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Or ere Alexander Mountain road all roads off of river road basically under Evacuation Orders this morning and this area had already had its power cuts. By pg so they were already without power. So thats a good thing that the winds can spark any more fires and doesnt appear that that was the cause theyre still looking for that. Windsor is not affected by this thats why winds are high. Has been an Evacuation Center but that will and at 7 oclock this morning. So the kids can go to school there Hillsborough Community center is the biggest Evacuation Center they also handle pets there and livestock that Evacuation Center is closer to the fire in fact, lets get right up to it kron 4 Sarah Stinson. Live in geyser ville nearest the flames for us this morning, sarah we can certainly see the wind. Its got to be over 10,000 acres. I can say. It is definitely over 10,000 acres member. It was completely safe in all sudden this huge wind gusts in and the flames sparked up and you can see why assuming into the ridge right there. And it increased over there. Very quickly in those because of the high wind. We have and that a lot of crews have just been sent to red wine or iraq. Unclear if thats because structures are being threatened. But we saw dozers and fire trucks going. And went to another area, so theyre probably in the route to. It was a faint explosion that i heard. Catching on to that drive fuel and just continuing to burn. She told us that yes, its very tricky out there because of the wind switching directions every which way first its going north and its going south. Then west and east area its a very rapidly changing fire. It which makes it extremely dangerous for firefighters. Staying in distance. We saw ambers in the sky. So we said were out of there. You can see where were standing right now is a vineyard. As we said before the power was shut off by pg need to avoid a war. Out its 20 miles from here is calistoga that puts it into perspective. Were hearing geyser vote right now, and its been very hectic with all the fire crews trying to. Now see where they need to be. But definitely if you are in near this area. You havent been demanded 2 of them. And you feel unsafe, its better to be safe than sorry get out. Something that i have never seen before. For now ill send it back to you know sarah when you stepped out of the frame there and he only was able to. Pyou know brighten up the shot we really could see the smoke and we could see the ash that was blowing around the vineyards behind you and obviously limbs there on the hill, how far away you suppose those flames are. It was pretty crazy. Well. Hillside was just on fire a glow. Row youve seen residents getting out earlier this morning. It seems like there. Its pretty quiet right now theres another 1700 people that are on standby vacaville have you seen anybody else getting out of town. Carson was getting out of dodge a lot of people tried to approach, but theyve said theyre not. Is just completely healthy also eyes are bird things thats a you got to be safe out here people are. Taking seriously youve also seen lots of coming and going in on that can see those flaring up there in the center of your shot youre seeing that we we understand there are 100 firefighters on the ground right now theyre going to start the aerial assault. Maybe around 7, 7 30 this morning, sarah. But for now have you seen a more really want to see that more dozers come in and cut that line. For those flames were will not. Specifically but on the ridge. Potential structures could be tried in right now. Protecting structures, protecting people. To make sure that this doesnt spread and because with that with the looks of it a look. Thats going to be the big worry the sarah thank you so much for that update will come back out and visit with you again shortly. We also want to get the word from some of the officials that are up there combating this and trying to keep residents abreast of the situation and whether or not they need to evacuate this morning got won the lands on the phone right now the Public Information officer with the Sonoma County Sheriffs Department good morning. Good morning. Ok so you have already made sure that about 300 people got out of their homes and thats a mandatory evacuation. When might we hear what the other 1700 people might have to do the ones who are on standby. Or speaking right now are got a nose. That theres a new 14 evacuations for. The town of guys so were taking a the way the fires move in public be within the next hour. The end thats a warning or is that going to be mandatory. Its going to probably into being a mandatory evacuation i reply within the next hour or about how many people are we talking about for that. I believe the population about. 2000 people think you you you you really think the entire town of guys are bill is going to be told to get out. Yes the fires move a south direction and it was in the west or down. Okay. Are you going to be going through doing that to tone siren with the bullhorns and Everything Else just to get the word out if that decision is made is that what people need to be listening for. Yes, so we do is we get a high los in then we do a will wireless emergency alert. So color and then a nickel and then we have deputies going door to door contacting people letting them know that the mandatory evacuation. And they had power already been cut to that area. Has cut in okay so here are these people in the dark waiting for work had they already been put on standby the people who going pursue repeat that the people in geyser ville the whole town had already been put on standby. Sounds like we just lost him. Now and looks like we lost that, but thats really