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Wind-driven fire forces hundreds to
flee Northern California wine country
By Jocelyn Gecker and
Noah Berger
Associated Press
GEYSERVILLE, Ca-
lif. — Hundreds of people
were forced to fl ee Northern
California wine country early
Thursday as a wildfi re ex-
ploded in size, fueled by dan-
gerous winds that prompted
utilities throughout the state
to impose electrical blackouts
to prevent fi res.
Authorities ordered the
entire community of Gey-
serville to evacuate after the
fi re in the Sonoma County
wine region north of San
Francisco grew to more than
15 square miles. The town
has about 900 residents and
is a popular stop for wine
country tourists.
Harry Bosworth, 81, who
ignored initial warnings to
leave, awoke before sunrise
to fi nd a fi retruck and fi re-
fi ghters in his driveway.
“I could see the fi re com-
ing, so we got the heck out of
there,” Bosworth said.
As he and his wife drove
off, fl ames surrounded their
driveway and their barn
caught fi re.
The blaze started around
9:30 p.m. Wednesday. The
cause was not yet known, but
strong, dry winds with gusts
of up to 70 mph have affected
much of the state, including
that area. There were no
immediate reports of any
injuries.
Winds slowed after day-
break, helping fi refi ghters
get a handle on the blaze,
but it was still growing, said
California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protection
spokesman Jonathan Cox.
He did not have an estimate
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A home burns as the Kincade Fire moves through the
Geyserville, California, area on Thursday. Fueled by high
winds, the Kincade Fire has burned over 7,000 acres in
a matter of hours and has prompted evacuations in the
Geyserville area.
on the number of buildings
destroyed.
The state’s largest electric
utility, Pacifi c Gas & Elec-
tric, announced Wednesday
that it would begin rolling
power outages, lasting for 48
hours, in parts of Northern
California in anticipation
of strong winds that could
knock branches into power
lines or topple them, spark-
ing wildfi res. PG&E spokes-
man Paul Doherty said parts
of Geyserville lost power as
scheduled Wednesday.
PG&E fi led for bankruptcy
protection in January as
it faced billions of dollars
of damages from wildfi res
sparked by its equipment
that have killed scores of
people and destroyed thou-
sands of homes over the past
couple of years. The investor-
owned energy company has
set aside billions of dollars
for insurance companies and
wildfi re victims while facing
a public backlash over its
handling of the incidents.
Other utilities also cut
power Wednesday and
Thursday to some residents
in Southern California,
where at least two fi res had
erupted. Those blazes have
remained small.
Many Geyserville resi-
dents, including Bosworth,
lived through a series of fi res
that tore through the same
area two years ago, killing
44 people.
Mary Ceglarski-Sherwin
and her husband, Matt
Ceglarski-Sherwin, lost their
Santa Rosa rental home
during one of those fi res and
fl ed the fl ames again Thurs-
day after Mary’s asthma
awakened her around 2:30
a.m. Their power was still
on when they grabbed their
small dogs, some clothes and
emergency kits they ac-
quired during the last fi re.
“I told him, ‘We gotta go,
we gotta go; I can feel it
changing,’” Mary Ceglarski-
Sherwin told the Santa Rosa
Press-Democrat. “By the
time we got out there, we
could feel the heat and see
the smoke.’”
The fi re also threatened
some of the area’s famed
wineries. The Francis Ford
Coppola Winery posted on
Facebook that its property
was without power but “not
currently in danger.” The
Robert Young Estate Winery
said in an 8 a.m. post that
“there is fi re on our proper-
ty” affecting brush and pas-
ture areas but not structures
or people.
The nearby town of
Healdsburg set up a shelter
for evacuees in a community
center that can accommo-
date pets and has mental
health counselors available,
Mayor David Hagele said.
“Anything we can do to
help our neighbors is a great
help,” he said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom an-
nounced that the state had
secured a grant from the
Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency to help fi ght
the fi re. He did not say how
money the state would get.
Newsom, a Democrat,
is among those who have
criticized PG&E and other
utilities for the rolling black-
outs and their handling of
wildfi re dangers.
PG&E’s rolling power out-
ages that started Wednesday
stretched from the Sierra
foothills in the northeast to
portions of the San Francisco
Bay Area, affecting a half-
million people — or nearly
180,000 customers. PG&E
warned that another round
of outages could occur over
the weekend.
In Southern California,
hot and dry Santa Ana
winds prompted Southern
California Edison to cut
power to more than 15,000
customers. The utility was
considering additional power
cuts to more than 286,000
customers.
The San Diego Gas &
Electric utility said it cut
power to about 328 custom-
ers.
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