Leandro. 2,000 people are under evacuation orders. Heres a live picture of sky 7. You can see all of the smoke coming off of the fire near geyser ville. Its been burning since last night. It exploded to more than 10,000 acres now. The good news, kristen, is the wind has died down. Mmhmm. However, it is now burning on both siesd of highway 128 there, and theres zero containment at this hour. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Im dan ashley. Im kristen sze. The fire is burning near geyserville. Laura anthony joins us. She joins us live on pine flat road with the latest on the conditions. Laura. Reporter were high above. Were stand at 2,100 square feet where weve been watching this aerial fire fight go on throughout the day. You can also see on the ground just beyond the pinkish fire retardant, you can see a bulldozer on the ground. For the most part theyre trying to fight this fire from the air. Its a battle thats being fought mostly from the air as the kinkade fire marched up the hills e
If youre wondering what that is, so are we. And just now, ceo and president bill johnson explained what that is. He says that the jumper is a piece of wire that basically jumps the conductor over the insulator. We know that it was broken. We also know according to johnson that this is a 43yearold tower that had been inspected four times. Now as you said, this transmission line was not deenergized, and johnson explained why not. Transmission lines in the area remained energized during the wind event consistent with our established protocols and procedures. In other words, they did not meet the conditions that we forecast for transmission level outages. We didnt see the wind speeds in the forecast that we typically would see for transmission outage. And so we relied on the protocol, and we still at this point do not know exactly what happened. The utility turned off power in the area at 9 48 last night, nearly half an hour after the fire started. Pg e is working closely with cal fire to
Effort to keep these flames from crossing the road. Thats the Alexander Valley below us. This is affecting everybody who lives in sonoma. When they tell you the fire is bearing down and you have to leave your home, its too close. They were handing out protection masks like halloween candy, and were still in the north gnat zone. A few miles east, no questions about what might have been. New hot spots lit up in the distance. These are backfires near the River Rock Casino where flames burned. Heres chief matt epstein who knows too much about fires around here to dismiss more trouble. While the weathers in our favor and the winds are blowing the right way we want to, were preparing for the wind to shift again. Reporter that wind shift hes talking about seems to have begun. If you look at that smoke, its now blowing in our direction. Earlier when we did that interview, it was heading in the opposite direction. This skirmish here has been going on for about an hour. We saw multiple helicopte
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