Transcripts For KRON KRON 4 Evening News 20171012

And how the socalled pubs fire is in napa and Sonoma County. It has scorched more than 28,000 acres. The biggest fire is in napa, the atlas fire. We know people in fairfield are beginning to be evacuated which is on the right side of the screen. That fire has burned more than 42,000 acres. Only 3 contained. That atlas fire started in napa and moved to solano and now is starting to threaten some of the communities on the outskirts of fairfield as that fire moves south and east. There are evacuation advisories popping up. One of them for the eastmont area near fairfield. We spoke to the fairfield mayor and that is what he was driving. They did not think it was it would happen but it is getting close. The fires have prompted dozens of mandatory evacuations. We will start with some recent orders that have been issued. The entire community of calistoga has been ordered to evacuate. This is mandatory. Conditions have been getting worse and worse throughout the day. They expect them to deteriorate further as a windy picked up. They are telling everyone and calistoga to get out of dodge. Our reporters on the scene have described it as a ghost town. They suggest people use silverado trail and had west to state route 21 from there. People can also get out of the city by using highway 29 south. We have a few reporters and calistoga right now and we will be checking in their momentarily. I want to show you some of the other evacuations. They are saying to take your pets and medications and get out. The community of geyserville and Sonoma County is under mandatory evacuation. People have been told to evacuate north of the river rock casino. And here more specific lists of the areas being told to evacuate. Ridge oaks road, fox ridge road, vineyard road, woodbridge drive, graham hill road end mill road. We also have these on our website. The Evacuation Order includes dear past drive in lakewood lane. Thats further south and sonoma valley. People who live on Moon Mountain road, london way, gave dale road and adobe way, again, these are among the people being ordered to evacuate. People who lived along highway 12 and madrone road have not yet been ordered to evacuate. They have been put on high alert. Officials are recommending they have bags packed and be ready to go and leave at a moments notice. We want to get back to the atlas fire this creeping in on western fairfield. Officials in that city have issued an advisery Evacuation Order. As we mentioned, that is the southwest part of fairfield. That atlas fire continues to get closer and closer. People are encouraged to get out right now. An Evacuation Center has opened at the Sports Complex on texas street in fairfield. This an Evacuation Order for the fitchett Mountain Area and other parts of healdsburg. The tubs and pocket fire have come close to getting together a burning in that area. They are not currently threatening but they could. That is the concern and a precautionary measure as the advisory has been issued as to what could happen. Fitch mountain east of golf course road and revel road, river spend in south from rhea nido to healdsburg avenue and spur roads are part of that evacuation advisory. Cal fire and oes have been holding briefing throughout the day. We been waiting and when we will be bringing them to you. A lot of people were briefly allowed back into their homes today and to grab important personal things they left behind. They were then rushed out. Reporter near a Police Barricade the line for families to catch a ride was desolate Law Enforcement to check on their homes grew larger by the hour. Bob nichols stood in line with his girlfriend and caretakers struggling to find the words for how he felt not knowing if his home was still up or had burned to the ground. Is impossible to decide what it is. Reporter so much of napa county has been leveled. Cars and vehicles along soda canyon road were destroyed. This neighbor lost a lot but it appears the house and pool are still intact. As bob nickal and family were escorted up the mountain, fear of the worst creep into their minds as they passed by burned out fields and structures. Im expecting the worst but praying for the best. By the time they reached the house, it was still there despite being made of wood there was no damage. I thought for a minute i might have to rebuild it. Reporter the home may be in jeopardy yet. A spot fire grill when we arrived at his home. It grew in the short time we stayed. Time to go. Reporter part of the reality on the ground here. The conditions and situations change on a minute by minute basis. In napa valley,news. You can see the live picture right there. People seem to be assembling as soon as they start talking, we will take you there. In the meantime we want to bring in our chief meteorologist. This red flag warning is critical and it technically started seven minutes ago. Were in it right now. Yes, we are. It did start at 5 00. Thats when the windy speeds will pick up. This will stay in effect until thursday at 5 00. What we are basically seeing is dryer air has moved back in from the north. We have a wind speeds between 15 and 30 Miles Per Hour with wind gusts upwards of 40 Miles Per Hour. Dry conditions are expected with humidity levels from 10 to 20 . We will send it back over to you. It looks like this press conference is just starting. This is the 5 Pm Press Conference and briefing on the central complex and Sonoma County. The purpose of this briefing is to give an Operational Update as to the incidents occurring which includes the tubs and pocket fire. Stem by one second. Return that speaker up please thank you. Ill start again. Welcome to the 5 pm meeting for the central complex which includes the pocket fire and the tubs fire. The purpose of this meeting is to hear from some officials both on the incident and at the state level who have been working in close cooperation to mitigate this incident to a conclusion. We will have a quick update from our Incident Commander and we will also have some representatives from cal fire chp and the National Guard and the sheriff department. With that id like to start often introduces central complex unified Incident Commander. Good evening. I am the Incident Commander. With me and unified command in santa rosa Fire Department. As of today Sonoma County sheriffs department. Is a great relationship to come together and face this tragedy in a united front. As many of our tests overlap together as we go through this incident. Theres a quick update. As of right now on the tubs fire, where a 27,363 acres and 10 containment. Evacuation orders still exist in and around the north part of santa rosa and as of last night, up around calistoga. Activity on the fire today has been pretty quiet. The Northeast Corner of the fire is where the activity has been and where we have some runs last night with the southwest windy. That has been held in check. Our crews are actively up there working to hold that fire in and around redhill mountain. For the pocket incident, currently approximately 5000 acres. It has been active this afternoon. 