upper hand on the kincade re as thousands of evacuees return to their homes in sonoma al county. the impeachment inquiry into president trump enters a new phase with a key vote on capitol hill as democrats go on d e offensive. >>> plus smoke from the kincade fire has triggered air quality alerts for the bay area. we'll hear from an expert on how best to protect yourself. >>> good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom i'm sara farmer. we begin with the fire in king county. the kincade fire was roughly 70% contained, burning more ths 77,000 acand destroyed more than 300 structures in sonoma county. residents began returning to their home on wednesday. many tofled evacuation centers in petaluma staying there for several days. some have lost their homes, pets, or lost income from jobs or businesses that had to close. joining me now terry who was forced to leave her home in windsor and martha bodell who had to temporarily close he business in santa clara and windsor because of the kincade fire. thank you both so much for joining me today especially considering what's going on in your l

>>that's right.t's all about preparation fi departments from around sonoma county will al the working together to form task forc just in case of fire should break out. ll the next round of power shut-offs has bay area, businesses and homes grambling to get their hands on generators at a popular item a local generator business in the bottle. so that more people are choosing to rent generatoecause of the high cost of urchasing one. they believe that this time around this is >>the biggest problewith the last one was a lot of people were caught off guard. th just weren't ready for it we're getting somewhere between 1500 calls a day. for genators, you know a lot of people ca for residential generators and a t of other customers calling for large commercial units are unitsre definitely can all be out and we're working on adding mor for more units to our fleet. >>20 kilowatt generator that could be used to maybe like how are small businessthat runs out for around $350 a day. p g was in the hot at on our state capital answering shut offs. ceo bill johnson, he defended the company's decision t

>> the wherefro sonoma county, northern and eastern, across to the northern sierra s vada. it confined to a smaller area than we have seen in alof thesearlier shutoffs. >> the all clear was called yesterday. either still folks without power? >> just about everyby is back online. pg&e is saying they think are probably through with the season. there is potential for high wi on monday. even so, it doesn't look like a fire dange >> there is rain forecast as well. >> it hasn't rained in most of the bay area or northern california in many months. next week is supposed to break the dry spell. we could get an inch two of rain and a lot of snow in the sierra nevada. maybe we will be done th this crazy period of losi>> pg&e has been under pressure to do a better job of communicating when and where the safety shutoffs will occur. how did they dothis me around. >> it is hard to tell unless you are in one of these areas that is being shut off. the communication is a bit ifre directyou are in those areas. the only way to really know for sure if you will be turned off or not, is if you actually went online and looked up your address. as we w