These fire so far. They continue to burn this morning out of control. Good morning, i am darya fosom. I am james fletcher. The wind has shifted a little bit and we have new Evacuation Orders to update you on this morning. Lets begin in the north where there is a mandatory evacuation right now including the area you see outlined here. This is the northern portions of Sonoma County. Take a quick look. Several areas in that area out of out on location. If you live north of grant street, you are actually, north of the River Rock Casino, you are being told to make plans to evacuate right now. Lets look at another map with another area. Actually, not another map, but specific streets that are impacted by mandatory evacuations this morning in case you know anyone on nutter rolled, fullers road, fay ranch, fox ridge, vineyard road , willow ridge, ram hill and rockmouth road. Those are under mandatory evacuation this morning. Also in geyserville impacted is deerpath road and lakewood lane. Those are all mandatory evacuations. And their people on Moon Mountain road, mission way, martin wrote, caven dale road and adobe way, they are being told to pack up before the flames reach their houses. Also on state road state 12 road. You have not been ordered to leave just yet, but you need to get your bags ready because if the winds blow the way they blow and the fire moves the way it is moving, they will be knocking on your doors soon. They want to avoid the situation in Sonoma Valley where you could be surrounded by fire. This is a look at the route. There are more mandatory evacuations in order for calistoga because they dont want anybody surrounded by fire like they were monday and unable to get out in the neighborhoods that you saw. Everybody north of grant street has to leave their home in calistoga. All remaining areas of calistoga are under an advisory. Elsewhere in calistoga, other than north of grant road, you are not under mandatory evacuations, but they are saying to be ready to evacuate and get out of calistoga. The suggestion is silverado trail south to simpson lane and then west to state highway 29 s. From there. Or you can get out of calistoga using state road 29 s. This is where we heard the story last night that people want to get livestock and horses out. By some accounts, one viewer said with a mobile app that they walked eight miles with horses in the dark and in the smoky conditions to get the horses out of calistoga. An incredible story to hear from overnight. We have annadel heights in the area of calistoga where there are Evacuation Orders. What is the latest . Reporter good morning. I am an unincorporated santa rosa and the town is eight or 10 eight or 10 miles up the road. I drove up five miles and thats when i encountered firefighters and they told me not to go through. They say they are worried because the wind is shifting in Different Directions and they dont know where the fires will pick up and start and that is their biggest concern. They tell me they are worried about the trees that are catching on fire and they are spreading the fire to areas that even the firefighters dont know where it is going. A lot of the people left last night, but if anybody is still there, the officers are telling them to get out. There are only Firefighter Personnel and officers in the area. They are the only ones allowed in. They are worried for their safety and everyone else. They are telling people to be careful in the area. Reporting live in santa rosa, kron 4 news. We are following the rather and how it is weather and how it is changing. In morning everyone. We have an onshore road breeze and the shift has not happened yet. The front is in our backyard with scattered clouds and ultimately when it passes, the wind will shift from the north and northeast and that will drive the dry red flag warning kind of wind. We have a spare the air day with smoke from the fire and unhealthy air in the north way. That is pushing the air quality down in general across the bay area. That will be the case overnight and greet us tomorrow morning. Run your ac and recirculate and close windows today as well. A fire danger and red flag warning that kicks off at 8 00 and runs until 5 30 thursday evening. Dry conditions with wind gusts at 45. We will plot this for you and right now robin is sitting by with the traffic update. Good morning. It is not a good day. There are so many hotspots. This is a view from the cal the caltrans camera near the 24 split. There is a long line of break lets which is traffic headed to the oakland maze. We had a crash 580 w. Near the 80 split. You can go to San Francisco and that accident is locate was blocking the left lane of traffic. It is gone but the damage is done. It is backed up onto 24 beyond the macarthur station which is now crawling back from telegraph. Here is 92, another hotspot with delays on the san mateo bridge thanks to an accident at 6 00 which was blocking two lanes at the high rise. It is gone and the Traffic Alert is canceled. Our whopping 27 minutes from 882 101. 880 is backed up and crawling down to 38 thanks to the accident. It is 7 07 right now and check this out. New video from a Sonoma CountySheriffs Office deputy who was driving through basically a tunnel of fire to tell people to get out. This is what they dont want to see today on day three of the fire with people escaping with active flame. This is a scene from monday morning on the first day. You can see the flames on his windshield as he was trying to drive through. That is up near calistoga and this is a fire that burned from calistoga to santa rosa to santa rosa. This is a scene from early monday morning. This is a look at the nuns fire threatening oak lawn. Santa rosa is hit by two fires. You have the tubs fire burning at the north end and then the nuns fire burning up and over the ridge and attacking santa rosa from the east. So the Current Situation right now with the nuns fire is it has burned 5000 acres and is about 20 contained. It is burning north of glen ellyn and 10 miles east of santa rosa. Also in that area, the sugarloaf state park and the crane creek regional park, they are trying to save those as well. And the tubbs fire is the most destructive. We were on the scene when the flames jumped highway 101 and burned Mobile Home Parks on both sides of the highway. This one has burned 28,000 acres. It is the most destructive fire because it was the most densely packed with homes and businesses. 571 structures burned. This is where the kmart and the arbys and the mcdonalds were burned up along with the Mobile Home Parks and subdivisions. 16,000 structures are threatened this morning and it is out of control. We are still looking at almost 0 containment. One is 3 contained and it is pretty much out of control this morning. While we talk about the tubbs fire we have a set update. Wheelchairbound woman has been found dead according to family members. A fire inspector told them that Christina Hanson was in the house and did not make it out. She ended up falling victim to the fire. Her father, by the way, is in the hospital this morning with thirddegree burns. Lets look at the atlas fire and everything in the area that we have drawn here. That is where the fire burned off of atlas peak road south of berryessa. As far north as the Robert Kaczynski veneers. You can see the black stallion winery and other landmarks going down to the skyline wilderness park. This area that is burned out is 25,000 acres including 125 buildings destroyed in the area. You can see that fire is just 3 contained this morning. The final of the large fires in the north bay we are tracking is the part trick fire on the western slopes of the valley earning into the Sonoma Valley. You can see it with a winery to the north and the Nicholson Ranch winery to the south. The information is that it has burned 6000 acres and is still growing. It is 1 contained with 5000 buildings in jeopardy right now is being consumed by the fire. Lets go to will tran as we continue Team Coverage. He has been following this since it started monday morning when he was driving toward a glow in the sky. Will, you dont see the same amount of flames today, what about the smoke . Reporter you can still smell smoke in the area. In the fountaingrove area we did not see flames. I wish we did. It is nothing but fumes with cars smoldering. It was within it was so bad that within an hour we got a sore throat. Im thankful we left with our health and two we can talk to people. We are at the Sonoma County fairgrounds which has turned to his city. We have First Responders day in here and over my Left Shoulder is an area for evacuees and where they are staying as well. You may be able to see the army soldier. The army soldier the army was brought in and hes with the air National Guard. Im not sure why they have their rifles drawn, but they do what they do. You can see that this has turned into a little city with thousands of people here. They are all desperate to get their story out and they want to know exactly what is going on including susan and larry here. Susan, you evacuated a couple of days ago. Tell us your story. We were in the mobile home watching the pink and red sky. And when we were told to leave, the manager of the Mobile Home Park came up to the house and knocked on the door and said, we should be leaving. We had already had the car park packed because we were leaving to go on vacation. We had now decided there is no vacation and we will be here until we get the news. Reporter is your home okay . Our home is okay at this time. We were there yesterday and spent the afternoon there, but it was very, very smoky. You cannot even stay here at the Evacuation Center because of your rescue dog . I have a rescue dog that i cannot keep with other dogs. So, we have been staying and sleeping in the car which is not a comfortable way of spending your time. Four how is it been for you, larry . It is rough. You know, but when we left over there the fire was still about a mile away from the park. So, you could see the glow, the fire glow. And then the black and brown smoke would go up as a house wart swelling would go up. Reporter there is no doubt about it, get out. There is no doubt. We wanted out. We felt safer. Yesterday you could not see the plumes of smoke at all. They were not showing. It was smoky, but you could not see the plumes coming from the area. That would have been mostly the fountaingrove area. Reporter thats where we came from and it is awful. Yes it is. It was actually the valley before it goes up the hill to fountaingrove. So, it is scary. Reporter it is scary. Thank you for sharing your story with us. We wish you well. They are Holding Hands and walking gingerly. We want to walk through