0 containment on that. The activity is out of the south end of the fire today. And some of you mightve seen yesterday, we had a wind shift that was predicted. The area of geyserville and surrounding communities and manchester under evacuations. I would like to also talked briefly about some of the fires down and Sonoma County, the south forsan that are currently being managed by the south branch. And cal fire int three. We are currently in transition discussions to pull all of the fires and Sonoma County into branch two under this command. Fires a napa county will fall under the south branch, branch or three. It makes a lot of sense for longterm recovery that one Incident Management Team is managing that particular county. As these fires progress, that gives us a lot more room to expand. Thats all i have. Thank you. Thank you. Just to highlight the fact we will take questions and answers at the conclusions of everyones comments. Next up with a global perspective on the state level. Thank you and good afternoon. Dont need to tell all of you the conditions we been under in the last several days. Behind us here is the adobe fire. Thats an example of one of the 22 fires burning in california as we speak. Just in the last two days over 170,000 acres have burned in these 22 large fires that we are engaged in. Conservative estimates are 3500 structures lost across these fires. Very conservative number and that number will go up. Also tragically 21 individuals have died as a result of these fires. The majority of them right here in Sonoma County. We continue to evaluate missing persons unaccounted for individuals and work with local Law Enforcement. Our priority is to ensure life, safety and protection of property. This complex and Sonoma County is our top priority along with the complex that has the atlas fire. These fires are getting the priority resources in the state. We have leaned very far forward to get resources not only from around california. But from across the country. We reached out earlier this week and we have fire engines and other resources coming from multiple neighboring states. And our federal partners have reached out across the country to provide Additional Fire engines and cruise from as far away as the midwest and the south. We are leaning far forward and engaging in bringing resources. The Leadership Team from sacramento spent the last three hours meeting with the leadership here in Sonoma County to talk about what the challenges are and how we can work towards communicating with the residence and getting the resources where they need to be in supporting this effort to ensure weve got everything you need here. We are in thes fight for the long haul. Is going to continue to get worse before it gets better. You all know the weather conditions and these conditions will continue for the next several days days minimum. We are planning and staffing for that. Its going to be a long haul. The full support of the state, we are engaging with our federal partners and we are accessing our local government partners for almost 1000 Fire Departments across california from san diego to the oregon border. Hundreds of those Fire Departments have firefighters and resources on these and many other fires and where depending on that. We will have the tools and resources necessary to support the efforts going on here. Thank you. Thank you, chief. For a more localized information report we have the sheriff from Sonoma County. Thank you and good evening. I have a few updates. Let me start with this. Anna normas event is evacuations, security, and finding the missing people. Life is what its about right now. Evacuations are still going on. We have 300 Law Enforcement officers working right now from all over the state. A lot of resources have poured into do that. We were able today to work on the missing person list. I have a new set of numbers for you. 600 total reports of missing persons. We have a lot of duplicate reports. Weve cut through those somewhere down. We had three pieces of paper and three phone calls on one person. We were able to cut that down. We are down to a total of 600 reports. 314 of those people have been located safely. A lot of those were found with detectives making phone calls and tracking people down. Were working on individual cases. There are 285 on our missing list we are looking for. What we are doing now is working those missing people backwards to the point where if we can find them, were trying to get to the house. Were doing the recovery part of the job we dont want to do. So that is the status. I want to add a couple of more things. We talked a lot about nix ultra. We have nix ultra voice alerts going out. They will go out in english and spanish and they will help us be more effective. I want to clear up a bad rumor. Theres a rumor out there that people are checking immigration status and that is not true. Shelters are asking for names so they can identify people coming in immigration status will never be asked of you. Its a really important piece of the puzzle. My final message is, this is about saving lives. If youre in an advisory area please leave. Lets get out safely and put the county back together. Thank you. Next up we have the director for the office of Emergency Services. Thank you. First of all let me just express our heartfelt condolences. This is been a tremendous event the magnitude is extensive and were going to continue to be working with you now and throughout the Recovery Process. The office of Emergency Services responsibility is to coordinate the overall efforts in the federal government in supporting Sonoma County and the communities that are been impacted by this event. Currently we are coordinating a lot of the neutral aid, fire and Law Enforcement and emergency medical and Emergency Management from throughout california and supports of all of the efforts here. In addition, you will hear from the National Guard and Highway Patrol with some of the reports being coordinated with them and to provide Additional Resources. Be on the resource coordination and providing all of the different assets, the one thing that happened earlier, the governor did proclaim a state of emergency for this area. This opened up a lot of Additional Resources and cleared the way of any regulatory impediments or issues that opened up funding streams to be able to support Sonoma County and the communities in the recovery and the Response Operations. In addition the governor did make a request of the president for a major disaster declaration which was granted yesterday. It was granted by the white house. That will be significant in that it will provide additional federal assets and resources to help cleanup the community and help citizens and the Recovery Process as time goes on. In the coming days, we will work closely with the local authorities to establish some information and Assistance Centers that the community can come to and be able to get more information on those various programs. In the meantime, we will continue to support whatever the needs are of the county