Raging wildfire in Sonoma County explodes. Get ready for all that smoke to start hitting your neighborhood. Tonight pg e officials admit they knew about a failed transmission line minutes before the kincaid fire broke out. Their answer when i asked him why it took them 10 hours to inspect the area. Another power outage planned for the weekend. But third this month. The areas that could be impacted. Good evening. Is get to the latest on the kincaid fire. It is burning out of control still. In Sonoma County near geyserville. Here are the latest numbers from cal fire. 16,000 acres have burned. 2000 peoplehave been ordered to evacuate. At least 49 structures have been destroyed. Right now that fire only about 5 contained. Here is a look at the evacuation zone. Cloverdale gu road red winery road Alexander Mountain road pine flat road and all the roads east of highway 128 to geyserville. We have live coverage tonight beginning with andrea. First reporter on the scene last night. What a diffe
Neighborhood. Tonight pg e officials admit they knew about a failed transmission line minutes before the kincaid fire broke out. Their answer when i asked him why it took them 10 hours to inspect the area. Another power outage planned for the weekend. But third this month. The areas that could be impacted. Good evening. Is get to the latest on the kincaid fire. It is burning out of control still. In Sonoma County near geyserville. Here are the latest numbers from cal fire. 16,000 acres have burned. 2000 people have been ordered to evacuate. At least 49 structures have been destroyed. Right now that fire only about 5 contained. Here is a look at the evacuation zone. Cloverdale guises road red winery road Alexander Mountain road pine flat road and all the roads east of highway 128 to geyserville. We have live coverage tonight beginning with andrea. First reporter on the scene last night. What a difference 24 hours is making. Reporter it was absolutely crazy last night. When we reached th
Now. And this is the concern. The wind and heat a dangerous mix. Well show you this wildfire in just a moment. Its happening in the north bay. Its in geyserville, not star from the lake county line. Here it is. Sonoma county sheriffs just issued evacuations for northern haeldsburg and geyserville. Theyre telling people to leave immediately. You can see that glow on the hillside there. Were also getting new video from the santa rosa fire department. Crews clearing fallen trees. These trees along parker hill road in fountain grove. Pg e has already cut power to thousands of people in sonoma and napa counties. Our sky ranger overhead in santa rosa. Down below thousands of homes it is dark. Power could be out on and off for the next four days. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd leads our coverage tonight in the darkness there in santa rosa. Cheryl. Reporter well, raj, its kind of weird because the wind has been picking up but its calm right now. As you can see, there are a lot of small businesses.
This area are dealing with because they have to evacuate. This is video that came into our newsroom of the kinkaide fire. You can see flames burning on both sides of the road. The smoke is so dense you cant see too far ahead of you. All of this is happening near guyserville. Evacuations are underway this morning. We have multiple crews in Sonoma County this morning to bring you the latest on where this is burning. Were going to start with lisa argen. She is watching the winds. What are we up to . We have winds over 40 miles an hour up in the upper elevations here and some of these winds are certainly drying out. All the winds are drying out the atmosphere. We have the red flag warning. As we look at the relative humidity, 12 and 11 . Elsewhere, not as bad. We continue to see the gusty winds as we go through the afternoon. Notice the colors, the reds, the yellows. Im going to stop this at 7 00. Were still up to 40mileanhour winds in cloverdale. As we go through the afternoon, the good n
Anything positive to help. The winter decrease later on. The strongest gusts are in the Sonoma County area. More coming up later. Here is sal. All rights. Right now we do look at the commute that is going to be busy if you were driving on 80 westbound. I want to show you that the traffic is beginning to wrap up a little bit heading out to the macarthur maze. 22 minute drive. Right now the bay bridge is a typical commute. If youre driving on interstate 880, this traffic is beginning to ramp up. We are getting into the ramp up stage of the morning commute on all the freeways in the bay area including the east bay although you have an opportunity to jump ahead of the crowd, especially for the Silicon Valley commute. You can see 87 has a problem northbound but the rest of that is easy. Use 101 or 85 to 17. Lets go back to dave. Complete coverage of this outofcontrol wired fire. Cristina rendon is near the front lines of the kincade fire. Give us the latest from where you are. Reporter good