here and i want to give you the lay of the land. When i said like it that it is a miniature city. There are signs telling people where to go and you can see the Army Soldiers in front. There is a mixture of firefighters, evacuees, City Employees and the military is here as well. On the other side in the distance, beyond those trees, that is where the First Responders parked their vehicles. You can see darya and james, the tents used by the First Responders as they come back after a long night on the ridgeline. They are coming back for a little sleep and then i head back to fight the fires. They are having a briefing right now with calfire and i will try to get you the latest numbers. It feels like almost locked down. I tried to talk to soldiers and the army people to ask when they were called in and why are you here and why do you have guns . We could not get through here guys without our media badge. We pulled up in a live fan and nothing is more iconic than we are doing news. Even then we had to show press passes. We had cameras and microphones and that was not good enough. We had to convince them that we needed to be here because they wanted to make sure that the people who need help or are doing the help need are the ones here. Back to you. Had so many neighbors to the north in sonoma and napa and santa rosa consider it all wine country. They consider it the wine country fires. There are a lot of wineries impacted and lydia is at the hamill wine factory. Reporter this is off highway 12. As you know that people are being told to pack up their stuff and be ready to leave at a moments notice. You cannot go past madrone road and only First Responders are allowed back that way. The fire is burning about two miles from where i am standing. At hamill family wines, the First Responders and firefighters are using the road to get onto the vineyard to fight the fire. It is burning on the ridgeline above. We did talk to the owner of hamill family wind who said he and his family have been monitoring the situation. They have owned the winery for a few years and he said it is a big investment. Here is what he had to say. Reporter we have done the preparation we can. We have moved the things that we could show the fire come our way. We feel we are reasonably positioned because we have a vineyard above the winery. They think that could dasher the fire come down, should the fire come down, it may pass by. Reporter as far as people in the area, they say that many are living without electricity and they are staying in their homes until the Evacuation Order is mandatory because they are afraid of learning. Reporting live in Sonoma Valley. Kron 4 news. There are people in the areas that have caught fire. One is Still Standing but neighbors are not so lucky. A friend of mine called and said, your house is Still Standing, but the neighbors house is on fire. We came back in and we fought it. Fought it for another day. So we have our house. Reporter as we said, his neighbor is not so lucky and you can see the damage and the rubble. It is a foreign looking landscape to the folks who live there. Unfortunately a lot of the people in the Evacuation Centers where well was a few moments ago will come home to find their homes in ruins. We will follow the latest of the progress of these fires and the firefighters. We will update you as we know more about where the Evacuation Orders are issued this morning. We will be right back. These are nice homes and it is just brick or stone and Everything Else is just a pile on the ground. Reporter he is talking about a santa rosa neighborhood turned to rubble and ash. As we drive through, you can see the disruption destruction. There you see a chimney and everything is just incinerated by the inferno that has been whipping through neighborhoods. Take a look at the fountaingrove community in santa rosa. There is a home standing and the rest of the neighbors are flattened. From the whole neighborhood, only three houses are Still Standing. We heard from neighbors and tears talking about how they cannot believe their home survived and they are devastated by the neighbors that they know and love around them that lost everything. Story after story are the same as peoples hearts go out to those who lost everything. Those who have not been allowed back in their houses and are living in shelters and tents and those who have lost loved ones in the firestorm that so far has killed 16 people that are confirmed. There could be other victims we dont know yet and we will keep you posted as we continue to try to connect with those who are missing and listing and looking for those unaccounted for. There are some joining those decimated by the fire and the big question is the wind. That will determine how this continues to move. Dave has been tracking at, what are you seeing . It is coming in from the west and then later today it will start to shift. The red flag warning kicks in at 5 00 and here is why. You can see at midnight or 1 00 there will be a north east or dasher northeasterly wind. You can see hourly estimations in the 20s here. It doesnt look like Solano County is as heavy as it was yesterday. Now the breezy light conditions will remain through thursday and into friday, but the intensity will be between midnight and 3 00 a. M. Tonight. Humidity levels overnight should rise and they dont. It will be a return of offshore dry wind. Those are the factors that will come together. It will come together late for tonight. I look at bay area traffic with robin. What is going on . Reporter it is packed and backed up to the maze at 580. A very slow ride in and it is backed up right around 13 and 24 is backed up to the bart station. And it is jammed out of hercules. All approaches are creeping. 20 minutes for the average drive in which is a bit high. This is the san mateo bridge at 92 where there was an accident blocking two lanes. It is gone and the damages gone , but the drivetime is clocking at 32 minutes from the nimitz to 101. There are a lot of brake lights and you can take dunbar instead. Another look at the bridge where there is a growing backup at 580 well beyond richmond parkway. More news news, weather and traffic updates coming up after the break. Stay with us. We are back on the clock with wild visors ranging out of control. That has been the news since we first started broadcasting early monday morning. This is from yesterday evening and the oakmont neighborhood. You remember yesterday that will tran was reporting live where they have had smoke but not fire. Now that area is under mandatory evacuation. He was near annandale state park and people were checking on homes. Yes, this is the area. Thats why they evacuated. They dont want to see people running from their homes. They all left last night or the night before. Heres a look at the latest on the fires. Unfortunately the desktop death toll has gone up and they knew it would once they got back into the burned out neighborhoods to identify and find the people who could knock it out. We have gone from 12 to 16 people confirmed killed in the north bay firestorms. Separate fires are burning and there are 15 different fires in five different areas. 16 people confirmed dead in the flames. The number of buildings damaged or destroyed has gone up. It is now 2000 homes or structures destroyed. In addition to the death toll, that number will go up today as they continue to battle the place. The reason is they dont know if the 183 people that are unaccounted for may have lost their lives. Cell phones are down and Communications Towers are down. And they could be in Evacuation Centers. They have not talked to loved ones and they are not unsafe and well. Org. In some cases they cannot get on safe and well. Org. In some cases they cannot get on. We know the numbers aker does burn has gone up. There is zero containment and the fire can still spread and be out of control. We have gabe in the weather center. There are new mandatory evacuations that we need to tell you about for parts of Sonoma County. Several areas in geyserville are now told they are in evacuation zones. Look at the screen near highway 101. If you are in that section along 101 north of that box north of the River Rock Casino, you need to get out of that area. More specifically here are the roads and streets impacted. People who live along nutter road, ridge oats road, fox road, also deerpath drive and lakewood lane. These are all streets in geyserville impacted by mandatory evacuation as of right now. Lets also update you on the situation farther south. People on Moon Mountain road, you are told to evacuate. Also mission way and london way and martin road, cave dale road and adobe way. For people along highway 12, you are under a voluntary evacuation. You dont have to get out just yet, but emergency crews are saying the fire is dangerously close and you need to have your bags packed and be ready to go they come to your neighborhood with both owns bullhorns and knocking on doors saying that now is the time. New Evacuation Orders for calistoga because of the changing buyer conditions. Calfire is ordering all people north of grand street to leave their homes. You can see the Evacuation Order that is mandatory. We have market north of grant street. Anybody else in calistoga needs to be ready to leave but dont necessarily have to leave yet. You can evacuate voluntarily if you want to. Better to be safe than sorry. Or you could wait for the mandatory evacuation and then you have to worry about how to get out. You can use in pentel lane and then head to state road 29. Or you can use 29 s. We have Camila Bernal in the area. One of the people across the north bay with Team Coverage. Tickets remind us where you are this morning. Reporter good morning. I am in unincorporated santa rosa about 10 miles from the town of calistoga. The road is closed but i was able to drive five miles up the road and that is where i found a couple of firefighters who were there fighting the fire and they were telling me they were worried. They are very worried about the wind and the trees. The trees are catching on fire and then they fall and spread the fire throughout the area. We are worried for their safety and my safety and everyone in the area. They have been asked to evacuate. Now that the sun has come up, i have been able to see the destruction of the fire. This area was burned and there are still small flames in the area. Now i can see the destruction and i can see there were people here whose houses have been damaged. The area is damaged and they are telling people to simply get out as soon as they can. A lot of them did last night, but if there is anybody in the area, they are asking them to get out. Reporting live in santa rosa, Camila