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Fast-Growing North Bay Fires Force Evacuations

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KQED

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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We'll get an update on the wildfires in Napa and Sonoma County and check in on Bay Area air quality with KQED's Dan Brekke and Alice Woelfle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED.

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From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. I'm Michael Krasny. Mandatory evacuation orders are in place in parts of Napa and Sonoma counties this morning after fast-moving wildfires fueled by high winds

1:08.5

burned thousands of acres in wine country yesterday and last night.

1:12.6

We'll get the latest. Then President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for office and paid no income taxes at all and many others.

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talk about what the tax story and the nomination of Amy Coney-Barritt to the Supreme Court

1:32.6

might mean for the election. That'm Michael Krasny. The glass fire, which began as a 20-acre brush fire near Deer Park yesterday evening, has scorched thousands of acres in wine country burning through vineyards, destroying structures, and forcing at least 2,000 people to evacuate.

2:01.6

Fueled by dry conditions and high winds, two other wildfires also erupted in the area.

2:06.6

The Boisen fire just west of St. Helena and the Shady Fire near Santa Rosa.

2:10.6

All three fires have now merged, according to Cal Fire.

2:13.6

And here's Sonoma County resident Tom Finnergy, who evacuated last night. We left a long time. We've been driving around Santa Rosa for two and a half hours,

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