good information. The fact that if you know somebody in guys or villain for some reason they might not know that theyre going to be evacuated. We just got word that within the next hour. Theyre going to tell the entire town to get out. Yeah thats the worry right now he said it looks like thats going to be real possibility in the next hour. So lets lets show you the map and lets illustrate what the best a Public Information officer was just sharing with us on the phone so this is a map. This is the burn area right now lets zoom in the areas in red those are those power shut f areas from pga dont worry about those i want you to focus in on this area in blue and lets pull in a little bit tighter right here and one more just a little bit tighter one more click and lets enter it up here this right here is the town of guys are filled. And you just heard that officer with the Sheriffs Department say that the fire now looks as though it is starting to burn in the direction, the winds are starting to push it a little more south eer this morning, we talk to them. The wind conditions at that time had the fire blowing to the west and to the north and for that reason they were at least relieved at that time during the 04 00am hour the town of guys looked like it was an impacted or wasnt in jeopardy at that time. But thats all changed we just heard the winds have shifted weve been talking about the winds all morning long burning a fire more in the southerly direction which puts the town of guys real now in the direct path half of this fire and thats why you just heard them say that theyve town to put the town on alert and that theyre thinking maybe in the next hour they might have to implement a mandatory Evacuation Order for the town of guys are phil and you heard him say theyre asked me to be about 2000 people that would be impacted by that so theyre on standby, if you know anybody who lives and dies or bill who has no power right now, but they have a working cell phone. Give them a call let them know they need to be on the lookout and listening for that high low siren thats something new that theyve implemented this year the sheriffs vehicles3are going be rolling through town you may not have time to go knock on everybodys door, but theyre going to roll through town to get a blast that highlow siren. You probably heard in movies. If theres ever been anything in a Police Action in europe for nnstance in a movie here that that is what theyre going last through the town thats what people need to hear and if they do hear that you need to get cars and drive out of town maybe start that process now because you want to be stuck in a backup here is your Evacuation Center. That is at the guys or visit our site that is at the Community Center there in healdsburg you want to head there theyve got facility set up for you if you have to go past that down towards the high school there. Thats actually not to be available to you in about 45 minutes. So dont worry about that dont focus on that you want to get towards the Community Center there. Right there just south of healdsburg. Lets head over to the Evacuation Center in hillsborough grant right now christina take show is live there. Christina get ready for another wave of evacuees have you seen anybody arriving just within the last half hour or so. Yeah there have been dozens so far so i would assume theres probably about 2 dozen people that are inside now people trickling in obviously its still pretty early here in the morning. But as we do know that Winter High School is no longer an Evacuation Center. A lot of people are going to need to move from their come 7 oclock because all schools in healdsburg are back open so again at high school is going to all the evacuees that were in there are going to be moved here to healdsburg this is the primary Evacuation Center for everyone who is victim of this fire. And actually as we just heard in a phone interview as well that those 2000 more people mayall small theyre going need a place to go so many obviously are going to be trickling in here throughout the Morning Hours as well. But lets go ahead and show you the address of where exactly this is because were here in the center of killed for Community Center. Its actually right off of the main road in healdsburg so youre going to go ahead and see that as youre drg in and some very Important Information that Law Enforcement has asked us to go ahead and share with you guys if you are victim of this fire. You have any questions or youre worried at any point Police Called to 1 one not 911 right now a lot of the you know Law Enforcement agents are obviously working on dealing with the logistics of this fire. So right now the phone lines have very much been clogging the 911 number for any information please go ahead and call 2, 1, one for that obviously because of the pierce speed of this fire and the speed of the winds. It does you know bring a lot of worry and actually back out here live. In hills for guy can tell you guys and the winds this morning happened to show up rock. This is been the most common theyve been all morning actually off photographers and reporters out here had to mount their cameras down with sandbags because the winds again been so abroad. If you guys were list with us last hour in the live shot you can see right is we ended there was a huge burst of wind and the wind has been so strong here at the Community Center actually at that acorns have been falling off of all of the trees and around us has just been ash from this fire and were about 15 miles away from that area right now she just goes show exactly how strong those winds are but just as a reminder to everyone here for the Community Center they have places if youre also without power, you