Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20171009

We came up on top of this parking structure at kaiser said he was trying to get his uncle off the hill behind us who lives up there. He said he did get out safely, but he said there are homes up on the hillside that are just destroyed. Hes certain his uncles home is destroyed. I can tell you, looking on top of this Mobile Home Park, there are dozens of peoples homes that are just, they have burned to the ground tonight. Firefighters are actually in the middle of this. We have been watching them try to put water on some of the home that is are still up, doing what they can. This looks like a fruitless situation, something that would be impossible to win here. As we look out from the parking structure, more flames up on the hills. Hearing sirens, not in one direction, but all directions. Fire trucks and police cars going to the north, to the south, to the east, to the west, tro trying to get these spot fires as they are kicking up and getting people evacuated. We are, from this Vantage Point seeing several spot fires. You can see the smoke blowing through the air. Its not hard or difficult to figure out why these spot fires are kicking up. You can see glowing embers in this heavy smoke, just blowing straight to the south now and cause zing more fires south of us. Im looking now, as i look to the south, im seeing more fires out there. More heavy smoke. It looks like possibly a sizable fire out on the other side of the hospital that we are talking about before. You can see the hospital now in the foreground. All the patients now evacuated from Kaiser Hospital here. More than 100 of them, according to hospital officials. They are being taken to kaiser san rafael and some of them to the Veterans Memorial center. Another Evacuation Center, which is becoming a pseudohospital. Thats on the 1500 block of maple, if people want to get to that. We do not know that theres anymore room right now because of all the people going there. The scene here, that we are looking down on, on the back of kaiser, just below the parking structure here, this is horrific for the people who call this home. Laura and marcus. Thom, since you are there, you are very close to Kaiser Hospital. They have gotten all the patients out. What about the threat of this fire burning the hospital itself . How close is it . Reporter that this we are on top of the parking structure. The fire is right below us. We have fire burning not only here on the south and the east, north and the east side of the hospital, but also on the south and east side of the hospital, a big fire kicking up. In fact, that hospital official we talked to earlier, she did tell us they are concerned about the hospital structure itself, not just the respiratory problems, not just people affected by the smoke, but actually, possibly losing the hospital thch hospital. This is a brick structure, they are hoping to save it, but theres fire burning all around it. Oh, my goodness. Keep safe yourself. Thank you very much. We want to continue with the breaking news, napa va Lee School District decided to close all the schools right now. This is along with Santa Rosa School that is have been closed this morning. A napa county supervisor has been giving us great information. She joins us on the phone. What is the latest there . You had a couple Evacuation Centers but one filled. You had to open another . Caller that is correct. Good morning. The crosswalks Community Church is full. Everyone who is evacuating to go to Napa Valley College. The gymnasium at 2277 napa vallejo highway is up and ready, running, to receive evacuees. You know what we heard is some of the red cross was asking for volunteers because they have exhausted their volunteer supply. Do you know anything about that and what kind of help you could need or better for people to stay awa . At this time, its better for people to make sure they are safe, their neighbors are safe. As daylight hits, we will reassess where we are at and have a better idea of how our community can support each other. At the present time, focus on being safe, make sure your family, front ends and neighbors are safe as well. Have you all looked beyond the next couple hours . We dont know how long people could have to stay in Evacuation Centers. Have you all looked into that . Caller no, at this time, the situation has not exchanged. We are still in evacuation mode. The thought of repopulation is not on our radar because it simply isnt safe to even let upright now on the evacuations. We continue to add evacuations as needed and we will continue to staff up Evacuation Centers until we are confident that the area is clear. So far, you have the three Evacuation Centers, one of which is completely full at crosswalks. Are you looking at other potential sites you may have to look toward opening in case you have more evacuees . Caller technically, we have a fourth one. That is in our neighboring salah know county, at sa lano community college. We are asking residents of Wooden Valley to go to salano community college, at the Library Parking lot, that is where we are receiving people. Thats 4000 valley road in fairfield. Technically, we are at four Evacuation Centers, three within the county and one in our neighbor, salano. We know the coming days ahead will be tough, too. The fire is at zero containment. The many fires burning in napa