Good morning, everyone, im chris nguyen. Breakdo breaking news, there are new mandatory Evacuation Orders. Abc 7s Cornell Barnard joins us at napa street and victoria road in Sonoma County. Youre joined by a cal fire spokesperson. Reporter i am, chris, well talk to him in just a moment. This firefight gets ever more serious as the morning progressio progresses. This is one of the more heavy fires in the northeast section of the Sonoma County. Its been made worse by the winds that continue to pick up this morning. Smoke and flames certainly now visible from all parts of the Sonoma Valley. As we pan to the left, Patrick Sedillo, we can see fire on this other ridge, north as the crow flies, north of the town of sonoma. Were about three miles from the sonoma town square. Joining me now is jerry fun fernandez with cal fire. I know youve been on the scene for a short time, obviously a very serious situation. Yes, this is what we were expecting. Unfortunately its arrived, the extreme fire con
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
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