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KGO ABC7 News 600AM July 13, 2024

Voluntary evacuations. We have live team coverage. Amy hollyfield and Lauren Martinez are in Sonoma County. We start with lisa argen tracking that critical fire danger. The temperature in San Francisco at 70 degrees. Offshore winds have been blowing all night. At the surface, not too gusty. Right now looking at 20 to 40mileperhour winds. This will continue through the 8 00 and 9 00 hour. Offshore winds bringing down the relative humidity here into the Single Digits. Elsewhere in the east bay and south bay, not as dry. We are looking at the relative humidity. Very dry at Half Moon Bay. Look at the temperatures in the east bay valleys, near record warmth in the upper 80s today. Could see 90s in San Francisco. Looking at very warm weather throughout the bay and at the coast. Thank you very much. The kincaid fire started around 10 00 last night in geyserville and it exploded to 10,000 acres. This map gives you a better idea of where the fire started. Its northeast of geyserville near john kincaid and burn mountain roads. Amy hollyfield is live in healdsburg. Youve been watching the flames and the wind this morning. People are saying this is reminding me of 2017. This is unreal. Look behind me, this fire keeps changing direction. Its burning out of control, at will. It is relentless. What will really surprise us when the sun comes up is the amount of smoke. I can see a hint of a silhouette of black that i think is just huge columns of smoke. At some points we cant see the fire and we think did it die down . I think it was because its being blocked by smoke at times. Its that thick and heavy. You can see the wind. Its so windy out here. Its just fueling this fire. I have some video to show you. Look at this video. This is up close of the fire. This was taken earlier this morning. This was on pine flat road. I understand we dont have the video, sorry. But our Vantage Point from Alexander Valley road shows you all you need to see. They have iraq waited about evacuated about 600 people and 200 more are waiting to be evacuated. This fire continues to change directions. We did talk to people earlier who were told to evacuate. They said a lot of people were waiting, watching, packing up, not sure what to do, but also with 2017 and the fires that happened then on many peoples minds, they just cant get over how much it feels like that night out here again. So that is motivating some people to get out of here. Its also scaring some people as they remember that terrifying night and now seeing this fire raging out of control. It is so windy out here. What are you pointing to, steve . Just how close its getting. Im starting to feel like we need to leave. We felt safe all morning watching it from afar. Were on Alexander Valley road, not in the towns of healdsburg, but it shows we are still in healdsburg. It is the wind has shifted. Its pushing the fire towards us in our direction. So im starting to think that maybe we need to high tail it out of here as well. This thing is moving so quickly. Its so unpredictable. I will send it back to you right now so you can talk about the evacuations. Firefighters are telling us theyre anxious for first light so they can see this thing and also get their aircraft up above it and get some water dropping down on it. Amy hollyfield, abc7 news. These nighttime fires are so scary because of that. Amy, thank you and stay safe out there. The wildfires are prompting evacuations. These are evareas under Evacuation Order. Thats red winery road, Alexander Mountain road, and highway 128 from geysers road to river road. That does include the river rock casino. Two Evacuation Centers have been set up. The first at Windsor High School and the other at the Healdsburg Community center at 1757 healdsburg avenue. The Windsor High School one will be closed in less than an hour. If you know someone who needs to go to an Evacuation Center, send them to Healdsburg Community center. Thats where Lauren Martinez is. Good morning, lauren. Good morning. Yes. If you or someone you know needs to evacuate, dont tell them to go to the Windsor High School Evacuation Center. That will close in less than an hour. Were here at the Healdsburg Community center. We got here at 4 30. The parking lot is slowly starting to fill up. We saw a line of evacuees just come in moments ago here. I know its dark to see, but there are evacuees slowly making their way outside of their cars. Over to my right, animal control got here a few minutes ago. This is the cuddle shelter. If you have small pets, you can bring them. The red cross is here. They are helping any evacuees with information. Theyre providing water. They have snacks. I wanted to show you whats