Of Sonoma County. The man that lives in this home is calling firefighters heroes. All of these vehicles on his property owned by his brother and by him were lost and so was his brothers home but his home was saved. He watched at firefighters battled the flames in incredible winds. He says what they did to save other homes was heroic. A chimney tower from this once proud chalkville hill road. A neighbor said it looked like arrows of fire were flying at him as wind gusts launched burning embers towards him, his home, and the antique jeeps parked next to his home. It created a tremendous problem for the firefighters. Fire was spotting well out ahead of the main front. Reporter kincade Public Information officer fred woods has been taking media tours into the burned areas all day but has been here since the weekend watching the fire fight and agrees with that neighbor, the effort to save homes was heroic. So far the fire has destroyed at least 96 homes. When you drive these homes and see h
Well. It is a level of anxiety that unless you experience it, it is hard to explain. That is the reason why we do ps ps to make sure that the opportunity for catastrophic wildfires to start associated with service is not something that is acceptable. When we go to the numbers, when we think of 970,000 customer accounts that were deenergized, it is also important to note that those 970,000 accounts were connected to over 20,000 miles of electrified infrastructure thats the infrastructure that was taken down because it was viewed as being to our analysis either where they were located in very high risk areas, the abundance of fuel, the wind condition, that any debris flying into those energized lines created the potential for admission. Thats why we do ps ps did as mark said, so far we noticed 50 incidents of damage. You can say well, millions of people impacted 450 instances of damage . The thing that we have to keep in mind if any one incident could be at travis fact catastrophic wildf
Melanie woodrow joins us with more on this. Dion and dan, the documents were just filed with the California Public Utilities Corporation today. They outlined how the two fires that happened in lafayette could be tied again to pg power lines. The fires started blocks from where power had been turned off. Flames threaten homes and destroy the Lafayette Tennis Club when a grassfire roared through dry brush found by high wind. It sent smoke over highway 24. Pg e reported to the cpuc that there were two incidents regarding the energized power lines yesterday. One was at Pleasant Hill where pg e reported a lashing wire and open wire as a potential ignition source. The other in lafayette attica minnow el diablo road. They found this downed power pole and transformer. You can see what it looked like in april of this year. Trees were close to power lines. The exact scenario pg e has been concerned about. The reason, it says, it is cutting power to millions of customers when high winds pick up.
Pack your belongings and get ready because of the fire moves in this direction, residents need to be ready to get out immediately. On the western side that we are repopulating, we are also calling for new evacuation warnings on the eastern side into lake county. Its a result of the change in weather conditions referred to as zone 31 in western lake county. Reporter looking at your screen, this is what it includes with the evacuation warning issued last night and from the road south to the county line, all of buts canyon road in lake county between 29 and the napa county line and highway 175 between 29, middleton and north to mckinley drive. Anyone in these areas should be ready to go at a moments notice and lake county is no stranger. It was four years ago that middletown was leveled, killing four people and destroying nearly 2000 instructions and burning 76,000 acres. We are here where a chp vehicle is blocking it off because dozers need access and they are using this for that. Its im
Is going to increase that fire behavior to levels we saw when the fire initially began. Lets pull up the map of the areas affected by the kincade fire. The red portion at the top of the screen is where the fire is burning. The purple area shows where there are mandatory evacuation orders in place. The blue area indicates places where people were told they can now return to their homes. However, they have been told there is still and evacuation warning in effect, and they should be ready to evacuate again quickly if necessary. 30,000 people in western Sonoma County are back at home this morning. They went back after getting the allclear to do it. Allie rasmus is at the fairgrounds with fewer people today. Reporter yes, overall the kincade fire has led to an unprecedented number of evacuations, as we know, about 250,000 people across northern california. Here at the Sonoma County fairgrounds, this is one of 16 shelters according to the red cross thats open and serving evacuees of the kin