 more acres overnight with spot fires saying say half mile plus. That means its taking the embers from the burning area and theyre moving them a half mile down the road in different directions, depending on where the wind is blowing. That caused them to increase their Evacuation Orders and saying you know what, its going to be aggressive. You need to get out of your homes and to safety. A lot of phones were there before, coffee park, coffee grove and northern santa rosa, they got door knocks or phone calls this morning to evacuate. All are on the road now. Lets check in with alyssa harrington. She was at the soda rock weepery the last tom we checked. Judge what can you see now if. Reporter you can see the flames behind me. There is chair or a frame of the chair in the middle of the burning debris. You can see the structure that collapsed, the front of the building, actually. I can show you the front of the building Still Standing. You can see the sign that says soda rock. This is the recognizable part of the building. That is all that is standing. Everythings is on fire or burned early early this morning. When we arrived, the fire was going strong. There are gusty winds this morning. I want to show you video from earlier. The fire was really raging. Were along highway 128 in healdsburg. The fire has been burning throughout the night in the area. Everybody was told to get out of the town of healdsburg yesterday. We saw one man who drove down the street and told us he lost his home. He was distraught. I want to show you more video this morning. You can see an orange glow over the hillside again. This is from a Vantage Point in heeldsburg. I can tell you there are fees all over the place. Our drive up here, we started taking some of the, you know, side roads we went up. Chalk hill road. Some structures burning, others not and depends where the fire ends up. Your neighbors house is standing and someone else completely burned down. The winiery is destroyed. If you come back, you can see the house next door. The small vineyard Still Standing. One side of the street is okay and the other on fire. You can see smoke surrounding the spot fires in the hills. Firefighters concerned about the wind and the embers continuing to spread and sending embers elsewhere. Dont talk about being able to smell the smoke early on. How is it right now. Earlier it looked like it was whipping in and around her. The smoke started getting strong. We were in the car and we could smell it, even though the windows were rolled up. Here in the hills, there is a lot of smoke. Because there is a lot of wind, its pushing the smoke. It depends on the winds and a lot of smoke thought the entire region. And driving up 101, when did you start to see all of the traffic heading southbound. Santa rosa started evacuating last night and this morning. What was that like . We started see a lot of people in the petaluma area. Suddenly the traffic was crawling. This is early in the morning at 5 00 a. M. A lot of people had campers and were pulling trailers. Some evacuations were happening overnight. People were getting alerts on the phones and as well, once we entered the Sonoma County area, we were getting emergency alerts on the phones in english and spanish. It willing people where the evacuations were ordered. It was a loud siren telling people its time to go. One thing firefighters were able to do, they gave people evacuation warnings and extra time to get their belongings together and gave them hours, really, to make sure they knew where their medication was, get your pets and have everything ready to go. If you get the call, its time for your neighborhood to evacuate, youre ready to get out. That is what we learned from the 2017 fire, at least that is in now. And we appreciate the latest and real, you talk about communication. That is what everybody has worked well and at least this time around. Bringing up a good point. And just getting at least 24 hours notice. Knowing its coming down. When the tubs fire came from calistoga into santa rosa, i dont think anyone knew the wins were going to blow like that and have it jump 10 miles into a Community Like that. And were talking 100 pem. That is where we are now. You look at the map on the screen. Its been changing and growing. As that pinkishpurple area grows, that is the area where everyone is told to get out. The activity on screen in the red, the kinkade fire at 30,000 acres. The embers making their way in and out of the area. Our coverage continues after the break. At hertz, we know that a change of scenery shouldnt mean a change in standards. Thats why thanks to you were rated number one in Customer Satisfaction by j. D. Power. Werhey. Ted number one in custome hey. Sfaction you must be stevens phone. Now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network. Only with xfinity xfi. Download the xfi app today. Welcome to our extended coverage of the kinkade fire, 30,000 acres burned. Evacuation orders. In santa rosa, a difficult situation up there. 