among those evacuated lebron james and former governor arnold schwarzenegger who tweeted firefighters are the true action heroes who charge into the danger to protect their fellow californians. back here in sonoma county the kincaid fire continues to grow at 74,000 acres, 57 homes destroyed, 150,000 people remain evacuated and with another windstorm due to arrive today and in southern california tomorrow this will be a very critical day for firefighters to boost those containment numbers and get the upper hand. and all these fires no one has died and appears everyone is accounted for. a glimmer of hope and a horrible story. thank you. some other headlines for you. today we will learn how many people were arrested at the
outage, but a high voltage transmission line seven minutes before this fire broke out and near its origin. hundreds of thousands of californians have had their power shut off in high risk areas until the hope of presenting breakouts. right now across california, thousands of firefighters still fighting flames, still waiting for the next conflagration. it is just surreal. derek van dam is joining us now. we ve learned there have been even more evacuations now. this is coming out of sanoma county. they had evacuation orders in place around that location, the kin indicate fire. let me take you there and show you some of the transmission lines that are in question here. look at the fire directly below one of the transmission lines. this is the reason why they preemptively cut electricity to these areas.
moisture into those large fields. that takes a long time for that to occur. so those large fuels, the big tree, we ve had a lot of tree mortality. then you throw on the beetles. we have a lot of death growth of trees and it creates a tinder box for fire. and with all that you just said, let s get back to the people that live that that are going through this. do you think people are thinking now of the climate and warming and that this is a new normal for them? people who are directly impacted by these fires tend to remember it. but even in 2017 when san francisco broke its all time high of 103, that s a fleeting memory now.
per hour pushing the fire forward, those flames jumping a major freeway overnight, 10,000 structures endangered, 40,000 people under mandatory evacuation orders. we asked that people pay attention to the evacuations. it is mandatory. many not knowing what they might return to. what they usual suggest, they recommend that you do is like horses and livestock, you just open gates and let them out. and i never got to get up there. two fire trucks were going up the road. it s hard to sit and watch your community burn. but at the same time, we need to listen to our first responders and allow them to do their jobs. this, just one of nine wildfires right now burning across the golden state. up north in sanoma county, 49 structures destroyed by the kincaid fire. nearly 22,000 acres and still burning. still no cause, but the local utility pg&e has reported as
projected wind gusts that they have across the sacramento valley and the foothills. we re talking about the potential for hurricane force gusts. some of what we read a indicates this will be the greatest wind event of the season thus far, creating the most dangerous fire threat for this area. so look out over the next 48 hours. the central and northern half of the state of cannel, this is where we anticipate the worst fire conditions going forward. in fact, we have red flag warnings in place north into redding. that includes the paradise region which was devastated by a fire this time last year. gusts to 45 miles per hour. nearing 75, even 80 miles per hour on top of those ridges. and if you look at the numbers, we are seeing a decade on decade increase of the number of large wildfires that continue to burn