and sonoma counties. Well be asking what we can do to help. Thank you for joining us. Caller thank you very much. The most parent thing, help your neighbors get out safe. Very much so. Thank you very much. That was the napa county supervisor. Shes been great giving us a lot of information on the Evacuation Centers. We want to go to an Evacuation Center. This is the one at crosswalk Community Church with bob redell. Bob . Reporter the interview you heard, this church has been at capacity for an hour. Where did you evacuate from . Partridge road. Reporter how did you get the call to get out . We got a call at 11 00 and we looked at the sky and prepared to evacuation. When we left, the sheriff was going doortodoor. Reporter how much time do you think you had . We heard at 11 00, we were here at 1 00. Reporter are you optimistic . Have to be. Reporter based on where the fire is traveling, do you think its headed in your direction . No one knows. If the wind changes, it changes. We have a vineyard, they are not supposed to burn, but this may be the birs. Reporter what about friends and neighbors . They are here. Reporter they are safe . Yes. Yes. Reporter you have been talking about a good sense of humor. Are you doing okay . I am. I am. I just paid my homeowners insurance, so i feel confident. Reporter all right. Fingers crossed you wont need it. Thank you for speaking with us. We are at the crosswalk Community Church near highway 29 where we saw a fire truck heading east. This area, this church is at capacity. Live in napa, bob redell, today in the bay. Thank you for the latest there. Volunteers are needed in santa rosa. Red cross says they have exhausted their own supply. These are some of the areas, if you are able to help and are already in that area. Elsie allen high school, koom middle school, call 7075434542. They are looking at only dutt volunteers right now. If you are not in the area, consider staying away. Many roads are closed. Those that are open, they need them for people to evacuate. A lot of people working to help out in any way they can. Only if you are in that area, thats how you can help. Call the number on your screen. Now we want to take it over to kari, who is tracking a lot of the wind that is causing the embers to spread. The wind is blowing from north to south. Its spreading southward. We can see where the largest fire is, the atlas fire. We can see a larger area, where that thickest smoke is covering that area right now. A lot of people are familiar with the silverado trail, to the east of calistoga. That is where we have the wildfire burning at this point and continues to spread that smoke farther to the south as we see rugged terrain, a lot of trees and the valleys in between where we have the fire spreading to downtown napa, farther to the south. That is making it go across the bay to san francisco. We will still have the very dry conditions and temperatures starting to cool off for the next couple of hours. Then, as we go into this afternoon, looking at the highs today, around 80 degrees. Well continue to monitor that, also the strong winds. Mike, you are talking major closures. The winds you are talking about through calistoga where fire and smoke closed 128. 101, dramatic pictures from thom jensen. The closure from mark springs is an issue. Look at the traffic through petaluma. Folks are traveling through the area. Smoke in the rob inwilliams tunnel. Back to you. You can smell smoke in the studio. Live pictures from a fire in santa rosa where a Mobile Home Park is completely destroyed. Very close to the Kaiser Hospital, which has been evacuated as well. All the patients seeking Higher Ground as well, just to get away from the fires. We are going stay on top of this, on hair and online for instant coverage, head to www. Nbcbayarea. Com. Well be back after a short break. So we created the only bed that adjusts on both sides to 9 out of 10 couples prefer a different mattress firmness, your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. You can even see how well youre sleeping and make adjustments. Does your bed do that . The most amazing part is they start at 699. Thats 200 off our queen c2 mattress. And free Home Delivery on select beds only during our fall sale. Ends monday. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. Napa counties. 6 15 on your monday morning. We are covering the fires burning near calistoga and napa. This is the tubbs fire and it has grown to 20,000 acres. This is the general area. A lot of people are talking about the fires and taking homes, businesses, hospitals. Social media flooding with images and videos of the fire. We want to turn to scott mcgrew. He has been following this online. Marcus, we are watching a lot of people as they take pictures. We want to remind you, as news professionals, our crews, for instance, thom jensen who is really on the fire line at Kaiser Hospital, has special gear to protect him if that fire encroaches too closely. You do not. Continue to absolutely evacuate. In the meantime, we are seeing some pictures this morning from social media. We can show some of them to you as well. Now, as far as well, apparently we cant. We have video or pictures here of people as they evacuate. They are posting this to social media. You can see the vineyards here with the fires. We want to talk about an Excellent Way to stay in touch with emergency announcements. You