100,000 people were told to leave their homes for their own safeties. We have paula the phone with the santa paul the phone with the santa rosa Fire Department. Good morning to you. Good morning. We have, santa rosa is a busy place as you try to get folks out and i and a difficult morning. We heard from people who talk about this how it feels, like deja vu. Getting them out for their own safety. Tell us the situation now. We have the city evacuated. And the nowhere end of the east side evacuated. The found tape grove. Into the Hidden Valley area and into the nowhere half of renken valley that shoots up toward calistoga. Sorry, the different for folks in healdsburg, guyserville, they got all die day and the were warming. For santa rosa folks, this was the knock in the middle of the night. It was and, you know, there is a lot of coordination taking place between the Incident Commanders and our agency. So, of course, we have the Sonoma County Sheriffs Department, the Police Department and then unified command. We have santa rosa fire. And forestville fire. With cal fire. There are a lot of communications happening. Yes, we have seen the evacuations have started in healdsburg and windsor and into the coast. Then progressed into the city limits. We estimated we evacuated about 60,000 people out of the city so far. And what kind of a response did you get from folks at coffee park who were there before. Were they ready to go . I imagine they were. You know, the coffee woke up when the fire first started. When it started a couple of nights ago, it was visible in santa rosa and running multiple reports of structure fire all over. The time of the night and how it looks on the city limits. I was moreally driving around coffee park and seemed like everybody was out and here we are a couple of days later. Some of the same residents that rebuilt and moved back home and theyre packed up and left town again. A lot of eerie similarities. Your heart has to go out to the people. We talked to tom stewart. I did a few stories with him. He lives in coffee park and on the way to vacaville. The two daughters in windsor. These people have been tested. They have. We were fortunate in 2017 that the winds stopped when they did. It was a short lived event and more than they could imagine. Were faced with a 30,000acre fire with a wind on it. This is something were dealing with probably until tomorrow morning. Hopefully its earlier and we have a significant number of resources agencies, pretty much every Fire Department completely recalled all of the staff members. Put firefighters up staff every single fire. The Police Department, santa rosa police, theyre staffed to protect our communities and bringing in the outside resources from the incident itself to help sent us. And that being said, we should tell people the orders are to keep people safe in case the fire started. Youre not seeing any activity as of now in the city of santa rosa. This is evacuation only and preparing still. Correct. What were experiencing is significant wind. They have been busy through the night and this morning with multiple trees and power lines down. Blown transformers and so, were preparing for the potential of the kinkade fire. Its affecting the east side of our community. We we have the north and west side of the city evacuated and regardless, were here and we will remain here for your team. The power lines coming down, they came down after the power was off, though. That is important. The reason were in the public power safety shutoff, when the lines came down, they didnt want them to start fires and youre saying they came down and the dead wires. Its a combination of both. Because we have kind of our side of the city. Its the energize and the power shutoff. We have the west side and our core of santa rosa. Its energized. Were responding to additional calls for a live line down and the reports of blown transformers. Its going to be confusing for our residents as they wake up this morning. They may not have power. They may think its because of the shutoff and related to the safety power shutoff. An incident outside of that area. So, were encouraging residents to go to the pge sight. The pge alert. Com and check your address on the website. The power shutoff or if theyre a part of another incident and cozzed by the wind. Also, regardless of the city of santa rosa, the couldnt of sonoma, the website, the emergency website, check out all of the latest details and information from cal fire. And, paul, can you put into perspective those winds. Hurricaneforce winds, 90 miles an hour and some of the hilltops there. When you have a fire, 30,000 acres and you put a 40, 50, 60 milesanhour wind, how far could this go in. That, you hit it there and that is our concern. Were not starting with a small fire. We saw it pushed my significant wind. We had that. That is how the fire got to the side it was. The size it was. So we knew they were going to pick up from last night through tomorrow morning. And that is the primary firm that we had a 20 something plus thousand acre fire going to have a king cant wind on it. And that is what true, that box. That pushed the evacuations all of the way out to the Pacific Ocean into the city. We have seen what can happen with winddriven fires. In this community. In 2017, and that is all to alert and evacuate as many people as possible that need to be evacuated and need to be alerted to ensure were in a better position for this potential behind this incident. Y and imagine. Getting calls, too. You