Thinking those flames dipped behind a canyon. They moved westsouthwest. People in fairfield were worrying yesterday about how the winds were blowing, concerned that that shift could come their way. And they have every right to be scared. The damage that this is already causing is beyond imagination. As of late last night, cal fire says this last last is now just about 43,000 acres and only 3 contained. It is an overwhelming fire thats hard for some people to fully understand. A lot of families saying you pack up everything but i just have that mental capacity to put everything in the car right now. Reporter crews set a controlled burn tuesday night to clear vegetation near the Water Treatment plant in Solano County and crews there spent much of the day guarding fairfax. Green valley road is being evacuated. The head of cal fire is anticipating that two of the fires burning in napa valley now may burn. So that would just be terrifying and, in fact, you can see the ash raining down on us. Its not Getting Better here. In napa county, jackie ward, kpix 5. Flames from the tubbs fire getting close to calistoga. Thats why the city was evacuated five p. M. Yesterday. Authorities told everyone to get out and police are now patrolling the streets to catch anyone defying the order did you business placed locals can stay at American Canyon high school. It is a shelter and volunteers bringing supplies to the people there. New mandatory evacuation orders are in effect for eastern sonoma valley. Residents were told to leave immediately. The fierce winds have whipped up the pocket fire putting geyserville at risk. Kpix 5s anne makovec reports. Reporter the winds have been pretty erratic here this morning which is certainly dangerous. I just spoke with the sheriffs deputy who said when he came on duty around 6 p. M. Last night, the orange glow that you can see here behind me was just a little dot and its spread 20fold in the last 12 hours. From our Vantage Point, we are between highway 101 and downtown geyserville. That fire is to the north and the winds have been increasing overnight over ridges and slopes. So the concern is obviously that it could move this way. Heres a closer look at the flames from last night. New mandatory evacuations called at about 10 30 p. M. From geyserville to red rock casino. The pocket fire has already burned about 4,000 acres mainly mainly northeast of geyserville and firefighters have been working all night to try to stop it from moving into town. They have made some progress but no promises. The First Priority is life and safety. Property is secondary. Theres homes at the bottom of the canyon as well as the ridge behind me. We dont have the resources to be really effective at stopping the forward spread of the fire. Reporter they dropped retardant from the air and hand crews and dozers have been constructing a line hoping to hold this fire back. But its difficult when it comes to those air drops. Low visibility with all of the smoke in the air. Luckily, the way that the wind has been blowing from where im standing right now near downtown geyserville, theres not a lot of smoke in the air. Downtown geyserville is not evacuated right now. And they still have power. So we are hoping its going to stay that way. Live in geyserville, anne makovec, kpix 5. The nearly 8500acre nuns fire in Sonoma County is still 2 contained. Evacuation advisories were delivered to Boyes Hot Springs a community of 6600 people in sonoma valley. Flames are getting closer to the community. People are advised to take care of pets and pack necessary belongings including medications and important papers. Were really nervous. Obviously, we got a couple of fires that are going to converge on us. In some neighborhoods, sprinklers and hoses were used to keep rooftops moist as residents decided whether to leave. The poor Cell Phone Service in the region is making it difficult for people to call for help and families to locate loved ones. [ inaudible ] 77 cell towers have been knocked down during the fire but the widespread outages didnt just affect First Responders. One woman who lives in the coffey park neighborhood barely made it out before the wildfire burned down her home. Did anybody get any warning . No. I went outside to check and it was like literally like a tornado outside and there was just ash everywhere. Communication is Getting Better. The 77 cell towers knocked out, 64 are back in service. Its 5 05. This morning, we are actually seeing a glow of red on our vaca camera. You can see the flames burning to the north. So unfortunately, usually we dont see anything on our vaca camera at this hour but we are right now because of the fires. The Oakland Airport camera, oakland right now dealing with some unhealthy air. I want to show you whats going on with our air at this hour. The particulate matter in the skies, this morning for napa coming in at 329. So normally on a bad unhealthy day we see 200 plus. This is very uncommon to see numbers in the 300s, unprecedented. Oakland 161 at this hour the amount of particulate matter in the air. Livermore high at 152. We are expecting to see those numbers increase throughout the day. Thats why there is another spare the air alert in effect all the way through sunday in fact. We are not expecting to get much clearing at all. Very unhealthy range for the north bay, coast, east bay, south bay, santa clara valley, all in the unhealthy range. This is unhealthy