can text your zip code, in this case, zip code of the fire is mostly 94558, to 888777. That looks like an unusual number. Type that in as the person you are going to text it to. Then type just your zip code, your numbers, fivedigit number to that and you will receive Text Messages back from the official Emergency Centers in sonoma and napa county. This way, if you cannot get an internet connection, if you only have that cell connection, you will be updated with what you need. We posted instructions to www. Nbcbayarea. Com and marcus and laura, i will remind you, we are streaming live on www. Nbcbayarea. Com as well. So, as you evacuate, you can take us along with you and you will hear our voices and well tell you the very latest. Exactly. We are trying to tweet out any available update. We appreciate the people taking time to sweet us back this morning. We want to head over to kari with a look at whats going on. The wind behind you right now. We have a wind advisory that continues until 11 00 this morning. That is when we will have the strongest wind. Over the past 24 hours, we had winds to 30, 40, even 50 miles an hour. Right now, sustained winds are coming in from the northeast at 15 to, at times, 22 miles an hour. Some of the higher gusts have been up to 38 miles an hour. That is what we will see through at least the next hour. In napa, wind speeds from the northeast at 35 miles an hour. Then, we will slowly start to see those winds receding as we go through the day. Calming down as we go into this afternoon. We still have at least six mor hours left of strong wind speeds and higher gusts. We know within wildfires, they can make their own environment, create stronger wind gusts, funnel that wind and also create some more spreading wildfires in those areas. We are watching out for that possibility as we go into this evening. We will start to see those winds calming down. That is good news, unfortunately. So, really dry. Look at the humidities here. The relative humidity only at 13 . Usually, during the overnight hours we start to see what we call recovery with the humidity numbers starting to go up. We are not seeing that at this point. We are very dry, very windy and that is going to cause a lot of concern as we go through the day. For all of the bay area, if you have any of these symptoms, you need to seek immediate medical attention, not just for the north bay, the east bay, the peninsula, south bay, san francisco. We will have that possibility of people being affected by the smoke, carried into the bay area, if you have repeated coughing, shortness of breathe, wheezing, nausea, go to see your doctor, immediately. The temperatures upper 50s to lower 60s. High temperatures today are going to be much cooler than yesterday. Parts of the north bay, looking at upper 70s, low 80s. For the rest of the bay area, mostly 70s today, even though its going to be much more comfortable. Do not spend a lot of extra time outside. Keep those windows closed. Limit your outdoor time over the next several days. The temperature is coming down and it will be cooler as we go into the middle of the week. Laura and marcus . We could use those cooling temperatures. Absolutely. Thank you. We want to go to mike inouye tracking major closures in the north bay. Thats right. Over here, toward 101, close to santa rosa, right by the fire at the hospital where thom jensen continues to bring dramatic pictures, feet away from the fire. 101 is slow. This is feet away from the railroad track. The train has not been running all morning. If they are going to run, i would guess they have to way until daylight to examine the tracks and make sure everything is safe. Smart train riders may be hitting the roadway south of santa rosa and a lot of traffic as you travel through navato. Navato cut off from vallejo. 37 is closed off. Portions of 128 as well as 12 and 121 because of all the fire related activity. Watch for the closures and plan on changes as smoke and fire continue to shift. Here, i80 getting more traffic across the carquinez bridge. If you dont have to drive, dont drive through the area. All of the emergency vehicles, anywhere throughout the north bay. The east bay shows a light traffic flow. Those commutes are fine. In the north bay, napa, Sonoma County and the smart train along 101, avoid those areas and dont travel if you dont have to. Stick with us. We are on twit ore and facebook. Back to you. We are trying to pour out all the information as soon as it comes to us. That includes the breaking news this morning all schools in napa and santa rosa will closed today. Here is a look at the fires and where they are burning. The biggest fire is the atlas fire. Another fire burning near santa rosa in the area of hopper avenue. It actually jumped highway 101. We know Kaiser Medical Center on bicentennial way has been evacuated. Sutter Medical Center has been evacuated. Another fire outside calistoga near highway 128 and tubbs lane. 20,000 acres burning in that area. We are hearing of another fire near highway 37 at sears point. Highway 37 is closed in both directions. We will be back with more information. And images on social media this morning. Picture from babbles shows flood of videos and images on social media at this hour. This picture shows the massive fire, the flames, as seen from an airplane. We have another one. This is video, courtesy of karen on facebook. These