really hate to wake up and see this. a major wildfire burning out of control in sonom county today. the fire has exploded to 10,000 acres since it began late last night. and there are evacuations. >> good morning, everyone. it is thursday, october 24th. of course we are following that fire. lisa, we know you're tracking the winds. it's so tough to see. check out this video. we'll show you what people in the area have been dealing with

just to give you a sense of, you know, what's going on here. this is time lapse video of the kincaid fire as it raged overnight into sonoma county. these images are from a stationary county near geyserville that is intended to spot wildfires. the camera thinks it's daylight and switches to daytime mode. >> wow. >> we'll continue our breaking news coverage. the kincaid fire, you will be able to see what we are talking about as it burns in the hills. we'll go to -- okay. i guess we'll get to aim mmy in second. let's check in with lisa. >> temperatures are very warm. 60s and 70s. winds gusting to over 40 miles per hour in the upper elevations. the reds indicate the warm conditions. the relative humidity right now in the north bay from 12 to 11% in the upper elevations. you can see 15% in novato. continue to dry out the

atmosphere throughout the morning hours. so the winds remain strong. the temperatures will increase. that's going to allow through 1:00 that relative humidity to drop even lower into the single digit range. from cloverdale, lake berryessa, yucaipa, petaluma at 12%. by the afternoon, 2:00, 3:00, the winds will get lighter. but still by 5:00, relative humidity dangerously low. the atmosphere is dry. then by tonight the winds, well, they'll back off. they'll still be offshore. we will see that relative humidity creep up a little bit. we will be out of the extreme danger by later on today. our red flag warning continues through 4:00 p.m. here's the current wind gusts in the upper elevations above 1,000 feet. you can see the reds, the yellows, 30 to 40 miles per hour right now where that fire is burning.

and looking at that sustained wind at 20 and 25 miles per hour. so, we'll be checking back with you for a look at the entire bay area forecast for your thursday coming up. >> thank you. this has grown really fast. now up to 10,000 acres burning. >> amy hollyfield is in sonoma county and is joining us near the fire lines. good morning. >> look at this wind. i can't believe it. i feel confident this fire has grown beyond the 10,000 acres, the last report we got. we're watching it explode behind us. it is growing so quickly. we just can't believe it. every time we look up it has spread further. it does put off a huge orange glow and so much smoke. and where we're standing so many cars just stop. like really just slam on their brakes when they see the view from where we're standing. they pull over just to watch it.

no one can quite believe it e s many fire trucks speed through. we're on alec zappedi alexander. the fire has spread down into a valley that we can see. it has also pushed further to our left as we've been standing here. this wind is unbelievable and is fueling this. these big gusts of winds, they're shaking the vineyards where we're standing. obviously my hair is blowing all over the place. i'll deal with that as we continue to cover this. it's so much wind here. no way firefighters can get a handle on this now in these conditions. i want to show video closer up. the site from far away is impressive. here is some closer video, driving down guyse er er er erse road through the fire to give you a sense how huge and intense this is. they have put evacuation orders

in place. everybody on red winery roa needs to evacuate. all of alexander mountain road, highway 128 from geysers road to river road including the casino. all of that area, all roads off of riverroad, everyone there needs to leave immediately. hopefully everyone already has. we're told right now this is burning in a very rural area, not headed towards neighborhoods like we saw two years agohen we were in santa rosa and it headed towards neighborhoods such as coffee park. my photographer and i did cover that two years ago. we commented a couple times how these conditions are eerily similar to what we experienced two years ago when we covered that fire. it's dry and so windy out here. i do have a sound bite. sorry. pardon me. i want to bring in a sound bite from someone who did evacuate

and is experiencing all of this this morning. >> i believe it was two firemen, they came to our back door, and they alerted us. we were sound asleep. and they said be careful there's a fire in the hills. >> what do you think of this? it's pretty awesome to look at and it changes every minute. with the wind, it's reminiscent of two years ago. we were able to evacuate safely. the fire never touched us. but we're very aware of how fast it can come. >> that was kate larsen who was working last night and stayed over until the morning covering this fire. she got that interview for us. i just interviewed a resident, i'll bring you his sound in the next report. he also talks about two years ago. it's so fresh on everyone's mind, just how familiar this feels.

everyone knows someone who lost their house. everyone thinking about that this morning as they watch this fire rage up there in those hills. reporting live from healdsburg, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> to see that wind, how it picked up quickly from one live shot to the next. a little scary. >> amy is in healdsburg. the fire is not burning in healdsburg, but you can see how much of a few they have of the fire. that definitely, youknow, brings back all those feelings of just two years ago when people lost so much. we'll show you the areas under evacuation order. that's red winery road, alexander mountain road, and highway 128 from geysers road to river road. that does include the river rocca seen no. two evacuation centers have been set up. the first at windsor high school at 8695 windsor road. the second evacuation at the

healdsburg community center at 1757 held buraldsburg avenue. the evacuations will be consolidated to the healdsburg community center. so you might as well head to that one. we are sending out push notifications as the fire developments and you can find out more on abc7news.com. >> lisa argen is tracking the latest weather conditions fueling this fire. we're still under this red flag warning now. >> yes. right through the afternoon. we'll have gusty winds, the offshore flow. right now current temperature in and around geyserville in the 70s. relative humidity down to 11%. winds out of the northeast at 25 miles per hour, gusts to 37 miles per hour. so we're certainly looking at the conditions pretty dry and getting drier for the next five to six hours. the reason why, this. the offshore winds out of the northeast will continue to blow. they'll continue to dry out the air.