and the communities particularly in the shelter operations with food and water and cots and other kinds of relief materials that are necessary. Any other gaps that may be required by the county to be able to meet immediate needs of the Response Operations throughout the coming days. Oes is going to be here for the long run. We are here with all of these resources and we will continue to stay engaged in the coming weeks. Thank you. Thank you. Next up we have an update from the National Guard. Good evening. The california National Guard is supporting sonoma, napa and solano counties with a Broad Spectrum of military support and capabilities ranging from manpower to assist in Evacuation Centers to security and transportation to Aviation Resources and very sophisticated highend surveillance platforms we are using to assist cal fire with fire mapping and fema and cal fire with mapping structures for recovery. In addition to the forces we have now, the governor ordered we bring up an additional 2500 soldiers and airmen to be available to support Law Enforcement, Fire Services in the area. We are in coordination with our neighboring states in bringing assets from nevada and oregon if necessary. Weve also are daschle record nation with the pentagon. In addition, the california National Guard has capability if cal fire needs it. We boarded up 13 firefighting helicopters, to medical evacuation helicopters and crews available as needed. Thank you. We have one additional operational speaker before we get to the council people. That would be acting chp commissioner warren stanley. Thank you and good evening everyone. As far as the california Highway Patrol, we have 73 personnel in this area between the two fires that are helping out with traffic control, general Law Enforcement and also to prevent looting. One hour ago we made a plan for 100 additional officers into the area to help with evacuations if needed. They will be showing up very shortly. I just briefed the sheriff on that. We will have those personnel in place. Additionally, two of our Helicopter Rescue units one in the area from the napa airport and the Operations Unit in redding rescued 44 people. Five dogs and i believe one cannot. So were happy we were able to provide support. In the coming days we will be reevaluating to see was needed in the area at this fire and other fair other fires. In the areas around the fire, we all know we can see highway 101 is open. I would ask unless you absolutely need to be in the area, stay away so we can keep the roadways open and moving so our fire and law personnel can get in and get out easily and get their equipment in and out. Thank you very much for your time. From the county of sonoma we have. Thank you. My colleagues will be offering some information as well. First of all i want to say i want to stress what the sheriff said. All people should show up of whether youre a documented immigrant to our evacuation sites. We are there to serve you. My heart goes out to every person effective by this disaster. I know many Emergency Personnel have lost their homes and their still showing up to serve our community. We are working around the clock to provide information to the community. The Sonoma County Sheriffs Office, nixle, socal alert is another good way and also the eeoc hotline which is 70756538 7075653856. Many of our evacuees had to flee their homes with little time to prepare. If you didnt bring your medication when you evacuated, the pharmacies are open to assist with filling prescriptions. A full list of pharmacies is available on our county website where theres a lot of information. For Offering Mental Health services at many of the Evacuation Centers to comfort our community during this difficult time as well as geriatric care managers. We know that many of you are unable to find a loved one. If you are looking for someone, you can also call the eeoc hotline. If you are in a safe place and not in a mandatory evacuation area, please stay there. We want to keep our roads for Emergency Personnel open. I will now handed over to the supervisors who have additional information. Thank you very much. I appreciate everyone being here. The resources and logistics are incredible. I just thought you been listening to another news briefing from authorities. Cal fire authorities included. A few new numbers. The missing people are at 285 people. A lot of people on that long list have been found. A big focus on ongoing evacuations. One of the places being evacuated tonight is calistoga, the entire town. They have 300 officers dealing with that. The top two priorities in Northern California are in the north bay. One is in sonoma where the tubbs fire has closed in on santa rosa and is threatening calistoga. In the atlas fire which we are looking at right now. It started and napa county around the field broader country club. It has exploded in size. Its moving quickly south and east and is threatening the western part of fairfield tonight. We wanted to mention, the tubbs fire with 10 containment. Some of the numbers have stayed the same. For example, were not getting bigger numbers on acreage. 170,000 acres pretty much all day. 3500 buildings, homes, and thats conservative. The death toll has gone up with 21 deaths reported throughout the day. Most of those and Sonoma County. The sheriff in sonoma wanted to stress that his deputies and anyone at these evacuation shelters are not checking immigration status. They want people to feel comfortable leaving their homes and not worrying about deportation. We will be back right after this. Say small actions can addp to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. This is the bay areas new station, kron4 news starts now with breaking news. Sack welcome back. One of the most recent mandatory evacuation areas is calistoga. The entire city is under mandatory evacuation because all of those fires burning in Northern California. We are live in calistoga which is one of the places where everything has changed over the last couple of hours. Justin, what do things look like now . Ever since that announcement, it is literally a ghost town. Not much traffic. You can see more police cars and First Responders and actual residents that are evacuating. People that have decided to hang around, theyre starting to leave and gas up. The cars are packed with their belongings and their animals. On this intersection of lincoln and 29th you see chp officers are guiding people through traffic. I want you to take a look right behind me to the left. One chp officer, one person was evacuating and said where am i supposed to go. I only have three dollars to my name. She brought her snacks and water and guys are in the right direction. Some people going to Napa Valley College for safety and shelter. I spoke to one man who was filling up the team. He has help firefighters with his tree service business. Is going to stay with his girlfriend in santa rosa. Ironically, her condo was okay. Weve watched people gas up and getting ready for the worst. One couple using gas for their generator because they havent had power for three