for all age groups, seniors, kids, healthy adults. Heres why. We are getting north winds coming in pushing all the smoke from the fires to the north down into the bay area. So the worst air quality is expected today. And again we are not getting clearing. We do need some rain. Thats not in the forecast. So its going to stay like this for quite some time. That means make sure you dont need to do your workouts today or tomorrow. Just take it easy and close windows and doors. Good idea, neda. We are tracking road closures calistoga road north of harville road. Mark west springs road closed at old redwood highway. Barns at river road is shut down. The bay area. Well let you know about some changes schools are making to keep students safe. Time now 5 08. The fires have significantly affected the air quality all over the bay area. Well let you know about some changes schools are making to keep students safe. And one man is on a mission to lift the spirits of evacuees stuck in shelters for another day. Just 3 percent contained this morning. There are also concerns it could all right. Lets take another live look at the atlas fire in napa. Its just 3 contained this morning. There are also concerns that it could merge with another big fire in napa county. Wednesday, we got a better look at the devastation in santa rosa. The largest city affected by the fire so far. This drone video look at this, showing block after block of homes reduced to ash. Its been difficult for many evacuees completely in the dark about the status of their homes. Displaced residents staying in santa rosas Veterans Building are at least getting a little bit of music to ease their waiting. Volunteer dave allen showed up to play violin for the nearly 300 evacuees. Some of the red cross workers at the Veterans Building say that its clear that some people displaced by the flames are starting to feel restless. They have no answers about their homes and no green light to go back. Allen is trying to lift spirits. To bring a little bit of good cheer to the crowds out here. They just told us that, you know, dont expect to even be allowed back to your home or for maybe even a week. And were just like, your heart drops. Some of the red cross volunteers say that with strong winds expected today, they are also nervous that their homes could be in harms way. All that smoky air blanketing the bay area is so hazardous, its unprecedented the bay area air Quality Management district activated a Health Advisory for the bay area yesterday warning people that the particulates in the air are especially dangerous. It is also urging people to wear masks that can filter out the most harmful matter in the atmosphere. Whether youre in the east bay or the peninsula or up near the fire, we really recommend that people stay indoors. Sfo canceled at least 80 flights because of the dense smoke. The poor air quality is also prompting schools across the bay area to close tod mount diablo in concord is canceling classes as well as the west Contra Costa CountyUnified School District which includes schools in richmond, el cerrito, san pablo and el sobrante. In oakland, the roses in concrete Community School will also be closed. Oakland unified says families concerned about the health of their students may also keep them home today. We got a call from my Daughters School yesterday in concord saying you have the choice to come pick her up early or not because of the unhealthy air conditions. So today, i need to check my husband and say, hey, check with the school before you send her off. Good idea. So many families here in the bay area affected by this fire. Its everywhere. Its everywhere. Lets go over to neda now and talk about the air quality a little bit especially with the winds. Yeah. We are starting to see those north winds pick up. The air quality actually was unhealthy around the fires just about an hour ago. And then just moments ago i checked with the spare the air folks and it has extended down into San Francisco, oakland yet again in the unhealthy range and its actually going to go further south today. So unhealthy, very unhealthy, all the way down to san jose, livermore, central valley, Central California, in fact, will feel the effects of the fire. So its all because of the north winds. Its all about the direction of the winds. As these north winds stay strong through the afternoon we are going to feel that smoke in the skies. Well feel it in your lungs and in the eyes may cause nausea as well so really important to limit your Outdoor Activity today. Humidity levels are also dropping today. Overnight, they got a little bit of relief but today, as those winds pick up we are going to start to see the levels drop town to the 20s and teens. These with winds now, west winds at 5. Westnorthwest in San Francisco at 6. Oakland northwest winds at 9. Thats what is pushing that air quality down south, the smoke down south. Novato right now seeing winds pick up at 13. Santa rosa north winds at 7. Napa still at 3mileperhour winds. So the futurecast really does help explain it all. Heres whats going on with our winds. As this low moves further east, we are going to start to see increasing north winds with drier air in the next few hours. By 6 00 this morning, napa and fairfield will get more of an impact from the winds so in the next 45 minutes to an hour, well see an increase. Folks getting a break. Napa, fairfield, northeast winds will continue through