the temperatures will rise. with that combination, the warm temperatures, the offshore flow, the winds, the air drying out, this is not going in our favor. only until the winds dial back will we have increase of relative humidity and then the temperatures have to come down as well. today it will be hot. we'll see 80s at the coast today. 90s inland. the relief comes slowly when the winds lighten up. back to you. >> thanks. the other breaking news story is hundreds more pg&e customers are waking up in the dark because of the latest rounds of shutoffs. parts of san mateo county had their power cut off because of the fire danger. parts of napa and sonoma counties were shut off yesterday afternoon. in the bay area the biggest area with power out is in sonoma county.

27,000 customers are without power. many schools and businesses in smoonoma are left with no choice but to close. >> right now we don't have emergency days built into our calendar, which affects the children's education, because we won't have the abity to make these days up. >> ricky's eastbound shook up the blackout with a bring your own light night. neighbors met up for a night of drinking in the dark. i'm monitoring the pg&e ouage map on the utility's website. you may remember during the last power shutoff there were powers with the website crashing. it is working right now. so this is what you need to know. there's a fifth tab here that says public safety power shutoff. those are the pink icons. if you zoom out, you can see how many areas have been impacted here. say you want to get more specific. i have another tab pulled open

here, this is the public safety power shutoff page on the pg&e website. scroll down, go to get current information. once that loads you will have another piece come up here that does have a list of anticipated start time, which has already passed, and restoration date, which is to be announced. to find your house, click check your address, another page will load here. and then in here it will -- you can put in your address, it will load and tell you yes or no if your home is expected to be impacted by this. this is really critical information. we are happy to see this is working. you can also visit abc7news.com and find out more information op specific locations. we have all of that laid out for you on our pages there. >> thanks. we know lisa is monitoring the latest weather conditions that may have been fueling this fire. even those power outages. lisa? >> yes. that's right. this is probably as dangerous as it gets around here with the

offshore flow, the gusty winds and low relative humidity and we're building on it with this stretch of dry conditions on through the last couple of months. this big dome of high pressure is building into the eastern pacific, we have the perfect setup that we get often this time of year. the red flag warning pretty much the entire bay area except for san francisco, close to the bay, on through 4:00 today. northeast winds up to 30 miles per hour. gusting to 60, not unlikely. look at the current numbers. here's the cooler numbers. low 60s in union city. 71 in berkeley. 69 downtown. 70 in pacifica. when the numbers go up, the winds go up, the direction is north, the atmosphere continues to dry out. at the surface we have the gusty winds at the coast. mount diablo, 17% relative humidity. you're planning your day today, it will be a hot one. 70s and 80s early on. we'll see those 80s at the

coast. 90s the next few days. the cooldown comes this weekend. >> thank you. we're following the sigalert in the north bay. what you need to know is state route 128 between geysers road and geyserville road is closed. that's between geysers downtown geyserville. amy hollyfield showed us video riding down geyserville road, it was incredible. if you need to be in this area and commute through, 101 is the best option whether going north or south. we do know we're hearing from the chp that emergency responders are working on the fire. so there is no word on when this will open. it doesn't look like it will be any time soon. back down here in the peninsula area, we have the san mateo bridge, pretty smooth for the most part this morning. no other major incidents to report around the wabay area. we'll continue to follow the

pg&e outage impacting thousands of customers and that fire burning in the north bay, 10,000

we're monitoring the kincaid fire at 10,000 acres. on the phone from cal fire we have amy head. tell us right now what the operation is like in smoonoma county. >> the fire is 10,000 acres,

zero percent contained. we've been battling the winds throughout the night. that's managed to push the fire very rapidly. they are starting to calm down a bit. we do have those winds to deal with throughout the next day with the red flag warnings in place. >> how close are these flames to peoples homes? have you had to go door to door helping people get out? what's the situation with that? >> there have been evacuation orders in place. the sonoma county sheriff is assisting with that. we evacuated approximately 600 residents, another 200 are under advisory evacuation. it's somewhat sparsely populated. it is out in a rural area. it is burning towards the south, towards the town of geyserville but still a good distance away from the town. >> are you hearing reports of any of the power lines in the area being energized? has that caused a problem for firefighters?