can charge of all of your devices. Also if you have animals they do here have resources for you as well of course, weve got red cross on scene for anyone that needs assistance. But for more information stay with us here on of course up a lot has been lifted as well so you have all of this information if you too are in a vacuum, he and as you can tell right now winds again picking back up. In the in the city so im gonna go ahead and send it back to you guys all right, thanks and as christina said over and deals where they do take pets. And some livestock, but they also have a whole Evacuation Center set up at the Sonoma County fairgrounds for livestock to because this is an area where a lot of people theyre the mayors their farms courses, theyll need sod rosa the some county fairgrounds. If youve been here since last fire, you know the drill so start heading there now and again we have to keep reinforcing that weve just heard here in the last 10 minutes from the Sonoma County Sheriffs Department that they are likely going to call for an Evacuation Order for the town of guys are built 2000 residents are so could be impacted by that some time here in the next hour. So theyre going to be on the move yeah, yeah, and they said that theyre doing that because of these winds john that they say have really. Change direction. Lets talk about what youre seeing there. Yes. Weve got some details on the winds right around the vicinity right here now as james darya you guys were talking about before those winds have had been making sure that fire was growing to the north and you can see in litman healdsburg winds are primarily still from the south. But lets focus on both as the in cloverdale right here winds in a completely different direction and the stronger winds actually blowing from. The northeast right now so that is resulting in fire growth now redirected a little bit further to the southwest and thats where youre concerned for areas such as geyser ville im really comes into play because once you see the fire moving down into the valley here thats where all the people live thats where all those wineries are where the community of guys are villas were other communities in the area are as well and winds are shifting very regularly when you get a fire thats growing this fast. Make creates its own weather pattern, shell russias of erin polls of air out thats what scares experiencing out there some very breezy conditions and if you compare it to areas around some of our other breezy areas, the windy a spot in the entire bay area is right around the vicinity of this place currently highest a fire danger also around the blaze extreme fire danger does still exist up in northern Sonoma County as it will throughout the course of the morning, heres bit of good news winds are going to come down early afternoon. Youre going to see extreme fire danger beginnings retreat winds, calming down even temperatures remaining very hot. The winds is the big factor here and look at how winds are tree into the afternoon this is by 05 15pm right here. No more red flag warnings at this time and you can see why things really calming down calistoga com by that point and remaining calm into the evening tonight after that point so today most notably its very windy humidity is already down below 10 with temperatures around the blaze. Hovering very close to 80 degrees and into the afternoon record breaking highs are to be expected well into the 90s for much of the bay. So this extreme fire danger does continue. But our bit of good news were going to focus on here is that winds will calm down into the afternoon. The rest of the morning though will continue to be quite windy. Also over to robin with a look at traffic already had a little brush fire that propped up and San Francisco on south between 80 and cesar chavez it out. Its under control, but also backed up traffic so coming from the skyway merging onto southbound want to one its going to be slow from 5th to the one on one murder then right after them or to see traffic pick up once again. We have brush and trees on fire and we had 2 lanes shut down. So that really jammed up the ride heading through San Francisco, northbound one oh one looks great bay bridge traffic lots of it no problems coming in on 80 west, but you are backed up all the way through the maze on to all connector ramp. James. Break again with the very latest on the fires burning right now youre looking at time lapse video from one of the peaks in Sonoma County where out you can clearly see the flames burning there in the background just a quick update from cal fire it looks as though 2 structures have been damaged by these flames unclear right now those are homes or theyre out buildings, but thats new information for us this morning, 2 structures damaged. And we do have now word that the town of guys are ville likely will be evacuated some time in the next hour that coming to us from the Sonoma County Sheriffs Department who we spoke to live on our air within the last 15 to 20 minutes means that theyve told guys are built to be on standby 2000 people. Are ready roll moments notice they may get that word within the hour make sure to download the kron. Ap were continuing here on the kron 00 04am morning news on your t v but we simulcast on kron on thats Live Streaming 24 7 commercial free. Even after our newscast is done on the air so when youre on the go youll get 24 7 News Coverage, which you need on a day like this and its free right now weve lifted the pay wall so download kron on well be announcer 5 million kids use ecigarettes. Its an epidemic fueled by juul with their kidfriendly flavors. San francisco voters stopped the sale of flavored ecigarettes. 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