The fire has now burned more than 54,000 acres, a steep increase from this morning when firefighters said the fire was 30,000 acres. Containment has fallen from 10 to just 5 . 94 structures have been destroyed and Officials Say another 80,000 structures are still threatened tonight. Also today authorities evacuated another 90,000 people from Sonoma County bringing the total number of people evacuated to 180,000. Heres a look at the evacuation zone. You can see the evacuations stretch from healdsburg down to santa rosa and then all the way to the coast. We begin our Live Team Coverage tonight with ktvus jana katsuyama. Reporter we just got an update. The wind gusts have been pretty intense here. I understand from one of the officials here that the fire has already jumped font road. Up the hill we saw about 15 minutes ago a number of vehicles coming out of shiloh ridge and dashing south down font road because in the past 10 minutes there has been an Emergency Alert imminent fire threat t
From about 10 down to 5 . So far 94 structures have been destroyed and Officials Say another 80,000 structures are threatened still tonight. Today authorities evacuated another 90,000 people from Sonoma County. That brings the total number of people vac waited evacuated to more than 180,000. You can see the evacuations stretch from healdsburg to santa rosa to the coast. We begin our Live Team Coverage tonight with jana katsuyama. The situation in shiloh near windsor has changed since your last report at 10 00. Reporter just in the past 15 minutes, julie. We were down on shiloh road right at the intersection for all of the evening and now they are moving trucks both in and out of that area. We are right now at old redwood highway and had to pull out because they said we need to evacuate immediately. Let me show you some video that mark hamburg, my photographer, shot a short while ago of the flames that have now crept up towards pleasant avenue. They have cross over and we understand fie
Times. 59 in the city. Our fire danger index goes down today, and then it will go back up midday tomorrow. Sue . All right. Well take a looktsorurony morn. Richmondsan rafael bridge is wide open. The lights are on on the richmond side, on the marin side we have Power Outages throughout most of the county there. All smart trains canceled today. Signals are not functioning. They say its not safe to run those trains. We have modified golden gate bus and shuttles for the southbound and northbound direction due to some of those folks that are ey he rn andbuses that cant get by, but a lot of those folks cannot get into the city from the north bay. Westbound 37, the ramp to southbound 101, first reports of an accident there. Traffic seems to be getting by without delay. Thanks. It is 4 31. If youre just joining us, we want to get you caught up on the latest update from the kincade fire. At last check its burning more than 54,000 acres in Sonoma County since starting last wednesday. It dropped
Breaking news weve been following for several days, at this time there are more than a dozen fires up and down our state. As we have been telling you, the largest is the kincaid fire in the north bay. Here is the very latest. That fire has burned more than 54,000 acres. In containment, sadly, has dropped to 5 , 94 buildings have been destroyed, another 80,000 are threatened by flames. Firefighters say they believe it will take until at least november 7th to contain the fire. There are dozens of schools shutting down today because of the smoke and power outages. We have a full list on nbc bay area. Com and were running them on the bottom of your screen as well. Now to the new evacuations that were ordered overnight in Sonoma County as this fire continues to spread. Today in the bay live for us in windsor, sharon. What you seeing out there . Well, lauren, marcus, it took about three different road closures just to get through to here. Now you can see whats behind me on east shilo road. W
The delta still gusting to 21 Miles Per Hour. Elsewhere it is calm. Notice the blues there indicating the breezy winds on the coast through the delta, then a red flag warning expires. We have a spare the air alert today. It will be hazy throughout the day. Ill pinpoint where it will be hazy. Were looking at critical fire weather conditions as those winds will continue to gust at higher elevations. Otherwise were talking about another dry day out there and sue has a look at your commute. Good morning. Starting off kind of busy up there with closures and high winds. Wind advisories for all the bridges including the golden gate and the san mateo. Traffic is light coming off the waldo grade. Most of our roads are in the green. The hard closure in the geyserville area with highway 128, Alexander Valley to geyserville avenue, no estimated time of reopening. Thank you. Lets get caught up with the latest information on the kincade fire. This morning it is burning more than 54,000 acres in coun