Still outlined here in purple but what we dont have any more as that evacuation plan for evacuation extended the coast anymore this section and blue now has been downgraded to evacuation warning, which means residents here need to be ready to evacuate should the need arise as for the mandatory evacuation area you can see its more and more being swallowed up by the new fires that have been burning here in the last 24 to 36 hours. A good bit of it burning to the south where we see it really encroaching on some of want to one corridor communities like healdsburg like winds are 5 windsors been suffering a pretty pitched battle with firefighters are trying to ep the flames at bay but were also seeing now beginning to burn into neighbori napa county particularly in the area of calistoga i want to show you their map now you can see this area in bloom indicates what theyre caught classifying as an evacuation. Advisory right now which means its not mandatory and now warning just yet but people
Road under mandatory evacuations that this is a fast moving fire. There are Evacuation Centers that have been set up for those wildfire victims have been evacuated with winds are high sehool located at 8695 windsor road. And Healdsburg Community Center Located at 1557 healdsburg road as well those that are zones are being told to go there and that is where theyll find the services they need to whether this wind and fire storm right now this ravaging the north bay. And we have kron 4 Sarah Stinson live out there right now sara whats the latest from where you are. Here in geyser ville you can see im wearing this mask and as because theres so much smoke. To turn off the lights we can zoom into the ridge. Were here live. And you can see into the distance up on the ridge that is where this fire is burning this. 1000 acres this is burned significantly just in the last hour. It jumped from 7,000 acres to 10,000 acres. We do know that this fire started last night at 9. 10 and theyre calling th
Are threatened thats why theres so many evacuations and 124 structures have been burned to the ground that includes dozens of homes about 60 homes have been burned to the ground because of this fire that continues to advance whipped up by the winds when it started last wednesday, again whipped up by the winds day before yesterday yesterday got though a little break during the day like theyre getting today and thats some good news. Heres new video that shows you yesterday a chopper overhead surveying the area that was bert and you can see both sides of the road there theres fircrews on the ground that retardant you can see the color jones there where theyre dropping retardant were looking for more those air drops today that will be key in stopping the spread of the fire it looks like that home may have been damaged but not completely lost in the flames that surrounded it and many other homes,ot so lucky, they were completely destroyed. We have our crews out there this morning taking a l
Out to the delta. Konocti at 19 out of the west. And early breeson santa rosa 12. Atlas peaks west, southwest. 46 humidity. Notice how this picks up by this evening. Not so much at noon but by 4 00 at 5 00 thats when things start. Picking up. 31 in napa. Then they really crank up overnight wednesday into thursday. Fairfield, 43 Miles Per Hour. Napa, 44. Santa rosa, 44. Combine that with humidity maybe in the single digits. Thats why theyre shutting off the power. Anticipation of something of this sort if isand the forecast model say it will. Its not bad now. Altimont pass at gusts right now. There will be a tremendous difference in the pressure gradient. High pressure does not like the low and this is a big low. As the low settles in the high will go to the north and that will create the difference. 40s and 50s and 60s on the temperatures. East bay temperatures in for so 60s for others. El cerrito, 51. A big snow producer for some. Intermountain reason and the great basin but not for u
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