Been used multiple times. The withstands picked up over winds picked up overnight. Ktvus alex savage is live. Reporter good morning to you. We are feeling those winds. It will be calm for a moment and then we get some real strong gusts thats starting to pick up. These are the northeast withstands. Theyre dry that are blowing into this area and its really caused this fire to pick up in intensity and its pushed it closer in here to the Sonoma Valley. Im going to step out of the way and give you a live look here. These are the hills kind of east of sonoma and for perspective, were on east napa street, just east of eighth street. For people familiar with this area, were start of the city that has been e vac voted. The evacuated. Those foot hills is close to the area of lovel valley road. There are homes come we dont know that have burned but there are homes in the Sonoma Valleys itself as this fire started to creep closer into the town of sonoma itself. I want to bring in Rockland Fire Dep
The pocket and nuns fire are 25 contained. Power outages are another big issue of the wildfires. They are making progress on g getting the lights back on. More than 300,000 customers lost power. Only 23,000 people are without power. 18,000 in is a sonoma county. Right now dispatchers are badly needed. Police tweeted that 93 shifts of dispatchers have been filled by 24 outside agencies. Its part of the mutual aid resources. Some of the dispatchers have come from as far as menlow park, redwood city. The fight to contain and extinguish the flames is not over. Want to show you new numbers. Since monday, aircraft across the state have dropped over 2 million gallons of retardant to try to help aid firefighters on the ground. Many of the tankers have been flying into wine country. As you see on this graph, wednesday and thursday have the heaviest workload. That may be because of two days of the most favorable weather conditions from the air. Governor jerry brown toured some of the worst hit a
Crews are making progress on containing more than a dozen fires burning in the north bay seven days after they were sparked. We are waiting for updates from napa county officials. A press conference is expected to start any minute now. This is a live look at the Napa County Sheriffs Office where they are gathering. Well bring that conference to you live as soon as it begins. Heres a live look from sky 7 of the map feature giving residents of the north bay information about where many of these fires are burning. Geo locates by streets, highways and local landmarks. You can see spots like wildwood Mountain Road which has some flames in the background. Richards road is on that sky map 7, montgomery drive as well. Sky map 7 is a feature you will see only on abc 7 news. Lets check in now on wind conditions and temperatures in the fire areas. Heres our meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, caroline. The winds are still breezy and thats allowing temperatures to be really warm at the coast a