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
Fire officials are saying and residents leaving. Anywhere east of highway 128 between geyserville you need to evacuate. An Evacuation Order, river road, vineyard, River Rock Casino, all those areas need to evacuate. Phone lines were down. People were trying to get to us. Our cell phones dont work, phone lines were down. Someone looked up and saw red in the sky that we were able to evacuate. Reporter back out here live to show you the flames burning but also showing you the flames burning and the wind is beginning to pick up much stronger than before. Were pretty far from the fire. This is going to be the issue as the fire continues to burn. Well see how much longer we can stay here as the fire burns in the distance. Your safety is of utmost important. You can see how the winds have drastically changed and picked up. Be careful, pete, but get yourself to safe ground there. Take a look at this, time lapse video showing you just how fast the flames were spreading. The winds we could see g
Keeping us uptodate with information for further evacuations. Give us a sense of what those evacuations have been like this morning. Were hearing there is some residence who were not leaving their homes. We went to the locations that were affected by the fire. We use them to notify them. County fire sent out a alert. That we are going doortodoor contacting people. He said this is not a game for homeowners who want to stay. Talk about the seriousness of these evacuations. They are mandatory. That they do not want to leave we will not force them to leave. We just told him it would be very hard to get the help they needed. I hope youre still on the line. Pg e had shut off power to a lot of people in that area. With them going on, as it makes it more difficult to execute those evacuation orders . The fear the cell phone lines will not be working. I really do not have that information right now. That is what we sent out different alerts. We have deputies and officers going and knocking on d
Voluntary evacuations. We have live team coverage. Amy hollyfield and Lauren Martinez are in Sonoma County. We start with lisa argen tracking that critical fire danger. The temperature in San Francisco at 70 degrees. Offshore winds have been blowing all night. At the surface, not too gusty. Right now looking at 20 to 40mileperhour winds. This will continue through the 8 00 and 9 00 hour. Offshore winds bringing down the relative humidity here into the Single Digits. Elsewhere in the east bay and south bay, not as dry. We are looking at the relative humidity. Very dry at Half Moon Bay. Look at the temperatures in the east bay valleys, near record warmth in the upper 80s today. Could see 90s in San Francisco. Looking at very warm weather throughout the bay and at the coast. Thank you very much. The kincaid fire started around 10 00 last night in geyserville and it exploded to 10,000 acres. This map gives you a better idea of where the fire started. Its northeast of geyserville near john
Theyre waiting for sun light as well and how they can tackle it even further. Manned attorneydatory evacuatio for northern healdsburg and geyserville including River Rock Casino. This map shows where the flames have spread. That fire started after 9 00 last night outside of the geysers near kinkade road and byrne mountain road. Crews tell us they are on edge. The unpredictability. You dont know if it will travel ten miles right away or in two days. Two years ago it was traveling so fast that people didnt have time to escape even in a car. I have all my stuff packed up and ready to go at a moments notice. Thats why were here to keep an eye on things. We are as well. We have two reporters in the fire zone this morning. Right now we want to start with pete suratos. He is out there and, pete, i see you have a mask on now. Has the smoke intensified out there . Reporter yeah, it definitely has. Good morning, marcus. We are wearing these masks similar to past fires as this begins to pick up.