Cool anything also cutting fire line and clearing brush all to do what they can to prevent the red flag winds from picking up the still burning embers and blowing them up to a half mile ahead of firefighters. Everybody is still and test pay thing the high rates of spread. Erratic fire behavior. We are seeing that push some of the fire embers back into the main burn. Reporter right now, the goal is to keep all the burning embers inside those containment lines and protect the homes and buildings still standing. That fight has been nothing but short of amazing. 27 helicopters been assigned to battle the fire. They have 2. 1 million gallons of water that has been dumped on flames. Fire has made it to the edge of the tubs fire burn scar. That is about two years old of expected to be fully contained until next thursday we are talking about. Mary lee has the forecast and the wind gusts are serious this morning. Thats right. Tracking that all across the kincade fire. Jackie, and near the pine
Minutes to get to this point where we could get kind of close to the glow. You can see we are quite a distance away from it as it makes its way up and over this hill. Thats a good thing. Thats good news for the people who live in the surrounding towns. Right now theres a lot of so called mop up work happening throughout the burn area around the kincade fire. And they are using watter to cool anything smoldering. Hand crews are out here too cutting new fire line and clearing brush. All of that to hopefully prevent the red flag winds from blowing the embers up to a half mile ahead of firefighters. Everybody is still anticipating the high rates of spread. Erratic fire behavior. We are seeing that push some of those fire embers back into the main burn. Reporter right now, the goal is to keep all the burn embers inside the containment lines and protect the homes and buildings that are standing. 27 helicopters have been assigned to battle this fire. 2. 1 million gallons of water have been du
Now from abc 7, live breaking news. That breaking news is a wild fire burning right now near geyserville in Sonoma County. The National Weather Service First tweeted about the fire close to 10 00 tonight. According to the press democrat, at least 300 acres have burned. Evacuation orders have been issued for geysers road to highway 128, pine flat road, and red winery road. Theres an evacuation warning for northern hillburg and geyserville. Take a look at this picture, you can see the wild fire is burning brugtly there tonight even in the black and white image. Sonoma county was affected by the pg e shut off which was done because of the fire danger. We will bring you new information as we get it. Now andy patel is here with another look at the fire. That fire is burning so intensely its known as the kincaid fire that live doppler 7 is picking up that smoke drifting over geyserville and points westward. It is 76 degrees, dry, 14 , winds out of the northeast gusting to 26milesperhour. It
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.
According to the Sonoma County twitter account, it says evacuations have been issued. These in response to this fire, stay alert, and more information will be posted. Here is the list of evacuations. Evacuation orders east of geyserville, evacuation warnings for the north and geysers road. Highway 128, pine flat road, and red winery road. Leave immediately if you are in or near these road if you feel unsafe to, go ahead and evacuate as well. This is being fueled by the wind that has prompted the Public Safety power sto. As we exited the highway there were maybe a dozen fire engines there ready to go and tackle this fire. And well bring you more on this fire as the information becomes available. Well beheing backut, thank you. Lots of people posting to social media tonight. The smoke and orange glow can be enor miles all over the north bay right now. The National Weather service in the bay area picked up the fire on its geyser peak cam. You can see the sky filled with smoke rising from