know your neighbors have goneand evacuated. You think how chose am i to the northwest corner or that nowhere end of the east side and what are you telling people in terms of throughout the day. Getting a go back ready and how you my spread to the city of santa rosa . You know, we remained them since the fire in 2017, we have done a lot to educate our community on evacuation routes, the evacuation check list being prepared to g. Differently with the warning and there are a lot of people there directly in the Evacuation Order area. There are people just outside of that and are on high alert. Our entire community and the county of sonoma should be prepared. Not just from the fire but other potential fires and we want everybody to be ready to be mindful to be alert and have their cell phones charged. Have fuel in their gas tank. And take those weather conditions seriously. If you are evacuating, in an area requiring an evacuation, heed the warnings and leave the area. Our goal is to get people out of harms way so that the the firefighters can get in and protect the home, extinguisher the fire. Extinction wish the fire. They leave at the last minute and try to leave when we get in and up the road and becoming a victim we have to rescue. So, we saw the mass exodus and significant the people leaving the city of santa rosa this morning. This was a good time, you know. And it was not something we want to do meaning we dont wa to be put in a condition where we have a fire that is expecting that effecting that much of our community, but was glad to see the amount of traffic. And it means people are lessening. Theyre leaving and getting out. Yes, certainly were and altogether and as we heard, someone say last night an Evacuation Order is not a suggestion. We appreciate it. The santa rosa Fire Department, stay safe out there. We appreciate the hard work youre doing to keep everybody safe. We hope the wind dies down sooner than later. And we do, too. Thank you. Lets bring in rosemary now. We knew they would grow and become stronger. Its pretty consist. And shows we will be easy throughout. The advise or doesnt expire until the morning. The wins are still strong. As we talked about moments ago, some of the gusts reached moment miles an hour earlier this morning. Right now, were looking at the winds over areas near mount saint hill open, clocking 75. Hawkeye clocking 69. The relative humidity in some areas down to 14 . Even 10 in some spots and that is the northeast wind there. You can see how the airos are coming in from the northeast. You can see why areas like sebastopol, windsor, the north end of santa rosa are in the evacuation area. Theyre going to continue to blow and into the afternoon, hopefully going to blow the smoke into the Pacific Ocean. Hes view of what is going on over the middle peak where we have winds over moment Miles Per Hour. Theyre areawide. I am not seeing them quite as strong in and around the peninsula. The santa cruz mountains, san francisco. Anywhere from 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Really, its our north bay hills and our east bay hills picking up on some win. We have Mallory Ridge reporting 36, and we are looking at some of the stronger gusts earlier this morning and hopefully not seeing a repeat of this. Mount saint helena at 87; hillsburg hills, 93; santa rosa along the valley floor, 39; hawkeye, 36. Very, very strong winds. Hurricane force winds that toppled trees and create extensive damage to power lines. We get through the morning hours. The future cast model showing us the darker shade of orange is going to turn yellow. The winds will remain with us and not be as strong as were seeing this morning. But not going away. Not until it looks like torrow morning. They finally begin to die down. The northwest breeze is going to kick out the smoke, good news this that regard. Right now, air quality likes to be slightly unhealthy for most groups and i imagine unhealthy over the north bay as it lingers. Back to you. Okay. Its been a very, very busy night. Very busy morning. Were looking at updated numbers. The Sonoma County sheriffs office. The sonoma sheriff is ing 180,000 people under Evacuation Order because of the kinkade fire. This is the largest evacuation any of us can remember. He said 60,000 of santa rosa are from part of the city of santa rosa. We know the area is huge. In addition to that, we have fires in oakley where they have Evacuations Ordered there. And started a vegetation fire. In the heart of this, were seeing a lot of fire activity. Absolutely. And those evacuations can come down further south through santa rosa. A good portion, what did he say, about 50 of santa rosa in the northwest portion. The northwest corner evacuated in the nowhere end and east side of the city are evacuated. And that is on the very tip there of 101. Where coffee park and the Fountain Grove neighborhoods are. This is key. We need to get the wins down to get aircraft in there. After the winds up there, up to 90 miles an hour overnight. Cal fire tweeted out, too. Theyre recording wind gusts of 93 Miles Per Hour. When you have wins that strong at 93 Miles Per Hour, they said the winds can carry embers over a mile. You have that fire youre looking at and you can take an ember from