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
This is a zoomed in shot from our camera some 80 miles away. The fire is flaring up way up in the hills along pine flat road. We have Team Coverage right now starting with kpix 5s Juliette Goodrich. She and photographer alex monano headed to the peak of the fire where the wind is the strongest. Reporter its the wind tonight thats the major er weonto a as a perfect example o how fast the wind is blowing. The fire fight tonight, behind me on this ridge, a ridge that leads down into windsor. The fire towering 30 feet in the air, and while this ridge is miles away from heelsburg and windsor, its the emberred carried by the wind thats the major concern tonight. Thats how fire moves. It blows sometimes as much to a mile and mile and a half away. Reporter and the wind could carry embers into areas already burned. And theres more it here. Reporter this fire just outside windsor reignited in a spot firefighters thought they had knocked down. The problem is hot spots and moldering embers reignit
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
The fires first broke out a week ago chains. See and then we take a look at the evacuation map years were always trying to keep you updated on the very latest in case you have to be ready to evacuate will try put that map up behind behind me here so i could point out a few things. Well just take a look at it here the area in purple and blue those are the areas now under some form of Evacuation Order and as weve been covering for days now the purple area is the mandatory evacuation zone thats the zone where the fires currently burning. Now we have the area close to the coast thats in blue which is the evacuation warning we talk about that yesterday but take a look at the other side of the fire too. We have evacuation warnings also being issued for napa county and portions of lake county as well. But the fire burn area, lets take a closer look at that the outline in red thats the perimeter of the fire and these dots represent how recent the hot spots are it gives us a better idea of wher