Area geyserville then it was spread on the heels bergen windsor, then they started evacuating santa rosa. 2 firefighters have been hurt. None of the public has been her nobodys were reported missing. At this point the 2 firefighters hurt. So what were hoping that theyre ok especially one that was actually had to be taken to hospital 94 structures, including many homes burned so far in this fire and that is why they say it is serious when they ordered evacuation got to get out see why the winds can change in any direction in in one case over the weekend we saw hurricane strength wind yeah with wind gusts to some of the peaks topping 7475 Miles Per Hour which is the threshold for a category one hurricane. We have to make sure to to really point out the fact these are sustained winds like you have in hurricane these are just pick us that hit momentarily, but they are strong strong epough to topple trees and weve seen lots of that too and are its its really interesting to put into perspect
Ordered over the weekend because the fire grew the winds whipped up and there are about 80,000 structures in harms way right now thats why so many people are on the move james, yeah, and its incredible to think the. Just the sheer geography of the mandatory evacuation area mean thats what this map shows us right now its this entire area in purple which has grown massively in size since weve last look at this on friday when the fire first broke out it was just this upper left corner theres upper corner that was under mandatory Evacuation Order. Now course it extends all the way up to the coast and as you can see it stretches. Well south from where it was just 2 days ago now encroaching into northern portions of sonoma couy which is kind of scary. Lets zoom in here just a touch want to focus in on where the fire is burning really where has burned but where its currently burning now and thats what these callers help to illustrate the lighter the color, the older the flame and you can see
On the structures destroyed at least 49. Structures have been burned and and about half are holmes baby 21. They think our residential buildings, nobo b hurt though the entire town of guys are ville is still under that mandatory Evacuation Order and thats because they say it is not safe to return back to that community there worry about the risk of more fires breaking out from the embers now luckily today, the winds will be pretty calm. So theyll be able to get a better handle on it today but then were supposed to have more winds whipping up tomorrow james yeah in fact lets take a look at the map keep you updated on the situation with both the evacuations and also the fired words burning right now what we have here is an overlay of 2 bits of information the area thats in red here that is the evacuation zone and as we showed you yesterday comes right up against one oh one. Which travels this corridor here and guys are ville is located right there and weve got again that entire city shut
Structures that were able to be saved, i think theres a car a couple cars burned there and then look this home they were able to save that home. So they are trying to save homes as they continue to evacuate homes. James, yeah and those evacuation zones have changed a bit over the last 24 hours. Heres the y perspective. Again its still just an evacuation warning for a lot of the the coast leading out towards a highway one oh one. Thats the situation that you see in blue that we course have the mandatory evacuation zone in purple that is unchanged it still includes the town of geyserville and healdsburg and winds are as you can see here as we zoom in on the map. And again all those communities are still within the mandatory evacuation zone, not so much because the fire is actively burning in their direction but because its still very dangerous and they need those roads to move around and mobilize all the Fire Fighting equipment that they need when term we talk about active burn youre goi
Count of the structures destroyed as were taking a look at new images of the buildings that have burned in this fire. 206 structures have been destroyed and we know now more of them are homes, 94 homes burned to the ground you can see some of them in a fresh pictures that we have for this morning. These are coming in to us from the surrounding hills of calistoga and healdsburg and theres an image a woman who lost everything but she has her life and her pet. Now is nice image there this morning of the survivors, the fact that nobody has reported to be in her nobody is missing in this fire. Still holding it 2 or 3 firefighters who suffered some injuries battling the flames. But you can see these buildings that are gone many of them homes. Still standing the fireplaces which is you know just such a sad thing and people still evacuated, which is good news because again nobody has been hurt, i know its frustrating for those people in the evacuation zones. James, but theres a reason for that