that a mile down the road. A 90 chance of starting the spot fire. If youre talking with the likelihood this can spread, its high. The kincade fire is 30,000 acres. Ten contained. If you know theiary a bit, the topography of where it started, the steep terrain. A lot of it is not. Not much there. A lot of dry brush. When the embers jump and start coming towards homes and populations, its going to be dire. And its going to be a situation that we have to watch carefully. And in addition to this, we have this public power safety shutoff that is on going. He said, look, we have paof the city on that mandatory shutoff. And part of the city that was not. Across the city, offgot lines coming down. Trees coming down. Transformers coming down. Some people waking up saying wait, i was not on the list of having my power shut off. The power might be off becauses power line came down because of the high winds into the area. The reporters have been reporting its gusty and windy. And theyre feeling it at different points of where they are. The parts theyre concerned about are the top of the hills where that wind can pick up and take off. We know we have lost at least two wineries in the overnight hours. The fold stone winiery and judge soda rock. The soda rock winery, which is 150 years old. Which went through a 10year renovation project as well. Yeah. And so, so sad. Alyssa was there and one wall was standing. This is going to be a long morning ahead of us. Well continue to stay on the coverage with our lee Team Coverage from a our live Team Coverage from across the fire zone. Plan plan. Welcome, im claude open wong. Im frankmallen coat. Light check in with rosemary. The kinkade fire exploded to 30,000 acres. The containment was at 11 and dropped to 10 as it inches closer to the south. The winds the big issue. Those winds still blowing quite strong. Havent seen them that strong since then, good news. He are the latest observations. 75 Miles Per Hour and hawkeye reporting 69. In addition to, that the relative humidity is down to 15, 14 in some areas and maybe a little bit less than that. Its dry out there. And that northeast wind is blowing all of that some onec and fire danger toward areas like windsor and santa rosa and sebastopol, roanoke park area. Many of the communities under the evacuation. This is where we have relative humidity at 22 . The north wind at 24. Its not only in the north bay hills, although it has been where we have definitely seen some of the stronger winds and mount deonla present mount diablo reporting 29 and oakland south, 30 Miles Per Hour. Contra costa county, we have oakley with a small fire also seeing breezy conditions. 93 miles an hour. We had hawkeye report 76. Mount saint helena at one point, 87 and right along the north bay valley floor in santa rosa, petaluma reporting some very string winds. Petaluma to 53. As we get through the second part of the morning, notice we do see the wins begin to die town. The red flag warning, the high wind warning. They not going to go away, though. Were going to remain with the winds in place throughout the entire day. That northeast breeze on a positive note, is expected to kick out some of the smoke. So at this hour, we have air quality. Looks like unhealthy for a sensitive earth and the north bay is going to be unhealthy. We have smoke reported over the areas of the bay into france and areas of the central bay. That is hopefully going to change as we get into the afternoon. We may see some improving air quality. The northwest wind kicks out the smoke towards the Pacific Ocean. The warning is going to remain in place until tomorrow morning. Not only for our hills but north bay and our valley locations. And for the coast line. Thank you, rosemary. Were following the kinkade fire and have fire burning in oakley. We have a new fire in clayton with evacuations being ordered there and this is leon court, leon drive, leon way. The Contra Costa County fire saying residents should leave immediately. They said there are several fires burning in east county. If youre in danger, regardless of location, do not wait. Evacuate. The fire danger is high. There is a robo call saying if people are trying to leave, they should go via marsh creek road. We have an oakley fire, a clayton fire and fox 2,s the chopper, sky fox heading over to that area going. They will stop at clayton first and oakley. We should have pictures from the fire soon. That is what were seeing this morning. Were going to take to you healdsburg. We got daylight there. What are you seeing . Air quality not very good, i would imagine. Yeah, not good at all. As the winds pick up, it pushes the smoke,ic making everything harder for the fire crews here. This is something i never want to show but this is the reality of the fire. This home completely taken down by the fore. We are on chalk hill road. Its crazy, the behavior of the fires. This house is completely taken down, the neighbor over there, their house is totally fine and standing. This entire property, we could walk through and look at this. Just all of this mess over here. A lot of cars on this property that have been completely destroyed by the fire. There are a couple of houses over here that are Still Standing. There are a lot of fire crews out here. Just