Or ere Alexander Mountain road all roads off of river road basically under Evacuation Orders this morning and this area had already had its power cuts. By pg so they were already without power. So thats a good thing that the winds can spark any more fires and doesnt appear that that was the cause theyre still looking for that. Windsor is not affected by this thats why winds are high. Has been an Evacuation Center but that will and at 7 oclock this morning. So the kids can go to school there Hillsborough Community center is the biggest Evacuation Center they also handle pets there and livestock that Evacuation Center is closer to the fire in fact, lets get right up to it kron 4 Sarah Stinson. Live in geyser ville nearest the flames for us this morning, sarah we can certainly see the wind. Its got to be over 10,000 acres. I can say. It is definitely over 10,000 acres member. It was completely safe in all sudden this huge wind gusts in and the flames sparked up and you can see why assumin
It has just mros blossomed insi. Pete, i know you were just asked to move from the fire line because you were too close . Reporter yeah, well, we were positioned at geysers road in geyserville. Were about as close as you could get, which is pretty far up on the fire line. You could see the fire burning clearly, the kinkade fire. It started roughly at about 9 30 p. M. Overnight near the clover dale area off kinkade road in that area. That fire is burning very strong here in geyserville. We had to move because it kicked up. We sent some video earlier when we arrived on the scene. You can see the images there of the fire. Its starting to grow a lot when it comes to the acres. We had to go down the road because it was starting to shift over the hillside where we were to the right of us, starting to shift a little bit. When we saw fire officials, were standing when they started heading out, thats when we head out. Were now going more towards highway 128 to try to find a safer area away from
Or 75 miles an hour. Those gusts have been strong this morning james and its been astonishing to just trying ntemplate how big this fire has grown in such a short amount of time. Broke out at 9 30 last night and already 10,000 plus acres. And more likely burned because were going to update this perimeter. This is where the fires burning currently everything inside this blue area, man we have guys are built right here right on the edge of the fire line thats why that community was evacuated this morning. Story said a fivemile radius and thats the new information in the last half hour we heard directly from the Sonoma County Sheriffs Department that theyve institute a 5 mile radius around guys are ville where they have an evacuation warning right now alert for people to be ready. Theyre not mandatory yet, but they need to be ready. So that takes us all the way north to the town of asti and as daryn mentioned all the way south right to the edge of northern healdsburg so that is the area o
Good morning, and thanks for joining us. I m laura garcia. And i m marcus washington. We ve been on air since 4 am this morning. Here s a live look at an updated map on where the kincade fire stands. Adlib. Here s what we know. The entire community of geyserville is under mandatory Evacuation Orders. At least 10thousand acres have burned so far. While we don t know an exact number of damaged structures, we know the fire has destroyed some homes. So far no reports of injuries. Just within the last hour, a new fire has sparked. Skyranger captured smoke overhead. The spring fire is burning just east of santa rosa. There is good news we hear the fire is holding at 3 acres and forward progress has been stopped. This one is near annadel state park. We know a tanker that s helping with the kincade fire is heading to the spring fire to help put it out. Several schools are closed today because of the fires. Here s a list on your screen. Schools in the Alexander Valley School District cloverdale
Temperatures are running up there because of the cloud cover mbyte rain for a few. The line is about San Francisco northward. Clouds south of that, more sunshine. If you upper 70s here. 6 01 am. Things are getting busier that we have a little bit of a break at least for now. On this friday commute. This is will be have on 880. The traffic at the toll plaza, the traffic is moving along well as you drive through here. No major problems driving. This is i80 and it is nice. The ramp on the left is moving along from the area. This is a look at 880 and you can see that traffic is going to be okay as you drive through the area. We look at 580 and the Altamont Pass area because we do have a lot of slow traffic coming over the past and by the time you reach livermore its not too bad. A nice drive to the dublin interchange. Lets go back to the desk. The warriors record breaking season has now come down to a game seven in the nba finals. They got off with a slow start in game six last night. 11 p