Bernal, kron 4 news. First we want to update you on the weather. Not just for the fire area, but the area around San Francisco. We have heavy smoke and we want to see where it will be going today. Good morning everybody. Fortunately we have had an onshore wind to add humidity to our forecast. That will be changing. The wind directions have arrows from the west and they will shift to the north and northeast later in the forecast. So far they are relatively benign and you can see pretty much Single Digits all over the board. Fairfield hire and San Francisco in a due westerly pattern. Spare the air day, we have smoke from the fire. It is from the north blowing the smoke which is unhealthy for everybody in the north bay as a blows across the cities of the bay. That is going to be in our future. Run your ac in the recirculate mode and keep your windows closed. Also because of this there is a red flag warning reinstated and it goes into effect at 5 00. Drier air is coming from the land. We have shown the relative humidity levels which will not climb tonight as they normally should. At night humidity levels normally climb and they will not snap back until friday. You have been hearing about the recovery areas where they have been asking for blankets and so forth because it has been relatively chilly. Santa rosa checking in at 39 and 40s elsewhere. We have scattered clouds added to the forecast and it is a dry cold front. There is cooler air which helps a little bit with the firefighting efforts, but it is unpleasant at night. Now lets check bay area traffic with robin. Whats happening . It is not fun heading into San Francisco. Traffic is crawling but there are no major traffic accidents. Through the maze on the 580, 580 is crawling out of san leandro. It is crawling out of hercules and up the eastern span. By the time you make it to the split of the maze, it is 16 minutes to fremont street. Look at the drive times. 580 is packed and it is 41 minutes to oakland. The nimitz is moving better, but slow. 22 minutes from to the 980 split. No big problems on 280 and there is a lot of commuter traffic from san jose to cupertino. 30 minutes from 101 to 85. Thanks a lot. It is day three and a lot of people are waking up in Evacuation Centers in north bay. Lets go live to Sonoma County fairgrounds where will tran is standing by. Im still thinking of the couple you talked to with their heartbreaking story. Reporter they share their story with many others. Shared their story with many others. This is not only an Evacuation Center, it is a staging area for First Responders. Normally this is a place for fun, but there is nothing fun about this high state of urgency. You can see the tents which are being used by the First Responders coming back to get a little sleep. Then they go back to the front lines. They brought in semi trucks as well for supplies. There is a pg e truck in the distance. Behind the fenced area, where we were, it made the National Guard uncomfortable because this feels like a military operation. I talked to other reporters. The evacuees are straight down here and to the right. The last time you saw me, thats where we were talking to the evacuees. A lot of them almost appear like patients that we saw evacuated from kaiser permanente. They are older and walk a little slower. They are fragile. I know there are paramedics on standby in case anything happens to the evacuees. Now also, here it is, i talked about it at 7 00 and i want to show it to you at 7 30. You can see the fleet and the army of firefighters at the campground. They are coming from all over the bay area and northern california. And send one from san bernardino, a gentleman just yelled out. They have come from Southern California as well. At the Sonoma County fairgrounds, there is nothing but First Responders. They just wrapped up their briefing and we will hear from the Public Information officer and the spokesman coming up at 8 00. I did talk to other people working in the media facility and they said that unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, the numbers have not gone up. Containment numbers have not gone up. Unfortunately the number of acres and burned homes are the same at least for now. They continue to have updates through the day. So this whole area now has been taken over by thousands of firefighters from all over our state. Just coming here to do the best they can. And darya , i know you have been asking about the air polity. At this location, it is not to air quality. At this point and at this location, it is not too bad. You can still smell the smoke in the air, no doubt about it. We are going on day three in the San Francisco bay area and the radius around. There is a lot of unhealthy air to breathe today and we have a warning for you if you are going to be outside. Thank you for that. It will be interesting to see the thousands of his of First Responders and evacuees together on the property. They all struggled to get a handle. We will be back with more coverage in just a minute. Stay with us. Ory about mail and packages. And its also a story about people and while we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you jackbreak up your breakfast routine with your choice of two grilled pockets filled with either ham or sausage. Both made with freshly cracked eggs and two melty cheeses. All jam packed into a warm, grilled flour tortilla. So give your tired old breakfast a wakeup call. Try jacks breakfast pockets for just two bucks. But youd better hurry, because if you snooze, youll lose out on this deal. Come try jacks breakfast pockets, each for just two bucks. Only from jack in the box. We have been showing homes and businesses destroyed by the fires. Schools lost as well. Cardinal newman high school, a small private high school. There is not much left and obviously school is canceled. They dont know what they will do with the kids. How many students . About 600 students went to this school. They are talking maybe online. How do they resume classes and where . You know, so many families are out of their homes. They are out of school and this is disrupting their lives for who knows how long to come. This is just one story we are dealing with. People dealing with so much all at once. This is off of old redwood highway and there are other Community Assets around the area. There are neighborhoods, shops and stores and we are trying to find out about what is going on on either side of the high school. At the high school has burned to the ground. You have teachers and teachers potentially out of work and we are only two months into the school year. This is the area around the high school and these are the homes that were destroyed. You can see the site with the chimney sterile standing and the chimney burned out with cars and rubble and ash. People were happy to escape with their lives and the clothing on their back. You can see the wheelchairs and people got out anyway they could thanks to Emergency Responders, family and friends. The wind makes a difference. Thats why we have seen shifting and an increase in the evacuation areas. They are anticipating the fire moving dramatically in the next 2436 hours. We have dave watching the wind. They will watch it like the perfect storm. Cooler and breezy is what you get. A red flag warning returns with offshore wind and drive fire conditions that we have to deal with. This will set the tone for warming happening by this weekend. The 80s will return. We have 70s forecasted for today. Lets look at the wind as we start off at 4 15. You can see them picking up at about 1 00 2 00 or 3 00 in the morning. This is offshore from sloan a county from Solano County. Also down at mount hamilton, noticed areas we have not talked about. This will be in the red flag warning zone. There are sensitive areas in the north bay. When from the north and northeast. Then the problems come to your exact location. Lets go to the future cast humidity as we go through the day today. Not much changes typical. The humidity level should climb and it stays low. We will be dealing with dry conditions. It is not until friday that marin county and Sonoma County with that marine player starting to return. Robin is watching all that. Good morning. It doesnt look like traffic will thin out soon. It is getting heavier and heavier. I am not tracking problems, but the backup is through the maze and all connectors are slow. A whopping 27 minutes from the bottom of the maze to fremont street. Checking in on 92, this is the earlier hotspot and now there are waves of heavy traffic. An accident at the high rise has cleared and now there is a crash on the peninsula in san mateo at west 92 and 101. A crash is blocking one lane. There is a whopping 68 minutes now over the bridge. Take dunbar instead to save time. 580 is busy as usual and it is jammed. There is word of a new crash and a couple of accidents at 185 and 17. Another at 85 dasha 185 and 101. 57 minutes from san jose to mountain view. Darya and james. Lets look at the areas impacted by the fires in the north bay. Several businesses damaged on the east side of highway 101. The hensel hilton hotel and we have been showing you those over the last day or so. Two on the ground and all that is left is the sign. We saw the hotel behind and all you could see was a forest of types. Right . Yeah. Water pipes. That was all that was left because Everything Else had burned down. Also there is the sign and not much else. This is located off of highway 101. If you know the hotel, the general manager posted online saying that it fell victim to the devastating fire in Sonoma County. The guests were evacuated and as you can see, they are just happy to escape with their lives in a situation like this. They got everybody out okay. And as part of that hotel there was the historic round barn. We have before and after pictures. In case you missed the news and did not hear, that had already that has burned to the ground. It had been there 118 years and this is what it looks like. We will be back with live coverage of the fires in a few minutes. 