down the way here and down the road. You can see the fire crew from palo alto fire. Be careful of the powerline here. Down there and theyre kind of going through and making sure the flames are out. Kind of making sure the hotspots dont flare up, you know. The issue theyre dealing with, of course, there is a lot of wind and embers. But theyre tired. We spoke to cal fire captain earlier this morning. He said that there are, a lot of them are dealing with the fatigue. They have been on the clock for hours and hours and hours. That were hoping they could be off and get a break. With the way the fire is going the last few hours, they tonight think theyre getting a break any time soon. You can see the black plume of smoke. We dont know where that is coming from or what its burning, but clearly its burning something, this is one of many spots that has been dealing with this and like i mentioned, we heard from cal fire and so, heres exactly what they were doing here in the area. The Fire Department went through. Now is the time when we will normally lose hopes. We got complacent and thought the fire went through. And youre finding woodpiles burning too close to home and this is the time when were trying to put the small fires out before we start losing stretches again. Cal fire made an announcement and the update on the acreage of the fire. Its 30,000 acres, 10 contained and it grew about 5,000 acres overnight because of the win. If we can come here live, there are fire crews with the hoses out right now, and like i said, putting out the hotspots, making sure there is nothing on fire here still. As you heard, the sound bite, cal fired sometimes they do become complace and think the fire rolled through and, you know, the threat is gone. But, of course, the threat is never gone. Especially with winds like this. And speaking of the embers, there could be fires inside of the trees that are not visible. The winds have not died down and like we get the calm and then, you know, a few minutes later, the winds pick up. In this area, you saw an hour ago, there were flames everywhere. Things have calmed down here right now. That plume of smoke there, that is alarming. So, right after the live shot, were going to go in the direction and see what is going on over there. And i am curious, are there any home owners up there at all . Or everybody is evacuatings . Youre seeing fire personnel. That is it . Were driving up and down chalk road. Is that means there is, you know, all of the residents listen to evacuation warnings. We know the Sonoma County sheriff was concerned yesterday. He heard that people wanted to stay at their homes and fight the fire themselves. Dont do that. If youre told to evacuate, you have to do that. The people at the homes, we havent seen anyone. That is a good thing and good news for a lot of people. Theyll come back to homes, unfortunately down the road here, that home is completely taken down by the kincade fire. University tragic, yes. I know youre just tragic. Yes. I know youre heading to the next like. Stay safe out there. Lets look at the evacuation map. This is important. This is where so many people were told to get out for their own safety. 180,000 people at last count have been told to leave. Overnight in santa rosa, 60,000 people alone were told to get out for their safety. They have the map divided up into zones. The red parent is the kinkade fire that is actively burning. The purplish part is where people have been told they need to leave their zone. Numbered and 110. They have been told to get out. The area, as it grew, was around the fire and it moved south and then all of the way west last night. Then south this morning. Highway 101 goes straight through that area. A 30mile stretch of that was shut down. And highway 1 as well. Youre all of the way out there. Its incredible amount of square miles that have been evacuated. For good reason. After we saw the live shot. The spot fire starts. The wind gets shot and gets established and another one comes up, leap frogging and leap frogs. We have a lot day ahead. Yes. The Sheriffs Department saying this is the biggest evacuation ever. The cities of santa rosa, coffee park, healdsburg and others saying get out. We hope theyre ghost towns but for emergency personnel. We have Evacuation Orders. People are told. When its a warning, you ge everything ready. An order, you get out. Melissa harrington is in the north bay. Were looking behind you. And the soda rock winery no more. Incredible. Its been there, what, 150 years . Thats right. 