days. Weve seen uhauls getting out of town and for many it has been hurry up and wait. Evacuation orders are evacuated. This is the worst i have seen it. Its eerie and its never been seen before. Were just going to stay up there and wait until they force us to evacuate. Were going to fill up the flat bed and hook up the trailer and put more stuff in. That was just a few hours ago. Not sure of those residents decided but youre looking at smokey hayes and ashes falling down. The result of the tubbs fire this started sunday night. We sell the chp racing down and making sure people are evacuated. Were told Police Officers have used a speaker to tell people to leave their homes. Live in calistoga, kron4 news. Grant and i were counting how many animal trailers were zooming by as you were talking. There mustve been seven or eight of them right in a row. A lot of people with animals on the move. Reporter yes, definitely. Those animal trailers, i saw multiple cars with dogs, cats, they do not want to leave their animals here. We saw Animal Services driving by. We saw one calistoga business with the car that had animals in it as well. So definitely taking care of those animals as all of this chaos goes on. We appreciate that life report. If you have family or friends in calistoga and are looking for a place to go, some people are asking chp which is a shelter location thats been set up for those folks in calistoga. In fairfield, theres another area weve been talking about. We talk to the fairfield Mary Fairfield mayor. Firefighters are very concerned and theyre making an allout effort to knock down the flames. Weve been in fairfield for a few hours. Youve been on the front lines earlier today. Intense video you been able to share with us. Reporter they call it the flame front. Im going to point in your direction to the roadblock behind us. We have just noticed in the past couple of minutes more ash falling down. Were getting reports that the fire is actually starting to take off about three miles down the road here. Im at the intersection of valley road. We have been told that the fire is actually jumped in change direction because of the windy out here from the fairfield avenue area. The napa and calistoga area, this area go straight into napa. I talked to one resident who was standing and watching as vineyards were going up and he was horrified. All of that was unfolding before his eyes. This was too much to take in for david. This is his familys pride and joy. We watched as their tankers douse the flames. The fire was standing his ground and refusing to give up. They ate up more and more valuable land. Painful to watch this right now. Correct. We have crops that never got picked, fruit, no structures seem to be damage and no ones heard so thats the good thing. Reporter david told me as a fire stretched into this area it was frightening. I watch the windy kick up. Ive never experienced that. It was strange and scary and all that. The grapes on these lines go to an assortment of familiar labels. This is our biggest buyer in the area. Again as we watched helicopters do battle with the fire. David said the atlas fire had a farreaching detrimental effect on the region. The vines will uptake the smoke and even in the next year. There will be a negative long term for this for the quality of the vineyards and grades in this area and all of napa. Again, you are looking at one of the roadblocks here in the fairfield area. For those people who dont know this area, this is the intersection at rockdale. If you took that west you would connect to 80. Were about two miles away from i80. That can give you an idea of the geography of the area. This road would eventually connect to napa. Thats what theyre concerned about right now. The windy have shifted and pushed over into the napa area and in calistoga with those Evacuation Center been put into play. Reporting live, kron4 news. Stay with us. We will be back in just a minute with our coverage of the northbay firestorm. grant more on a story we brought you night. Back to our breaking coverage of the firestorm in the north bay. We have Additional Details about a story we brought you last night. Linda has passed away in her remains were found at the journeys in Mobile Home Park in santa rosa early this morning. Her daughter reported her missing yesterday. Her mom had called her early on sunday. Linda told her daughter that her home was currently on fire and she was not able to get out. Thats when the phone line went dead. Tragically, linda lost her life. Can you imagine being on the other end of the phone talking to your mom. Family members are looking for another man at that park and hes missing tonight. We are joined live from santa rosa with more. Rob, so many parts of santa rosa were just incinerated almost. This is another one of them. Reporter thats right. None more so than here in the journeys in Mobile Home Park. Just the one body we know of has been recovered in the ruins of the park which has been completely leveled here. As you can see now the park is been sealed off. No one is being allowed in there. We know that at least one more resident who was among the missing. Lets go to the video and we will show you a picture of a 78 yearold man named diego. Hes been here for many years. He does not speak english. He has no cell phone or vehicle. His family thinks he got on board one of the evacuation buses late sunday evening, but they are not sure. They been looking and shelters in high schools and other Evacuation Centers. He has no other family in the area. They say hes in good shape and he has his wits about him and he should have reached out to them by now. I spoke with his family and lets hear from his nephew. We talked to him saturday night and since then we called him on his house and his house burned down. He doesnt have a cell phone or anything. And we are really concerned for his wellbeing. What if you done to try to find him quick we went to several places up north. All the way to cloverdale. Weve gone other places, shelters and they just cant give us any information on his whereabouts. The 78yearold was fairly a fairly active bicycle rider. His family is holding out hope that he may have gotten away on his bicycle. They also say he has a roommate, but they havent heard from him either. They are holding out hope that he is one of these people that somehow slipped through the cracks. Theyre still out there but havent made contact. Kron4 news. Despite all of the Evacuation Orders including new orders today, some People Choose to stay behind saying they want to try and protect their homes. They want to put water on their house. The Fire Department never encourages people to do this. We are live in the Bennett Valley neighborhood. You spoke to a family who decided to stay behind. This is in the southern part of san jose, the southeastern and. So much of the devastation sunday night was far to the north in that city. Thats right, grant. Right now im standing in the coffee park neighborhood of santa rosa. This is a very urban area that was devastated by this fire. This neighborhood was