are the flames spreading in that atlas peak area, one of the hardest hit areas of napa county. Multiple fires are burning in napa and Sonoma County. Kaiser hospital, up in Sonoma County was completely evacuated. The hospital, itself, is threatened to burn down as a nearby Mobile Home Park in that area is gone. We told you about the winds and dry conditions that caused those flames to explode in size. That is something that really has caused a lot of trouble for cal fire. They spoke about that this morning. Take a listen. This fire blew up with explosive growth. We had very, very high winds and it went out of control very, very quickly. As you know, this is not the only fire burning. Theres multiple fires burning, not only here in napa and Sonoma County, but northern california, butte county and other places. Right there, these are the animal evacuations that, if you have an animal, a lot cant go to shelters. This is the napa county Animal Shelter at 942 hartle court. You can take your dogs, cats, rabbits. Any household animals. You can take them to the Animal Shelter there. Again, there are shelters open until t in the area of napa. Finley Community Center is full. Go to Veterans Memorial hall. We have the napa crosswalk Community Church, that is full. Go to napa county fairgrounds. If you keep this up, the city of napa is taking animals that need help. The larger animals that we know are in that area. The school has trailers and can help move the animals out. There is a contact there on the screen. Back out to santa rosa this morning, where a Mobile Home Park is completely gone as flames surround the community. This is a Mobile Home Park close to Kaiser Hospital, which has been evacuated. People were taken out on gurneys and in personal cars to take them to safer areas. Veteran memorial Community Center, where that is now a makeshift hospital. We have more news coming into the news room right now. Stay with nbc bay area, well be right back. Hey grandpa. Hey, kid. Really good to see you. You too. You tell grandma you were going fishing again . Maybe. vo the best things in life keep going. Thats why i got a subaru, too. Introducing the allnew crosstrek. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. Has crazy low prices. Do you know how we do it . How . 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All schools in santa rosa and napa valley have been closed down. Here is a look at where some of the fires are burning right now. Zero containment, the biggest is atlas fire. Another burning near santa rosa and hopper avenue after it jumped highway 101. That area completely shut down. Kaiser Medical Center, as we mentioned, on bicentennial way, you saw the pictures moments ago, have been evacuated. They were walking people out, they were in wheelchairs and walkers. Staff was loading them into their own cars to move them out quickly. Sutter santa rosa Regional Hospital also evacuated. Major fires outside calistoga near highway 128 and tubbs lane. 20,000 acres burning in that fire. Massive fire, as they try to evacuate hundreds of people from that area. Another fire thrks is farther south, near highway 37 at sears point. Highway 37 is closed in both directions. We also want to tell you, they have been really working to get people into Evacuation Centers to help them through the area. At least four Evacuation Centers opened up in that area. One is completely at capacity. Now they have a gym that opened up, the Napa Valley College gym. If you need to get out of the area, that is an area to go as well. Evacuation centers for animals as well. There are a lot of big animals. Equine centers are taking peoples animals to watch them as they evacuate. Right now, we want to go to thom jensen in santa rosa and near where the mobile home fire was this morning. Thom, you have been seeing a lot happen in that small area this morning. Reporter we have, marcus, definitely. This is actually the south end of one of the fingers on the south side of the 20,000 acre fire. You can see this entire Mobile Home Park, a couple structures flattened by the fire. More homes, up on the hillside here, also destroyed. We are seeing people get up to the north here and police and Sheriffs Department telling us, you cant drive any farther, you need to go back south. Thousands of people evacuated. Some people still concerned about their homes, trying to get to their homes. A lot of people concerned about their loved ones they have not been able to get a hold of. Of course, people asleep in their homes when the fire started. They do not know if they were able to get out. People getting to those Evacuation Centers, maybe some of them not getting out or losing phone lines and not able to communicate right now. What i can tell you is, we have dozens and dozens of mobile homes destroyed. These are burning around Kaiser Hospital. The hospital has been evacuated, about 100 patients. They are taking most of them to kiz zer san rafael, some to the veterans on maple. There might be room there for folks if they are trying to evacuate. In some sections of that or at least one section is a makeshift hospital. You can see the glow up on the other side of Kaiser Hospital. Thats more fire burning on the north and east side. Its actually starting to move to the west a little bit as the winds change. That would blow it back toward the hospital. One of the things they are concerned