the next few hours until about 10 00, 11 00 this morning. They will stay strong. The wind gusts over the ridgetops. Could get higher 30 to 50 Miles Per Hour expected. Things die down at noon. 10mileperhour winds over Half Moon Bay you will feel the breeze at the coast. Northwest wind will be strong through the nighttime hours but nothing near as strong as what we are going to see this morning for napa and fairfield unfortunately. Winds increase over the next few hours until noon. Humidity levels now a bit of good news here didnt see these levels drop as anticipated. Fairfield will be 28 . After today, friday night into saturday, once this low moves out, High Pressure comes in. Thats usually what happens. It allows space for that High Pressure to come in and thats going to bring us more of these north winds, more of the dry conditions and thats why we do have this fire weather watch in effect for friday into early sunday morning. So gusts going up again. Humidity levels going down again. A bit of relief. Low 70s. Colder air in place for the next couple of days. So at least for the firefighters its not hot smoky and windy. Its just windy and low humidity. By saturday, sunday, the heat will be back and the winds will be back. So of course this weekend another major fire event critical fire danger in effect again. Well, we are tracking delays over at the bay bridge toll plaza. Two situations going on. We have the metering lights that looks like they just activated them as well as report of an accident. Heres a live look at the maze. And you can see traffic already starting to back up along 580 to the maze. Interstate 80 looking okay, our sensors jumped into the yellow about 15 minutes from 4 to the maze. It looks like that accident involving a big rig and another vehicle blocking at least one of the lanes right near the pay gates. So just a heads up if you are head there is. Give yourself some extra time. Some road closures in effect loose is now safe. Th back to you guys. Thank you. The wildfires have put many animals in danger. But one llama that was on the loose is now safe. The chp escorted the animal to safety in Sonoma County. First, the officer helped fix a fence damaged by the fire and he and an animal control officer herded this llama back into its pen. Before he said goodbye, the officer took a selfie. The llama looks happy, too. [ music ] 5 19. We are hearing some incredible stories of survival emerging from the fire zone. Well show you what it was like for two roommates trapped in the cascade fire. 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Good morning. 5 22. Your approach towards maze, not looking too bad. We were tracking some slowdowns a little earlier. We are still seeing slowdowns over at the maze. This is all due to an accident involving a big rig and another vehicle right near the pay gates. It looks like emergency crews on the scene and they quickly cleared that out of the lanes. But they are still seeing that backup at the toll plaza and the traffic is backing up towards the maze. Kenny. All the smoke is affecting some bay area airports. This is a live look at the San Francisco airport. 80 flights were canceled. Other flights have had long delays. And in Sonoma County, flights have also been canceled at the Charles Shulz airport. There have been no major problems so far at Oakland International airport or mineta airport in san jose. The state department of parks and recreation is removing some historic artifacts from sonoma state historic park. Its to prevent any fire or smoke damage to them. The National Guard is in downtown sonoma to protect some historic buildings. In yuba county the cascade fire has now burned more than 12000 acres and merged with another fire. Cal fire says that blaze is 20 contained. The pair of roommates didnt realize they were in danger until they saw flames closing in on them. One recorded the dramatic minutes as they scrambled to make it out alive. Im actually surprised we got through it and happy we got through it. Er. going to [ censored ] die, dude, we have to get out of here. My eyes are burning. We still have oxygen. Were not dead yet. They managed that save their dogs but the two men did lose their home and one of their cars in the fire. This could provide a hint as to the cause of the fire as the first fire calls came in sunday night. Emergency dispatchers got reports of downed power lines in Sonoma County rmer involved pgande issued this statement in some cases we have found instances of wires down, broken poles and impacted infrastructure. Where those have occurred, we have reported them to our state utility regulator pg e said in some cases, we have found instances of wires down, broken poles and impacted infrastructure. When those have occurred we have record them to our state utility regulator and cal fire. 52,000 customers still have no power. Sonoma county is facing most of those outages. Some 39,000 according to pg e. Were in napa county this morning watching the atlas fire currently burn in skyline wilderness park. Its in a canyon now and well show you whats glowing from where we are. The wine country wildfires rage on he clock the fire just blows through. This has been going on for three days with no resolution. We are just on edge right now. The wine country wildfires rage on as crews work around the clock to stop the flames, as new evacuations are ordered. Good morning, its thursday, october 12th. Im michelle