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
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
Ethanol each area Officials Say that adds up to more than 250,000 gallons of fuel. That may sound like a lot but it is a fraction of what the tank hold. Authorities discussed the massive firefighting effort. Crews poured 15,000 gallons of Firefighting Foam on the fire yesterday which was diluted with water. Has been on the sce all day yesterday and he is back there again today. Tom, we are expecting a News Conference in about 25 minutes or so. Any indication of what they might say or whether there are new developments . Reporter i think there are not new developments or anything they can talk about at this moment. That is why they have backed it up for a little bit. Clearly they are trying to gather more information. You have to understand what is going on here is very slow and pains taking and will pretty dangerous. As a result what you have to do is go slowly carefully so yothat could cost them on an injury or their life. Having said all of that, here is how todays events went and th
Forget, even now. 30 years later. I lived in San Francisco in 1989. And it would have been really helpful to know, like, how to check in with other people in my network, etc. Reporter if you do file quake, the nations first set nate wide quake warning will be eventually launched by governor gavin newsom and other officials thursday. It will be the same wireless system that issues amber alerts and nap called my shake that gives realtime information. Download the my shake up to get a warning when earthquake shaking is headed your way. The app will be available for download on your smart phone. If a quake is at least a magnitude 4. 5, people in the area that are likely to feel the shaking will get a warning. Earthquake, drop cover, hold on. Depending on how far you are from the ep wall so i dont fall over. Just a few seconds warning would be great. Some say even an alert after a quake is helpful. It will feel like a truck is driving by and we will not necessarily know it is an earthquake
But there will be cooler conditions for the next few days. Anything you want to get to right away or just the usual . The usual and i want to remind people that interstate 80 is open and you may have gone to bed not knowing what will happen. It is open now. Lets go to the picture to show you the drive time between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. It looks pretty decent. 20 minutes. Interstate 80 is open after yesterdays incident which closed for the evening commute. You can see traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up for a 1015 minute wait which is typical and you can see when we put the map up of the east making it, there is a little bit of slow traffic here and there. Highway 4 does have slow traffic and as you look at the izbicki mood we are off to a decent start. The latest on that massive fire at the Petroleum Storage facility in crockett yesterday. The fire is contained. Interstate 80 is open after it was shut down for hours. An Incident Management Team is l