Had a very hard time getting a handle on this fire. It erupted so quickly, roaring through this geyserville neighborhood. You can see this is one of the several houses destroyed by the fire. It is still smoldering. This far is so far zero percent contained. Wind speeds were 65 to 70 Miles Per Hour. The fire was really outpacing the fire fight. This is what firefighters faced overnight as a windwhipped fire blew through parts of geyserville, gobbling up at least half a dozen houses and forcing people and animals to flee to safety. It was everything we could do to try to stay ahead of it but 10,000 acres came fairly quickly. By daylight things had settled down a bit but plenty of damage had been done as propane tanks finished burning and the melted material on power lines dripped down. Tonight firefighters are attacking the fire from the sky as the flames have moved up into the rugged hills. Animal rescuers are also hard at work trying to get horses and other animals out of the fire zone
Moves today, attacking burning veng tags and trees from the air from the ground, you watch that fire being set, firefighters doing this to prevent the blaze from spreading to pop lated areas. Meanwhile, sitting in front of holes that are lucky to still be standing. Thats their job tonight be sitting on this home and just verify that the areas around the homes are out and mopped up appropriately. Cal fire officials anyre evacuations. They say at this point its up to the wind to cooperate. Nbc bay area news. Were hoping that that wind is going to cooperate. Sheryl, thank you. This video shows the moment that that fire ig nated. Its from a camera thats used to monitor wildfires. A broken jump ircable may have been to blame. The utility confirms it had not turned off power to its highest volt amg equipment during shutoffs that began earlier that day. Daylight tomorrow will be critical for the firefighters to try and get that upper hand on the fire. Smoke however from the kincaid fire is ex
Hi, mike. Im putting together a day planner for you. Well see temperatures that are actually going to drop as we head into the afternoon hours. Especially the closer you are to the coast. Heres the reason why. We can see the sea breeze starting to develop. We have a 14mileperhour wind at fair field. We have an 8 Miles Per Hour wind at half moon bay. Thats the southerly surge that will increase the clouds along the coast this afternoon. So youll start off clear with clouds increasing this afternoon. Same thing in San Francisco. Eventually that will spread over all of the neighborhoods tonight and thwart our heat tomorrow. Today we break it. Tomorrow actually below average. Ill show that you coming up. Frances . We have a new crash reported in the vallejo area. Eastbound 780 past 80, its off to the righthand side. It may be partially blocking the low lane. Heres 680 in walnut creek. It is flowing better than just a few minutes ago what theyve done is picked up the road work on southbound
Neighborhood . You can see the winds on the ferry building. The flags unfurled because of the winds. Waking up mild this morning. We knew this would be the wildest morning. Upper 50s to mid 60s at 7 00. It will warm quickly at noon, 70 at the coast, 80 elsewhere, then the breeze kicks in. We stop in the upper 60s at the coast, low to upper 80s just about everywhere else. Back to the 60s and 70s by 7 00. Its almost here. We will turn it over to frances and talk about that morning commute. Were tracking this accident in vallejo on eastbound 780 gle glen cove. A lot of cars off to the righthand side. One of the cars took out some guardrail. Traffic is a little bit read. Well keep an eye on that. Northbound 101 in sunnyvale has been jammed about 11minute delays, some road work at fair oaks. Maybe take city streets or 280. Heres a live shot of 680 in walnut creek. We had a lot of slowing earlier. There was some road work, it also looks like there was report of an accident earlier. Southboun
It there are a couple days every year you say you might want it. I took my children down t the local Community Pool and we spent a good hour or so there from yesterday along with dozens of other people. And some sort of splash park, water play will be in a lot of fees plans today peoples plans today. Were getting a look at a pretty hot day today. The hottest day of the week . Today or tomorrow. A good day to run through the sprinkler as well. There may be recording set today. Santa rosa wowed be one. It would be one. I dont see how theyre not going to set one. The record is 94. And in 2013, and they were forecast to be at least 99 today. San francisco would fall four short. 86 is the record. The same for oakland. The forecast high is 86. So it will be close. There will be many in the 100s from 100 to 105. Fairfield, ukiah. So there is enough here for hot conditions, and that includes pleasanton and palo alto, the 90s. There is san jose, 80 and even santa cruz at 86. The heat advisory i