mostly reduced to rubble. Earlier today i was in Bennett Valley. A rural area southeast of here. That is where you can see the adobe fire burning in the hills. Lots of rugged terrain there was lots of fuel to burn, grass and shrubs. Residents were told to get out of there on monday but many did not take heed of that warning. I talked to a great rotor a great grower he sent his family packing but he decided to stay home, water his property and try to save his home. That fire did come very close. My escape plan was that the vineyard right below our house was watering. We knew it couldnt burn. I know i could always run to the vineyard. So i stayed around the perimeter of our house from 2 00 until 6 00 a. M. Watering everything down. Theres a driveway and a flat area and i felt safe the whole time. The flames were coming up and i was basically surrounded on three sides by flames. On the one side there were no flames at all. Our house which has vegetation around did not burn. Even though it was unbelievable, i never felt i was doing anything dangerous. Reporter now his house was saved. It did not burn. But a lot of area around his property did. He feels like theres really nothing left to burn. His family has moved back in. And now hes concerned about power. He doesnt have any. Electric lights were melted and the fire. He is concerned it could be weeks or months before he gets his power back. He thinks pg e will give priority to areas like here, first priority. In terms of getting infrastructure back online. Its so hard to see those images. Thanks for that live report. Mandatory evacuation still in effect for coffee park. Santa rosa, the newest one may this afternoon. The whole city of calistoga and then geyserville, parts of geyserville under mandatory Evacuation Orders. So many fires are continuing to emerge and now, the wind. One of the reasons for example, calistoga is on the mandatory evacuation this is because of the wind. Most of yesterday we saw wind speeds moving in out of the west. We will start with a red flag warning that will illustrate why calistoga is under Evacuation Orders. We have dry air moving back in with wind speeds at 30 Miles Per Hour with 45 mileperhour gusts. We do see and thats we do tend to see our humidity recovering at night. Tomorrow, humidity levels will drop once again. We have three different models. We will take a closer look at napa as we go into the next few hours. We will continue to see our wind speeds up to30 Miles Per Hour. Napa going into the rest of tonight you will notice around 11 30 the models are showing stronger wind speeds for napa. As we go into 2 00 a. M. , all three models are the same as we look at napa. All three models of green, our wind speeds will be 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. The same is true near santa rosa. Going into your 9 00, shower, similar conditions in napa. As we go through most of the day tomorrow you can expect a possibility of wind speeds over 20 Miles Per Hour. We cant rule out costs closer to 30 Miles Per Hour. The combination of decreased visibility and humidity is something we are watching. So here is the tubs fire. Is moving in from the north northwest. You can see calistoga off to the right of your screen and where the fire was burning. Is between kellogg and calistoga but those wind speeds and the concern is that will be closer to calistoga. This is a large large fire here. The tubbs fire fire has burned 28,000 acres. With the wind direction coming in from the north again its affecting parts of napa. I have friends in that region who will have to evacuate. So again, this right Flood Warning stays in effect red flag warning stays into effect until tomorrow. We expect dry conditions to continue. Our wind speeds moving at 20 Miles Per Hour. We have more details coming up on what you can expect about the wind direction and the speed of the windy. We have been talking a lot as were looking at a drive through taken earlier. A lot about the people working this firestorm in various capacities who have had to be very concerned about their own homes and families. We learned a short time ago that at least 40 bay area firefighters have lost their homes. A startling number. A lot of these firefighters havent been able to go and see whats left of their homes if anything. They havent been able to comfort their families and get them through this. We will take a quick break right now. If youd like to donate to the firefighters here locally or the red costs are the Salvation Army or any number of charitable organizations working to help the victims. , we have that information posted on our website, kron4. Com. pam breaking news. Authorities are going around the city of breaking news. Dan, i saw your post a video on facebook and twitter. Dramatic video of Law Enforcement going around with the bullhorn telling people to leave. Thats right. Maybe a difference enormous sheriffs vehicles driving around just north of Sonoma Square telling peoples time to get out. We saw Police Officers going doortodoor each taking a different section north of Sonoma Square and telling people its not mandatory but the best guess is this fire could be coming down into downtown sonoma in a couple of hours. That would be and 30 minutes to 90 minutes from now. That is why they have been telling people and weve seen people packing up throughout the day. The hillside behind me, im going to step out of the way. You can see right here there is a dozer line thats been put in. This those are lined is been pretty and was put in literally just about 30 minutes ago. The idea is that they are concerned that this fire is going to come over this hillside and come down onto these houses right here. The concern is that they want to get that dozer line in place so just in case the fire does come, theres a chance that it will stop at that dozer line. So that is a situation here in sonoma, downtown sonoma. There are voluntary evacuations. More on this coming up for you and about 10 minutes on kron4 news at 6 00. Downtown sonoma. Potentially in the path. Were going to be on straight through until 11 30 tonight. We will take a short break right now and be right back. Seconds couldve made the difference between life and death. I open the front door and it was like a bomb went off. We thought north korea had dropped a bomb on us. The threat continues, wildfires roaring across the north a causing devastation and destruction. Crews continuing to work around the clock. They burn dozens of homes and businesses across the region. Very low containment to report but there are new Evacuation Orders issued. Thanks for joining our special coverage. Heres the latest on the fires burning in the northbay. We at least 3500 homes and businesses have been destroyed. Officials say that number is conservative. There 285 people still unaccounted for. There are 9 fires burning in napa and sonoma. They burned a total of 170,000 acres and firefighters still struggling to get containment. These are prompting dozens of new mandatory evacuations. We have this map to orient you of the trouble spots. Calistoga is the most recent mandatory evacuation coming this afternoon. You can see this fire line from the cal fire website. The most recent website showing how it could be closing in. This morning, geyserville had a mandatory evacuation issue there. That is because of this fire burning in a southerly direction. We have several other evacuations just issued today that are not mandatory but advisories. Sonoma in the downtown area is one of the most concerning. The areas north of Sonoma Square, very expensive area. Be a nightmare if that were to come to fruition. This is all in sonoma. Near napa bleeding into solano, we have the atlas fire heading towards fairfield and evacuations have been issued in the area western fairfield on the side of 80. Will contract we will continue to track this all night. Those of the spots we are watching most closely. Authorities just wrapped up a News Conference to update everyone on efforts to battle these wildfires. 