Communication, they can make contact with their loved ones. Rob has been covering this all day. He was in napa with striking pictures. Reporter this was Westgate Drive near the Silverado Country Club late this afternoon. At least a dozen homes burned to the ground. The ruins are still smoldering in many cases. Nothing left but chimneys and other masonry. Around the corner im kristen drive, more of the same. Napa county officials cannot begin to tally the toll of the unfolding tragedy. I just came back from Silverado Country Club in the highlands community. I saw there were many affected structures. We arent at a moment where we can start the counting. We need to make sure we get the people out and to safety. Then we could count the people and then the structures. In many cases they were struck by trees blown down by power lines that in turn sparked more fires. Silverado trail resident, this residence home was spared but his neighbors were so fortunate. He spent much of the day dousing hot spots. We have cars and harleys and boats, all gone. The house is the only thing left. Our neighbor lost everything. Elsewhere more devastation is the fire shows little mercy, chasing residents from their homes in the wee hours of the morning. Many evacuees and pets are finding food and shelter here at an Evacuation Center set up at the Napa Valley Community college. Only could see was blowing red everywhere. Very scary. He didnt know what direction it was from. You could just see this glowing red sky all over. We thought maybe it was in the house on fire. We checked everything and came back up and opened the sliding glass door and i smell the its not the house, its from somewhere else. Shrubs and landscapingrvm0z into njz÷flames as the fires sw through the parched landscape. Dozens of vehicles were destroyed. A few people could be seen standing amid the ruins in utter disbelief. That was robbed reporting . Re pi. Pm uw area. Gives the opportunity to streamline the process. We have some lifesaving information for you. People are told to leave their homes, some of these places are at capacity. We have a list of those taking people in. Calistoga fairgrounds. Sonoma fairgrounds. Petaluma community center. Sonoma valley high school. Napa Valley College jim. To in the city of sevastopol. Another at the high school. Cloverdale citrus fairgrounds. You can even bring your pets that one. In fairfield, the Evacuation Center iss Lotto Committee park each College Parking lot. People with small pets can be taken to the napa county Animal Shelter in napa. Shelters of opened up at Cook Middle School in santa rosa. Ellsberg community center. There are many more. If you want the complete list go to our website. Here we are 21 hours after the initial reports of fire. The opportunity to track down people who have been missing, it is hard to learn who is missing because of communication issues. We know along the way the california Highway Patrol evacuated 40 people by helicopter including 30 veneer vineyard workers. They were in town trying to get the grapes harvested. They were among the 40 that were saved by the california Highway Patrol. People ranging in age as well as dogs and cats. We were talking earlier about evacuations from kaiser hospital. People that were obviously in a delicate state. There were ambulances lined up and they were taking them to Memorial Hospital which is in santa rosa but in a safe spot. We were hearing women in labor and the fire they had to get people out of the hospitals because they were threatened by flames. They took six from each, Kaiser Permanente and sutter, six of those in greatest need of care to memorial. And then they left empty beds because they thought, we have to be prepared to welcome people. Eminences lined up at memorial to go out and track the people who needed most. Meanwhile people could be temporarily dismissed from the hospital to a safe place, that is what they did. We want to point out, this is called wine country for a reason. Wineries are closed today. Power outages. Giving the employees and people picking in the fields, they were unable to pick. Also evacuation orders, people told to leave the area. There were wineries destroyed. Dont even know how many others are damaged. This is of course the peak of harvest. The 2017 vintage is definitely going to be affected. Its something caught not to be thinking about at this point, but again, we have had people on the air, britneys friend mallory, we had some gripping video of hers that we shot. I hope we can played at some point. She saw the devastation. The trauma and terror in her voice. When we spoke to her she sounded exhausted. The fight goes on against this fire. We will come back after this break and bring you more of the stories of this devastating time. Welcome back. Its been nonstop. This fire, these fires rather are relentless and we have not seen the end of it. We have been talking about evacuations, the human toll and property. Also there are animals and the wildlife preserve, safari west in santa rosa. Also livestock and safari west is a private animal game reserve of 900 exotic animals. Drafts and rhinoceroses. Giraffes and rhinoceroses. All those animals, you might know if you have visited there, you can imagine what goes on at such a place. They are separate from each other they try to make it possible for these animals to fend for them source this for themselves. They have been unable to there are smoke inhalation issues for the animals. Its incredible please. Were looking at facebook and have posted the for the moment it looks like the animals are okay. While the situation remains dangerous we have received word the safari west wildlife preserve appears to have weathered the worst of the firestorm. I cannot be true for all of the creatures in the napa and sonoma and mendocino and beyond areas. Many of whom had no notice and had to watch in horror as the flames approached. Some were able to evacuate. Some others