inside of this trailer to give you an idea of what they bring into a situation like this. Those green bags are cots. Those blue cots over there are more comfortable beds. One thing to keep in mind at home, this happened overnight. So a lot of people staying in these Evacuation Centers are tired. Some of them have not gotten sleep so just imagine not being able to be in your own home, in your own bed and having to sleep in one of these cots it makes for a long night. I spoke with one man who lives in geyserville, he has not been able to get any sleep tonight. He said he left his home when he saw flames pretty much in the back of his yard. Hes very tired. Its just been a long night for a lot of these residents here in the affected areas. So they have towels. They have sanitary gloves. Theres also plastic yew t utensils. Just everything you need in these situations. The red cross tries to make it as comfortable as possible. Im Lauren Martinez, abc7 news. Thank you for that update. We have been sending out breaking news push alerts on the abc 7 news app as this fire develops. Were also updating our website, abc7news. Com. The other breaking news weve been following, pg e cut more power overnight. The latest outage began at 1 00 a. M. In San Mateo County. At its peak 1,000 customers in la honda, woodside and unincorporated san mateo were impacted. In the north bay the power out sta outages started about 2 00 yesterday afternoon. The impacted cities include annapolis, cloverdale, fulton, guyserville, glen ellen, guernville, lockfield, center santa rosa, windsor and stewarts point. Its important to let you know the kinkaide fire is burning near guyserville. In napa, about 7,000 customers are in the outage zone. Cities include angwin, pope valley, calistoga, deerpark, oakville, st. Helena. This morning power was shut off in la honda and San Mateo County. You can go to these air conditioned places to get bottled water, charge your phone. Get the latest information from pg e. There are three in Sonoma County at cloverdale citrus fair, santa rose have a Veterans Memorial and hannah boys center. Two in napa county, one at napa county fairgrounds and the other at saint Helena Catholic school. You can also charge electronics at Pacific Union college, yountville library, napa main library. All of this information is at the bottom of your screen. Well take you back up to sky7 for a look at the fire in Sonoma County. You can see the areas being evacuated. Red wine wi rory road is one of. The fire is right up on that road. We just saw amy hollyfield, shes not even in guisersville, shes in healdsburg, from her Vantage Point she said she could see how the fire was getting closer to where she was. Cal fire says 10,000 acres, zer. They say they have more than 300 personnel out there now. Theyre going to have to wait until daylight, which cannot come soon enough so they can get some of their aircraft out there to dump some fire rtardant and water on this fire. Lisa has been tracking the wind conditions. At least another five hours where we will see wind gusts over 25 Miles Per Hour, over 35 Miles Per Hour. At Half Moon Bay weve seen 41mileperhour wind gusts. Its due to High Pressure building on in. Coming back well the holidays begin here at the disneyland resort. How you watch it does too. Tv just keeps getting better. This is xfinity x1. Featuring the Emmy Awardwinning voice remote. Streaming Services Without changing passwords and input. Live sports with realtime stats and scores. Access to the most 4k content. And your movies and shows to go. The best tv experience is the best tv value. Xfinity x1. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Annoepidemic fueled by juul use with their kidfriendly flavors. San francisco voters stopped the sale of flavored ecigarettes. But then juul, backed by big tobacco, wrote prop c to weaken ecigarette protections. 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A brief break for your forecast tomorrow. But today 80s, 90s, records possible. Jobina . Were following the sigalert in the north bay that is because of the fire. You can see that location. Were looking at state route 121 between geyserville avenue and pine flat road. Here is the specific area. Your alternate is 101. Anything east of 101 will be smoky, dark and closed. Want to quickly take to you a small brush fire in the city. This is San Francisco, southbound 101 at hospital curve. If youre familiar with the area, its near the u. P. S. Building. Two middle lanes are blocked. Fire crews are there right this breaking news just in. An alert went out telling people if they live in geyserville or know someone who does, there is an evacuation warning in place. What that means is that you should be prepared to evacuate. If you feel