Structures have been destroyed including 133 homes. Good evening. While the official count of homes lost in the fire has increased so also has the containment and as we mentioned crews have made more progress and reports tonight that the fire is 45 contained and that is a significant increase from 24 hours ago when containment was at 15 . More than 76,000 acres have burned since the fire broke out a week ago. Right now more than 5000 firefighters from across california and other states continue to work to extend containment. Cars screamed into windsor another communities is the widespread Evacuation Order was lifted. City workers in windsor including the mayor greeted returning residents with cheers and welcome home signs and Evacuation Orders were also lifted for geyserville and santa rosa allowing about 100,000 people to return home. We are in downtown windsor. The people who live there on the outskirts of the city they returned home to find a very different scene. Reporter it is hom
Tonight the kinkead fire is 45 contained up from 15 at this time last night. More than 76,000 acres were burned since the fire broke out a week ago and 266 structures have been destroyed and 133 of them homes. We are joined now live after speaking with some residents who returned home to ruins. Reporter it is a trauma many will be experiencing in the coming days. These threatened communities are expressing relief and appreciation at finally getting past the fire, but for some, a new ordeal begins. This is the master bedroom. Reporter for their home of 30 years high atop a ridge now rebel. I did as much as i could do, you know, to prevent it from coming up here, but the wind was blowing so hard. Reporter for for days he did everything he could to clear and soaked the property leaving tools for firefighters and an engine never came but the get stuff from the house and the fire was getting pretty close. Took this as his video before fleeing and a neighbor caught the house burning. He to s
Santa rosa as well as for napa. 53 in san rafael. Looking at 47 in vallejo. Upper 30s in mountain view. So grab that coat this morning and as we head through the afternoon with that sun daytime highs will be seasonal for this time of year. 73 for a high in concord this afternoon. And about 70 for fran. Well have that trickortreat forecast this evening and looking ahead for the weekend and into next week if we will continue to see dry details coming up. We are off to a very busy start at the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see traffic is definitely stacking up there. Westbound 580 right at 24 we are getting first reports of an accident. If youre camming off the east shore freeway youre going to see traffic starting to build at least to emeriville. Westbound for sure as you work your way from powell street towards the bay bridge. Not bad once you get into the upper deck across San Francisco. This is eastbound 580 right before where that 580, 80 split this. There. So youre coming off the R
People with big hearts. Were happy to be safe. I have my moms hat, my daughters cat. Im thankful we still theres a lot of people that arent as fortunate. Im happy to be going home. Reporter not everything is open. You can see the flames threatening the robert mundavi winery. This fire is 40 contained. Cal fire will give us an update around 7 00 this morning. It is 6 01 on this monday, october 16. Mike and natasha are off today. Lisa, we can see the flames on the hillside and winds just shifting around. Today more smoke. Theyre still offshore and very light. The good news is theyre light and we are looking at the quick warmup. The smoke will be variable around the bay area due to the around the bay area due to the light winds today. Smoke and hazy conditions into the east bay and even into the santa clara valley. After today, boy, things are really going to improve in terms of air quality. We are warmer from concord at 50 degrees but were cool in the north bay. Numbers once again will b
We have many areas of the fire still hot that dont have direct line on them. Our number one priority is get direct line on the entire flanks of the fire. At the same time going through and making sure that all the homes that have hot spots around them are secured and those hot spots put out so we have no further loss of structures from unneeded hot spots. Takes a lot of resources to do that, which is why we have continuing requests for resources to aid it. I know the source of the fire is under investigation but how unusual for 14 fires to take off at the same time . Something common among them . Insight to the possible causes . Is it unusual for 14 fires happening at the same time . Not necessarily when you have those types of winds. This is california, we get a lot of wildland fires. I dont think the public understands how many fires we get in fire season. We have a lot of our units up and down the state, responding to wildland fires throughout the day and night up and down the state