7 54 and back to Team Coverage of the northbay firestorm. You can still see here that there are active fires burning on all fronts with active flames out of control. This is the Bennett Valley neighborhood in santa rosa. People were evacuated and then they were allowed briefly back into rescue animals. You can see horse trailers as they take the larger horses and livestock out of the neighborhood. Then back out again. Evacuated from Bennett Valley. A lot of people are wondering how they can help and the American Red Cross is taking donations. You can see how to contact them either through the website and red cross. Org or you can text them at 9099. Or you can go through their 800 number. The red cross is asking for monetary donations because that is what they could use most right now. There are also other organizations accepting things as well. The Salvation Army is taking donations as well in santa rosa at these locations. You can see at stony circle if you could make it to the united way winery and wine country. Org website. You can donate money there. They dont want you to make donations to the Finley Community center as they are working on plans to distribute what they already have. And some people cannot make it to santa rosa and we just spoke to someone in venetia and she says that she is with the northgate church. If you could just make it over to venetia at the North Gate Church all day today, you can drop off things. They are specific about what they need. They need food items that dont need electricity to prepare. Things you can open and eat right away. There are people in shelters and thats what they need. There is more information and we have the hotline. There are still hundreds of people unaccounted for and if you know anybody that is well and safe, you can go to safeandwell. Org , or you can go to facebook and put the information there. There are still a lot of people unaccounted for. We will have more news, weather and traffic in just a couple of minutes. Stay with us. darya this is the bay areas news station , kron4 starts now with breaking news. The firestorms in the north bay continue to burn. This is from the oakmont neighborhood. This area is under evacuation. The death toll has risen to 16. Those 16 people perished in these fires. You can see the number of buildings has increased to 2000. 183 are uncounted for this morning. There are a total of 14 separate fires burning. They burned a total of 115,000 acres and they continue to burn this morning. I am darya folsom and i am james fletcher. We will go out live to our reporters in just a minute. We have very specific areas to show you. A new mandatory evacuation. Several areas in geyserville are being told to get out. We have circled the evacuation area now. This is near highway 101. North of the River Rock Casino. You are being told to get out. Now we will look at some streets affected. Sellers, river, they ranch, you can see the list on the screen. All of the streets under Evacuation Orders this morning. Also deerpath drive and lakewood lane. If we look to the south in Sonoma Valley, there are evacuations in effect including london, martin and adobe way. Those are all under evacuation this morning in the Sonoma Valley. There is a call to prepare to evacuate for the area that you see here on highway 12 in the Sonoma Valley. That area is telling residents to be packed up and ready to go at a moments notice. And farther to the north lets go over to geyserville i am sorry callous dona. These are new Evacuation Orders because of the changing conditions. Cal fire says anybody north of grant street, you need to leave your home right now. Again north of grant street. Other areas in callous storm the calistoga are under evacuations if you wish at this time. To get out of calistoga, officials suggest you use the silverado trail south to zinfandel lane. Or you could use state route 29 south to take you out. We have Camila Bernal in the area between calistoga and santa rosa. Remind me which road you are on. Reporter good morning. I am on calistoga road, 10 miles from the road of calistoga. If you are driving north on this road, the left side has been destroyed by the fire. The right side is untouched. It could spread. Trees are catching on fire. Firefighters are worried about the wind today. Residents in this area are parked on the side of the road, begging officers to let them into this area. The officers are telling them theres nothing they can do. Many residents have animals, chickens and turkeys in the area. Officers say that they have a heart but they cannot let people into the area. Do not try to come and get your animals. You will not be able to do that. Everybody is evacuated from this area. It looks very smoky behind you. Thank you Camila Bernal. How is the smoky air this morning . It is very hard to breathe. One of the officers dave me a mask and i wear it when i am not on officers gave me a mask and i wear it when i am not on air. Even here in San Francisco we can still see and smell the smoke. Lets go to dave now. We are checking in with the wins right now, Single Digits coming up from the west. This onshore wind is what we have had. A little bit of a change up in the north bay already. It will bring smoke down to other areas of the bay. Smoke from the fire is unhealthy. We talk about wearing masks. This may change tomorrow with the wind direction shifting from the north, blowing everything south. We will have dry conditions coupled with the north northeasterly wind. Winds are gusting in the napa county area. We will also watch this in Sonoma County. Over the next eight hours, scattered clouds. 68 degrees at noon and 74 this afternoon. Lets go to Robin Winston with traffic. Traffic is not recovering from earlier issues. Look at this on the san mateo bridge on 92. There was a crash at west 92 and highway 101 earlier. That has been cleared. There was another earlier hotspot at the highrise. That made it a whopping 75 minutes to get across the bridge to 101. So stay off of 92 if you can. The bay bridge looks normal, carpool lanes are opening up. Heavy traffic from the maze. All approaches are backed up. 14 minutes from the foot of the maze over to fremont street. More drive times coming up. If you know anybody from the north bay affected by the fire, they are all talking about how they got out. This deputy is driving through the area telling people to get out. It is like a tunnel of flames. Yes, you can see how close the properties are on the right hand side of the screen. Everything surrounded by fire. Many folks evacuating in the middle of the night monday morning. This morning we are waking up to new evacuations. We will keep you posted on that. Now lets bring you uptodate on this area in Sonoma County. This fire is threatening the oakmont area. It has burned 5000 acres and it is only 1 contained, out of control. About 10 miles east of santa rosa. You see Sugarloaf Park. It is burning in the direction of santa rosa and that is already dealing with the tubbs fire from the callous dona from the calistoga area. Also the coffee park area in santa rosa, causing a lot of devastation. That was the most densely packed neighborhood area. There were two Mobile Home Parks that burned on both sides of highway 101. Also a kmart and a ammunition store. 571 structures destroyed in santa rosa. 16,000 more structures are being threatened this morning. And we should update you as some of the people who perished in the fire. This lady was wheelchairbound and she has now been confirmed killed by the fire according to family members this morning. Her more her name is christina hansen. Her father is in the hospital with thirddegree burns, recovering this morning. So many people could not get out. 16 people were unable to get out of their homes. They are being identified this morning. Again, 16 people so far listed as deceased in these fires. This is the atlas peak fire in napa county. Cal fire says this has spread. It has burned as far north as the robertson ski vineyards robert since key sinskey vinyards. Yesterday there were over 400 wineries in the north bay. We will see a number of them that did not make it. That will affect tourism and affecting those who live and work in the area. A number of different have different fires have broken out. And this is the patrick fire in napa on the other side of napa valley. There are the family wineries to the north and Nicholson Ranch to the south. Again, the wineries are a big part of the local economy. Now lets look at this live shot with will tran. He is at cal fire. Lets go over to the fairgrounds in santa rosa. Reporter scott mclean joins me right now. He is the cal fire spokesman. You were telling me, and i got chills, when you told me this is no longer a battle. It is a war. We are looking at roughly 20 different fires. This started sunday afternoon and it decimated the town of santa rosa. We are in a community. The fountain subdivision was destroyed at 1 00 in the morning. People had very little notice. Firefighters and Law Enforcement were just trying to get people out ahead of this fire. Reporter we were here on monday and resources were stretched thin. That is correct. We are looking at resources anywhere in the state that can be mobilized at any time. A few days ago we were looking at 15 fires developing. So you can imagine those resources going in 15 Different Directions. Reporter you and i first saw each other 11 years ago during the tahoe fire. You say, and i agree, that this is much bigger. Why is that . Unfortunately we have fatalities with this fire. Up to 17 and that is hard to deal with. We are in the life safety mode. We are trying to save people ahead of these fires. These fires are pretty much doing what they want to do. Winters should return this afternoon. We will see about the weather change. Calistoga is being evacuated as we speak. Reporter give us the numbers. In the state right now, i dont have an exact number of First Responders but it is at least 9000 firefighters. We do have the ability to call in other states. The National Guard is a partner with us in this shoulder to shoulder. Oregon can assist as well as the state of washington. Reporter thank you very much. One more thing, what about the aerial assault from above . Can you talk about that for us . Reporter scott, a lot of viewers, and i know you are very calm. Many viewers have reached out with this question. It is a valid question. What about the fight from above . People have to understand that airplane engines include hand crews and bulldozers. A Great Partnership to get this all together. 266,000 gallons of water were loaded onto aircraft including dc tends out of sacramento. That is a record. That is just one base. That goes to show that those aircraft are flying. The public may not see him because they are way back in. I just received word this morning from the tanker base that they have pumped 2. 5 million gallons of retarded since this fire season. That is a record in the nation. We are using aircraft. And right now, we have blue sky above us. In the past few days we had the inversion and low visibility. While it has now opened up, aircraft can continue to go in. Plus when you have wins over 30 Miles Per Hour. The retarded drops are less effective. We want to make sure we can do this as effectively as we can. The pilots are extremely skilled. This is not new to them. Theyve got it. They are up in the air, ready to drop. I will continue this interview on Facebook Live and on our website at kron4. Com. We have a lot more to talk about. He said this is no longer a battle, it is a war. That is chilling. Thank you, will. It does look like a scene from a war or a firebombed community. This is some of the devastation from santa rosa. 