150 years and devastating to see this. The onlythg Still Standing is the rock wall. The front of the building, the sign still there. You can see huge piles of smoldering debris. The ceiling collapsed. Everything on fire or scorched. You can see a fireplace, the stairwell. That burned to the ground. Were seeing fruit trees singed and art work burned. Devastating. This has been here for a long time, since 1869. The owners, the current owners have been in charge since 2000 and went through a major renovation project. This is very popular winery. Very recognizable winery. The rock wall there, a sculpture of a bore. Something that is really a landmark of this place. Theyre stall standing and Everything Else burned. I want to show you video from earlier this morning. One big issue were talking about are the winds. Theyre pushing around the embers and flames. The reason the fire spreads quickly. Were here in healdsburg. The entire town was evacuated yesterday, how serious the fire is. Its very quiet, but for a lot of emergency personnel. Were seeing firefighters lined up and down the streets. Y that putting up spot fires and staging in case new fires flare up. Theyre looking for hotspots and they want to make sure when they put a fire out, its entirely out and there is no reignition. I want to show you another video we took a mile down the road. Were looking at the distance and the large hill blowing. The fire was moving over the hill. It was quite a sight and that was taken about two hours ago. I want to tell you what we experienced this morning. The winds, peered to pick up the last 20 minutes. They have been extremely strong. Wind gusts knocking you over. Theyre strong. The howling winds. When we left, we you that a lot of traffic was coming away from the fire in the petaluma area, when we started seeing a lot of evacuees when it was still dark. A lot of them had campers and trailers. That you were trying to get out of the neighborhoods. Throughout the night, different communities were getting evacuation alerts on their phones. Once we crossed into Sonoma County, was getting the alerts says well in english and spanish and tell which neighbors had to be evacuated. Another thing that Emergency Responders were able to do, they gave people a lot of warning if they could and let certain communities knowthey needed to get ready for an evacuation. Get your medication and pets and belongings ready to go. If you get the call to evacuate, you get out immediately. That has been helpful for First Responders and firefighters to get into the neighborhoods. When people can get out quicker. That is a good thing about this time around. Of course, were going to deal with the winds for a while. They certainly picked up just in the past few minutes here. And that is one thing well look at as well. I can tell you there are spot fires burning around us and seeing flames across the road. There is still a lot of smoke in the air. We are seeing the winery here for 150 years and got taken by the fire. If you look next door, there are homes Still Standing. Its opinion really interesting driving around and seeing what the fire is doing. Key drove up to chalk hill road. There were fires burning look the road and a lot of fires out there. Theyre working hard to get this under control. Alyssa harrington, ktvu fox 2 news. Stay safe. Thank you for that live report. Unbelievable. The winiery there for 150 years and they did a 10year renovation, completed that this year. Low and behold, the wind comes in. You can see things are fine across the street and that is how this fire behaves. Exactly. The our coverage of the fire and other fires around the bay area, our power safety shutoff with a lot of people this morning, our full coverage continues after the break. The break. Its game day live here a fan favorite venue ever since they got gig Speed Internet. 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We spent a lot of time on the kincade fire, but there are other fires prompting evacuations. In clayton, we have this fire that is urcurrently burning, currently burning. They asked people to get out of the area and get to safety. Were not sure how it started but you can see the emergency vehicles in the area and coming on the side of the screen. Clayton is up. On the eastern slope of mount diablo and tucked in there near marsh creek road. We did a zip trip as you know, a tender box like much of the bay area there. Mount diablo burned six, seven years ago on the eastern side. This is i very tenderiary. Looks like they have an apparatus there. They sent a robo call out. The folks got a call saying there are evacuations of leon drive, leon court, and leon way in clayton because of the fire. That were asking residents to leave via marsh creek road. Access in and out might be difficult and there is a fire in oakley that starteddality 5 this morning, requiring evacuations in the summer lake neighborhood. They were asking people to get out as well. There is a wind event that is a problem. You can see the home there over there. And that is unclear new how close we are to the flames. We know as sky fox zooms into that, the home on the hillside, how close the fire is burning. Crow know how quickly it can move. 93 Miles Per Hourwinds. Theyre talked about at the top of the hills. Eightys and 70s, as we see a fire truck making its way there. You think. Its important to note. All eyes are on the north bay and the kincade fire. The winds, theyre all over the place. Al rthern california. You get outside of the delta area where oakley is, the winds are like no tomorrow. Obviously, right here, on the n side of mount diablo and clayton and that looked like a pretty good sized plume right now. You can see its moving rather quickly. The wins atop mount diablo. We have rosemary here. That is almost 4,000 fight. I imagine theyre with them pretty well. And over the hills, winds were gusting 40 to 60 miles an hour earlier this morning. They have let up a bit and into the clayton area along