Lines. Heres the very latest on the fire thats burning in Sonoma County. Today cal fire says the kincade fire has burned more than 76,000 acres, thats about 118 square miles, or more than twice the size of San Francisco. Containment on the fire remains at 15 . 189 buildings have been destroyed including 86 home. 90,000 other buildings are still trained by the fire, and more than 4800 firefighters are now out on the fire lines battling the fire. We have Team Coverage tonight, who talked to residents on edge. And bill martin will show us just how strong those winds are. We begin with deborah v along. Right now, quiet and i just got word from a leader up here in the hills, he is finding it quite, the winds we have not felt, and thats all very good. As you said, it is a local landmark up here in the hills, medics are standing by, and weve been watching fire trucks coming in and out of this parking lot as they patrol the hills, ready to rush in any direction that the fire flares up. The gri
For the most delicious taste imaginable. Thats no ordinary cheese. No. Its kerrygold. Kerrygold. The taste that takes you there. Now from abc 7, live breaking news. The breaking news most of Sonoma County threat binds the growing kincade fire. Winds are picking up and Officials Say the time to move out is now. This alert sent out at 3 18 by the city of healdsburg which is under threat. The city tells people, quote, winds are picked up and fire activity has increased and heading our way. Leave now. And this week from the sonoma sheriff he heavy wind smoke and debris around arata lane and brooks in wind sor. The Santa Rosa Police department saying mandatory Evacuation Orders have been issue for the city of santa rosa. All areas in city limits of Santa Rosa West of highway 101 and north of highway 12 north of steel lane, lewis road, to montecito boulevard to calistoga road head south. Obviously all of this is playing out in the darkness when Fire Fighting is difficult and the evacuation i
The neighborhoods of Fountain Grove and coffee park, which were devastated during the 2017 north bay fires. 90,000plus under mandatory Evacuation Orders. Buildings have been threatened along highway 128. An Elementary School in harms way. Some of the rhinerys, one has gone up in flames already, wineries, one has gone up in flames already. Hes cal fire. We were here on highway 128 observing fire behavior. The fire behavior was subdued and had not, the winds had not picked up very much yet. We monitored and observed as the winds shifted and became very gusty and strong sustained winds. And we observed increased fire behavior and there was containment lines installed in firing operations that were leave taken by the fire; overtaken by the fire. The fire behavior continues to increase. The strong gusty winds were forecast updated from 3 00 until 10 00. Were currently in that time period and the fire behavior is increasing. Take a look at some of the video from overnight. This is the winery
Operations center. Our town leadership has been evacuated twice from our command center. Once in downtown windsor and on the outskirts and now in santa rosa. Thankfully the city of santa rosa hosting us in one of their buildings. Right now, were the most important thing weve got our residents out. Its just things now. Which, you know, can always be replaced. Were happy we have our residents out. On the fire front our last update were still okay. The fire is up to the east of the town, and were still monitoring. What are your biggest worries at the moment then . Whats going to happen with the wind. I went into town last night and with our town manager and a couple of my Council Members and it was the most fierce wind ive ever seen in the 30 plus years ive lived in our town. So the concern obviously that wind would bring the fire towards the city. Do you know if firefighters are staged in the city trying to do structure protection so that any flying embers dont start fires in buildings .
Lets bring rosemary into talk about the winds in that area right now. Of course, we know that the red flag warning and the wind advisory are pretty much bay area why when it comes to north bay, east bay but our focus of being on the north bank because those winds were hitting near 90 Miles Per Hour early this morning but in this area, the winds are gusting between 25 and 50 but take a look at what can occur with that type of wind and right now, the closest reading i can find is in and around martinez, a north breeze at about 22 and you get over closer to the diablo range and the winds are closer to 40 Miles Per Hour. Probably somewhere within that. And these winds are going to sustain for a while . They are going to continue as we get into sutil tomorrow. This is video of a friend of mine that sent it in, dr. Bill hemmer, a College Buddy of mine has been watching our coverage and he said you might want to take a look here in vallejo and sure enough, this was right when it started i bel