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Neighbors are now getting a firsthand look and in some cases able to go back and look at what is left. In this case, as you can see, nothing. We want to get updated on the weather because the wins have been something firefighters have been following very closely. Lets get over to dave in the weather center. We jump quickly to this storm. We have scattered showers with this onshore flow. Once the front passes there is an offshore flow from the north. This afternoon, lets go forward into this evening. In the middle of the night, heavy winds from 1 00 until 3 00 a. M. This coverage is pretty good along the east bay and down into the south. Mount hamilton getting this as well. Dry air coming from the north and northeast. Overnight humidity levels usually climb. Not this go around. We have a dry atmosphere and that is not a good recipe. On friday morning we see some of this marine layer sneaking back. 65 in San Francisco, six the 9 in oakland 69 in oakland. In the next few days temperatures drop a bit. Checking berry area traffic right now. Lets go to Robin Winston with traffic. 92 had an accident on peninsula and the san mateo. And a crash at the high race and highrise and traffic is struggling to recover from a 80 all the way to 101. A whopping 70 minutes. Residual slowing. This is the bay bridge and it is stacked up from the maze, 17 minutes for that drive in. Quiet on 580 west. It is now 8 22. We are hearing stories of people being devastated, running from the fires with nothing but their shirts on their back. Many of you are wondering how to help. Community organizations are popping up to assist. They are taking donations in. Now lets go to North Gate Church and see their effort underway to collect donations this morning. We just got news that there are more evacuations and more shelters will be opening. When these people come they need food. There will be no electricity and we have to remember that. We need food that is easy to eat, ready to go, fiber bars, breakfast bars, protein bars, formula fur babies, blankets, jackets. We are looking for blankets. Especially for Senior Citizens to keep their legs warm. Mount Vernon Church has an area where you can drop things off. They have trucks going into santa rosa, into the shelters. So you dont need to drive all the way they are. [ overlapping speakers ] that is great. Is there a certain time . Reporter all day long. North creek i am sorry. Northgate church in venetia on herman road. Are there any other locations taking in donations . Reporter we have not organize that. I do know that sprouts and safeway are making donations to some semi trucks. They will be giving us water and bake goods, things like that. That is perfect. Easy to hand out for people to eat. My aunt and uncle live up there and my uncle has alzheimers. I have not heard from them since monday. They were ready to evacuate on monday. They did have a plan. I am hoping they are safe somewhere. Debbie, if it is any consolation, cell phone towers are down. So it is likely if they told you they were evacuating that they did get out and cannot contact you. Also go and look for their name at safeandwell. Org. Reporter thats right. If you need a contact name at northgate, it is pastor jesse. Good to know. People can donate all day. You can also donate cash to the red cross. We will be right back after this break. Nightmare. Its a real, live nightmare. james this is a reallife nightmare. Yes, this nightmare continues this morning as the wildfires continue to rage out of control. Containment is down to zero for all of us fires across the north bay. If you are just tuning in, the death toll has increased. It now stands at 16. The number of homes, businesses, and structures destroyed has increased up to 2000 and that number is likely to climb. Officials are now going through burnedout areas in finding people who could not get away from the flames. 16 people are dead and 180 are unaccounted for. Many of them may be in a shelter without cell phone service. This is the third day of the fires. 150,000 acres have burned so fire through napa and sonoma counties. The winds are changing and now there is an update to those areas with mandatory evacuations. This is Vital Information for People Living along highway 101 up in geyserville. The area north of River Rock Casino is under mandatory evacuation. Pack your bags and get out now before the flames hit your neighborhood. In geyserville, the streets are affected, nutter road, seller, ridge oaks, fox ridge, vineyard and woodridge. All of the streets are under a mandatory Evacuation Order. Also deerpath and lakewood lanes. In the south, this area is being told to leave. Moon mountain road, mission way, london way, marker road and adobe way all under mandatory Evacuation Orders this morning. People also living along state highway 12 are not under mandatory evacuation but you are being told to get your bags ready. You may not have much time once they come around and tell you to evacuate. Also Evacuation Orders in calistoga for those living north of grant street on the map right here. This is a mandatory evacuation. Other areas of calistoga are under voluntary evacuations or you can weight for the order to come. Definitely be ready. Pack your bags so when you are told to evacuate, you can. Take silverado trail out of calistoga. Or exit calistoga using state route 29 south. Now lets go to Camila Bernal who is on calistoga road for us with a live update. Good morning. Reporter good morning. I am about 10 miles from the town of calistoga. From what we know so far the left side of the road, driving north, is completely destroyed by the fire. The right side is Still Standing and untouched by the fire. We do not know what is happening a few miles up the road. I have seen a lot of cal fryer cal fire crews going up the road. We dont know if it has spread from one side of the road to the other. Trees are catching on fire, falling, and spreading the fire, according to firefighters. I did speak to some of the residence that live in this area. They are begging the officers to let them into the area. Many say they have animals in the area. I have been told chickens and turkeys. But the Police Officers are not letting anybody in. One man said his medication was out there. The officer could not let him up. Now we see more fire crews coming up the road. Did not come to this area if you are not a fire official. You will not be allowed in. The death toll is up to 16. Safety first. And we heard from will tran at the sonoma fairgrounds and that is a discussion about revising what shelters will be at because of the movement of the fire. Now lets go to dave for the forecast. We have a break from the winds at this point. Calm conditions through the north bay. Other areas 6 Miles Per Hour or so. That will be shifting to the north and northeast. There is a lot of smoke in the air from the fire. Limit your outdoor activities. Unhealthy air in the north bay. Winds will be shifting from the north and that will bring everything back to the north bay. We are getting a bit of a break today. This fire danger, this red flag warning, goes into effect at 5 00 due to winds and dry condition. It will reach its peak during midnight and overnight hours pushing humidity down below 20 . Humidity levels usually rise at night but they will not tonight, particularly up in the north bay. Here are the current temperatures, upper 40s to mid to lower 50s. Now lets go to Robin Winston with traffic. A new hotspot in the Santa Cruz Mountains on highway 17 at madrone. This is an accident where a vehicle ran off the road, and down the embankment. On 17, there are only two lanes and this is blocking one of those lanes. So delays back from the summit up to the scene of the accident. 31 minutes and growing on that true trip. And 52 minutes just updated, 46 minutes out of hayward. Lets get you updated on the situation with each of the major fires. 14 fires in all but they have clustered into 5 areas. This is the nuns fire in Sonoma County north of glenallen threatening the oak mount area. Only 1 contained in over 5000 acres. That fire near highway 12, 12 miles east of santa rosa. It could spread to santa rosa later today. And the most destructive fire, the one that burned city blocks in santa rosa. It is called the tubbs fire in calistoga. Wild animals on 300 acres seem to be okay but 571 structures have been destroyed in this fire including the kmart store and and ammunition store, the hilton hotel, and two Mobile Home Parks on either side of highway 101. And the atlas peak fire in napa county on the Eastern Hills of the valley. Cal fire says this fire is spreading. It is going far north as the Robert Sinskey vineyards and all the way down towards skyline park. So far 25,000 acres have gone up in smoke. 