280 people still missing they are making progress period the number is down from more than 600. Calistoga under a mandatory evacuation because the wild fires creep ever closer. Lets check in with justin and calistoga live. Give us a sense of what things look like there. Youre looking at a complete ghost town. Residents that live here are evacuees. We have not seen anybody driving around for the past hour or so. We are seeing more Highway Patrol cars and officials. One car to the left and into the right you can see cars coming southbound towards st. Helena. People not allowed to drive north. Everything is shut off. To the left, this road closure happening right now. You see the smoky haze, there are some houses people have evacuated. These officers have been here for several hours guiding people where to go. You see that woman right there with her hands up, one of accu we was leaving, she didnt know where to go she said i have 3 in my bank account, what am i supposed to do . This php officer at her snacks and water. Good people doing good things in a tough time. While other gas stations are closed, you see this open sign lit up. Standing by is the gas station manager. Why are you open . We need to help some people. Some people need gas to go far away. That happens monday morning 1 oclock power comes back monday, people need to get to work. They need the gas to philip, even one or 2 to top off. You sold out yesterday. We sold out yesterday around 4 oclock. We have some left and thats taking the Police Officer, chp, Fire Department therell helping. Its mostly officials right now. You have opened your doors and let people comment to keep buying snacks and fuel. Even opened your bathroom and offered to give a key to these people. Dislike we spoke to the officer before. They need the restroom key and we has a time, he leaves the key at the Police Department and we will go get it. We have to wrap it up, well send it back to you in the studio. Authorities trying as best they can to keep people updated on the status of the firefight they just wrapped up a News Conference. 285 people still missing. The number is down from more than 600. An enormous event. Sheriffs office job is evacuations. Seen security and finding the missing people. Life is what is it about is what its about right now. We have 300 officers working this county and they are from all over the states a lot of resources came in to do that. We were able to work on the missing person list some more so i have a new set of numbers. 600 total reports of missing persons. That number is dropping because theres a lot of duplicate reports. We have cut through them. We have 3 pieces of paper and 3 phone calls on one person. As best we can tell we are a total of 600 reports. 315 located safely. There were not they were not hurt, justification breakdown. A lot of those were found detectives making phone calls. We are working on individual cases. Theres 200 285 on our missing list that we are looking for. We are working those missing people backwards to the point where if we cant find them we are trying to get to their house. Evacuations happening tonight in one part of Sonoma County. We want to check in with dan kerman. Reporter we are on bluing dry which is basically a block north of Sonoma Square. 4 oclock this afternoon, let me show you some video. About halfdozen Sonoma County sheriffs vehicles started driving around this area north of Sonoma Square telling people it was time to evacuate. Giving them the idea the fire coming from one direction and the eastern side could arrive in downtown sonoma in 2 hours which would be about now. We havent seen much of the way of fire but people paid attention and took the time to pack up and get on the road. We spoke with some. We were prepared the other day to get some stuff out. We had some things in order. When they came today, we decided we better get a few more things. Pictures, documents, papers. Just getting everything we want to keep. We really thought we were okay but the wind can come up at any time. Very stressed. Reporter in addition to the vehicles going doortodoor we also saw a Police Officer for various cities throughout the bay area also going doorto door knocking on doors, everyone taking a certain street telling them about this voluntary evacuation. We looked up in the hillside and we saw a bulldozer cutting a line. The idea being if that fire comes over the hill in front of these houses, they want to make sure theres a line in place so it can be stopped. Thats where we stand right now. Downtown sonoma north of the square, the recommendation is for people to evacuate. Many have packed up their cars and left. If youre heading towards novato, it will take extra time to get there. Theres also a lot of ash falling from the sky right now. A lot of thick smoke in the air. We will see what happens. Thank you for that report. Lets take a live look at outside right now. You can barely see whats off the roadway. Sorry, this is san mateo bridge. We are under a Red Flag Alert right now. Not only are we under that red flag warning but spare the air alert. You have to be careful even if youre not close to the north may if you have breathing difficulties. The big concern will be when speed. We see the red flag warning, strong wind speeds expected tonight for a prolonged amount of time. By 7 we have 3 different models we put on this map for you to show you what the wind speeds could be as we go into the rest of evening. At 7 will see when speed pickup but its going to be after 11 pm that most locations and the model start to agree we will see stronger wind. By 1130 we track 2227 Miles Per Hour. We will see when speed at 15 Miles Per Hour. Closer to napa the range is between 15 and 27. As we go into our overnight hours again, you basically see wind gusts between that 2030 mileperhour markup with the possibility of wind gust up to 40 Miles Per Hour at least until thursday when the red flag warning expires. More details coming up in just a bit. In fairfield, the fire is pushing towards homes and that has firefighters great gravely concerned. We spent time on the flame front with teresa. Reporter there are a