Area, but its now getting closer to homes. We want to talk to greg, our sky7 photographer. What do you see now . Reggie, this is a live shot from sky7 over the kincaid fire. Over Sonoma County, near geyserville. You can see the terrain is very, very hilly. And theres a lot of ridges to deal with. Probably intensifying the winds that fuel this fire. We are getting reports that there are structures being burned at this moment. Well have to wait until its brighter outside before we can see it. I will show you how wide this area is. Using our map technology, i will give you an idea how long the fire line is. Ill start at the top here. As you can see, thats over 11 miles long. Just on the Eastern Front of this fire. As far as any aerialfire and th they will be flying out of santa rosa shortly, and cal fire is going to be the responding agency, and well probably see many more assets there and including the larger tankers and the commercial tankers that are inverted for these large fires. Back to you. That is going to give us an idea of the magnitude of the fire this morning. We appreciate the information. And we do want to talk now to cal fire, and we have amy head on the phone, and are you there, amy . Amy, can you hear us . I can hear you. Okay. Thank you. Amy, last time we talked to you, it was still at 10,000 acres and you have hundreds of firefighters staging in the area, and what are you able to do now that we are getting the daylight . Well, as i mentioned before, we are going to be looking at lifting some of the aircraft into the air shortly, and we will be able to utilize them depending on the wind conditions, and so that is the tool in the tool box that we have been missing overnight, and we have a lot more Ground Resources still coming into the incident, and we have hundreds of firefighters here, and still coming into the incident as we speak, and so we should have a lot more resource, aceresourcesd is going to start to cooperate for us throughout the day. And you said 10,000 and is it bigger than that now . I dont have a update from the last count, and it is growing, but when we get the aircraft in the air, we will get a much more accurate number as far acreages. Do you is a sense of getting closer to peoples homes, and is that what prompted the evacuation of geyserville . We are facing some of the very erratic winds, and so we have been seeing a lot of the spot fires due to that, that are being thrown out ahead of the main fire, and so just for precautionary reason, we are not going to be take any chances and evacuate the chances where the fire could head to more populated areas. And so during the overnight hours, what if anything can the firefighters really do when they are in the dark and no air support and the winds are so fierce . Well, we have water on the engine, and we can do the hose lays and the dozers that can cut line, and lot can be done, but the problem with this fire is that it is basically outpacing us. It is burning faster than we could keep up with it, because of the winds. So really we need the winds to calm down so that we can get ahead of it and start to get some good containment lines in. We are all crossing the fingers for that, and although they tell us it could be many more hours before the winds do calm down. We appreciate the update from you, and we look forward to having more progress as we are now going to get some air support soon. Amy, thank you, again, for joining us on the phone. All right. Abc7 news report Amy Hollyfield in hillsburgh where she has been watching the winds and the flames, and amy, what are you seeing right now . Is that looking any better . Well, we just saw a structure going up, kumasi and this is the structure that we shot within the last 20 minutes of a structure on fire. And so we do have at least one that has been destroyed and let me tell you where i am. I am on Alexander Valley road, and im looking toward highway 128, and someone on twitter asked me if that is the gym town store, and we are close to the store, but between me and the storiso medlock aims wi wine winery, and so the vineyard tasting room and some landmarks, but i cannot tell you what building that is that burned, but to give you some landmarks and we were so sad to see the fire engulf that building there. And we have watched it grow so much overnight, and what an intense night. We were watching it up, you know, safely from Alexander Valley road looking up at the hills where it is burning, and then the winds pushed it, and it is started to move erratically and down the hill and down to the valley floor. We have seen a lot of the residents packing up their cars, and getting out of here, and some are shaking their heads, and saying that this is really just feeling just like two years ago. Those deadly fires that swept through here in 2017, and they said it feels like it is happening all over again. The firefighters had a tough night overnight, because of so much wind, and it is so dark. This is also a steep and rugged terrain. With the live picture, i wanted the show you some smoke. Now that we are getting the sunlight, you can see that almost like storm clouds, and that is all smoke. E. That is going to surprise a lot of people when they wake up and see just the thick blanket of the smoke over the valley right now Alexander Valley, and just a huge fire plaguing this area. If you know anyone, give them a call, and pg e turned the water off, and so a lot of people cant watch the newscast, and hopefully they are watching it on the phone, but reach tout anyone that you know in this area. Reporting live, Amy Hollyfield, abc7 news. Amy, what is that like breathing in that area right now . Are the winds going away from you . We are feeling okay, and we dont smell fire, and we are away and it is not blowing towards us, so i am not worried about the air quality where i am, but if you are looking behind