not so fortunate. Some tried to put up their own defense against what was an inevitable armageddon in so many parts of napa. It has been described as armageddon. One of the hardest hit areas is santa rosa. There were neighborhood areas that were leveled to the ground. J. R. Stone has been there and he gives us this update. Reporter i am in the coffee park area of santa rosa. You can see all the damage and destruction to homes in this area. There were homes that were saved. To see this house . It is standing, the one directly nextdoor is not standing. Bill call you live your. Take me through it happened yesterday. About 11 pm my wife and i smell smoke. We got up and looked outside. A l the street. We saw embers, the winds you said the embers on this street were coming pretty fast. Coming from the coffee park area. I dont know how fast the winds were. They were shooting down the street. At the same time my neighbors were trying to back out of their driveways and it was almost a traffic jam. I said we need to go now. We grabbed the dog and a few things, our cell phones. At that point, there were no houses on fire. All of these homes were still standing. They were still standing, with no fires burning. We went to the vets Memorial Building in santa rosa. It was a center for evacuees. Did you get word that it had started running in this area . We did not. I made my way back because we left without clothing or food or anything. We forgot our laptops. I came back, parked about a halfmile down and i was devastated walking down here. I knew my house hadnt survived. Im walking down the street and couldnt believe the destruction until i got in front of my house. Its unreal. Its unreal our houses standing. We have been blessed. We didnt lose anything. At the same time, how can you be happy when all of my neighbors have lost everything. You said your fence barely got hit. We lost little side fence. Apparently, around 4 am the Fire Department made their way into this neighborhood. At that point between four and 4 30 it was fully engulfed. Even my neighbors house, they started fighting the fire right here. They were able to save my house. For on that side and my neighbor behind me. 27 they were able to save seven homes. Those in the area called heritage park. We were about 30 years old. Original owners. You have to shake your head. To think it came down to that. Its unreal. Its a war zone. You can see for miles in all directions, there is not a structure standing. Have you talked with your neighbor next door are the ones down the block who werent so lucky . I talked to my neighbor earlier. We have been texting. They got out, i knocked on his door last night, got him out of his house. He fled with his to threeyear olds and wife. To i believe his parents house. They just lost a house in lake county two years ago. They have lost two houses in two years. Devastated. Devastated. I dont know. We want to thank you for talking with us. Were thankful for houses here. Thank you very much. Think you. We are going to show you again how close it got to bills house. But you can really see the fence in the distance, that is where the fire started. Stopped. You see all this destruction at his neighbors house. For as far as you can see, now back to you in the studio. Think you. As we transition from one side of devastation to another, the smoky remnants of another blaze are taking place in another corner of the eight affected counties. Just torture to hear this man, he is happy to have his house but you can tell he is heart stricken at the fact that he has lost what amounts to his its not just her home. Its a community. Its a tightknit community. Santa rosa is essentially a small town. People know one another. We keep saying 175,000 people, yet no one would deny that it feels like a small town community. Brittney shipp is standing by to give us we are looking for a silver lining. What you have . The first thing is our weather conditions are improving. We saw last night was probably more of a perfect storm of terrible conditions that led to these wildfires starting and spreading quickly. We basically saw when speeds upwards of 40 Miles Per Hour , sustained amounts of time. And the humidity was below 20 . It was extremely dry and windy. What we will see tonight into tomorrow, we saw the red flag warning in effect until 5 am. Shifting when speeds and calmer conditions expected. Gusts 20mph, even closer to 10 Miles Per Hour. Things are calming down. Earlier it was 1015 . Now we will see more moisture moving back in. We will look at the future admitted he the before we do that we will back it up to 8 30 on monday. Humidity in nampa was 17 . It dropped down to about 11 in napa and 14 in santa rosa around 3 pm. For the rest of tonight we see more of an onshore flow. The humidity will keep increasing as we go through the day tomorrow. Itll be closer to 40 versus 10 by tomorrow evening. Back up to 53 for parts of santa rosa. When gusts overnight close to 40mph, napa 31. Santa rosa 22. This continued until 7 am. Youll notice a lot of single digits, calmer conditions. Tonight got most of tomorrow and tomorrow night. When speeds now are calm in novato, eight in fairfield. A lot of dry air and smoke being transported from the north bay toward the east bay zone. We saw the smoke advisory which will stay in effect as well. Limit your outdoor activities. If you plan on going for an evening run or walk, you might want to reschedule that. Keep your windows closed. If you have your air conditioning on set for recycle. Make sure pets are inside. Air quality will be poor heading into tomorrow. We will improve as we get more of an onshore flow with moisture coming off the ocean. Coming up we will talk more about whats in store. The take away point is yesterday we saw a terrible combination of conditions and today and into tonight and tomorrow things are improving cooler temperatures expected, calmer when speeds and more moisture. Give the firefighters