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
Bam, everything went off and that was the end of the day. Reporter the city of santa rosa has its Emergency Operations center fully staffed. They estimate 50,000 to 60,000 people will be impacted within the city limits. Traffic lights at 24 intersections are expected to go dark. Our goal is to make sure that during the shutoff, that we do the most we can to protect our community. Reporter the owner of bettys fish andhips cooked up lunch for customers before the shutoff. They lost power for three days during the last outage. With a freezer full of just delivered fish, the potential losses are once again huge. I dont think theyre thinking about the families that are impacted, small businesses, retail, restaurants. There just has to be another way. Reporter now, we are inside village pet store. The good news here, just after the power turned off, they were able to start up a generator. You can see the freezers are now powered. Im going to walk you back here to the animal section. You can
Unincorporated parts of the county. Pg es website shows where the power is currently out. The purple icons indicate those are the power shutoffs which are under way in the north bay and along the sierra foothills. Pg e said it would start turning off the power at 3 00 p. M. Today although some people told us it started earlier than that. Outages will begin in San Mateo County around 1 00 in the morning. Pg e hopes to restore power by the weekend. A total of about 35,000 pg e customers in the bay area are affected by these Power Outages and that is why we have Live Team Coverage tonight. David louie will join us in a moment and we have Team Coverage in the north bay as well, which will bear the biggest impact. Before we go to Laura Anthony, lets hear from liz kreutz who is life in santa rosa. Liz. Reporter good evening. Roughly 27,000 customers are without power right now in sonoma county. Many of them here in santa rosa. Now, i want to show you where we are. We are inside the citys Eme
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.
Been popping up today. Firefighters knockdown flames of a new fire near lake sonoma. This fire started around 7 30 am west of geyserville. We have video from skyfox. You can see the fire burned a small area of brush. There were no major damages. And daly city, crews put out of the grass fire an hour ago. That was reported around 10 45 am near hamilton avenue interstate 280. No one was hurt and no word on how either fire started. Firefighters are optimistic about the progress overnight against the kincade fire. Allie rasmus was after their 40 containment and firefighters are considering that a victory for now. On this ongoing battle against the fire. Reporter you can see the smoke in the distance behind the house where we are. We are east of lake sonoma. Skyfox has a view of the fire lines from the Sonoma County, the other side of the fire. Sonomalake county borta. 5000 firefighters and personnel are on the front lines. The firefighters and Engine Companies across the western u. S. , we