25 buildings have been taken out by that fire which is only 3 contained. Yes, we have almost 0 containment this morning on any of us fires. This is the third day of us fires. Now lets take a look at the patrick fire in napa , west of napa as far as the fonanella family winery to the Nicholson Ranch area. Many people are wanting to donate. Organizations are popping up asking for donations or monetary contributions. We are also getting word now of scammers trying to take your money and not give it to those who need it most. Rebecca is on the phone with the Better Business bureau. How can people tell a scam . That is a great question. We recommend you be proactive when donating. This is a horrible tragedy. Unfortunately, scammers do often use times like this to pray on those trying to assist. If you get a knock on the door or a call from a charity, make sure you look them up online. You can do that on give. Org. We do that as well on our website so anything on our website has been checked out and is safe to donate to. Make sure to look up these organizations. You can follow those that you are not familiar with. Make sure the charity has an on the ground presence in the area. If they are not already there it may be more difficult to help people who need supplies, for example. Exactly. Many who cannot get there may use a charity closer to where they live like the church of venetia that will be taking donations straight to santa rosa. Rebecca, one more question. We have heard about phishing scams as well where they include a link and that can make it look like it is the actual organization. Do you recommend they not click on that and go instead to the main website to check them out . Yes, exactly. If you do receive any emails or something on social media in the form of a popup, dont click on those links. Instead google them and go to the website directly and independently. Otherwise those phishing emails could have a link that takes you to a website that is trying to steal your financial information. Always check them out independently rather than clicking on any links that are sent to you. Thank you very much were back up from the Better Business bureau. Many people do want to help. We do not want them to get scammed. We will be right back after this break. At Stanford Health care, we can now repair complex aortic aneurysms without invasive surgery. If we can do that, imagine what we can do for varicose veins. And if we can precisely treat eye cancer with minimal damage to the rest of the eye, imagine what we can do for glaucoma, even cataracts. If we can use dna to diagnose the rarest of diseases, imagine what we can do for the conditions that affect us all. Imagine what we can do for you. Residents return home it is now 8 46. These are some residents that have returned to their neighborhoods in santa rosa. This is the coffee park neighborhood in santa rosa, twisted metal and rubble. For the most part, this neighborhood is gone. It is heart wrenching to see that level of destruction. Many people are in need. We spoke with Rebecca Harpster about the Better Business bureau. She recommends that you stick with places you know about. One of those places is Salvation Army. How can people help . Good morning. Thank you for having us. The best way to help is to give monetary donations. That assists with us serving meals. The devastation is quite large. So the money we give today will pay for meals today and tomorrow . Yes, what happens is that when the money comes in, 100 goes directly to the areas affected. So it is earmarked for the fires in Sonoma County and that is divvied out for Immediate Care and longterm care. Residents are trying to get back into their homes. So far, with the evacuation, and families losing their homes, people need simple things such as water and cleaning kits for later on. We also send out care teams to talk to people, encouraging them and serving them that are in need. We go to shelters as well to help those affected by this fire. We want to stay for the long term as well as they tried to get their lives back together. Major wild, for those that are out there and wants to donate their time, can they do that through your organization . Yes, what you can do is check in frequently. Right now because of trying to find places to house people and putting up extra members and volunteers, check out the Salvation Army website. In the longterm we could really use volunteers but immediately it is hard to place volunteers because of the changing nature of the incident as this fire grows. It becomes difficult to place people immediately. Yes, we are watching this fire that is still out of control. Have you or your coworkers been affected by the fire . Yes, many officers have had to evacuate their home and they are at our campus now on stony court. A family had to stay on the floor for two days. Fortunately his family is now in a hotel. They had to evacuate. It is affecting everyone. We are grateful for the Community Coming together trying to support everyone in need. Thank you sergeant wild with the Salvation Army. This is the information on the screen about how you can help. That is the office in santa rosa that he is talking about. You can take donations to that area in santa rosa. They were sleeping on the floor. My goodness. This story we keep hearing again and again about these Emergency Responders who had to evacuate or leave their own homes. Watching them burn to the ground as they assist others. This fastmoving fire has left behind a lot of devastation. This is video of coffee park. This is where the sheriffs deputy was at and he was trying to put out the fire at his own house. We tried to talk to him and he had to leave immediately to do his work as a sheriff, leaving his own home. We have more viewer video from the area in santa rosa. This is the devastation and flames. The area where the caremark kmart store burned down. This is now day three of these wildfires. Full coverage continuing. Jacks breakfast pockets for 2 dollars each. Break up your breakfast routine with your choice of two grilled pockets filled with either ham or sausage. Both made with freshly cracked eggs and two melty cheeses. All jam packed into a warm, grilled flour tortilla. So give your tired old breakfast a wakeup call. Try jacks breakfast pockets for just two bucks. But youd better hurry, because if you snooze, youll lose out on this deal. Come try jacks breakfast pockets, each for just two bucks. Only from jack in the box. Of 500 homes Still Standing. But thats about it. Everywhere you go is ash. Theres no animals really around there may be 20 of 500 homes standing. But that is about it. No animals anywhere. People talking about the moonscape that is left in places where neighborhood stood. Places in santa rosa decimated by these fast moving flames sunday night into monday morning. Now, it is day three. Vineyards have been affected as well by the north bay fire. Yes, the hilton hotel and Fountain Grove inn were destroyed. Both burned to the ground. This is all that is left of the hilton. It was used by many visitors to the area, tourist that wanted to go and see the wine country. Same thing for the Fountain Grove an, all of it on. The guests safely evacuated. We do know that the death toll from the fire has gone up to 16. We are standing by for a Live Press Conference starting soon. Remember, landmarks disappeared from this fire. This was the round barn area and it is gone. That is a historic landmark. This is what it looks like now. 118 years of history up in smoke. We will be right back after this break. vo want to be happy with your next vehicle purchase . At enterprise, we guarantee it. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Change your thinking about buying your next one. Grown right here in california, with absolutely no antibiotics ever. A better way to grow, a better way to eat. And it starts with foster farms simply raised chicken. California grown with no antibiotics ever. This is the bay areas news station. Kron4 starts with breaking news. We are following the outof control fires burning in the north bay. Many are trying to get in touch with loved ones through facebook. Facebook around the world is down right now. You can go to kron4. Com and use our mobile app. Facebook is instrumental in finding those unaccountable in the north bay fire switch have claimed 16 lives. There could be confusion between victims and those that are missing. The number of dead has increased from yesterday, 16 killed, 2000 buildings have been destroyed, 183 pull people still unaccounted for. People are using technology to let friends and family snow they are okay but right now social media is down. 115,000 acres and growing right now. This is day three of the north bay fire. Darya folsom i am james fletcher. We have some new areas to talk about. A new mandatory evacuation for parts of Sonoma County this morning in and around geyserville. Lets run down this list. The area that we have highlighted along highway 101 is an evacuation area. Nutter road, cellars road, river road, fay ranch road, fox ridge, vineyard and would ridge road. All of those locations. And the list goes on including deerpath and lakewood lane. And to the south in the Sonoma Valley these roads are evacuated. Moon mountain, mission way and adobe way. There is a prepare for evacuation notice in the Sonoma Valley on highway 12. This area has not yet been evacuated but you could be next. Get ready and be packed up and ready to leave at a moments notice. Yes, cal fire is trying to stay ahead of this and alerting those north of grand street. If you are north of grant street you need to leave your home. Because there are always road closures and traffic while evacuating, they suggest you use silverado trail south to zinfandel lane. Or leave using state route 29 south. We have the very latest updates on our website at kron4. Com. The area we are talking about in calistoga has now been cleared. This area ready to evacuated ready to evacuate stands as ready to leave. Part of calistoga has been evacuated and part is on standby. Now lets go to Camila Bernal out to calistoga. Reporter good morning. This is Jonathan Kotz with cal fire. Lets start with where are we in terms of all of us fires . Statewide we have 22 major wildfires going on that have consumed 170,000 acres. That includes the majority of the fires in northern california. We are talking about the tubbs fire. This fire obviously overnight pushed northeast into the town of calistoga. That is why there are evacuation warnings and orders. Reporter we are talking about shift focus. Fighting the fire and structures in the area as well as evacuation, right . Yes, we have one thighs and 1000 firefighters on this fire right here. The priority right now is to continue to provide structure defense to those being impacted and also get some containment lines around this fire. Conditions are somewhat favorable. Temperatures have come down. We are very conscious of the changing weather that is anticipated tonight into tomorrow. We do have over 30,000 people who have been evacuated from this fire alone. Also 16,000 homes affected by the tubbs fire. Reporter we have heard reports of people that are missing. What is being done to find those that are unaccounted for . All firefighters are conscious and aware of people that are missing. We have locations of where these people were last seen. We have teams in place trying to track down those people. Reporter we have been telling people that calistoga road driving north is destroyed. What is the latest . The tubbs fire , we are on calistoga road between calistoga and santa rosa. Towards the summit it has gone across calistoga road and is heading towards the city of calistoga. That is why the Evacuation Orders have gone out. We have miles and miles of area. It is uncontained and could flareup. Right now firefighters are coming into place from the morning shifts. We are getting additional crews from across the state. Reporter how many firefighters . In the last few hours i have seen at least 20 crews go up the road. This operation is huge. Almost 1000 firefighters on this one alone. We have an amazing mutual aid system in california. That means it doesnt matter what agency you work for. In an incident like this it is everybody working for one mutual