HAPPENING NOW: California Gov. Gavin Newsom gives update on wildfires burning across the state.
Fanned by ferocious gusts of up to 93 mph, a wildfire burning in Northern California grew to 30,000 acres on Sunday, putting more than 180,000 people under mandatory evacuation as thousands of firefighters battled against odds to save lives, homes and some of the most famous wineries in the world.
Embers from the Kincade Fire were suspected of igniting a blaze Sunday morning in Vallejo, some 56 miles from the epicenter of the blaze in Sonoma County, and prompting the partial closure of Interstate 80. Two other spot fires were burning in Contra Costa County, one near Mount Diablo State Park about 100 miles south of the primary fire zone, and the other in Crockett, about a quarter-mile from a NuStar Energy facility that contains multiple fuel storage tanks, officials said.
Thousands of homes across Sonoma County were being threatened by embers that could land anywhere the wind blows. "They're going around to structures in that area doing structure protection, prepping the homes and just making sure that there's no one else in those home and everyone has been evacuated," Carvalho said of Cal Fire ground crews.
"Our town leadership has been evacuated twice from our command center," Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli told KGO-TV on Sunday morning from a makeshift command post in Santa Rosa."We executed the single largest evacuation in the history of our town ... in about five hours," Foppoli said.
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