Breaking news from Sonoma County, huge flames, gusty winds and mandatory evacuations. Right now part of a north Bay Community has been told to waste no time and to get out as soon as possible. Good morning and thanks so much for being with us, im chris nguyen. Breaking news involving the north bay wildfires where there are several new mandatory evacuations. The latest in lake county. Officials are urging everyone living in the Spring Valley and new long valley areas to leave immediately. Also new mandatory evacuations in eastern santa rosa, the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office says you must leave immediately if you live in the following areas highway 12 between adobe canyon road in kenwood and calistoga road in santa rosa. This includes both sides of highway 12, skyhawk,wk,wk,wk,wk, hawk and much of rincon county. Also 7th street east from east napa street to denmark street. Also the north side of denmark street from 7th street east to napa road. New mandatory evacuations also include 8th
Valley. About 400 homes now under a mandatory Evacuation Order. We do believe that most people have heeded that warning. But heavy fuels up there on the ridge, as a firefighter just pointed out to me. To the left, we have another fire burning in the sonoma valley. We see a big header of smoke right there, that is another fire in the northeast section of the ridge above the sonoma valley. So two major fires burning here. A major firefighter is now on to protect all of the homes in the area. Lets bring in captain tony mchale with cal fire. Tony, any containment on these fires right now . Theres no reports of containment right now. It is a tense situation up here. We have a lot of active fires you can see on the hillside there. Its established, pretty heavy fuels, a lot of timber up there, plus some slope. We had some pretty heavy winds this morning. The winds have calmed down here in the flats, but theres probably some pretty good ridge top winds going on, erratic winds, very hazardous f