Under mandatory evacuation orders right now people are being told to head south and towards the Healdsburg Community center or north towards family and friends. But you cannot stay in geyser ville anymore i want to zoom in just a little bit closer to the actual fire line itself let slide the map so want to reveal. This is geyser peak and as a National Weather Service Camera pointed in the direction of the fire. I just checked actually change the angle of the camera its actually looking off in the northeast direction and i want to show you what its seeing were going to switch over to that camera now and youll see the ridge line is on fire and as i step out of the way not too long ago we saw a large flames coming up on the side of the screen so it looks as though the fire is beginning to burn closer towards that camera location on geyser peak, but certainly off in the distance, we got wide sections of that whole mountainside that whole ridge line just to the east of guys or fail on fire
From cal fire headquarters taylor. Is that we are seeing firefighters make some progress here now we did see that fire explode in size expanding rapidly and now today throughout the entire day, its only grown 6,000 acres in firefighters say that the conditions today with less wind being able to see the fire for first time in daylight has really helped them get a handle over this fire. Cal fire says the king cake fires still blazing a burning 16,000 acres in geyser ville as of thursday night, a quickmoving fire fueled by northern winds forced thousands to evacuate and destroyed at least 49 homes. Early the first and 16,000 acres. We have 5 containment. We do have 49 structures confirmed destroyed. That damage. The assessment continues. It is not over. But that is our current account. We have or 1300 firefighters on the line that number is expected to go buy other 50 as early as tomorrow. Aides that they takes a side along with the very large air tanker. Firefighters say they were able t
Good morning, and thanks for joining us. I m laura garcia. And i m marcus washington. We ve been on air since 4 am this morning. Here s a live look at an updated map on where the kincade fire stands. Adlib. Here s what we know. The entire community of geyserville is under mandatory Evacuation Orders. At least 10thousand acres have burned so far. While we don t know an exact number of damaged structures, we know the fire has destroyed some homes. So far no reports of injuries. Just within the last hour, a new fire has sparked. Skyranger captured smoke overhead. The spring fire is burning just east of santa rosa. There is good news we hear the fire is holding at 3 acres and forward progress has been stopped. This one is near annadel state park. We know a tanker that s helping with the kincade fire is heading to the spring fire to help put it out. Several schools are closed today because of the fires. Here s a list on your screen. Schools in the Alexander Valley School District cloverdale
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