lot of changes going on i want to update you on. Right now, it seems like its raining ash. Behind me, a lot of concern because we have been told the atlas fire is ranging 3 miles down on rockville. Now, this intersection, one goes into fairfield one into napa. We are 3 miles away from 80. Earlier we met up with fire crews trying to save as many homes as possible. Flames terror through this hillside. The snakelike flames were us were defensive tackle dick. The el dorado hotshots set these places to trick the fire. By setting backfires it prevents big blazes from racing downhill and destroying everything in sight. As it creeps down and the wind picks up, we want to have men in here to protect the structure. I connected with mike carter and his partner as they checked out the homes saved by the backfires. Going from structure to structure to make sure the fire back to here doesnt continue to threaten homes. So far so good. There are looking at spots for the could bring in bulldozers to help create more defensible space. Carter says the work here has been beyond challenging. Our concern is definitely the wind. Were expecting the strong wind to push through this area. The majority of the forces most likely will be that way. We want to make sure we can hold what we have before we go jump in front of that. Again, a lot of concern as night starts to unfold. At this is the Paradise Ridge winery. Just one destroyed and the devastating tubbs fire. My daughter is. Studying to be a dentist and she gave me advice. She said dad go pro with crest prohealth. Crest prohealth protects all. These areas dentists. Check most. Immediately i felt a. Difference it did an. Extremely good job of cleaning 4 out of 5 dentists confirm. These crest prohealth. Products help maintain. A professional clean. Go pro with crest prohealth my daughter inspired me. To make a change. Crest prohealth really brought my mouth to the next level. Crest healthy beautiful smiles for life. 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I spoke to one man who woke up to evacuation and started taking video of the flames he saw across the street. He thought it could get to his home as well. Hes fortunate but so many others not. We visited a Mobile Home Park earlier, a man, a Security Guard that he woke up to flames and he wanted to stop the fire from getting to his mobile home so he grabbed a fire hose and he says he saved 40 mobile homes. I put 9000 into my motorcycle last month. Those guys are still down there those are the heroes. Reporter police say he saved 3 mobile homes and there were 140 or more in that part. A very devastating scene out here. We have seen residents come back to survey the damage for the 1st time seeing they have nothing left. A very emotional day for everyone in the neighborhood. A med the weather a major concern. So many considerations for the fire crews as they try to figure out a battle plan. We try to keep in touch with whats happening with the weather because of that. We still have poor air quality for virtually all. The big story tonight will be red flag warning which will stay in effect until thursday at 5 pm. Dryer air moving back in, the wind direction shifted yesterday it was more out of the west and more of an onshore flow. Today, that when direction shifting back out of the north blowing all the smoke and embers to the south. Are when speed wind speed testing overnight into the Early Morning hours. Humidity levels dropping 10 to 20 . We focus on the tubbs fire. You how the fire to the north plus a wind direction coming in and the entire city has been evacuated. This helps paint a picture of how wind direction will affect different cities and it will depend on where that is blowing the flames and smoke. We are still seeing poor air quality because of the northerly wind direction blowing all the smoke into most of San Francisco and parts of the south day. Warnings stay in effect through tonight into tomorrow at 5 pm. Wind gusts, 3 different models we are watching as we go into tonight. They start to agree as we get into the overnight hours when we expect to see when speed picking up. Specifically after 11 pm. Thats me see a lot of windspeed moving around 2530 Miles Per Hour. As we go through 2 am we are still dealing with strong wind speeds, dry air on top of us moving in from the north. Even at 6 am, we will start to see the windspeed dying down. By 5 oclock, our red flag warning will expire. Hopefully our windspeed stick to the models we have been showing you. We will have more details coming up in just a bit. Wildfires having a major effect on the wineries in the area. Stanley roberts takes a closer look at the damage. Reporter this was a practice trying to get around with the road closures. It started out at Paradise Ridge winery which he will look at some video posted, it was devastating. The barrels were burnt to a crisp. The whole area is devastated. As you drive around, which are to go to the willis wine bar, i couldnt even get out to take pictures because of to get weathers wires and then theres agent oaks. We were sent to the other side of town and that was close. The road was closed do you have any questions . The one here is completely, people stand around and do wedding parties. It was so hot, some of the glass was altered. There are 1100 wineries in napa and sonoma altogether and we dont know how many totally have been affected by this fire. Thats a big part of the business of the northbay. Reporter yes. Thats part of their entire economy is based on what goes on with the wineries. Some, he said there will be a smoke taste some will have that slight taste of smoke in the background. Just a little bit. I also noticed the place i was at, they had already harvested but there are a couple of grapes still there so you could see some had dried out and in some cases there were some looking normal. These words burnt i was going to ask . As we all travel in the northbay, we love to see the stretches of land with all the vineyards. Did you see many vineyards where there has been widespread destruction . Stuck i looked at some of the actual grape leaves were burnt werent burnt. Many of the grapes had already been harvested. It looks like the smoke came through and there are some areas still smoking but overall, you see where the fire blew through and burned everything. One area there was a wooden shed untouched. A few feet away, everything was burnt. The weirdest part, looking at all the different wine barrels that were burnt. You could smell the strong odor of wine. The there were still liquid in them. I found out that its temperature. The temperatures not right, you lose these things. Down the line, it will be a major impact to sonoma, napa for that reason. As we move on tonight, 21 people have died in fires that have forced the northbay. Their identities are beginning to be released. We will have more on that and other issues related to the firestorm after the break. pam at least 21 people have died in these horrific fires. At least 21 people have died so far in this horrific series of fires and hundreds more are reported