The kincade fire in Sonoma County has grown and forcing new evacuations. Take a look at this map. The purple you see here, theres a lot of it. The are areas where people have been told to get out before its too late. More than 90,000 people have been told to evacuate in Sonoma County today alone making it the largest evacuation in county history. Heres the latest on the fire. It scorched nearly 26,000 acres and destroyed 77 buildings. Now, that number includes 31 homes. Firefighters say the flames are only 11 contained. We have a team of reporters covering this fire since it started. Lets head out to nbc bay area Sergio Quintana live in santa rosa. Sergio, youre at a hospital thats, evacuated. Reporter yeah, the expanded mandatory 6 00 or just after 6 00 this evening. Included in that expanded evacuation zone which basically doubled the evacuation area of this county is Sutter Santa Rosa hospital. Nearly immediately after they made that announcement they started preparing these patient
Reporter there is a lot happening. This is any vacant evacuation area. Where people can take their horses and livestock. The Sonoma County fairgrounds is a staging area. We see fire engines. And water tenders. Also one of the vehicles and personnel showing up for another long day on the fire lines. About 2000 people remain evacuated. Evacuation orders under effect to fight rumors that have been lifted these are mandatory evacuations in the geyserville area. Some worried residents had to pass up their cars there are hundreds more the santa rosa Veterans Memorial building as well. Horses and livestock can be brought here to the fairgrounds. Evacuated tell ktvu back at the flames creeping towards the neighborhood and some did not match time to grab belongings. We walked out on the deck, and from that we had a Vantage Point to the hillside. It was completely ablaze. Like the came through lights and sirens, and blowhards saying, mandatory now. Firefighters are still trying to extinguish the
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 .
The area are close. Live over the fire right now. We have been watching these dramatic images the past 20 minutes. This is an active part of the fire. Towering columns of smoke hovering above the ridge. The next 24 hours critical as the firefighters scrambled to contain more of this blaze. And beat back that forecasts of severe wind event. Much more from the fire lanes. We have been watching this firefight. You want to get you much more of what the bay area has been bracing for. Which now looks like an epic power outage this weekend. Officials just wrapped up their news conference. Julia joins us now with what people need to know for this weekend. We have the Survival Guide for you. But first pg e is warning if you cut off power to as many as 850,000 customers beginning tomorrow. It is because of this major wind event with hot and dry conditions that bill on tap for this weekend. You can see from this map how extensive the outages could be. Encompassing much of the north bay east bay i
First, more on the weather. They see the same thing we all see, so probably 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow is the window. Today will be cooler. The fog has come back and were waiting on this system to the north. Its a strong system, and 50 degrees in middletown. Little cool there. Fog returns and it will be cooler today after yesterdays 80s and 90s. Windy for most with low humidity through thursday. Wind advisory for the north and east bay hills, 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow through 3 00 p. M. Thursday. Damaging winds possible, gusting up to 40 to 50 miles an hour. It will start as a north wind then go northeast and temperatures will not be hot. This is dropping down from canada and well be on the western edge of it. This is making an impact, which means it will be cooler today with an onshore breeze. 40s and 50s, running 2 to 5 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. This system will produce widespread snow for many, and well get the wind. It will start thursday and a little bit of fog is coming in.