me, you can see the trajectory, and we were standing over there at one point, and we got the heck out of, there because we could see it is headed that way. And looking this way, reggie, it is beautiful, and a gorgeous pink sunrise and clear skies. So that is where we are trying to stay in this area where the clean air is, and so, air quality right now where i am standing, it is okay, and definitely blowing that way. Appreciate it, and so sorry to see that building go down this building. That is too bad. Amy, thank you for the update. Appreciate it. I know. And now we want to check in with lisa, and you have been tracking the wind, and what is happening now . Well, because of the Power Outages and the people are using the phones, the internet is not great if you are trying to get the information on the phone. And much of the north bay is in the 70s and the relative humidity is in the teens or 10 . This is in or around geyserville, and the winds at the surface are light, and you have to go up to 1,000 feet where you get the 20 to 30 to 40mileanhour winds that we will be seeing for the next couple of hour, but the good news is that they will be lightening up by this afternoon. And this is a view of mount tam, and the camera is shaking there, and we have mild numbers and gilroy, 23degree spread from gilroy to 75 in Half Moon Bay with a 45mileanhour wind gust. This is the exploratorium camera, and you can see the air quality is good there, and the winds are very light at the surface, and so we will see the smoke in the north bay and sure the air quality, and definitely being under that smoke, and it will be poor, but elsewhere, we are expecting better air quality in the south bay and the east bay today. Jobina. Okay. We will get to her updating us in a moment, but first, this wildfire that we spoke spoke about this is prompting hundreds of evacuations. The Sheriffs Office said that there is a mandatory evacuation. And alexander road, and highway 128 from geyser road to river road, and there is one Evacuation Center open at hillsburgh Community Center. There was one at windsor high school, but that closed a few minutes ago. Yes, and abc7 reporter Lauren Martinez is there, and you have been talking to the volunteers there from the red kros and it is a lot to help people this morning. Yes. Yeah, they are helping a lot of people, and more and more people are starting to come here. I wanted to show you my perspective from in front of the hillsburgh Community Center, and you can see as daylight approaches just how smoky the sky look, and you could see more and more the plume behind us. It was really hard to see when we got here at 4 30, and so dark. But you could smell the smoke, and this morning, we have seen gusty winds every time we were talking to someone, it was hard to conduct interviews, because it was so windy. So i wanted to show you a clip from an interview that we shot earlier this morning with the red cross volunteer. I lost a home when i was a kid to fire, and then in 2006, woo, the winds are really picking up, and in 2006, i lost my home to the floods here in Sonoma Valley and then in 2017, i was evacuated for two weeks for the fires in Sonoma Valley as well. Reporter so you can just see how windy it is and it has been throughout the morning. So again, if you or someone you know is under a mandatory evacuation, come here to hieldsburg Evacuation Center and they have water and if you need to rest, they have cots and outlets for you the charge some of the devices. I talked to a couple off of pine flat road, and that i have been staying in their car, and they are just hoping for the best, but it has been a long night for a lot of people here. Reporting live, im Lauren Martinez, abc7 news. Thank you, lauren. We will check back with you in a few minutes. But this morning, pg e has cut power to customers overnight. And we will get back to that, but we wanted to show you this video now from amy, and her camera is close to the flame, and kind of showing you in the center of the screen, and what would you call it, a fire here that is just in the one spot, and that is what cal fire told us that they were concerned about is just different hot spots to the fires and that is what prompted them to do the evacuations that we have seen most recently in geyserville, and the hot spots that they wanted to be cautious and careful and not take any risks. And it demonstrates how quickly that fire spread, because you are watching live on the tv as it is starting to jump to more acreage, and as you can see, the crews are in a smart place, fwhaz are on the other side of the vineyard from the fire, and the vineyards as we have seen a couple of years ago often act as a fire break. So we will continue to watch this of course as the morning goes on. And lets talk about the power shutoffs that are happening because of the wildfire danger. The latest outage happened this morning at 1 00 a. M. In san mateo company. And pg e estimates at the peak 1,000 inan gregorio and that area sim pacted. And the Power Outages started at 2 00 yesterday, and about 2,000 customers in sonoma are in the outage zone, and that includes annapolis, cloverdale, gurnville, hillsburgh, kenwood, larkwood, sonoma, and windsor point, and it is important the tell you that the kinkade fire is now burning towards geyserville right now. And in napa about 7,000 customers are out of power there. And they include rutherford and st. Helena and deer park and many others. And on the yu tills website, you may remember there were problems with the website crashing, and that is not happening this morning which is very good news. You want to look at the pink area, and the pink icons is where the Public Safety shutoff is happening f. I can zoom in here and get closer, it is going to begin to expand and then you click inside and it will show you how many customers have been affected in this area, and