about is not just the patients, but actually hospital officials telling us the hospital itself. They are worried about the hospital possibly burning, not just the respiratory problems. The smoke not the only reason they are getting patients out of here. They are afraid the hospital could burn. Back here to recap, 20,000 acre fire, this is a finger on the south side of it, already destroyed at least dozens of homes here. Fire officials telling us, they do not know how many structures total have been burned, how many injuries there are or deaths, possibly. Lets hope not from this fire. They are having a difficult time staying on top of this. I do not know if you can see the emergency vehicles still going in all different directions, trying to rescue people, trying to stay on top of these fires. We have firefighters down inside the Mobile Home Park, believe it or not, still, trying to save what they can down here. Like i said, theres probably one, two, three, four, five, six, maybe seven or eight that are still standing. The rest are gone. They are gone. Nothing standing, all the way to the ground. This is one of the most volatile, most urgent situations i have seen in my 30 years of doing this, guys and the fire officials, a battalion chief we spoke to earlier, saying this is a once in a lifetime type of fire. One like hes never seen before. One of the people who lives here, who was trying to make sure his uncle was okay on the hillside, his home was lost. He got hold of his uncle. Hes correct from our Vantage Point, its hell on earth. I have never seen anything like this before, where they have to evacuate a hospital, which is now in the fires path as well. We are praying that all the people in that Mobile Home Park managed to make it out alive. We know there have been multiple evacuations in the area. I want to check in with bob redell at crosswalk Community Church which is now at capacity as well. Bob . Reporter it is. If you live in napa area, east of where tom is at, go to the napa college gymnasium. Here, off 29 and 1st street, they have at least 350 people here. They said thats enough. They are sending people elsewhere. Loni, you got here in time, obviously, to be here. Yeah. Reporter where do you live . What did you see . I live up the silverado trail. Theres a drive that is down from the canyon. An actual road to turn. Reporter you stau fire coming . Saw the fire coming. The neighbors come out and say, hey, theres a fire in the hill. We kind of looked and saw it was over on the ridge. Reporter then something happened . Something happened. Reporter which was . It got oranger. The colors were more intense. We knew there was more burning going on. I called the Sheriffs Department to see if i could get an answer. Called cal fire, couldnt get an answer. It is frustrating. Reporter you evacuated yourself . No, actually, we were hanging tight. I asked the Sheriffs Department, should we leave . They said, no, we dont know. Get that message from cal fire. Reporter what time did you get that message . A knock on the door at midnight, a caravan of Law Enforcement came through the call desack. I think we are going to be fine. We were on the valley floor and unless the fire hops silverado trail to come across, but i dont know. Reporter you noticed the winds were strong yesterday. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they were. Actually, it was somewhat unusual because we get winds, but not this strong this time of year. Reporter was there anything outside the fire that surprised you . I have lived here 17 years and we have always had a Little Things of fire, especially in that region. You know, three or four years ago there was yeah. So, thats not unusual. This was just, its the first time i saw flames since i lived here. Reporter im wishing you the best of luck. I hope i go back and have a home. Reporter me, too. If you are in the area and need a place to evacuate, we spoke to a chaplain. He was checking with dispatch. They are still doing evacuations at this hour. If you are listening, go to Napa Valley College. Thats the Evacuation Center for napa, the gymnasium. Live in napa, bob redell, today in the bay. You can go to the napa county fairgrounds and salano community college, if they need it for the evacuees. They need help. They are asking for volunteers. If you are in the area, adults to help out because the red cross in that area has been stressed. Thats right. Firefighters, we know, in that area, cal fire are trying to fight these numerous fires burning in napa and Sonoma County. Kris sanchez is live in san bruno. Kris . Reporter we know the Emergency Personnel there in santa rosa and Sonoma County have their hands full. They are getting help from southern bay area Law Enforcement officers. Here we are near the shops. These are officers getting briefed right now. They are getting ready head up to santa rosa to assist with the evacuations. We have talked about how many people have been forced from their homes and how quickly they had to leave. So many road closures adding to it. These officers are going to come in to help. They could not talk to us on camera, but they did confirm as soon as they are done with their briefing, in five minutes or so, they are hitting the road. We are talking a dozen officers from about six different agencies we have seen. San mateo county sheriff, the police, burling game, fremont, hillsborough, belmont. We want to give them credit. They are up bright and early this morning as they are headed out to assist with the evacuations. We are going track them, hopefully, maybe one of them can take a moment to talk before they leave. They say they are happy to help and will be hitting the road soon. