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Bam, everything went off and that was the end of the day. Reporter the city of santa rosa has its Emergency Operations center fully staffed. They estimate 50,000 to 60,000 people will be impacted within the city limits. Traffic lights at 24 intersections are expected to go dark. Our goal is to make sure that during the shutoff, that we do the most we can to protect our community. Reporter the owner of bettys fish andhips cooked up lunch for customers before the shutoff. They lost power for three...

Tomorrow afternoon. Pg e ceo reported one of their employees working in glenn county was attacked. Their vehicle was hit by a pellet gun. We will go to ondrea live in the city of oakville in napa county. Ondrea . Reporter im here along the silverado trail and i can tell you that we have lost power to parts of this road right now. The addresses are sporadic. If you remember two years ago this hillside was on fire and there are legitimate concerns about power lines and the wind. The addresses begi...

Unincorporated parts of the county. Pg es website shows where the power is currently out. The purple icons indicate those are the power shutoffs which are under way in the north bay and along the sierra foothills. Pg e said it would start turning off the power at 3 00 p. M. Today although some people told us it started earlier than that. Outages will begin in San Mateo County around 1 00 in the morning. Pg e hopes to restore power by the weekend. A total of about 35,000 pg e customers in the bay...

Now from abc 7, live breaking news. That breaking news is a wild fire burning right now near geyserville in Sonoma County. The National Weather Service First tweeted about the fire close to 10 00 tonight. According to the press democrat, at least 300 acres have burned. Evacuation orders have been issued for geysers road to highway 128, pine flat road, and red winery road. Theres an evacuation warning for northern hillburg and geyserville. Take a look at this picture, you can see the wild fire is...

Pg e is the phrase that the high winds could cause power lines to fall and spark a fire. This isnt just a Public Safety issue, its a business issue. Within minutes of the blackout, Stores Closed and intersections got dicey. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez is in santa rosa with the latest details. Jodi. Reporter when we got here at about 2 45 this afternoon, all of these businesses were open. But just a few minutes after we got here, the lights went out forcing the businesses to close. Without power...

Now. And this is the concern. The wind and heat a dangerous mix. Well show you this wildfire in just a moment. Its happening in the north bay. Its in geyserville, not star from the lake county line. Here it is. Sonoma county sheriffs just issued evacuations for northern haeldsburg and geyserville. Theyre telling people to leave immediately. You can see that glow on the hillside there. Were also getting new video from the santa rosa fire department. Crews clearing fallen trees. These trees along ...

Now from abc 7, live breaking news. That breaking news is a wild fire burning right now near geyserville in Sonoma County. The National Weather Service First tweeted about the fire close to 10 00 tonight. According to the press democrat, at least 300 acres have burned. Evacuation orders have been issued for geysers road to highway 128, pine flat road, and red winery road. Theres an evacuation warning for northern hillburg and geyserville. Take a look at this picture, you can see the wild fire is...

Fire officials are saying and residents leaving. Anywhere east of highway 128 between geyserville you need to evacuate. An Evacuation Order, river road, vineyard, River Rock Casino, all those areas need to evacuate. Phone lines were down. People were trying to get to us. Our cell phones dont work, phone lines were down. Someone looked up and saw red in the sky that we were able to evacuate. Reporter back out here live to show you the flames burning but also showing you the flames burning and the...

Been popping up today. Firefighters knockdown flames of a new fire near lake sonoma. This fire started around 7 30 am west of geyserville. We have video from skyfox. You can see the fire burned a small area of brush. There were no major damages. And daly city, crews put out of the grass fire an hour ago. That was reported around 10 45 am near hamilton avenue interstate 280. No one was hurt and no word on how either fire started. Firefighters are optimistic about the progress overnight against th...

Theyre waiting for sun light as well and how they can tackle it even further. Manned attorneydatory evacuatio for northern healdsburg and geyserville including River Rock Casino. This map shows where the flames have spread. That fire started after 9 00 last night outside of the geysers near kinkade road and byrne mountain road. Crews tell us they are on edge. The unpredictability. You dont know if it will travel ten miles right away or in two days. Two years ago it was traveling so fast that peo...