150 years ago. a wind gust of 93 miles per hour was clocked in the area. when embers blew in, the building was quickly a total loss. was man was living here in an apartment, an art studio at the time. luckily, he followed the mandatory evacuation. he is alive today because of it. in all, 190,000 people are under evacuation. the biggest ever in sonoma county. officials are being extra cautious because just two years ago in this same area 22 people were killed in what s known as the tufts fire. evacuees are obviously and understandably emotional. i m a little tired because it s very emotional, it s very wearing on you, you know? just going through it and watching other people go through it. when the fire started coming down the hill and the smoke came with it, right? couldn t breathe. financial documents expect phone numbers we need, birth certificates, that was really it. and lots of diapers.
17 million americans in california and parts of nevada still under a red flag warning and that means high fire dangers will continue and i think maybe what the mayor was eluding to is containment is there. half of the fire of the tufts fire is contained. last week, it was zero contained. these are the red flag warnings that continue in effect throughout the day. the difference will be the wind. yesterday, a couple of fronts moved through and areas of low pressure that kicked up the wind and not a good thing. now an area of high pressure moves in on top of you here. that will allow the winds to calm down. the temperatures will be going up but if you ask any firefighter, i have because my brother is one, the wind is the key. they would rather have low winds than high humidity so we will take that ingredient and push it in here as far as the lower winds. 5, 10, 15 miles an hour maybe at most. i think what we can handle today we can certainly handle that. the humidity on the lower side. y