the floor there. We have the winds gusting to 25, perhaps 30. And definitely breezy and enough to fan the flames here and get this going. As you have said, its the north bay. We have seen the wins picking up to 85 and 90 Miles Per Hour this morning. And in santa rosa, we talk to the Fire Department. Theyre reporting they have downed transformers and downed lines. They have a lot of issues theyre dealing with. Not just the kinkade fire but everything that this wind has brought. This continues to be a developing situation with 180,000 people evacuated in Sonoma County. The evacuations are not over. We have some centers at capacity and this continues to develop this morning and we follow it for you here. We have Team Coverage of the kinkade fire. Welcome back to mornings on two. We continue to cover the fire. The kincade fire in the north bay. This is the kincade fire . A huge area. When you look at the path of that fire, you have the road there. Assume was a fire break. Its on both sides of the road. When you get them to safety, you have to make sure you have the ways out to safety that you can ensure and so this robo wall went out immediately, the next few hours. You need to get out and go to safety. We know theyre working on that. That is the home at the top of the screen there on top of that ridge. I know we saw the firefighters making their way there to do what they can to save prosecutor and hopefully the People Living in that home. Is any some of them may not have power because of the Power Outages locate bring in the former fema Incident Commander and fremont fire battalion chief and to put this in perspective. The wins, at least we have some notice this time. But its been an incredible 24 hours. The evacuations. We were talking earlier, a break. You know, we heard jonathan this morning talk about how far they evacuated people. They wanted to be aggressive because of the winds. Theyre looking at the modeling behavior, winds and all of that. When you say were going to evacuate t community, that Incident Commander, in essence, opens the community. And you felt then, the 10 00 press conference. Cal fire held yesterday. They indicated how massive this evacuate is. They said, okay, healdsburg. The entire city, you have to go. Winds sor and geyersville, you have to go and then to santa rosa. The sonoma counts this is the largest. You have to think about the people making the decisions. Theyre unprecedented territory and not going we did this before here. Lets pull out the plans and that map of what we did. Theyre making decisions. In large part, 2017, saying what did we learn and not walk down that road again. Not only 2017 but again. Theyre using scientific modeling and taking information from the field troops on the fireline and make a stition of what we feel in terms of evacuation. How aggressive do we have to be to keep people safe. When you do that, you have is to recognize if that area becomes burned, the recovery of the period, the businesses and homes are going to be. If its not burring, you have to repopulate. You have to provide security for that area. Its not an easy decision to say lets move people out. We have the constant consequential situation, how we deal with that once they leave. Can we talk about fatigue, jonathan cox from cal fire asked him when was the last time he got some rest. He said i have been up for two straight days. Its hard to give it up once youre in. Theyre working two at a time. When youre in the execute of level making decisions like that, there is visit labor the firefighters, the hand crews and operators, the pilots are doing. Making lifeanddeath decisions. The Economic Impact for communities. Not a life decision. They have it set town have likes deputy. They have a deputy to rotate people in and out. Because of the activity and the amount of activity, youre probably getting minimal sleep because you can turn it over for a period of time. You have to go back up. There is so much going on. And you invested in that. You have all of those people trying to get out to safety. Calling it aggressive. Theyre like this is aggressive. You look at the e vacation map. Its huge. Yes. When you look at your perspective and how this is going down, can you be too aggressive. You put people out for a few days and theyre out there, put out from their houses. Their house is there. You leave them in and not as aggressive, theyre at stake j. And where is the line . Were hearing the winds were so severe. Youre not fighting the fire. Youre talking about targets of opportunity. Rest of the area is driven by the wind and youre reacting to that, trying to get people down range, protect exmorures and youre exposures and youre talking about a lot of fire. Were going to go to sarah in the thick of all of this. Talk about what shes seeing with the fire and changing conditions. Sarah . Good morning. So we were making our way up and down chalk hill road. The last time, i was talking about a big plume of black smoke, we believe this is what it was. Im not sure what it is, an outhouse, a home, honestly, its so destroyed, its hard to tell what it is. Its completely engulfed in flames. You cant see them here. There are crews up here at this hour. This is a loss. There is not much you can do for the structure other