now you can see what's behind me on east shilo road. we're told that the fire is just beyond this area and you're seeing an officer over here on old redwood highway at east shilo road and this officer right when we arrived told me that there was a red glow behind him when he first arrived around midnight, but you can see now there's this darkness beyond him. he said because the fire had moved to the north from here. now, when we were about to head over there, we heard a loud boom, a loud explosion. you may want to just stay in this area. this is what we're seeing in parts of windsor right now. this is why people have been evacuated in the east shilo road. very dangerous situation. power is out in this area as well. so, be careful if you have to travel in this area, but this whole area has been evacuated for some reason we are still seeing some cars try to get through. so that's the very latest from this area. back here live, you can see that at this intersection on old redwood highway, the stoplights are out still. we are seeing some st

. >> currently the fire edge is somewhere just south of the community of windsor near shilo where our resources are actively engaged in both perimeter control and attempts at structure defense. >> reporter: nearly 2.5 million are without power. the governor declared a statewide emergency. >> we've been battling fires all up and down the state now for close to a week. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations have forced thousands of californians to get out of harm's way. >> i care about my life, his life, the person's life who lives around us. >> reporter: but some people who have been ordered to leaf don't have a destination. >> we knew we needed to evacuate. we had no idea where to go. >> reporter: the kincaid fire is one of several burning across the west and forecasters warn conditions remain ripe for more. and we're expecting 24 hours now of calmer conditions, the winds are pretty calm right now. but we're expecting them to kick back up again on tuesday. so the hope is that the crews can kind of dig in, make some headway and hang on to it by the time the wind kicks back at them. marcus,

we are on shilo ridge road. firefighters have been doing battle all night. there are lots of smoldering trees and brush. so much charred earth.e fm movi sonoma coevacuation happening. . deputies going door to door telling people to leave and leave now. it was a dire situation. as far as cal fire can tell, they say this fire was stopped here on the shop of shiloh ridge road. that's good news for residents. the danger has not passed because the kincade fire is slowly moving to the south. as soon as the sun comes up, we'll have a better idea where the fire is as air attack also resume again. the other concern was highway 101 and all of the property, all of sonoma county to the west of highway 101. that was th big firefight yesterday. there was hundreds of firefighters staged along 101 cutting vegetation, standing by with houses in case burning embers carried some of the remnants of the fire from the kincade fire over the freeway. that did not happen. so there was good news there. there's non pple ur back to hom. live in sonoma county, cornell bernard, abc7 news

. >> reporter: the winds were still gusting in the area of shilo ridge in windsor, fueling the fire and moving towards this vineyard on chalk hill road. the embers highly visible pose the greatest threat to structures. behind it fire crews were going from home to home on pleasant avenue making sure residents had already evacuated. >> 37. >> earlier in the day the fire was impacting highway 101 between windsor and healdsburg, but has since changed course. >> fortunately the fire has not crossed the 101. the wind has klein elined up in northerly direction and is pushing straight south on the east side of 101. >> reporter: several fire trucks made their way to a more densely populated area on vine crest road. >> this is where they were talking about earlier? >> that's what chad was talking about earlier. >> reporter: fire strike teams were positioned throughout windsor. roadblocks were placed close to the areas most threatened. just north of that city in healdsburg, the downtown area was desserted. the risk of the fire spreading had diminished even though there were hot spots that continue

thousands of acres >> currently the fire edges somewhere just south of the community of windsor near shilo where our resources are engaged. >> reporter: nearly 2.5 million are without power. the governor declared a statewide emergency. mandatory evacuations have forced thousands of californians to get out of harm's way but some people who have been ordered to leave don't have a destination. >> we knew we needed to evacuate we had no idea where to go >> reporter: the kincade fire is just one of several burning across the west, and forecasters warn conditions remain ripe for more >>> we are mourning the death of former congressman john conyers. he was the longest serving african-american congressman in history. he served more than 50 years before stepping down in 2017 amid multiple sexual harassment charges he denied. he died at his home of natural causes john conyers was 90 years old. >>> the astros are one win away from the world series title thanks to a near perfect mounding on the mound. it was a whole different story for the nationals, alvarez hits a 2-run homerun. carlos correa same th

thousands of acres >> currently the fire edge is somewhere just south of the community of windsor near shiloesources are actively engaged in both perimeter control and tent set structure defense. >> reporter: nearly 2.5 million are without power. the governor declared a statewide emergency. >> we have been battling fires all up and down the state now for close to a week. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations have forced thousands of californians to get out of harm's way. >> i care about my life, his life, the persons life who live around us. >> reporter: some people who have been ordered to leave don't have a destination. >> we knew we needed to evacuate we had no idea where to go. >> reporter: the kincaid fire is one of several burning across the west and forecasters warn conditions remain ripe for more. we are expecting about 24 hours period of lighter winds. that's the good news the problem is it's going to kick back up again tuesday in a big way. so the hope is that fire crews can get -- gain a little ground on especially this kincaid fire in the north and hang on to that ground when the wi

>> reporter: yes, so we are here at shilo ridge.re here monday and a lot of people breathing a sigh of relief that firefighters managed to save so many homes in the area. there is a water truck behind me, we saw firefighters patrolling this area because we're told the fire crept up again around here shiloh road around midnight. the other day you could see in daylight some of the burned out areas and property damage in this area east of windsor. calfire says what burned overnight was most likely unburned fuel. they'll have more information on that around 7:00. in the nearby community of cloverdale, firefighters reacted to a tu plduplex fire. they rescued a baby and firefighters were grateful the winds were calm. >> the mother took the baby out and they checked her out and she's fine. >> there are microclimates but here we don't have any winds which is kind of interesting but they could be turning around and we could be getting winds at any minute. >> reporter: neighbors were evacuated around 2:00 a.m. but everyone is okay and firefig