Neighborhood. Tonight pg e officials admit they knew about a failed transmission line minutes before the kincaid fire broke out. Their answer when i asked him why it took them 10 hours to inspect the area. Another power outage planned for the weekend. But third this month. The areas that could be impacted. Good evening. Is get to the latest on the kincaid fire. It is burning out of control still. In Sonoma County near geyserville. Here are the latest numbers from cal fire. 16,000 acres have burned. 2000 people have been ordered to evacuate. At least 49 structures have been destroyed. Right now that fire only about 5 contained. Here is a look at the evacuation zone. Cloverdale guises road red winery road Alexander Mountain road pine flat road and all the roads east of highway 128 to geyserville. We have live coverage tonight beginning with andrea. First reporter on the scene last night. What a difference 24 hours is making. Reporter it was absolutely crazy last night. When we reached th
Kreutz abc 7 news. Liz, can you talk about the mood there . Are people excited about this race . Reporter yeah, i think enthusiasm it kind of varies. Theres a poll out that shows that only a third of San Franciscoen approve of the work shes doingment ev. In terms of the election overall, right now its a little quiet. There was a huge rush just a few minutes ago of people dropping off their ballots after work. People excited to be part of the process, make their voice heard. I think its safe to say were not going to see the turnout that were probably going to see next year in the 2020 election. Back to you guys. Thank you so much. The race for San Franciscos District Attorney is between four candidates. Susie loftus is running for a full term after being appointed to the position by the mayor. Also running, nancy tung, and chrks there you see her family. She says voters have been telling her theyre concerned with core issues ranging from serious crime in the city to quality of life in t
Reporter there is a lot happening. This is any vacant evacuation area. Where people can take their horses and livestock. The Sonoma County fairgrounds is a staging area. We see fire engines. And water tenders. Also one of the vehicles and personnel showing up for another long day on the fire lines. About 2000 people remain evacuated. Evacuation orders under effect to fight rumors that have been lifted these are mandatory evacuations in the geyserville area. Some worried residents had to pass up their cars there are hundreds more the santa rosa Veterans Memorial building as well. Horses and livestock can be brought here to the fairgrounds. Evacuated tell ktvu back at the flames creeping towards the neighborhood and some did not match time to grab belongings. We walked out on the deck, and from that we had a Vantage Point to the hillside. It was completely ablaze. Like the came through lights and sirens, and blowhards saying, mandatory now. Firefighters are still trying to extinguish the
Meteorologist Steve Paulsen is monitoring the conditions in the area. Reporter firefighters have been showing up throughout the morning. This is the command base, where they will have a briefing this morning before heading back out to the fire line. One thing we did learn is that one of the Evacuation Centers yesterday was full and now has space at the fieldsburg Community Center. The Sonoma County fairgrounds also a place that you can bring livestock. About 2,000 people remain under the mandatory evacuation orders. There are three main Evacuation Centers, the hillsburg Community Center, the Veterans Memorial building in santa rosa, and the fairgrounds where horses and livestock can be sheltered. Evacuees say they are nervous. So far 49 structures with have burned. Its nature, right . Reporter firefighters have been able to contain about 800 acres. As for those evacuated neighborhoods, the Sheriffs Office has put deputies in those neighborhoods to watch for any suspicious activity or p
On the structures destroyed at least 49. Structures have been burned and and about half are holmes baby 21. They think our residential buildings, nobo b hurt though the entire town of guys are ville is still under that mandatory Evacuation Order and thats because they say it is not safe to return back to that community there worry about the risk of more fires breaking out from the embers now luckily today, the winds will be pretty calm. So theyll be able to get a better handle on it today but then were supposed to have more winds whipping up tomorrow james yeah in fact lets take a look at the map keep you updated on the situation with both the evacuations and also the fired words burning right now what we have here is an overlay of 2 bits of information the area thats in red here that is the evacuation zone and as we showed you yesterday comes right up against one oh one. Which travels this corridor here and guys are ville is located right there and weve got again that entire city shut