interest. First responders are working as hard as they can. Sometimes 24 or 48 hours to get containment. Reporter thank you for your effort and thank you to the rest of the firefighters. Now back to you guys in the studio. Thank you. Now lets go to dave for the weather report. We have a much better atmosphere right now than the last few days. This is because of the onshore wind. The flag is not flapping in golden gate and the winds are dying down. In nevada they are picking up winds from the north. We do have an orange flag warning in effect from 5 00 today until 5 00 on thursday due to low humidity levels returning. We will be in the 70s today. Now lets go to Robin Winston with traffic. Highway 17 in the northbound direction at the madrone exit has a special Traffic Alert in place due to an accident. A vehicle ran down the embankment. This will keep you busy beyond the summit. And 92 is recovering from an earlier accident. The bay bridge crawling from the maze but no big issues into San Francisco. Your drivetime averaging 13 minutes. We are talking about new evacuations this morning. They want to avoid people leaving like this in a wall of flames. This is dashcam video of a sheriffs deputy who was telling people to get out. He was driving, basically, through a tunnel of flames. This morning they are getting people out of neighborhoods well before they are overcome with fire. Now lets take a look at some of these maps. This is the current perimeter and we will start in Sonoma Valley. This is burning along highway 12 threatening the community of oakmont and so far 5000 acres have burned in the nuns fire in Sonoma County. It is just north of glen allen. We will have a life report coming up soon from Lydia Pantazes. That in just a second. We do have a few parks flanking this fire, the Sugarloaf Park to the north. Firefighters are trying to save them. Also the crane creek regional park. And this is the tubbs fire that is bordering the Robert Sinskey vineyards. All of these areas are Still Standing. The vineyards and wineries you see in this area are still okay at this hour. But in the middle, this is all destroyed. 16,000 other structures have been threatened. Over 500 structures have been lost. Yes, the map on your screen was of the atlas peak fire in napa county. Right now this is the patrick fire in napa. You can see on the top end of it it is flanked by the fonanella family winery and we are told that is Still Standing. To the south we have Nicholson Ranch. We were told that was destroyed. We have learned that the scribes winery is still okay. Now we want to go to Lydia Pantazes who was on highway 12. You are north from where you were last time, correct . Reporter yes and i see a lot of devastation. I am on arnold drive in glenallen. Only First Responders and the media are allowed in this restricted area. This is what we saw just down the road. Many buildings in this area have been destroyed. A man and his wife was packing up and leaving. They live about two miles away from the devastation. They are packing up their belongings and we will hear from them coming up a little bit later. We did talk to some people in the area that were hard hit. Many did not want to talk on camera. They had lost their homes. They had been there for generations. Devastating. There is fire on the hillside. No one is allowed to return. Now lets go to the Sonoma County fairgrounds to will tran he is at the Sheriffs Office, i am sorry. Reporter we are waiting for a press conference to get underway in about 15 minutes. We were told to come over here from the Sonoma County fairgrounds. We do not know exactly what they will be talking about. We speculate that it could be road closures in the area. They pushed it back from 9 00 until 930 because there were several news conferences taking place across the area. So again, it will start at 9 30 this morning. We are here. As soon as it starts, we will carry it for you live. We will also stream it for you live on kron4. Com. There is a sense of urgency in the area. One of the leaders said this is no longer a battle but a war. This is because of the speed of the fire. The destruction, they fatalities. Firefighters are in this for the long haul. I do see San FranciscoPolice Officers also here. This will start in about 15 minutes and we will be carrying it for you live here on kron4. This is Mark West Springs road near old redwood highway. Neighborhood to neighborhood wiped out and decimated by the flames that ripped through monday morning. Chewing up neighborhoods and grasslands and wilderness area. Also populated areas. This is the third day of the firestorms in the north bay. Because everyone likes easy. Sure do. 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Are you prepared to house these animals for some time . We ask people how long their animals will be here. But we are here. We are doing whatever we can. We are taking donations, cat food, dog food, cat litter, toys. People that are keeping their animals can come here and pick up whatever supplies they need. We need people to go shopping. If our viewers want to help are you taking cash donations in addition to the supplies . Yes. We also need litter pans and toys and all that stuff. People can come here and take food because they had to get out in a hurry and were unable to take food. This is a good time to remind people to have their pets microchipped. In cases like this, at least that way if somebody finds their pet and brings them into a shelter that will help in the reconnection process with their families. Yes, i suggest anybody that has an animal microchipped, make sure that information is up to date. Definitely make sure all of the information is uptodate. Otherwise we take pictures of the animals and post them on our social media. What is the social media site where you have pictures . Petaluma Animal Services foundation. It is most effective on facebook. You can look us up. Very good, sabrina, thank you for checking in with us. If you would like to assist, donations are being accepted. Facebook and instagram is down and many wide areas of the world including california and the uk. So i think the best way to coordinate everything is going through kron4. Com or our mobile app as well to try to find those loved ones that are missing in the fire. You can also go to the American Red Cross at redcross. Org donate or you can text red cross to 90999. There are other ways to assist beyond the red cross. You can make donations to the Salvation Army. Other entities are listed on the screen. Yes they are taking monetary donations. Also at united way wine country. Org. They do not want you to go to the Finley Community center anymore to donate. They are working to distribute what they already have. Yes, and other locations do need your help. The Sonoma County hotline is very helpful. Missing people are being reported there. Again, once facebook gets up and running again, that will be a great tool. You can also mark yourself as safe at safeandwell. Org once social media comes back up. At this hour, 16 confirmed fatalities. 117,000 acres have been burned. Mostly 0 containment. We will be right back after this break. There is really nothing but chimneys. All these are really nice homes. Theres just anything brick or stone, anything else is just six inch pile on the floor darya we see nothing but chimneys. All of us were really nice homes. A sixinch pile of rubble on the floor. That man lost his home in the fire. So far 2000 homes and businesses have been destroyed by the north bay fire is. This is a neighborhood in santa rosa that was reduced to ashes. In a few moments we will take you live to a press conference that is getting underway in just a moment. Our continuing coverage of the north bay firestorm continues. Stay with us. Words. Its a nightmare. Its a real, live nightmare. james this is a real life nightmare. More than 117,000 acres have burned along with 2000 structures and homes. Firefighters no closer to getting containment then they were two days ago when this broke out on sunday. This is the latest on the right side of your screen. 16 people have been confirmed killed, 2000 homes and buildings destroyed. That number continues to rise. And we have 183 people unaccounted for. Many people had been relying on facebook and in the last half hour we learned it was down in many spots around the world including the United States and the uk. Go to kron4. Com for the latest on that. We are also standing by for a press conference. We will take you live for that as soon as it occurs. These fires are burning out of control. Now lets get a live report along calistoga road with Camila Bernal. We may have to interrupt you and we apologize in advance. Reporter i am about 10 miles from the town of calistoga. The left side of this road has been destroyed by the fire. The right side was untouched. Now we have information that some of the damage has spread to the right side of this road. Hellfire told us these firefighters have been here in 2448 hour shifts. They are committed. They are now fighting structures in the area and no longer just protecting people. They are fighting structure fires now and trying to keep it from spreading. Many residents in the area were trying to return to get their pets or medications. But officials are not allowing them in. Cal fire Officials Say they are compassionate and they understand. But they cannot let the men due to safety issues. They are concerned about this fire spreading and we dont know how much it will grow or where it will spread to at this point. Back to you guys, i am Camila Bernal for kron4 news. These are some of the evacuation areas. Along highway 101 in the area of geyserville, you are being told to evacuate. These are areas north of the River Rock Casino. Lets take a look at some of the roadways that have been affected. Nutter road, cellars road, river road, fay ranch road, ridge oaks road, fox ridge road, vineyard road, woodridge road, ram hill road, rock mouth road. Now lets go to the conference. We will start doing regular Sheriffs Office media briefings, 9 30 today, 1 00 and 6 00 tonight. The one that 1 00 will be at the fairgrounds. Everybody will be there to give out information. We are working hard to keep the community informed. I do have some updates. The winds will be picking up this afternoon. We were doing evacuations yesterday and today. We are not switching operations to anything other than life saving right now. It is all about lifesaving evacuations. Many people in the advisory areas are asking what to do. My advice for those of you that are under an advisory warning to go. If you have a place to go, go. The less people we have here and have to evacuate, the better. Life safety is what matters right now. We have our missing persons count up to 670. Of that we have found 110 found safely. We do expect this number to continue to go up. We did continue evacuations through the night. 