Be can deployed. One last stand for the nearly 5,000 firefighters. Theres a lot of confusion at this late hour about the pg e power shut offs. Those shut offs happening as we speak. So far no reported deaths or injuries. More than 76,000 acres have burned. That fire only 15 contained. Of the 1 with89 structures burned, 86 are homes. 39 damaged. Tonight two areas firefighters are doubling down their efforts on. The 101 corridor and where our crews are tonight. Joining us from windser. Jean. Reporter these are part of the team dededicated to protecting homes. Is there were eight fire trucks about half hour ago. Theyre roving and waiting to protect homes. S like so many people, Tara Crawford is ready to evacuate if the kincade fire takes off in the expected winds tonight. They say off shore winds have them staffing up. The first night you remember it grew because of the off shore wind. Both conditions tend to push it down hill and the biggest conson the western perimeter south of winds wi
When sustained up to 36 Miles Per Hour. There is a red flag warning in effect until 4 00 p. M. Today for the north bay, east bay and for santa cruz. Extreme fire danger continues. Right now its also about the chilly temperatures with upper 40s in livermore as well asn jose. Mid50s from concord, oakland and San Francisco. Mid30s for santa rosa. The wind will ease, especially through the afternoon with chilly ha sunshine with dry conditions and seasonal daytime highs. Drier and calmer weather ahead in the next several days. We will talk about what you can expect for the rest of the week coming up on futurecast. And we have a look at the zones in the kincaid area. Purple shows all of the areas evacuated and the dark red scares show where the fire is currently burning. The area in blue under evacuation warning. Calfire says the fire has burned 76,000 is 15 contained with 189 structures destroyed including 86 homes. Firefighters are taking part in this battle. More than 300,000 pg e custome
Break breaking news roaring winds worsen the kincade fire. We are live near the fi bringi lights back on in the bay area this morning. The latest on the restoration efforts. Good morning, its r its wednesday october 30th. Kenny choi. I am michelle griego. We have Team Coverage all morning. Jackie ward is live in so momma county. Gianna is tracking the impacts on roads but lets gibing begin with mary lee and talk about the winds when they will finally ease up. We are starting to watch the wind ease right now. But we have seen some strong wind gusts especially last night. So our strongest peak wind gusts at pine flat road close to the contained fire whlena 58 mount diablo 35 for sunol. North northeastern winds dry offshore wind flow. 27 mile per hour winds sustained. Gusts up to 37 Miles Per Hour and very low relative humidity values down to the a Single Digits at 9 . And currently looking at 49 for temperature out there. Even though the winds will continue to calm down, we are looking a
Cool anything also cutting fire line and clearing brush all to do what they can to prevent the red flag winds from picking up the still burning embers and blowing them up to a half mile ahead of firefighters. Everybody is still and test pay thing the high rates of spread. Erratic fire behavior. We are seeing that push some of the fire embers back into the main burn. Reporter right now, the goal is to keep all the burning embers inside those containment lines and protect the homes and buildings still standing. That fight has been nothing but short of amazing. 27 helicopters been assigned to battle the fire. They have 2. 1 million gallons of water that has been dumped on flames. Fire has made it to the edge of the tubs fire burn scar. That is about two years old of expected to be fully contained until next thursday we are talking about. Mary lee has the forecast and the wind gusts are serious this morning. Thats right. Tracking that all across the kincade fire. Jackie, and near the pine
Minutes to get to this point where we could get kind of close to the glow. You can see we are quite a distance away from it as it makes its way up and over this hill. Thats a good thing. Thats good news for the people who live in the surrounding towns. Right now theres a lot of so called mop up work happening throughout the burn area around the kincade fire. And they are using watter to cool anything smoldering. Hand crews are out here too cutting new fire line and clearing brush. All of that to hopefully prevent the red flag winds from blowing the embers up to a half mile ahead of firefighters. Everybody is still anticipating the high rates of spread. Erratic fire behavior. We are seeing that push some of those fire embers back into the main burn. Reporter right now, the goal is to keep all the burn embers inside the containment lines and protect the homes and buildings that are standing. 27 helicopters have been assigned to battle this fire. 2. 1 million gallons of water have been du