griego. Im kenny choi. This morning, 22 fires still burning. This map showing you the 8 biggest ones. Cal fire says that the danger is far from over, especially now as the winds pick up again. And heres what we know at this time. At least 23 people have died. 285 more are reported missing. More than 129,000 acres have burned. And more than 3500 homes and businesses are gone. Searchandrescue crews are going door to door and searching through the rubble for those who are still missing. We continue to work on that as we get into some of these fire areas. But im going to tell everybody straight up the potential continues to exist for peril if folks dont get out from in front of these fires. So please pay very close attention to evacuation orders. Sonoma county tweeted this, this morning, that if you are trying to locate a loved one or report a missing person to call this hotline, 7075653856. Jackie ward is in napa county. He atlas fire is burning out of control. Neda iranpour reports on our air quality. But we start with anne makovec whos in geyserville where there are new evacuations because of the pocket fire, anne . We have Team Coverage on the fires. Anne makovec starts in geyserville where there are new evacuation orders because of the pocket fire. Anne. Reporter yeah. The wind conditions are really erratic here. Its calm and then suddenly it whips up. And that is what has been spreading these fires all through wine country. This one behind me is relatively small. About 4,000 acres. Its threatening geyserville. Our Vantage Point is between highway 101 and downtown geyserville. The fire to the north. Take a look at the flames we caught last night. Winds have been whipping up and it could move closer to town. Evacuation was called for much of geyserville up to and including red rock casino. 4,000 acres have burned northeast of geyserville and firefighters have been working all night to prevent it from moving into town. They were dropping fire retardant from the air last night and hand crews and dozers have been constructing a line to hold it back. But its been very difficult. Blow visibility, a lot of smoke over there. Now, geyserville is a small town. The population less than 1,000. And while much of the town is evacuated, the downtown area over there is not evacuated. It also has electricity and we have cell service at this point. So we are holding on to the good news and hoping it will stay that way. Live in geyserville, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Oh, and lets go now to jackie, who is at another raging fire, this one in napa county. Jackie. Reporter yeah, anne. This is whats being called the atlas fire. Were alongside highway 221 right now. Thats known as the vallejo highway. And behind me is skyline wilderness park. You can kind of see the glow right now. We earlier when we got here the flames were visible but we believe that the flames have dipped into a canyon now. The Silver Lining to this part of fire is that there arent any stretchers up interest. This part of the atlas fire was originally in napa county and yesterday, it began burning in parts of the solano. With the change of wind direction, its now heading back to napa county where were standing now. Evacuation advisories have been issued all across napa county. This includes east of silverado trail. And in various other areas. A lot of advisories are in place for the areas east of highway 221 and 29, as well. A reminder that advisories are not the same as evacuations. It means that people should consider preparing to leave just in case things worsen. Just terrified with everything thats going on emotionally, yeah. Reporter the closest neighborhood from where we are is near the napa state hospital. Fairfield is to the east of where we are now and the police and Fire Departments there are also watching the wind and brainstorming what to do next. Solano county authorities urge residents of fairfields Eastridge Development to evacuate and encouraged residents of the Rancho Solano development to get ready to leave just in case. So right now, this last last is about 43,000 acres and only 3 contained. In napa county, jackie ward, kpix 5. The fire region is getting more help from the California AirNational Guard. More than 100 members flew from Southern California to Moffett Field last night. They will be working in the fire regions helping with logistics, communications and humanitarian efforts. Some of these folks had just finished their day jobs and were immediately told to pack up and get on one of these aircraft to fly out and take care of the wildfire efforts. So much work to be done and the tasks will include setting up shelters. A napa family trapped in the atlas fire has just been reunited with the chp team that saved them. The officers say they will never forget the experience. The reason, their helicopter could only fit four people but they faced a family of five. The father pepe tamayo told them to take his family and leave him behind. The chp officers promised they would return for him. He called his daughter just in case they couldnt. I called my daughter and i told her, mija, if i dont see you again, remember i love you. [ crying ] and he is saying, take my family and go. So i mean [ voice breaking ] whoo. Kudos to him, you know . What a guy. Luckily he was able to get out. We have learned chp air crews rescued 42 people that night. Wow. So many stories remain untold. But kudos to all