Lets bring rosemary into talk about the winds in that area right now. Of course, we know that the red flag warning and the wind advisory are pretty much bay area why when it comes to north bay, east bay but our focus of being on the north bank because those winds were hitting near 90 Miles Per Hour early this morning but in this area, the winds are gusting between 25 and 50 but take a look at what can occur with that type of wind and right now, the closest reading i can find is in and around martinez, a north breeze at about 22 and you get over closer to the diablo range and the winds are closer to 40 Miles Per Hour. Probably somewhere within that. And these winds are going to sustain for a while . They are going to continue as we get into sutil tomorrow. This is video of a friend of mine that sent it in, dr. Bill hemmer, a College Buddy of mine has been watching our coverage and he said you might want to take a look here in vallejo and sure enough, this was right when it started i believe he went over the bridge but you can see the sun and what they were driving through not too long ago. And glen cove, a friend of mine, made the point that they have 1 street in and out which is a concern for the folks so if anybody has to leave at the same time, they will get stuck on the streets thereto because it is one of those builtin communities when you drive down glen cove parkway but there is not several ways to get out of that area. So that is certainly, a situation that we will have to keep a close eye on and throughout the day because this is not going to be a fire that goes out, unfortunately, quickly. So wh the fire out, trying to get people out, the communication going and resources going, what we have not seen, at least i havent seen, have you seen a fire engine yet . Mint ice i thought i saw one there but from an incident command standpoint, there are a lot of challenges with structures and people precariously in their homes, do you evacuate or shelterinplace . You have high voltage lines, buildings on fire, the potential of hazardous materials, chemicals in the area. And a major highway and a bridge. Yes. And they have no power, you cant get information. Lets bring up the power because we have an outage map that came out at 9 00. This will give you an idea of who has power and who does not picked if we can zero in on the, moran, 118,000, you can read them for yourself but as you can see Solano County is where vallejo is and thats 25,000, generally in the Fairfield Area and down towards vallejo. Was been a shutout . I dont believe venetia was out or included in the outage. Mostly because of some ink a lo in the city of been in are underground, not all of them but a good deal of them compared to some of the other communities in these heavily wooded and rural areas. Certainly, it is complicating. It very much is. I asked my friend colleen who said i still have power so venetia and my friend erin, they said they were not out so the 25,000 in solano that is not the been a show vallejo area and that is going to be under an issue if the lines come down and are energized and that will maybe further add to it. How much does that complicated . They can obviously pick up their phone and make phone calls, they can see and smell this smoke but not being able to watch tv and met most people would probably at this point start to leave or they will panic. Yes, panic. That is understandable and you have the highway shutdown in one direction and traffic in the other so can you egress out of their, when glen cove is a one way in, one way out neighborhood . Maybe for folks trying to find an area not involved in the fire, or where the fire is not moving to, they may not egress to another city, it may be a block or two away, something of that nature. Think about it. As we have told you before, the kinkaid Fire Press Conference set for 10 00, we are watching and you can see they are getting ready. We have the Solano County sheriff out there, jonathan cox leading the press conference over the next 24 hours so we are keeping an eye on the situation in vallejo and crockett and martinez as the fires continue to burn. Keep in mind, we cant turn away from the kinkaid fire as well because that has have had 180,000 people out of their homes. The winds have been 90 Miles Per Hour in some of the strongest points and it looks like at this point x of cal fire. Lets listen in. Good morning. This is the 10 am press conference here on the kinkaid incident in Sonoma County. My name is jonathan cox, division chief with Cal Fire Team 6. Just to start off, i remind everybody to mute telephones and if you need to have a conversation, please do that outside. We have multiple representatives behind us today. Please know that if you have oneonone questions for them there will be time afterwards for you to meet individually with them. Additionally, at the conclusion of this englishlanguage press conference, we will have a spanishlanguage version available so should there be the need, that will be available after this one. Just to start things off, im going to give an update on where we left off last night after last nights press conference and kind of set the stage. Overnight we Sonoma County coming from the northerly northeast direction. With that, we had fire activity that increased, spotting ahead of itself and burning into some of the closer areas to the more popular excuse me, more populated spots in the county. With that, firefighters made aggressive attacks on the fire, defending structures as well as dealing with downed trees and down power lines. At the same time the firefight was going on last night and continues today, we had the Incident Commanders at the command post throughout the entire night