Meteorologist Steve Paulsen is monitoring the conditions in the area. Reporter firefighters have been showing up throughout the morning. This is the command base, where they will have a briefing this morning before heading back out to the fire line. One thing we did learn is that one of the Evacuation Centers yesterday was full and now has space at the fieldsburg Community Center. The Sonoma County fairgrounds also a place that you can bring livestock. About 2,000 people remain under the mandatory evacuation orders. There are three main Evacuation Centers, the hillsburg Community Center, the Veterans Memorial building in santa rosa, and the fairgrounds where horses and livestock can be sheltered. Evacuees say they are nervous. So far 49 structures with have burned. Its nature, right . Reporter firefighters have been able to contain about 800 acres. As for those evacuated neighborhoods, the Sheriffs Office has put deputies in those neighborhoods to watch for any suspicious activity or p
Around San Francisco. Lets bring in you live on the ground and start with the latest, tom. Reporter i will show you right out here a helicopter. That helicopter has been doing multiple passes and theres another one coming in towards us and another one even behind that. What they are trying to do, along the ridge, they are trying to wet that down so much so that the fire to the left side of the screen, much farther to the left will not spread down into this huge thicket of forest that would cause really major problems. So what they are trying do is stop it in its tracks or at least get it to where firefighters can create some fire lines or other things that would stop that. Once again here is this helicopter because they tamped that down. Theres a lot of hot spots and that is the dangerous thing as it gets hotter and drier and the will come up a little bit later in the day. They dont want that starting. Now as the winds do pick up later, you will see a lot more aggressive fire. You see
Flags in san rafael. Its not open until 8 00. But in the next hour youre okay to line up and wait for the gates and doors to open. Also the Sonoma County fair grounds is accepting evacuees. The Petaluma Community center and fair grounds, the reason were still mentioning to them, theyre good meeting places. You can meet with people there and then evacuate together. The finley Community Center was an Evacuation Center and it has now been evacuated itself. Again, if you need a place to stay, yourptions in the north bay are currently the marin County Fair Grounds and the Sonoma County fair grounds. Heres a look at the evacuation map you can see. Look how wide it is. People should be ready to leave. In fact n many parts of Sonoma County extends as far as mt. Stchlt helena to the east as far a south as sew bath i co. Highway 101 in santa rosa and cloverdale are told theyre being reopened right now. They had shut them down in both directions which is concerning if youre trying to get out of t
Terrain and uphill area right near those hem east homes. Were going to keep a close eye on this throughout the broadcast and the day. Back here in the bay area as we look outside. Temperatures are warming up this week. That is why pg e is monitoring the weather and fire danger. Within the past 30mis partof soa o may affe shutoelisting sure things move better in the future. So that is going to include increasing the capacity for our websites and for our call cen terks. We want to makesurethat were s vulnerable customers and we want to narrow the scope of a Public Safety power shut off. Pg e activated their Emergency Operation centers in San Francisco last night because of this to keep tabs on the conditions. Reporter were going to see major changes this week. The first noticeable one are the clear skies and warmer temperatures that are going to a company that. Looking out, hardly a cloud in the sky. Visibility is great, but were going to get pretty warm. Currently were at 78 in concord.
At the end of the market street. Should we have an active shooter situation, we want to get out and hide out and take out. So with that, we envision going about 30 or 35 minutes. Our lineup will close on my right whos Vice President of the community wildfires safety program. Well have an update from our meteorologist. Live look at the News Conference. Well be starting there, giving a lineup of what they are expected to talk about during the 30 minutes. Once the News Conference starts well bring it to you. Do you want to go back now . Is it starting no . Well move on for the moment. Pg e says theer outages is the weather. We have a team of weather experts monitoring the conditions including our drew tuma and our spencer christian. Dry gusty winds are intensifying at this hour. Lets go back to the map to give you current wind gusts around the bay area. You can see winds are quite strong. Up to about 20 Miles Per Hour, fairfield 29 Miles Per Hour and santa rosa at 20 at halfmoon bay. Wind