before the kinkade fire started. but then still investigating. things are calm right now with the winds. but we need to evacuate. we are in a position where we are reliving something but we are ahead of it. everybody in our community needs to get the heck out of the way of the first responders so they can do their job. reporter: the governor is expected to hold a press conference any moment on the power outages. state officials will continue to monitor these wildfires that have been spreading throughout the state. jon: the diablo winds in northern california and santa ana winds in southern california
in geyserville. that s in northern california. what a mess there behind you. what s the latest, sam? reporter: total mess here, alex. and you hate to use the words unprecedented, because that gets bandied about so often, but this here really is unprecedented. i talked with pg&e yesterday about how widespread these outages are going to be. they have nine geographic zones in their coverage area, which is a huge expanse of land. eight out of the nine are under high watch right now with large chunks of those areas possibly getting shut down today. so we are talking about just so many people, and they are trying to prevent a scene that looks like this, utterly destructive. this is 1 of 21 homes so far that s been destroyed by the kinkade fire, and you can see the level of that destruction. people s furniture in front yards turned into rubble, cars that no longer look like any semblance of what they were a second ago, and just the overall destructive nature of this. what we know right now,
these high winds. 20 miles an hour sustained. we ll get gusts about 70. and i m wearing the goggles because the embers are the issue as always in this wind. you can see they ve touched this house here. a few minutes ago, if you can just pan over here, we had embers hit this house as well. and while all this is going on, there are also a bit of blame game as well. you know, governor gavin newsom who has put a lot more money towards fire safety hired nearly 400 more seasonal firefighters. he s saying the utility companies which have been cutting power to try and prevent sparking fires, he is saying, sure, that s all good and well, but the communication is not good and also they didn t anticipate. he is saying that it is dog eat dog capitalism meets climate change. as you mentioned, many fires raging throughout the state. we re going to have high winds here down around los angeles, through tonight. that kinkade fire, 16,000 acres
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permanent. dana: fascinating case. it s a very personal one for that family. legally, super interesting. great to have you on the show to explain it. thank you, emily compagno. fox news alert. fast-moving wildfire in california exploding. growing to 10,000 acres forcing people to flee their homes and their vineyards and even a casino. all this is the state begins a second round of power outages to try to keep sparks from causing more fires, leaving hundreds of thousands without any electricity at all. claudia cowan s life from guyer s ville california, a beautiful part the world. under duress today. and the other day, that s right. the smoke is starting to clear the winds are starting to calm. 300 firefighters try to get the upper hand on the wildfire that ripped through 10,000 acres in a matter of hours, burning the equivalent of a football field every three seconds. it s called the kinkade fire. it s being pushed by very strong