Rio nito, duncan, mills, guerneville, forestville and parts of grayton. A satellite image shows the smoke pouring out of it. This is from 488 miles up, if you can believe it. Abc 7 News Reporter, luz pena is live with more on the evacuations from santa rosa at the Sonoma County fairgrounds. Luz. Thats right, governor gavin newsom is here visiting the Evacuation Center in santa rosa. He was just around here thanking many of the First Responders for their work. I want to point to an interview for a couple who evacuated at their home yesterday in santa rosa. Lets hear. My mom there in the tent taking care of cats, my son, my wife, my other son and his girlfriend are inside right now taking a nap. Yeah, thats the circus. Wind knocking everything over as were scrambling to grab whatever we could into the rv and cars, and then i just used this thing as a bulldozer going up the hill, pushing trees out of the way, and power lines that came down and down the hill, pushing trees out of the way a
Melanie woodrow joins us with more on this. Dion and dan, the documents were just filed with the California Public Utilities Corporation today. They outlined how the two fires that happened in lafayette could be tied again to pg power lines. The fires started blocks from where power had been turned off. Flames threaten homes and destroy the Lafayette Tennis Club when a grassfire roared through dry brush found by high wind. It sent smoke over highway 24. Pg e reported to the cpuc that there were two incidents regarding the energized power lines yesterday. One was at Pleasant Hill where pg e reported a lashing wire and open wire as a potential ignition source. The other in lafayette attica minnow el diablo road. They found this downed power pole and transformer. You can see what it looked like in april of this year. Trees were close to power lines. The exact scenario pg e has been concerned about. The reason, it says, it is cutting power to millions of customers when high winds pick up.