From the fire. You can see this is vine crest circle in windsor and you can see the black in the area the scorchers there as car heads down the road taking a look and where the. Of destruction was cut, but look theres a home standing so while it scorchers in many instances they have been able to save property change which has been fantastic and thats thanks in large part to people. Observing the evacuation orders and getting out which allows again fire and police to get their equipment in their personnel and and hold those lines and hopefully save more and more homes as thi fire continues progress but heres the situation as it stands with relation to the fire and the evacuations. Evacuation areas have actually grown what has stayed the same is the mandatory should say the evacuation warning that exists from one oh one out to the coast, the degas bay. Jenner those folks are still in just an evacuation warning the mandatory evacuation zone continues to be right there along one o one stre
Including healdsburg, windsor and geyserville. As of last night, the amount of acres burned still stood at about 76,000. Calfire first update today wont come until later this morning. Also as of last night, it was still 15 contained. Close to 200 buildings have been destroyed, including 86 homes, some 90,000 others remain threatened. The other big story were following this morning, pg es latest round of Power Outages, which also went better than expected for people outside of the north bay. The utility never turned off the power for some people in santa clara, alameda, contra costa and san mateo counties. The predicted overnight weather conditions never materialized. This map shows the current outages, most in the north bay. Lets check in with meteorologist kari hall, tracking all the winds for us. Weve seen some of the top wind gusts in the Higher Elevations in the north bay, reaching over 50 Miles Per Hour with the highest in mt. St. Helena reaching 57 Miles Per Hour. Mt. Tam is the
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
Structures that were able to be saved, i think theres a car a couple cars burned there and then look this home they were able to save that home. So they are trying to save homes as they continue to evacuate homes. James, yeah and those evacuation zones have changed a bit over the last 24 hours. Heres the y perspective. Again its still just an evacuation warning for a lot of the the coast leading out towards a highway one oh one. Thats the situation that you see in blue that we course have the mandatory evacuation zone in purple that is unchanged it still includes the town of geyserville and healdsburg and winds are as you can see here as we zoom in on the map. And again all those communities are still within the mandatory evacuation zone, not so much because the fire is actively burning in their direction but because its still very dangerous and they need those roads to move around and mobilize all the Fire Fighting equipment that they need when term we talk about active burn youre goi