a half a fighting chance. Take a look at your screen, will began 22 hours ago has left us with this kind of damage. Again, cal fire isnt even going to the trouble of adding to this yet. Why . Because they are busy drink to fight the fire. Theyre trying to get people out of harms way. Measuring the amount and finding the source of the fire is tomorrows work. Tonight we can report at least this, there were 15 different fires. Here are the highlights of the ones that are the biggest. The tubbs began in calistoga. That mightve been the first one. That has claimed 25,000 acres in napa county in the calistoga area. The atlas fire, people were lost in this fire, though 30 or risk rescued. Also, we have the nuns fire in the cherokee fire and the patrick fire. We have another fire that merged in mendocino county. The two fires that merged into one. We wont even count up all the numbers there, it is north of 70,000 acres. Speaking of numbers, already its a tragedy. So far 10 people have died. The numbers expected to grow. We know that more than 100 people are being treated at napa and sonoma hospitals for fire related injuries. Whether its burns, smoke inhalation or shortness of breath. The air is so bad there and it has been all day. Outside of the one country you are feeling the effects. Certainly, if you have asthma or encourage the elderly to stay indoors. We talked about farr west, think goodness, the structures there are protected. The 900 creatures the reside in the private animal reserve are okay. But they have to worry about smoke inhalation and thats a problem. Again, these are estimates, the lowend estimates. Its going to be worse. Private homes are going to increase in number. Businesses like kmart and applebees, center for the arts, hilton, destroyed. It runs the gamut. Those people affected, the kmart the went up in flames, mobile home parks. Wineries, mansions, it seems to be indiscriminate. Hitting everything in the path. What we are fighting for fires appear, the wildfires have spread, six buildings or more, as we approach the beginning of our primetime coverage that we bring you every night from eight until 11, this is southern california. Is are live images brought to you from one of our affiliate stations. Its upsetting. If we didnt have what was going on appear, this could be our top story. Near disneyland. 10 homes have been affected. We dont exactly know what happened. We were running cell phone video all day long. It bears repeating. The castle at disneyland, a bright orange surreal sky. The camera pans to children in strollers, we were hearing people were evacuated from disneyland from the rights. Szis. It almost looks unreal. For what cal fire is doing. They have resources up and down the state. Deciding how best to share their support. We did get some tankers when the clouds allowed them to go up and fight, there were 15 different fires going on in the north bay area. Determining where youre going to put down that aerial bombardment to bring this fire into submission is a difficult consideration. Hopefully tomorrow they will have clear skies. Southern california has their own needs and they will have to decide. Back up here, everyone is scrambling for information which is hard to come by. There was a press conference earlier. Authorities give pertinent information. The Police Department along with fellow Law Enforcement officers drought the county, as well as firefighters have been engaged in continual evacuations. Those efforts are ongoing. We do still have new fires flaring up within the city. Officers are continuing to evacuate people from the affected areas. When those people are unable to get out of the area, the going to perform rescues. It has been a terrifying night for many people. We ask that as we continue his efforts, stay out of the mandatory evacuation areas as well as the safety of First Responders have to go in and try to contain these fires. To that end, the city of santa rosa through the Emergency Declaration hasnt act has enacted a curfew for mandatory evacuation zones from 6 45 pm until sunrise. Anyone who is out in those hours in the mandatory evacuation zones will be subject to being stopped and potentially arrested if they refuse to go back inside or leave the area. In this case they would have to leave the area. That is for the safety of people in that area as well as First Responders in allowing us to get through and get the situation under control as efficiently as possible. Taking a moment out of their focused time to give us an update on whats going on. They dont have time to do anything other than fight the fire. Your school closures. Today and tomorrow as well. You can see the list of the schools, napa valley unified, st. Helena unified, the list goes on. Napa and sonoma counties. My understanding is all the schools a lot of Evacuation Centers are located there. We will begin our primetime news coverage. 24 hours ago, you were up there and it was good times. The best. It was calm. I will say, there were no wins. But you couldnt help but notice the dry grass. There was plenty of fuel. By the time i got there on sunday, but sunday evening the winds were picking up. They stayed strong sunday night. I saw smoke off in the distance. But you cant imagine its going to morph into five different wildfires burning in the area. It was a terrible combination of wind gusts for a long amount of time. 40 Miles Per Hour for five hours. Plus humidity dropping to the single digits. Tomorrow will be another day, certainly one of the most beautiful places in california, if not the world. It might be early to talk about recovery. We know the people are strong and committed, but right now they are trying to deal with the fact that this fire persists. There is barely containment in a few of the fires. Tonight, and overnight, we will focus on the efforts of firefighters from this area and as far away as san diego and beyond to help put out the fires. We will be right back