the First Responders and its been uplifting to see them going beyond the call of duty helping out so many families reunite in all this tragedy. They worked hard for so many days. Some of the firemen on the fire lines, they are in their Third Straight shift. So sleeping on the ground is what a lot of them do if they get a chance to take a nap. I wish we could see rain in the forecast but thats not happening. Here are the Current Conditions in the areas of concern. St. Helena north winds coming in at 8 Miles Per Hour. Solano northwest at 8. Yountville 5. Eastsoutheast wind direction and glen ellen just picked up northwest winds at 13. Gusts up to 50 miles an hour in the higher elevations. Mount diablo 53 overnight. Even Half Moon Bay saw wind gusts up to 40, 30s across a lot of the bay area including monterey. So it looks like places like napa, yountville, those gusts are not as intense this morning. We are going to continue to see a bit of a north wind this morning and its going to intensify by about 7 to 9 a. M. Then after noon, things should die down a little bit. Humidity levels will dry out. Then well get another major wind event friday into early sunday morning. Heres a look right now at our vaca cam. You can see some flames there. And we continue to see this eerie red glow as we look north to the fires. San jose will feel the impact of the fire and further down into Central California with smoke from the fires. We see more of a northwest flow, well see more smoke in the air. We are talking unhealthy, very unhealthy air quality out there today. Sfo right now west winds at 5. The concern is whats going on in napa, sonoma, all the areas of those massive fires. Unfortunately, this low as it moves east, its not bringing any rain to us. Instead, its bringing us those north winds. And those north winds are what brings us that drier air so humidity levels at the moment are still in the 50s and 60s for a lot of the fire area. But we are going to see them drop later on because these winds right here are going to start to pick up. So for napa and fairfield, well start to see an increase here in the next few hours as more of this area turns red. So ill show that you hour by hour coming up in just a bit. We were just checking in with chp. We are getting multiple reports of a grass fire thats along interstate 80 in the dixon area. Well continue to follow that and let you know if there are any lane closures on 80. But right now, traffic is still moving in both directions. Closures on highway 128 shut down in both directions between chockhill road and napaSonoma County line. Highway 29 closed between lolly and western mine road. If you are making your way on the eastshore freeway, things are still moving at the limit, crowded out there at 80 at ashby. But over at the bay bridge toll plaza, things are backed up beyond the maze. Its about 20 minutes from the maze into San Francisco. Time now 5 38. Working to put out the flames. Next, a look at how many resources are being used in the firefight under way across the entire state. Plus, rushing for safety. The pregnant woman who grabbed her children and bicycled out of fastmoving flames. dog panting another 2am stroll, huh . Im worried. I have this medical bill. Dave, you have anthem, and they have people to talk to who are empowered to help answer any question you. dog grunting, panting is. Is he okay . Real people . Living and breathing. Hopefully not breathing like that. For all the things that keep you up at night, Anthem Blue Cross has a solution. Looking north at the wine country wildfires. Cal fire says it has a lot of resources for this rash of fires. A live look from our vaca cam. We are looking north at the wine country wildfires with flames out there in the dark. 22 fires burning in Northern California. Cal fire has 8,000 firefighters on the front lines. 7300 helicopters are in use. And more than 30 tankers are making drops. Cal fire says it has access to every available aviation asset in the country. Were concerned and anticipate that before the day is over, several of these fires will merge. These fires are just literally burning faster than firefighters can run in some cases and so imagine being out there in difficult terrain with miles and miles of fire lines and to try to catch up to that and put in hand line or lay hose is very challenging. Cal fire says additional crews from nevada, oregon, washington and arizona are also heading to the front lines. In santa rosa when flames started to cover a residential street, one pregnant mother of two went to Great Lengths to save her family. Charity ruiz got her bike plus toddler trailer and just started pedaling. She said she had no choice with her husband stuck in traffic behind the wheel of their car and flames spreading fast across her neighborhood. She got on the bike put her two daughters in the toddler trailer and pedaled until a Good Samaritan got them to a friends house. The family is okay and reunited but the house burned down a week before ruizs csection date. To not baby is going to come into this world and, of course, be loved and its going wonderful and exciting, but i wont have a place to bring him home to. They are not quite sure of a name for the baby boy just yet but they are considering phoenix, as up from the ash. What a mom. Wow, come on, kids, were going. Get in the bike, lets do this. She got video of it. I know. Tell the tale. Amazing to hear. Show the baby when he