evaluating the need for additional evacuations throughout the area. At 4 30 this morning, if it additional evacuations were ordered for northern santa rosa and that was based on the current and expected fire conditions. So now i would like to welcome up to the stage to talk about the current weather conditions, National Weather service, mr. Walburn. Good morning. Again, last night on the fire lines, we did get reported wind gusts of 76 Miles Per Hour within the fire environment under those red flag conditions. The red flag warning does continue throughwe still have approximately anfor the red fla in addition, in the firefighting world, we look at humidity values closely. These went down into the Single Digits which is dangerously low, for fire spread. As we look into this afternoon, we are at the peak of the wind event right now. It is important to note if you are down low, places like santa rosa, you may not be feeling the winds quite as strongly but as you move up, every 500 to 1000 feet now there is very strong winds aloft. At the start of the press conference, we were getting winds on the order of 70 to 80 Miles Per Hour at 3 to 4000 feet. We still have another good 24 hours or so, dangerous red flag conditions. Things will improve as we head into monday and tuesday but we need to be resilient as we look. We have another northwind event, another dry event that will impact region tuesday night into wednesday. Thank you. Speaking next from Management Team six mass will be fire analyst, Steve Ballmer. Good morning. Last night we saw an increase in fire behaviorthe meteorologists those winds that pushed the fire down into 126 corner into those communities. We have got spotting potentials up to and over 1 mile in certain areas. We have rates of spread that are extremely dangerous at this point with erratic fire behavior. This fire, we know what it is doing, where it is going to go. The problem is when we have a new start, those news starts that we are going to get are going to be very problematic. They are going to have the same effects as this fire right here. The same rates of spread, same spotting potential. If anything starts on the opposite side of 101, the westside, that area has not seen any fire history since the 1940s. So the fuels in that area are extremely dense, extremely old and decadent and extremely dry. So we are currently modeling all of the fire behavior potentials that we can have for this fire that we have got, the kinkaid as well as for other areas in the surrounding location that could be potential problems. Thank you. We are going to introduce one of the Incident Commanders, mike blankenhorn, behind me. He will give us a into the current status behind the on the map. Good morning, all. Just to echo what the other men have talked about, we saw those conditions materialize about am weather showed up again as predicted we saw the fire conditions that Steve Ballmer talked about. Here in 1 00 in the morning, the fire made rapid runs to the south and west and by about probably 2 30, 3 00 in the morning had crossed 128. The fire right now is fairly wellestablished on the south and west side of 128 in between 128 and highway 101. It has not cross highway 101 yet. But it is starting to impact highway 101 between healdsburg and winds are. So with that, the priorities will continue to be the westside, southside and keep crossing highway 101. If we are not able to do that, the map looks quite a bit different than what you saw yesterday. We built a pretty expensive organization on the west side of highway 101 to deal with that if it comes across the highway if it starts making a run into the communities west of there. We have the organization build and staff so we across. Thank you. Thanks, just so we can get the chief back to the command center, can we have anyone who has questions specifically to the fire operations right now . If they have any questions for chief blankenhorn, now would be the correct time. People on the west side of 101 have to be concerned that it could spread on the west side of 101 . I think given the current and predicted fire conditions, i think very concerned. Like you can see the map there, we have built a fairly extensive organization and staffing right now and working with partners in Law Enforcement building evacuation plans that they will speak to in a few minutes so the shorter answer is im very concerned. Area of danger that is where it is currently impacting. There are plenty of other places a could possibly cross that but the current impact right now is the area you described. Thank you, chief blankenhorn. Next i would like to invite to the podium the sheriff for Sonoma County, sheriff essec. It was quite a night, over 180,000 people under evacuation, some were evacuated yesterday and last night including the areas around sebastopol and west county and i can say though i have heard people express concerns that we were evacuating too many people, i think those concerns are not valid at this point. As we see from this report we just received, our evacuation of healdsburg and windsor was well warranted. There is significant danger to anybody still in the healdsburg, windsor area or the unincorporated areas around windsor so if you are in those areas, we encourage you to get out. We have deputies and peace officers in the neighborhoods that can assist you. If you are not sure if youre in an evacuation area, check the map. We have plenty of maps available. You can get them on Sonoma County. Org as well as some of the cal fire websites. We currently have over 262 peace officers in the field and those are supplemented by the National Guard. We are using our peace officers and the National Guard to maintain checkpoints for evacuation