Where were seeing the evacuation which of course has grown since weekend or since friday over the weekend we saw this entire area in purple expand right before it was just sort of the facility around the fire right up to one to one, but now the mandatory evacuation area continues all the way out to the coast and down one on one as well in the direction of healdsburg and santa rosa and this area in red is the active fire zone these dots actually represent the thermal heat. Coming from these fires and theyre colored in a way that tells you how old some of these flames are the lighter the color the over that spot fire the redder it is the more current it is and you can see the most current burn is happening on the southern edge of the fire zone burning to the south in the direction of more Populated Areas thats the concern on friday last time we chatted of course the burn area was more to the north and you can see by the coloring thats the older fire. The more current blaze is happening t
For today. Signals are not working. The power outage affecting safety. Due to the Power Outages, the rockridge bark station. A. R. T. S several other stations, the escalators are not working. The golden gate transit buses have delays due to drivers who cant get to work this morning. A dree totree down in lanes blo the slow lane on 24 near acalanes. Slow almost to the walnut creek area. Well be back in a couple minutes with an update on some of the road closures in the north bay. Thank you. Lets get you caught up on the latest information on the kincade fire. This morning it is burning more than 54,000 acres in Sonoma County. Containment dropped to 5 after being at 10 over the weekend. At last check 94 structures were destroyed. Were not sure how many of those are houses. 80,000 structures are in danger. Two firefighters were hurt yesterday. Two of them had burn injuries. One of them serious. About 185,000 people are being forced to leave their homes. This is the largest Evacuation Orde
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
Thats why the Evacuation Order. James, yeah, and just to see the size of the mandatory evacuation. Order now really does explain why were seeing such high numbers in terms of the total number of people evacuated which is approaching 200,000 and all those 10s of thousands of homes that are in jeopardy, right now the purple area is the mandatory evacuation zone and it stretches from the hills to the west of guys are with the fire initially started all the way out to the coast. And it also extends from geyserville all the way down to northern santa rosa i want zoom in and show you some of the fire areas because thats what each one of these dots represent and the color correlates with how long the fires been burning so the original fires broke out in the lighter cor here as you can see in that section of the hillside but the newer fires all these red dots these of the ones broke out over the weekend you can definitely see the fire has been moving aggressively in the southern and southwest
Theyve been working nonstop, both from the ground and the sky. To stomp out the hotspots before the wind picks up again tonight. The plan is is, is to keep the fire currently where its at in this portion of the fire, and just secure is t so it can hold its own in the wind. Reporter he has his own fire trucks on stand by, too. He says vevacuating is not an option. How do you evacuate, 15 giraffes, three rhinos, 10k buffalo. Reporter hell leave no animal behind. Its my responsibility. I put them here, and ive got to see it through. Reporter and were back here live. Youre looking at jamala, the giraffe. All of the animals are from africa, african animals. There are about 30 species that live on this wildlife preserve. Firefighters are on the property, building, creating lines and putting out those hotspots, really hoping to stand their ground as the wind whips up tonight. Im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Some beautiful and special animals there. This fire has burned more t