grows up. So many stories of close calls. Yeah. So this morning, i want to talk about these winds. We have been waiting to see if they are going to pick up in the areas of the fire. Whats happening now is that the winds are picking up along the coastline. Thats good news in the kpix. Com fire. We are seeing strong winds but not so much as to where the fires are burning. You will see air quality in the unhealthy range there this mo. Well see the smoke further south. Mount diablo 53mileperhour gusts. Oakland hills 36. San francisco 34. Monterey 34, as well. Half moon bay, bodega bay, wind gusts very high up there between 35 to 45 Miles Per Hour. So we were expecting to see peak gusts this morning and overnight last night. And it looks like they are happening. But just not in the areas of those fire zones so thats good news. What we are going to watch though the next few hours especially with the winds coming from the northwest, this area thats glowing in the red and orange, that of course is an area of concern with the firefighters that are out there, of course, with all those homes that are in the line of those fires. So when we start to see those winds intensify from napa, fairfield, 6 00, 7 00, 8 00, that of course will be the time where there will be some critical fire danger. Then by noon the winds ease up. So between 6, 7 a. M. , to about noon, those sustained winds will get strong. Then after noon, they should calm down to below 10 Miles Per Hour. Santa rosa may see some winds pick up tonight about 7 p. M. That will be a northwest wind coming. So when we start to see those northeast winds coming down in the next few hours thats when our humidity levels will drop, as well. Humidity levels at the moment are not too bad. But north winds are causing the air quality to be unhealthy especially this morning in napa. Particulate matter there right now 329. Thats whats been happening overnight in the earlymorning hours. Of course, very unhealthy for peoples lungs. Oakland 161. Livermore 152. The earlymorning hours, air quality index anything over 200 is in that very unhealthy range. So heres how its going to shape up today. We are going to start to see a lot of that nasty smoke pushing further south. Its going to get beyond san jose, beyond monterey. So this entire area of Northern California will be in that unhealthy range. In fact, its because obviously the north winds will cause the worst air quality we have seen in the bay area. Its unfortunately going to stay bad for days because we are not expecting too much clearing. We need that rainfall to happen and thats not in our forecast anytime soon. So the winds increasing this morning. I want to recap whats going on today. The wind direction will send that smoke down south. Temperatures good news here, they are cool, but the air will be dry as we get more of those winds coming in. So look at the rain. Unfortunately, to the north of us, washington, oregon, getting that. We are going to see some High Pressure coming in friday into sunday. So we are going to get more critical fire danger by then. A fire weather watch in effect from friday to sunday morning with humidities dropping again and wind gusts picking up again. Temperatures today will feel comfortable out there at least when it comes to temperatures. 68 for oakland. 64 for San Francisco. Napa will be 73 degrees today. Cool conditions for the next couple of days. Then well get High Pressure and more heat by the time we get to the weekend. Jaclyn. Fire crews are on the scene now of this grass fire we were seeing reports of along interstate 80. This is in the dixon area. Looks like the fire may have started in the Center Divide but quickly has spread into the grass and the surrounding areas. Sparks being reported in the area. One lane westbound is closed. Traffic backing up into davis near highway 113. So this fire reported near milk farm road, you can see speeds drop to about 15 Miles Per Hour. Slow through that area. We are also tracking closures in Solano County. Suisun valley road is shut down in the area. A closure since yesterday since power lanes came down la honda road, highway 84, at Pescadero Creek road. They a detour set up. Chp says they should have those lanes reopened by 6 a. M. So coming up here shortly. Well let you know if it remains shut down any longer than that. Back to you. Jaclyn, thank you. Chopper 5 giving us our first good look at the devastation in santa rosa. Entire neighborhoods completely gone. You can see in this shot block after block reduced to ash. Firefighters hope to contain the wildfires before more neighborhoods are destroyed. Needles, syringes and blood cubes are just some of the items on this mobile vet hospital. Working to save animals abandoned during the wildfires, a 12man team from ucdavis is running the mobile hospital and its members are racing from property to property searching for animals in a bind. When animals are scared by fires, they run through fences, they fall into ravines. They they they get themselves into all kinds of problems and get injured that way. These llamas from a Sonoma County farm were served by the team. They are tweeting out the ways you can help save animals in trouble. Its encouraging people to drop off or mail donations to its office on 1247 Century Court in santa rosa. Airbnb is expanding their Disaster Assistance program to help the victims of the wine country wildfires. Hosts in oakland and berkeley are making