areas. We are also having that Strong Police presence there to really assure people that if they have evacuated, their property, their homes will be safe. We have not had any reports of looting at this point and as far as im concerned, we will taken aggressive standpoint on looting. We will not tolerate it and thats why we have so many peace officers in your neighborhoods to protect your property. One thing you can continue to do, if you hear a high low sirens, be alert to that. We have deputies in the field evacuating including the west county. Some of those expanded evacuation zones as well. If you hear the high low sirens take note of it. That means deputies in your area, go to that deputy or peace officer and they will direct you and give you instructions. The one thing we dont want you to do is we dont want you to call 911 with questions. The 911 center is very busy right now. We are going to use 911 for only really one reason right now in the evacuation part of this. If you have a medical need or medical inability that prevents you from evacuating, call 911 and we will get peace officers there and medical personnel there to get you evacuated. If you have questions about the evacuation process, please call 211 and we will get you general information. Please continue to follow us on nick so. Sign up fora coalert, son of for facebook and twitter and instagram. Week will continue to update as long as we have to medications and power and will respond to serving Sonoma County for 170 years. This is our strongest moment now. Our staff are out there, ready to go and they are here to serve you so please, seek out our deputies, our partners and we will take care of you. Thank you. Speaking next and the california Highway Patrol is chief nice. Good morning, everybody. Tim noyce, Highway Patrol. Evacuations going out, a lot of people were evacuating and you saw a great deal of traffic and we appreciate the fact that everybody was heading southbound. I want to thank everybody because even though it was heavy traffic, we did not have Major Incidents and that helped to keep the flow going as quickly as we did. We still have a heavy flow this morning going southbound. Please continue to heed Evacuation Orders. This is a Major Incident and we are still bringing in Additional Resources, not just locally but regionally and we need these roadways cleared to move these and we have a lot of emergency situations. This is really fluid so we equi quickly back and forth so if you have nothing to do with the area, please stay out of the area and keep the roadways clear. We did have the 101 closed the this morning. Were able to reopen it but i hate to inform you that as we are speaking, we are reclosing the 101 freeway from arata to dry creek due to no visibility pretty much across the roadway through that area. And due to heavy smoke, we are going to be moving a lot of equipment to that area so please, stay away from the area and we will continue to try and keep the roadways as clear as possible. For everybody else, just please, keep using your patience and calmly evacuate like you have been in the area. The power t or flashing traffic as stop signs. For those of you stopping, dont assume the other vehicle will stop. Make sure it is clear because we want everyone to be safe and get out of here as quickly as possible. Every time we have something, more resources being tied up to help everybody else. Thank you. Next representing the Sonoma County board of supervisors, supervisor rabbit. Thank you very much. First off i have to say how grateful we are to all of the firefighters, Law Enforcement personnel and to all of those who have come to Sonoma County in our time of need, we know that last night, in spite of our obvious concerns going forward, it could have been much worse. Without the battle fought by the firefighters out there. It was a full court press they put on last night and that remains the case as we speak. We know there aid here in Sonoma County. We know we not out of the woods and the wind conditions that were ferocious continued even today as you hurt and the red flag warning remains in effect. We acuated areas. We ask everyone to stay off the roads as well. We ask everyone to take care of themselves, take care of your family, your neighbors, Public Safety is our highest priority. There are no Evacuation Centers being set up as we speak. I can tell you that Napa Valley College is an Evacuation Center now, Crosswalk Community church in napa also has facilities. The marin county fairgrounds is also open to residents of the Sonoma County who are evacuating. Lastly, the Alameda County fairgrounds is another spot where you can take large animals. So thank you for that. Again, Public Safety is our number one concern. We need to let the firefighters be able to do their jobs. We appreciate the orderly evacuation that took place and the great job by the sheriff but we need to stay safe, stay vigilant, make sure that you are signed up for alerts as we recommend that you look at socoemergency. Org for more information. I want to thank everyone and those who have been evacuated and the collaboration has been wonderful so thank you very much. In regards to the evacuation zones, the map you see behind me, the fire map that many of you are streaming has the most current evacuations in Sonoma County. That includes zones 1, 2, 3 im a 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and in the area of northern Sonoma County, if they are not in an evacuation area to obviously have a plan that includes what things they might need such as paperwork, pills, pets, documents and photos. Should we need to expand Evacuation Orders into other areas, that is probably the single most important thing