The worst but it really has been a relatively quiet night for the most part. The wind really hasnt been that bad with the exception of some gusts here and there since weve been here since about 4 am. The National Weather Service Canceled a high wind advisory because wind below 2500 feet has died down but, again, still under a red flag warning. Wind is Strong Enough and humidity is low enough to create critical fire weather conditions. Spot fires that can turn into bigger fires are possible. Firefighters will finally get a break after an intense week on the front lines because the wind well let up after today. That does not mean the area is safe. Fire could be burning inside trees coming even if we dont see it. Cal fire says they can fall, roll down the hill and start another fire. We did see firefighters pulled off onto the side of the road earlier spraying water on a smoking tree. Another issue is how dry everything around here is. Vlive fuel moisture up there is a 50 . 60 is critical
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
This is from sky 7 yesterday, actually sky 7, just a few minutes ago we had a live picture from there. We had to ground our helicopter because the winds are simply too strong in Sonoma County for it to keep flying. You can imagine what the fire crews are dealing with to try to get a containment line around the kincade fire which is burning more than 30,000 acres as we speak. Right now lets go ahead and show you this picture, taken from one of those wildfire alert cameras. In fact the website is called alert wifire. This is st. Helena. You can see, yep, in the wine country region, st. Helena right up the road, and you can see the smoke risingas a result of the fires burning, the dry brush, part of the kincade fire. It eats up the dry vegetation in the hills right now at this time of year. You can sort of see where the fire doesnt just burn in a straight line. You can see there was clear flames on one hill, then sort of a patch of clearance, then some more flames, as embers get thrown an
Nearly a million, across 35 counties. Those power shutoffs began late yesterday. And once the all clear is given, thats when pg e is able to start checking the lines again. Well start reinstating power for everyone. We want to now take you to new video we have from highway 128 near chock hill road. This is incredible. I havent seen a car driving through these flying ashes and embers since last year when we saw this happening in paradise with the camp fire. This is brandnew video just into our newsroom from highway 128 near chock hill road. Again, if youre just joining us, this is a special edition of nbc bay area news because of the breaking news. rig to today. Its expected to just get worse, and so were all preparing for the best. Sonoma county has expanded evacuations into santa rosa. Theyre reaching all the way to the pacific ocean. People are being told if youre under a mandatory evacuation, dont stay behind. Dont try to save your property. Get out now. There are Evacuation Centers
Healdsburg and then here callisto that you can see pretty hefty flame going there. In that collapsed building in so now theyre just kind of monitoring in upon looking on google looks like this is a an alternative college program, my friend, low high school is she just message me and said i almost and that before going to college but she didnt end up doing it. I asked her she knew anyone who did. But it looks like they for a full year basis people in their gap year, but before going to college you can travel to india and other countries and you can take some academic classes as well as getting internships so it seems like its a child did leave a voicemail with with the company leave now, but havent heard back quite yet were standing here. 1, 1, 6, 4, 0, highway 2020 and i dont expect him to get back to me that just call and reach out since people are probably wondering how theyre doing with all of this since lot of people have gone to leave now here in calistoga you can see its a pretty