unsafe, you should evacuate. This is not a mandatory evacuation. The reason they just put this out is because they say that the kincaid fire, which is what weve been watching all morning long, has now crossed highway 128, which you see on your screen from sky map 7 near moody lane and is heading west. It crossed over the highway. Thats a major thoroughfare, that will be a cause of concern as it gets closer to a populated area. This morning weve been talking about 600 or so people who have been evacuated. That could expand. Right now geyserville is under an evacuation warning. Sky 7 is showing you the reason why. A 10,000 acre fire now currently burning out of control. Yeah. Besides the fire, the power is also out in parts of Sonoma County. Thats forcing schools to close. In the Santa Rosa School district, accelerated charter, Rincon Valley middle and Maria Carillo high. In the Rincon Valley School District six schools wont open. Whited, inkley, madrone, sequoia elementary, Rincon Valley charter and austin creek elementary. And the geyserville School District will close all campuses. Tomorrow is still up in the air. It depends on how quickly pg e is able to inspect those electrical lines and get power turned back on. Its a waiting game right now. Thats interesting because today is thursday. They want to turn back the power, well have another advisory for a stronger offshore wind event late sat into sunday. So im sure theyre trying to figure that out while dealing with whats happening right now. We haved gusts at the coast 41 Miles Per Hour. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s. We have temperatures near record territory today. We could see 90 in San Francisco. Mid 80s on the coast. We have a monster ridge of High Pressure building into the west coast. We get this in october. We get it time and time again. What were building on is extreme dry vegetation and the atmosphere working against us with those Winds Continuing to dry things out. Where our relative humidity is better in the east bay and south bay, thats because the winds are not that strong. The winds, the warmth up in the north bay through the next five and six hours. 25 degrees warmer than yesterday in napa. That shows those winds and how hard theyve been blowing all night. I talked about Half Moon Bay, in the 70s there. Its about the wind, the wind direction, its about the wind gusts. Were down to 12 humidity in napa. You can see 12 at Half Moon Bay. San mateo, 43 . San jose, 60 . 6 00, no relief. 20 to 40 Miles Per Hour in the north bay. This is where the red flag warning is. In the Santa Cruz Mountains are included in this. At noontime the colors back off. The winds lighten up. Were looking at these numbers very, very warm today. Mild to dry to start. High fire danger. Sunny and hot today and tomorrow. This is saturday. Slightly cooler, 60s and 70s. Sunday you think were good, the winds will be even stronger. Another offshore event for sunday. Looking at highs around the bay, record territory today for warmth and upper elevation wind. Jobina . Thank you. I want to start with video of the reason why we have this sigalert in the north bay. This is geyserville avenue. State route 128 between geyserville avenue and pine flat road is completely closed. The chp is telling us emergency crews are focused on the fire, focused on people, not on reopening this road any time soon. We did hear reggie talking about that evacuation warning which means people will be leaving their homes this morning. What you need to know is that 101 is your best alternate. Roads east of 101 are als closed and blocked. Smoky and you cant see. I will show you specifically where this area is. The purple highlighted area. Thats where the closure, the primary portion of it is this morning. So please be careful because conditions are not safe. I want to update people down in San Francisco on that brush fire southbound 101 at hospital curve has been cleared up. 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As you can see, occasionally flashing lights, right . There are a lot of fire crews out there. Until theres daylight, theres not a whole lot they can do while the wind continues to blow, they cant put any water hey. Hey. You must be stevens phone. Now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network. Only with xfinity xfi. Download the xfi app today. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. So just start small. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. Spoonoma county Sheriffs Office is telling us all of geyserville is under a mantory evacuation. A few minutes ago they said it was an advisory. Now theyre saying if youre in geyserville get out now. The reason why theyre doing

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