it is 96, and also shows you cause, and the status and the last time it was updated. If you would like more specific information for your home, i wanted to take you to this page for the Public Safety power shutoff. Scroll down. Click get current information. Once this is loading, another site is going to pull up here. And then you want to click check your address. Once this loads, you will be able to enter your own address right re, and you can see it on the lefthand side, and once it loads, it is going to tell you what has been impacted and when it will be impacted and then you can navigate from there. If you are not able to locate this, we have these links available on our website at abc7news. Com. And the power shutoff is forcing School Closures in santa rosa. They are closing Hidden Valley elementary, and santa rosa accelerated charter and Rincon Valley, and in the rincon, six schools wont open. Five are elementary, and whited, blinkley, and madrone and sequoia. And also today, the unified schools may close campus, but it is up in the air depending when pg e can inspect the power lines and turn the fire back on. And given the fire right now, it is unlikely that they will be open tomorrow, but we of course will be monitoring that. And lisa is watching the winds which are not going to end soon enough. Well, you know what, they are going to lighten up, and we are looking at the weekend where we will see a bigger offshore event, and we want to take care of what is in front of us now which is the red flag warning, and the winds will lighten up by 11 00. And the red flag warning until 4 00 to be safe. The winds at the surface are not strong, but you have to go up in height at the north bay, but at the coast, gusty winds. This is a view of mount tam, and Beautiful Day and late october, and we have the warm temperatures, but they are well above average, and looking at the record heat, and you can see the camera shaking there, and 67 in san francisco, and 75 in ha Half Moon Bay and when the winds are nearly at 50 Miles Per Hour, and Half Moon Bay, and the golden gate bridge, and 60 in santa rosa, and 62 in petaluma, and so we are loong at not only the gusty winds, but look at the 47mileanhour wind gusts at Half Moon Bay at the delta, and this is at the surface. Most of you are seeing the light winds, but to go up in the height, and this is why we have the red flag warning for the next couple of hours and still locking a 30mileanhour through calistoga and cloverdale and napa and into the 29mileanhour range. We showed you Half Moon Bay, and at 11 00, the colors will be lighter and the winds will be lighter and the relative humidity is worse, and it is going to dry out more. And here we are at 15 concord relative humidity, and the heat and the wind and it is going to be a warm day with high fire takener for everybody, jobina. I am really hoping that the winds will work in our favor eventually. It a little bit, yes, but this is the time of the year, and what we expect, and we are building on the dry atmosphere, and not only then but into the weekend and not just for today and right on through the rest of the month. And yeah, another thing that i wanted people to watch out for this morning is the road closures and following the sig alert, because that is what we were looking at since 4 00 this morn, and between geyserville and cloverdale, and we have learned that the closure has exa panded to chalk hill which we see is closer to the wineries that Amy Hollyfield mentioned. 101 is the alternate. And geyserville is under a mandatory Evacuation Order, and the fire has crossed kinkade at 128 near moody lane and heading west. If you are in geyserville, head to the one Evacuation Center now at Healdsburg Community center there. And be mineful with the Power Outages, you should treat the intersections carefully and drive slowly, because it is smoky and hard to see. Thank you, jobina. And we have been talking with amy all morning, and she is really close to the fire, and we are seeing how it is spreading and especially as you are getting more light this morning, amy. Hi. Kumasi, yes, you will hear us say that the fire has laid down and this is not doing that, and look behind me, because it is still raging, and we will see the intense bright flame, and we have been watching it for hours, and the fire started at 10 00 last night, and we were watching it at 4 00 a. M. , and we saw it on top of the mountain and it is traveling down the mountain into the valley, and it has crossed the highway and it is really, it has made some moves overnight. The wind has died down. We were hit with the gusts overnight, and we are not experiencing that anymore, but the fire is relentlessly burning, and i wanted to show you some video that we have shot within the hour of the structure on fire, and i am sorry to report that i did stand here with a building to go up in flame, and we are watching from the Vantage Point from Alexander Valley road and looking toward highway 128, and you are looking at the medlock winery and the gymtown store, and i did not what the building was and give you some landmarks if you know the area well, and we are also close to the stone street Estate Vineyards tasting room. Where we have not heard that anyone has been hurt in the fire, and we have heard good reports aboutationvacuations of getting people out of here in a timely manner, and it is not preventing the destroying of the property. Be aware that the relentless fire is being very destructive and headed right on down into the valley floor. Now, if you want to take a look at the live picture at all of the smoke in the area, and it is almost going to look like storm clouds, but it is a dark smoke that is covering the valley, and just giving an eerie feel over the usually gorgeous area. You know, full of vineyards, and now, very, very cloudy, but the wind has died down, and hop