>> not to my knowledge. this area where the fire was was in a power shutdown area. >> what would you say are the biggest challenges? we see the wind, but is the power shutoff affecting you? >> the biggest challenges is the terrain. it's steep, rugged terrain. very rural. not a whole lot of roads in and out of there. it is nighttime, it's hard to see. we'll have a better visual in a couple hours when we get some daylight on it and we can get our aircraft in the air, which will be a big help so we can see what we're dealing with. >> amy head, appreciate the update. we wish everyone out there good luck. thank you. >> breaking news continues right now with will reeve. >> he's live in sonoma county. will? >> we are on geysers road here.

there has been a lot of fire, a lot of wind really driving how this morning has gone. right now the wind has died down. there's embers, the edges of a fire right here next to me, but no immediate danger to me or anyone right here. there is immediate danger in the general area. it's coming down the hill. earlier this morning we were further up. we were engulfed in flames. the wind swirlig in every direction. we had to drive down. the fire department saying move, move, they're trying to keep everyone safe as they head up to go and check out that fire. zero percent contain m mement m there's not much they can do. in the distance we heard some bulldozing, so some defensive lines to prevent this fire from getting into more densely populated areas. right now we're in wait and see mode as this fire creeps down this hill at a fast pace. the hill is starting to really

catch fire as this fire grows as the winds are unpredictable and we'll have this monitored for you. >> all right. thank you, will, for that update. good to hear from him and from cal fire just about the scope of this. 600 people they asked to evacuate. they think 200 more and just the challenges they're facing fighting this. >> right. who wouldn't be scared when they're woken up in the middle of the night, proesumably they don't have electricity, they can't watch the coverage. it's a tough situation. >> lisa has been tracking the winds. amy's hair has been blowing. it's a concern. the official sunrise at 7:26. certainly looking forward to that to further assess the situation. look at the cnt temperatures. this tells the story as well with numbers in the low 60s to upper 70s. the numbers have continued to

climb overnight. we have m diablo above 1,000 feet gusting to 33 miles per hour. here's the winds. they continue to be offshore. they continue to blow up to 25 miles per hour and cloverdale and geyserville is right here. we'll continue are with very little change. as we geto the 9:00 hour, still over 35 miles per hour in this area. you know that the winds will create their own forecast as we get into that fire area. this is just a general idea. getting to 11:00, the south bay and the east bay, it's lighter. this will be the trend as we continue throughout the afternoon. when we look at the lighter winds. still offshore.

still hot. this is what the peninsula looks like. upper 80s today. in the north bay near90 degrees. 85 in pacifica. >> we are continuing to follow that sigalert that is happening because of the fire, state route 128 between geysers road and geyserville road is closed right now. emergency responders are following up on the fire. that's their primary focus right now. if you saw will reeve earlier and our video from amy hollyfield, that is geyserville road, what they showed us. you can see the flames, the wind and everything around that area. don't try to drive near there. the alternate is 101. all roads east of 101 in that area are being impacted by the fire. especially the area near the river rocca seen no. want to bring you down closer to us, the bay bridge toll plaza, cash lanes are starting to fill

up. everything else is moving smoothly. we'll be back after the break with our continuing coverage of breaking news this morning, the

good thursday morning. temperatures right now, 77 degrees in half moon bay. 71 in santa rosa. it's unusually warm out there. 69 in fremont. in and around the fire in

geyserville in the lower 70s. relative humidity 11%. winds sustained at 11 miles per hour, gusts up to 37. red flag warning until 4:00. the red highlighted areas, some of these winds could gust locally to 60 miles per hour. for the rest of us, it's a hot day today. 88 in oakland. sunny and warm. 87 in castro valley. san leandro,89. low 90s in santa rosa. the extreme fire conditions, the extreme heat continues throughout the day today. a little relief tomorrow. good morning, jobina. >> good morning. this is the traffic headline this morning. the sigalert that we are following in the north bay because of that fire. state route 128 between road and guieyserville road, whh is essentially geysers road and downtown geyserville, no word on when that will reopen. we've seen video of the roadway.

there's flames, there's wind. you cannot see. the alternate is 101. you also want to be aware that roads east of 101 in that area are also impacted by the fire. that best not to try do side streets in that area. on the golden gate bridge, things are moving smoothly. that's the same story for the rest of the bay area this morning. thank you. we're staying on top of this breaking news. the kincaid fire exploding in size to 10,000 acres. you're about to look at some of the newest video we have. we are live in geyserville as this wind-fueled fire continues to grow. and pg&e is cutting power to more customers. this happened overnight. the latest outages because of the high fire danger.

now at 5:00 a.m., strong wind fueling the flames of a fast-moving fire in sonoma county. this is the kincaid fire, exploding in size to 10,000 acres overnight. the urgent evacuations this morning. pg&e has cut the power to thousands of people as fire danger in several areas increases. who is in the dark this morning and how long these blacuts could last. >> good morning on this thursday october 24thment. >> we want to show you this video of what people are dealing with this is just into our newsroom of the kincaid fire as it rages in sonoma county. you can see the flames. they're burning on both sides of the road. the smoke is so dense it's hard to see far ahead. all of this is happening near geyserville. evacuations are under way.