The kincaid fire burning out of control on this friday morning. Continues to grow. Containment remains at 5 . Pack starting to be felt outside of Sonoma County as the smoke from the fire. Yesterday drifting toward specific ocean. Smoke drifting across marin county as well San Francisco. Welcome to the nine everybody alongside, a big story in the twin next 24 hours. Another window back coming back. More than 1000 out there, a big day to knock the fire down so they do not have any flareups if the wind comes back. Remember the fires were going on the last time the air was so thick with smoke people were wearing mask. School was canceled for a full day because of the air quality. If you have not seen that bad airquality you are in the north bay area. Smacked when i left home. I see the smoke visibly. And marine county as well San Francisco. Was good to the latest on the contained fire. The fire is more than double in size. Compared to what it was this time yesterday. At thisfire says, fire
Advisory. That expired. Winds not reaching that level, but still at critical fire. Watch our wind forecast from now up until noon, gusting from 15, 20, maybe 25 in the hills. Look what happens by 4 00. Single digits in the lower elevations, teens and 20s in the hills. Thats below critical fire conditions. We get to that, we can all take a deep breath. We have nice weather coming up for several days, maybe a couple of weeks in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Thanks. Right now is a krirt ccritic. Firefighters are hoping to get through red flag conditions and into calmer weather so they can put this fire out. Liz kreutz joins us from Sonoma County fairgrounds in santa rosa. Liz . Good morning. Right now we are waiting to get an update from cal fire. We hope to get that update within the next hour, 7 00 a. M. Is when firefighters here at base camp get their update. We should have updated numbers on the containment and how much this fire may have grown overnight. Until then we have that
The neighborhoods of Fountain Grove and coffee park, which were devastated during the 2017 north bay fires. 90,000plus under mandatory Evacuation Orders. Buildings have been threatened along highway 128. An Elementary School in harms way. Some of the rhinerys, one has gone up in flames already, wineries, one has gone up in flames already. Hes cal fire. We were here on highway 128 observing fire behavior. The fire behavior was subdued and had not, the winds had not picked up very much yet. We monitored and observed as the winds shifted and became very gusty and strong sustained winds. And we observed increased fire behavior and there was containment lines installed in firing operations that were leave taken by the fire; overtaken by the fire. The fire behavior continues to increase. The strong gusty winds were forecast updated from 3 00 until 10 00. Were currently in that time period and the fire behavior is increasing. Take a look at some of the video from overnight. This is the winery
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 area are affected by these Power Outages and that is why we have Live Team Coverage tonight. David louie will join us in a moment and we have Team Coverage in the north bay as well, which will bear the biggest impact. Before we go to Laura Anthony, lets hear from liz kreutz who is life in santa rosa. Liz. Reporter good evening. Roughly 27,000 customers are without power right now in sonoma county. Many of them here in santa rosa. Now, i want to show you where we are. We are inside the citys Eme
Under mandatory evacuation orders right now people are being told to head south and towards the Healdsburg Community center or north towards family and friends. But you cannot stay in geyser ville anymore i want to zoom in just a little bit closer to the actual fire line itself let slide the map so want to reveal. This is geyser peak and as a National Weather Service Camera pointed in the direction of the fire. I just checked actually change the angle of the camera its actually looking off in the northeast direction and i want to show you what its seeing were going to switch over to that camera now and youll see the ridge line is on fire and as i step out of the way not too long ago we saw a large flames coming up on the side of the screen so it looks as though the fire is beginning to burn closer towards that camera location on geyser peak, but certainly off in the distance, we got wide sections of that whole mountainside that whole ridge line just to the east of guys or fail on fire