their rentals available at no cost for evacuees forceed to flee. Host this is San Francisco, marin and Contra Costa County have already begun housing some fire victims. More than 200 hosts have signed up for the program and it runs through october 30th. And these bay area sports teams are teaming up to aid in the fire recovery. Together, they pledged to donate 450,000 for relief efforts. And a lot of you want to know how you can help. You can donate to the red cross by calling the number on your screen, 1800redcross or go to redcross. Org. For more information on ways to donated go to cbssf. Com. Mandatory evacuations overnight near the town of geyserville. Yet another fire burning in californias wine country. Well check the conditions here when we come back. Plus, in the middle of the chaos, a false rumor is flying around this morning bay area sheriffs are setting the record straight. Wildfires burning in the north bay. Nasa released these satellite images. The hot spots are in red. You can also see the large welcome back. Our live Team Coverage continues. This view interest space of the wildfires burning in the north this view from space of the wires burning in the north bay. The hot spots are in red. You can see large plumes of spoke here from the wildfires in the counties. And the situation isnt Getting Better. Strong winds whipping up another fire in wine country. New mandatory evacuations are issued for the community of geyserville because of the pocket fire. Cal fire is worried the winds will push it right into town. Kpix 5s anne makovec is live in geyserville with the very latest. Anne. Reporter right now, the winds are calm. Thats good news. But, of course, they could whip up again any second. Geyserville is just north of healdsburg and you can see the fire burning here behind me in whats known as the maya cama mountain range. The winds are increasing overnight. The pocket fire was 4,000 acres but probably grown overnight. It could move this way. Well learn more about the behavior overnight at first light when cal fire gets a closer look with a chopper in the sky to get a better look. New evacuations were called at 10 p. M. Including red rock casino in geyserville. Fire is burning northeast of geyserville and firefighters have been working to prevent it from moving into town. Theres homes at the bottom of the canyon and the ridge behind me. Thats what were doing. We dont have the resources to be really effective at the stopping of the forward spread of the fire. They dropped fire retardant from the air and hand crews and dozers have constructing a line to hold it back but its difficult to do the aerial drops. Low visibility with all of the smoke in the air. And another good sign though here where i am, which is in between 101 that way and downtown geyserville that way is that we dont smell a lot of smoke which indicates that the wind is blowing in our favor at this point. Live in geyserville, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Sonoma county sheriff rob giordano is putting to rest the rumor about immigration checks at Fire Evacuation centers. Shelters are asking for names because they want to identify the people that are coming into the shelter. Immigration status will never be asked of you and they are just trying to identify who is coming in. The countys department of Health Services posted a similar message on twitter saying that immigration status will not be asked at Sonoma County shelters. It is 5 55. Our coverage continues next. After days of devastation, new information on the possible cause of the wildfires. And im an arborist with ipg e in the sierras. The drought in california has killed trees on a massive scale. Any of those trees that fail into power lines could cause a wildfire or a power outage. Public safety is the main goal of our program. Thats why were out removing these hundreds of thousands of hazard trees. Having tools and Technology Gives us a huge edge to identify hazard trees. My hope is that the work were performing allows that these forests can be sustained and enjoyed by the community in the future. Together, were building a better california. This morningits day five on the front lines for fighters as th wildfires rag its very dynamic these fires are changing by the minute in many areas. Its day five on the front lines for the firefighters as the wine country wildfires rage out of control. As the flames spread, new evacuations are being ordered. Good morning, its thursday, october 12th. Im michelle griego. And im kenny choi. Right now, 22 fires are still burning here in Northern California. This map showing you the biggest 8 ones. The winds are pick up. Heres what we know. At least 23 people are dead. 285 more are reported missing. More than 129,000 acres have burned. And more than 3500 homes and businesses are gone. And new evacuations are being issued this morning in several areas. The Sonoma CountySheriffs Office tweeted about mandatory evacuation orders for the eastern part of that county. Those include castle road and 7 streets east of north lavalle valley road. Chp San Francisco tweeted this video of officers going door to door in sonoma to advice homeowners of the approaching fires. Now to the atlas fire which has burned more than 42,000 acres in napa and Solano County. The winds are picking up. Jackie ward reports. Reporter we have off 221 vallejo highway. All morning we have been watching the fire. Jess probably in a