Good morning and thank you for joining us on mornings on 2. Thursday, october 24. Im pam cook. Im dave clark. We are starting with breaking news. A fastmoving wildfire pushed by powerful wind fcing mandatory evacuations east of geyserville in northeast in Sonoma County. Crews say the fire is burning at a dangerous rate. We will check in in just a moment. Cristina rendon is in that area. We will check on the weather. And it could actually get windier when the sun comes up. Is going to start decreasing. We talked to a sergeant up there. He said he saw 60 and ive seen that. It will be 3040 around 1500 feet up to 3000 feet or 4000 feet. Alms all observations are showing low humidity. The temperatures are warm. Read ranch, 1300 feet. Not selena west has gusted 58. The last i saw was 45. Some may be coming down a bit but still Strong Enough and you are getting a northerly direction or northeast. Windsor has a north east at 12. There is a north, northwest throughout much of napa county. North
Burning buildings and we are working to confirm whether the buildings are outbuildings or sheds or homes. Weve obtained coverage of this fire with meteorologist Steve Paulson talking about the powerful wind driving the fire. First, we bring in Cristina Rendon. Talk to us about the conditions. I can see its windy. Reporter very windy and the winds have not let up whatsoever. Its gotten worse since weve been in geyserville at the corner of Alexander Valley road and pine flat road. This area has been closed off to the public but cal fire crews are deep in the trenches trying to get a handle on this fire burning outofcontrol. You can see the flames along the ridge line and this area is where red winery road is and to the left is an area where 128 is in the casino wed mentioned earlier, red rock casino is in the area in danger, as we speak. In terms of the structures, along the hillside we saw at least one of those structures burning but we cant tell you if it is a house or winery or some t
Miles per hour at my house. Why are you shutting down the power . Beep because the humidity may be in the low digits. That means 50 Miles Per Hour may not be far away from me. You know how fast he can travel so thats why. And that very low humidity means the fire can spread quickly. We are bone dry. The soil was bone dry. We have a wind advisory that just started at 6 00 from the north and east bay above 1000 feet and you could get gusts up to 65 Miles Per Hour. Closer to the surface anywhere from 40 45 is likely. That tells you up in Higher Elevations, a few thousand or above, it could be rocking and rolling leader. More likely this afternoon into tonight into early thursday morning. The red flag warning goes for mendocino county, lake county out of the delta and also down to the Santa Cruz Mountains as well. Only San Francisco is not much of a breeze yet. Not too bad. Its variable in some areas. Summer west, summer itself. Its an Higher Elevations is starting to turn. Alice pete just
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