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. Thats the thing we love about the bay area. Thank you very much. This is video i want to share from napa. The winds whipping up the embers across the roadway here. This is no doubt one of the reasons the fires have probably rapidly spread. Forcing thousands of evacuations. We will continue to follow this on air as well as online. Well be right back. Tubbs fire northeast at 6 45 on your monday morning, we continue to follow breaking news out of napa and Sonoma County. Massive fires burning, forcing thousands to evacuate. These are pictures from the tubbs fire near highway 128. 20,000 acres have been consumed, so far, zero containment. With all that happening, there is a call for volunteers for help. The city of santa rosa is looking for volunteers. The local red cross has exhausted their volunteer pool. They are needed to help at Elsie Allen High School and cook middle school. Any adults who can make it to either location call this number on the screen. 7075434542. Again, 7075434542. When you call, they will give you an assignment. Firefighters need help as well. They need a break in winds. Its starting to calm down, but its still gusty. We have the usual delta breeze in fairfield, winds at 22 miles an hour. Weve had gusts 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour in the north bay and we know with wildfires they create their own environment and wind gusts to carry the embers away from where the fire started. We have sustained winds at 1520 miles an hour and the wind advisory continues until 11 00. The wind gusts have been up to 20 to 30 miles an hour. That is what we will see through at least the 8 00 hour. So, we still have several more hours of these strong winds in the north bay that could continue to spread those wildfires and also create dangerous conditions for those firefighters trying to get containment on this. Looking at this on the satellite imagery, we can see the smoke picked up here and we can see some of the rugged terrain in between. Some of the smoke thats drifting to the south, being carried as well by the strong winds and low humidity is helping it spread. Our temperatures will be in the low 60s. Its also very dry, but then warming up as we go through the day. A very elevated fire weather index here showing that we will still have very unfavorable conditions for these wildfires as we go through the day. Temperature wise, in Sonoma County, upper 50s through the 8 00 hour. Temperatures will continue to rise very quickly and throughout the day. We are still heading into the low 80s today. Even if you are not in the north bay, we are all going to have to experience some very poor air quality today as the smoke drifts from north to south, across the bay area. So, it is a good time to close up the windows. Do not leave the doors open. If you want to go for a workout, its best to go to the gym, not running outside. If you have repeated coughing, shortness of breath, wheezing, gnaw sa, lightheadedness, go see your doctor. We have very poor air quality and smoke drifting through. Temperature wise, we start out with very warm temperatures in santa rosa and napa, upper 60s. Elsewhere, upper 50s. The high temperatures coming down to high 70s. Low 80s from concord to antioch and the south bay looking at mid70s today. San francisco will reach into the low 70s this afternoon. A lot of smoke. Once again, with the fog starting out this morning, creating smoggy conditions and it cools down throughout the week, into the upper 60s, low 70s for the inland valleys. Marcus and laura, well continue to monitor the smoke, drifting from the north bay down to the south bay. We mentioned it earlier, we could smell it within our studio, permeating through the walls and the doorways. Take a look at this shot behind us. This is from san francisco. It shows the smoke is arriving there. It is cause zing problems on the bay bridge for commuters. Mike inouye gives us a look. At a first glimpse, its beautiful. There is smoke in the area laura is talking how we can smell down the south bay. Im hearing about ash falling throughout the city and san mateo. An issue and distraction for folks. You can see the backup at the bay bridge an on the map as well. Most of the activity, the big alerts are for the north bay. North of the bay bridge. More traffic off the carquinez bridge. Highway 37 is closed. Its been going on since last night. A full closure of highway 37 there, cuts off vallejo. More folks have to come across the ridge. Its steady. In the north bay, closures through napa, 121, highway 12, calistoga and 128. Highway 101, a big closure there at bicentennial, where the hospital had to be evacuated. Thom jensen is on scene there. Remember, smart train runs alongside highway 101. No smart trains running this morning. The last train was canceled as well. 7 19, like lie closed. Well wait until the sun comes up. Some evacuation routes go across the train tracks. The evacuations throughout the north bay. We have those listed on our website. They continue to evolve throughout the morning. Avoid the