Video: Fire cameras show the early hours of Kincade fire

Fire cameras around the North Bay show just how quickly the Kincade fire grew in the early morning hours. ALERTWildfire, a consortium of three universities, built a network of cameras on peaks throughout the area to help firefighters and first responders get a better view of developing wildfires.

A camera near Calistoga Road caught the fire's origin at 9:20, showing rapid growth:

At 10 PM the fire expands toward the camera on Geyser Peak:

By 11 PM the fire expands past the Geyser Peak camera:

Strong winds push the fire onward towards Geyserville at midnight:

Early morning view of the fire from the camera on Mount Jackson:

ALERTWildfire is a consortium of three universities -- The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), University of California San Diego (UCSD), and the University of Oregon (UO) -- providing access to state-of-the-art Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) fire cameras and associated tools to help firefighters and first responders.

You can learn more about the organization and view the cameras directly at http://www.alertwildfire.org/