Firefighters confronted ferocious winds, with at least one gust clocking in at 102 miles an hour shortly after sunrise Sunday in the hills above the evacuated Sonoma County wine town of Healdsburg, according to the National Weather Service. Some 180,000 people were ordered to evacuate the area near the Kincade Fire, the largest of eight wildfires currently blazing in the state, according to officials in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco. The Kincade Fire was about 10% contained by more than 3,000 firefighters who have been deployed, and it was advancing south and west, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. Lights Out Wide swaths of California were without power as the state battled several major fires amid high winds. Note: Outages as of 5 p.m. Sunday Source: NASA (hot spots); Microsoft (buildings); Pacific Gas and Electric (outages) Officials said at a news […]