area if you dont have to go into the area. Back to you. They are doing what they can, whatever they can get to. You mentioned Kaiser Hospital in santa rosa, completely evacuated. This is whats going on right behind that hospital. It is so close to Kaiser Hospital. This was the scene of a Mobile Home Park. But, its safe to say that almost all of the units have been destroyed. We are hoping everyone got out safely. We saw maybe a row of mobile homes still standing. Again, destroyed by the fire. We will continue to stay on this story, both on air as well as online. We bring you the latest information. We will be right back. Santa rosa have been ed 6 54. We are back with breaking news. All schools in santa rosa have been closed as well as the napa valley schools have been closed because of that fire. Here are some of the fire that is are burning right now. That biggest one is the atlas fire. Another fire, also burning near santa rosa and hopper avenue. This actually jumped, highway 101. Kaiser Medical Center has been evacuated. We also know Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital has been evacuated. Another fire outside of calistoga, that fire near 128 and tubbs lane, that fire, 20,000 acres that is burning. Zero containment as they continue to try to move everyone in its path to safety. We are hearing of a fire farther south near highway 37 near sears point. Highway 37 is closed in both directions. We have seen remarkable pictures come into the news room. Take a look at this. A patient bed from that Kaiser Hospital in santa rosa wheeled out of the hospital where they are taking all the patients about 100 in total, to safety. They have transformed Veterans Memorial center into a makeshift hospital where we saw them bring out patients in their bed, attached to ivs, some taken in gurneys by ambulance, others taken in personal vehicles by hospital personnel. There was fear that the Kaiser Hospital, itself, in santa rosa was in the direct line of this fire. We want to go live near the hospital. Thats where we find that mobile home destroyed by a fire this morning. You can see there, the glowing of the fire and of possibly just part of the structures of some of those places. As we look at this, we see the fire, we see the destruction. We have to remember, this is where people called home. This is where people have all their belongings inside. A lot of people, memories and things gone up in flames as this fast moving fire that has been burning in some areas since 10 00 last night. Zero percent containment. We dont know the extent of it. They dont know really how it started, at this point. Right now, they are going to have a very tough time getting a handle on these fires. There are multiple crews from throughout the bay area headed to the napa Sonoma County to aide the fire and agencies in battling the fire. I have never seen anything like that, the way they had to evacuate the hospital. I was here for the oakland fire, it was horrific, this one, because theres multiple fires burning in so many areas and the wind is playing factor. You hear about it, to see this happen before your eyes as we watch this. Also, the tubbs fire, this was northeast of calistoga. This is near highway 128. As i said earlier, 20,000 acres burning in this fire, the tubbs fire. Zero containment here. Crews, again, just trying to get people to safety here. This fire continues to grow. It continues to spread and their main goal, as we heard many of the firefighters say, the main goal is to get people to safety. We are trying to help to bring you as much information as we can. Four Evacuation Centers were opened up. They have had to open additional ones. Bob redell is at crosswalk Community Church, at capacity as well. Reporter if you are in the napa area, go to Napa Valley College, go to the gymnasium. You arrived this morning. You were evacuated. We are talking about the different players and how befudling it is. Its frightening. Its beyond understanding how it could be a ring of fire. [ inaudible question ] so bizarre. It happened once before in the late 70s. Reporter where did you live . On the east side. We evacuated from our home on mckinley road. Reporter last night or this morning . Last night. Reporter were you told to leave . Yes. Reporter what did you see . The fire rising on the northeast side as well as the southeast side. You could see the flames. Reporter based on what you know about the layout of your property, do you feel confident . We have a lot of trees on our property and there is a vineyard between us, not that a vineyard couldnt burn at this time of year. We are kind of hoping and praying there is enough of a buffer. Once the strike teams come in with water, well have a better chance. Its intense. Reporter frustrating. No one is giving you information. Right. You dont want to be the one to interrupt the flow of what happened. You have to be patient and grateful. Reporter how are you doing . We are good. You know, we are here. We are together. We have our dog. We have food. Water. No, we are as good as we can be. There are people that are worse off than we are. We are concerned for their health and safety. Reporter i wish you the best of luck. Thank you. Reporter thank you for speaking with us. Take care. Agoss gain, crosswalk community, downtown napa. It is at capacity. They are asking you go to Napa Valley College. Go to the gymnasium there