Bridges, conditions definitely slick out there. Im allen martin and for kent. Im elizabeth cook. Live in coverage right now in the kpix 5 news, d streaming on cbsn bay area. Hagan, the south bay has been getting pounded this evening. Especially into the santa clara valley. There is rain into the valley once again, it is just not as intense as what we had last night period the wind is not as strong either period showers for the north bay right now, that is light activity, the heaviest rain has been further ts zoom in for a closer look at that and show you what we are looking at on high death doppler. Light showers, the rain has tapered off a bit, the heaviest rain indicated by yellows and oranges has been getting nudged a bit further to the east over the past 45 minutes or so. A hopeful sign is that we have seen a tapering trance to showers in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Here is where the heaviest rain is falling right now, just under half an inch per hour. That number is lower than it wa
According to the Sonoma County twitter account, it says evacuations have been issued. These in response to this fire, stay alert, and more information will be posted. Here is the list of evacuations. Evacuation orders east of geyserville, evacuation warnings for the north and geysers road. Highway 128, pine flat road, and red winery road. Leave immediately if you are in or near these road if you feel unsafe to, go ahead and evacuate as well. This is being fueled by the wind that has prompted the Public Safety power sto. As we exited the highway there were maybe a dozen fire engines there ready to go and tackle this fire. And well bring you more on this fire as the information becomes available. Well beheing backut, thank you. Lots of people posting to social media tonight. The smoke and orange glow can be enor miles all over the north bay right now. The National Weather service in the bay area picked up the fire on its geyser peak cam. You can see the sky filled with smoke rising from
Voluntary evacuations. We have live team coverage. Amy hollyfield and Lauren Martinez are in Sonoma County. We start with lisa argen tracking that critical fire danger. The temperature in San Francisco at 70 degrees. Offshore winds have been blowing all night. At the surface, not too gusty. Right now looking at 20 to 40mileperhour winds. This will continue through the 8 00 and 9 00 hour. Offshore winds bringing down the relative humidity here into the Single Digits. Elsewhere in the east bay and south bay, not as dry. We are looking at the relative humidity. Very dry at Half Moon Bay. Look at the temperatures in the east bay valleys, near record warmth in the upper 80s today. Could see 90s in San Francisco. Looking at very warm weather throughout the bay and at the coast. Thank you very much. The kincaid fire started around 10 00 last night in geyserville and it exploded to 10,000 acres. This map gives you a better idea of where the fire started. Its northeast of geyserville near john
And some breaking news. We speak were just hearing that First Responders have rushed to geyser phil. Right now we do not know the circumstances but kron fours michelle kingston joins us now live from geyser bill michelle. Wt do you see. Hi guys money for kind of he pictured here tell you. They are an weiner erupting. A huge role our place that weve been showing quite bit were a number of homes destroyed. Weve been here a couple hours now its a lot different here today than was yesterday we have that the pope thinking really hard to it. Its not a lot winds. And we kind of just not been able to see anything for the past couple of hours because it just your blanket of smoke, but i would say about a half hour ago 45 minutes ago thought to cooler room. Number of firefighters. Were coming down there. Heading for that limit moke. Were not really sure what exactly going on over their life. A very red on the top. It seems to be growing in size. The wind seems to have much more clear you are not
Like i said weve on red wine or erode for at hours i just covering some of the destruction here and about an hour around half ago. Thats when noticed a lot of fire trucks and driving very fast down red winery road and heading toward that plume of smoke we also saw an ambulance and that was the first one that weve seen sense covering this fire. Yesterday in today and the same ambulance. Also just came back down heading towards unclear if theres any injuries at this point. I understand there will be a press conference that looks like at 6. 30 so hopefully well get some of our questions answered them, but for now were just kind of concerned looking at this big plume of smoke i i also drove down red winery road to try to get to the plume smoke and i got as far as pine flat road. And cal fire a stop there. They are not letting us in. Reporters stopped right there just to checking out that plume of smoke that first time i believe that weve been tonight. Covering this kinkaid fire. Fire truck