73 cell phone towers are down in the state. Our information line is working. I want to encourage everybody to keep up with the news updates. It is very important. Sonoma county Sheriffs Office facebook has a lot of information. Also Sonoma County facebook. They are adding shelters as well to their facebook page. And 7075653856 is the Sonoma County information hotline. I will take questions now. [ indiscernible low volume ] the Community Support has been wonderful. There is always someone who wants to stay but the community has been working very well with us. We cannot emphasize it enough to people. This fire is burning rapidly. I think they underestimate how powerful and dangerous it can be. That is why i say if you have a place to go to, go. You do not need to be here. [ indiscernible low volume ] i do not know that. I do know there are injuries but i do not have the number. I do not have any fire line information either but we hope to get that information coming up at 1 00 with the briefing from cal fire. We are very concerned about all of the fire lines because of the shifting of the wind. We have 11 confirmed dead right now. We are working on identifying them. The number one priority is identification and family members. We are trying to get to family first. Cell phone service has been spotty. People do not have their chargers. Once a goes dead, you cannot communicate. We have had some evidence of that from people we talk to. Today others will be up working. I do expect that located number of people to go up. Again, 7075653856 is the Sonoma County information hotline. When you find relative, call that number and let us know so we can take them off the list. Were most of these fatalities elderly . I know they are victims of the fire but i do not know the circumstances at this time. The devastation is enormous. We cannot even get into most of the areas. The 11 people that we have found, we found for from other reasons. We have not started to even do searches yet. They are going to those areas for a differing reason when they find those bodies. We have not sent in teams yet. But a deputy could be sent to a location for something and they locate someone who has passed away. I do know that alerts were used and phone system alerts were used. People do not have land lines anymore. Systems will call land lines but many dont have them. So if you dont sign up your cell phone you do not get the call service. The message is sign up for alerts. The other thing to keep in mind is that this fire was unbelievably fast. Sheriffs deputies were running. The timeline is almost on conceivable. [ indiscernible low volume ] communication problems in general have been difficult. I think that is the nature of technology. 73 cell towers are down between here and oregon. I can get to the fairgrounds and it will not work. Cell phone service is very spotty. Is there a backup plan . The news media. Radio. All of you are getting this message out for us. Pay attention to cell phones. It on the internet. Go to the webpages. Use them all so you do not miss information. Cell phone companies are working hard to put everything back together. They had a briefing yesterday and i am impressed with pg e and the cell phone companies. The infrastructure and the amount of agencies working on things like that behindthe scenes is incredible. They are bringing in the National GuardSatellite Phone system so people can call their loved ones from a truck with phones we can hand them. There are a lot of communication pieces coming into the county. I cannot stress this enough. If you are and then evacuation zone, you can not come home. The areas are sealed off. We have had very few problems of looters. One arrest last night. They were violating the curfew. So far, that problem has not been huge, which is great. We have 100 deputies working where there are usually 30 right now. We have 300 deputies total. They are out and working. [ indiscernible low volume ] land lines switching to cell phones have made notifications different. So far i think the indication of notifications have been excellent. The fire occurred in the middle of the night. [ indiscernible low volume ] the burned out area, you can see everything. I was up in lark field yesterday afternoon and all the deputies came up and the area 100 yards away from us went up in smoke. Nothing is safe yet. This will take a long time to get through. We are worried about the conditions today with the winds shifting. They are working on areas in preparation and calistoga right now. Whoever called in makes a report of a missing member. We get to that person when we find a missing member. We have 30 people searching for people, not through the fire rubble yet. They search by tracking down relatives, friends, cell phones, things like that. To try to find where they are. That is a network of communications efforts. We had ideas of trying to get people into their homes yesterday. But like i said the fire came back up and we had to push everybody back. I have no idea about that and how the fire started. Cal fire will have a report for us coming up at 1 00 from the fairgrounds. [ indiscernible low volume ] there is a very complicated Emergency Operations system in place with all of the fire command an Emergency Operations center in Sonoma County. We coordinate resources. What happens is ultimately all of those calls end up in our dispatch center and we send people out. [ indiscernible low volume ] that would be a team effort with cal fire and the Sheriffs Office. Alameda is here and they are our Emergency Operations center. They have dogs. Resources are not a problem. We have tons of resources. The cooperation from local agencies, and when i say that, it stretches out a way. To san mateo, San Francisco, people from Pittsburgh Police department bringing in food and drinks. Resources coming in from all over. [ indiscernible low volume ] we are trying to save lives right now. There will ultimately be a list of names of the victims but not until we contact all families. We do run the Corners Office and we do release those names. There is a lot of work that goes into identifying people. Each case is different. The best way out of calistoga is to go south. Do not go up to napa. Check the sites i named. All of the Evacuation Centers are open. If you can leave the county, it is even better. [ indiscernible low volume ] we have plenty of resources. We do not need a volunteer program. Resources from across the straight state have been excellent. Again, cal fire will have an update at 1 00 at the conference from the fairgrounds. The curfew will remain in effect throughout this week. When we reopen neighborhoods we will put that on facebook. We will be doing that very slowly but it will be posted. But i cannot imagine that happening this week. [ indiscernible low volume ] to be clear, i am speaking about outside the city limits of santa rosa. I assume santa rosa will have a similar process. But i can tell you that all of us are just trying to get people out right now. [ indiscernible low volume ] i hear many stories. The one that keeps getting me is the deputy that was stuck at a lodge with 30 people including a 4monthold. He went up to get people and those 35 people had to sit there and watch the fire burn around them. I know that they knocked on doors and got people out of houses when the fire burned behind them. We have some footage on our facebook page. It looks pretty ominous. [ indiscernible low volume ] we all do it together. The first night i walked into the Sheriffs Office and people were trying to do whatever they could to get others out. We will wrap up this press conference this morning. The next press conference will be a joint press conference with cal fire at 1 00 this afternoon. Getting the word out from the Sonoma CountySheriffs Department about the evacuations. They dont think they will let people in for the rest of the week. Looking ahead at 11 30 there will be another press conference from the California Office of emergency services. And that 1 00 p. M. There will be a joint press conference at the Sonoma County fairgrounds with cal fire the sheriff and police departments. Stay tuned. I would say keep the tv on with kron4. We will stay on the air this morning, throughout the day and evening. We have extended our coverage to bring you the very latest. This is affecting the north bay all the way down to the Golden Gate Bridge and beyond. Smoke is filling the bay area. Back with more with our live Team Coverage in a few minutes. Pretty much leveled over there. Everything is burned down. Its incredible how fast this fire spread everything is pretty much leveled over here and burned to the ground. It is incredible how fast this fire spread. We just heard those words echoed live from the Sheriffs Department. Right now they say they are still saving lives and evacuating people. They are just trying to make sure everybody gets out encase the fires continue to spread. He stress the point that if you are inside and evacuation area and you want to return to your neighborhood, do not think about it. They will not let you in. That is because these fires are spreading so fast. It is an explosive situation. This neighborhood and coffee park was destroyed in santa rosa. Many many neighborhoods and city blocks have been decimated by these flames. They broke out overnight sunday into monday morning. This is the third day fighting and we have seen almost no progress. We have win scheduled this afternoon to pick up. They could go in the direction they were monday morning, blowing from the northeast into the direction of santa rosa. Now this is glen allen. This is a decimated area. It looks like a bomb dropped on the area. This was from embers from a fire that started in napa. It spread from napa to sonoma. 15 small fires combining to burn over 115,000 acres. Right now 2000 businesses and homes destroyed. We will be right back after this break. darya wildfires are burning out of control in the north bay. This is video from last night in the oakmont neighborhood. This area is now under evacuation. james here is the latest on the fires burning in the north bay. The death toll is at 16. Eleven people were killed in Sonoma County alone. At least 2thousand buildings have been destroyed. Both of those numbers are expected to rise. 560 people are still areported missing in Sonoma County. There are a total of 14 fires burning in napa and sonoma counties. They have burned a total of 115thousand acres. And Fire Fighters are still struggling to get any containment. darya and take a