That reduces the number of customers affected to a half million and 22 counties that includes lake, marin, napa, sonoma and solano counties. This morning cal fire crews battling the kincade fire are reporting the wind was not as strong as originally forecast and the high wind advisory has been canceled. Officials say that could lead to better than expected containment numbers this morning once they get a chance to analyze the work ground crews were able to do overnight. The last report was 15 containment. 189 buildings including 86 homes have been destroyed. Lets go out to Sara Zendehnam in Sonoma County. I know firefighters are hoping that the wind conditions will help them. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Thats right. Not too windy here in Sonoma County right now. We are on highway 128. We pulled over because we saw fire vehicles on the side of the road and this is why. Take a look at this structure that is still smoldering behind us. This is off of highway 128 in the healdsburg
Welcome to the mornings on at nine. It is good to be back in the good actually have some cooler temperatures out there playing a role in the firefighter there in the county. Really some good news for a change when it comes to the contained fire which fire crews are making significant progress the fires go just one square mile overnight to 120 square miles the real positive news is that containment has doubled from 15, to 30 now while severe wind gusts remain a concern high wind advisor was canceled overnight because wind was not as strong as predicted. They estimate that this fire will be fully contained by a week from tomorrow. It was and we want to update you on a breaking news story that was first brought you a little bit earlier here firefighters have knocked out flames of a new fire burning near the lake. This fire picked up around 730 this morning on rockwell road. Skye fox overhead so that the fire was not too big it did burn a small area of brush and there is no major damage. 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
Still outlined here in purple but what we dont have any more as that evacuation plan for evacuation extended the coast anymore this section and blue now has been downgraded to evacuation warning, which means residents here need to be ready to evacuate should the need arise as for the mandatory evacuation area you can see its more and more being swallowed up by the new fires that have been burning here in the last 24 to 36 hours. A good bit of it burning to the south where we see it really encroaching on some of want to one corridor communities like healdsburg like winds are 5 windsors been suffering a pretty pitched battle with firefighters are trying to ep the flames at bay but were also seeing now beginning to burn into neighbori napa county particularly in the area of calistoga i want to show you their map now you can see this area in bloom indicates what theyre caught classifying as an evacuation. Advisory right now which means its not mandatory and now warning just yet but people
Is going to increase that fire behavior to levels we saw when the fire initially began. Lets pull up the map of the areas affected by the kincade fire. The red portion at the top of the screen is where the fire is burning. The purple area shows where there are mandatory evacuation orders in place. The blue area indicates places where people were told they can now return to their homes. However, they have been told there is still and evacuation warning in effect, and they should be ready to evacuate again quickly if necessary. 30,000 people in western Sonoma County are back at home this morning. They went back after getting the allclear to do it. Allie rasmus is at the fairgrounds with fewer people today. Reporter yes, overall the kincade fire has led to an unprecedented number of evacuations, as we know, about 250,000 people across northern california. Here at the Sonoma County fairgrounds, this is one of 16 shelters according to the red cross thats open and serving evacuees of the kin