Containment with it over the weekend we have been told by officials that is not a huge cause for worry firefighters right now have an important window of time in which the wind has died down dramatically. We have an update on the number of structures that have burned, how much land has burned. This has been an intense firefight. You can already feel some of the smoke affect us. Ive gotten a lot of tweets asked about the quality last time. There is a marsh fire as well and some of that smoke is coming down here as well. You can almost see in the newsroom this morning when you came in. As for the king fire it is still racing across north bay. It is expanding so fast as mentioned only five containment and has burned almost 85 square miles thus far. 94 buildings including more than 30 homes have been destroyed and almost 80,000 buildings are in danger. A News Conference will be held shortly and we will bring that update to you coming up in just a matter of minutes. So far 200,000 people ha
The fire has now burned more than 54,000 acres, a steep increase from this morning when firefighters said the fire was 30,000 acres. Containment has fallen from 10 to just 5 . 94 structures have been destroyed and Officials Say another 80,000 structures are still threatened tonight. Also today authorities evacuated another 90,000 people from Sonoma County bringing the total number of people evacuated to 180,000. Heres a look at the evacuation zone. You can see the evacuations stretch from healdsburg down to santa rosa and then all the way to the coast. We begin our Live Team Coverage tonight with ktvus jana katsuyama. Reporter we just got an update. The wind gusts have been pretty intense here. I understand from one of the officials here that the fire has already jumped font road. Up the hill we saw about 15 minutes ago a number of vehicles coming out of shiloh ridge and dashing south down font road because in the past 10 minutes there has been an Emergency Alert imminent fire threat t
From about 10 down to 5 . So far 94 structures have been destroyed and Officials Say another 80,000 structures are threatened still tonight. Today authorities evacuated another 90,000 people from Sonoma County. That brings the total number of people vac waited evacuated to more than 180,000. You can see the evacuations stretch from healdsburg to santa rosa to the coast. We begin our Live Team Coverage tonight with jana katsuyama. The situation in shiloh near windsor has changed since your last report at 10 00. Reporter just in the past 15 minutes, julie. We were down on shiloh road right at the intersection for all of the evening and now they are moving trucks both in and out of that area. We are right now at old redwood highway and had to pull out because they said we need to evacuate immediately. Let me show you some video that mark hamburg, my photographer, shot a short while ago of the flames that have now crept up towards pleasant avenue. They have cross over and we understand fie
I just wanted to comment that i have the privilege and pleasure of. [indiscernible] it is a great turnout. They really have it together. I think that Concert Series is in a really good place. I think one of the guys who was running it for 30 years, passing the torch to his kids, so to speak, so it is a good age. I just think it was a real good San Francisco event. Thank you very much. All right. Saying no more general Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. The next agenda item is item number two, approval of the minutes for august 6th, 2019, and i will ask if i have a motion to approve. Motion to approve. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [roll call] the minutes have been approved. Mark moving along to agenda item number three which is our report from the executive director. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. This evening, for my directors report under the legislative and policy update, i wanted to share and an update wi
I just wanted to comment that i have the privilege and pleasure of. [indiscernible] it is a great turnout. They really have it together. I think that Concert Series is in a really good place. I think one of the guys who was running it for 30 years, passing the torch to his kids, so to speak, so it is a good age. I just think it was a real good San Francisco event. Thank you very much. All right. Saying no more general Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. The next agenda item is item number two, approval of the minutes for august 6th, 2019, and i will ask if i have a motion to approve. Motion to approve. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [roll call] the minutes have been approved. Mark moving along to agenda item number three which is our report from the executive director. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. This evening, for my directors report under the legislative and policy update, i wanted to share and an update wi