missing. We are learning about the identity theft, some of whom perished. One family confirmed the number had died. She was reported missing yesterday. She said her home was on fire issues trapped inside. Discuses thats when the phone line with dad. The family of Christina Hansen has confirmed that she is also died from the fire. Wheelchairbound woman was reported missing after her home was destroyed in the tubbs fire. Fire inspector informed her family members that she was in the house but was unable to make it out. Her father is in the hospital. He is dealing with thirddegree burns. Heres a look at the firestorm that ripped through santa rosa overnight. Stay with us for the latest coverage on the devastating northbay fires. steve raging wildfi the wine country firestorm continues. Ripping 2 parts of the north bay sending new groups of people running from homes, many losing everything already in these fires. Welcome back to our special coverage. Here is the latest. The death toll now stands at 21. We know at least 3500 homes and businesses have been destroyed but officials are clear that number is conservative. And Sonoma County, there are currently 285 people still unaccounted for. There are 9 fires burning. They have burned a total of 170,000 acres. Firefighters still struggling to get them contained. These fires prompting dozens of new, mandatory evacuations. We just got one within the past 2 minutes. Its an area so many of us are familiar with. Just north of downtown sonoma. Heres account fire map from a short time ago showing fire lines. This latest Evacuation Order is for the area north of Sonoma Square and includes hot springs right here. The area is for arnold drive from madrone south to petaluma avenue and east to east napa and local valley road. That is the latest mandatory evacuation. This area was under an advisory and theyre asking people to leave now its mandatory. You can seal the fire activity going to be heading south because of these wins whipping as of right now. This red flag warning in effect. You see the different pockets of trouble. This is the santa rosa fire impacting the entire calistoga area are. This is closing in we will continue to track this but the big news that just broke, the northern part of the city of sonoma including hot springs, mandatory Evacuation Order just issued. We have some good news to share. For one family searching for a missing man, he has been found. We are joined live from santa rosa. We need some good news. Is my pleasure to report the good news. Im here journeys and Mobile Home Park. We had to report to you a body was removed today. Another resident of the park, 78yearold man had been missing for 72 hours. Stanley reached out to us earlier today. We took some pictures and met with the family. They told us they had been searching all the shelters and Evacuation Centers as far north as cloverdale. They notify the newsroom 30 minutes ago saying he is safe and sound. He had been with a friend at an apartment. He doesnt speak english or have a cell phone, he doesnt drive a car so there is no way to reach him but somehow they tracked him down. Not sure we can take any credit for this but its important that they found him. Hes no longer included in the ranks of the missing. We have a red flag warning as people head home through the haze. As we go through the rest of the, airquality still poor. We have another spare the air alert going into effect for thursday. Humidity showing overnight hours. We typically see our Community Rise overnight. We will get back up to 32 . 29 in nampa. 35 in santa rosa but as we go through the day tomorrow, humidity will drop back down to 15 . Down to 20 in parts of santa rosa by thursday. Recovery humidity but because everything is drying out, we also see our windspeed moving in from the north. That is particularly concerning. The Weather Service has issued a red flag warning which will stay in effect until 5 pm thursday. Theres 3 different models and they track our future when guests as we go into the overnight hours especially closer to 11 pm, all the models start to agree you dont see a big difference. Our confidence builds that we will see strong wind speeds overnight tonight around 11 oclock continuing to the overnight hours. The same to for parts of napa into santa rosa. 2 am we will see when guests around 20, 25 Miles Per Hour. Its not out of the realm of possibility we could see when guests back towards 45 Miles Per Hour overnight. The windspeed still strong. As we head into the afternoon, it wont be until after 10 oclock that we slowly start to see a lot of these numbers drop back down. We expect to see stronger wind overnight into the start of thursday but by 5 oclock, i like warning should expire. We should have more moisture back here and, wind speeds. If that changes, we will let you know. The winery inferno still driving people out of their homes. Many people in napa had to evacuate including american canyon. Reporter some evacuees came here to american canyon. I caught up with some of those evacuees here in the parking lot of this walmart. They say they have no idea whether or not there homes are Still Standing. We are here getting supplies. Were trying to make it through a strange and stressful week. We are completely out of routine. My kids are out of school. Trying to keep some sense of normal routine for our kids. We live in napa on the southeastern side. My children i live just down the road and we ended up monday morning, we have been here at our friends house waiting for news about how the fire is spreading as the winds shift. We dont know what happened next. We are still under Evacuation Orders. Do know the status of your home . Right now we are looking at the maps. Reporter not knowing whether her home is Still Standing is unfortunately more common than not at this point. These northbay wildfires still raging out of control. Heres the aftermath of the firestorm as we observed it. Scorched land destroyed and the fight continuing for 8 thousand fire crews. Our coverage continues after this break. While a major part of santa rosas urban core was damaged by fire, there are still more areas being a major part of santa rosa urban core damaged. A lot of Evacuation Orders out there. We found more devastation and more people in the rural areas. Right now im in the coffee park area of santa rosa. This area was nearly completely demolished. To see so must to see so much devastation is shocking. None 9 miles east, the adobe fire was evacuated monday morning. I went beyond the barricades to find out why. Heres whats left of the valley home near garden ranch road. Its now just a heap of ash, . Re pi. Pm uw would. Nash and birchwood. The family that owns this home is on east coast. They asked her neighbors to check in and neighbors had to break the bad news. They spent so much effort. Paul was an amateur builder and have spent the last year improving the house and they did so much work. We went over to dinner several times and its so sad. We went over there yesterday everything is gone. Everything includes their cars which are now metal shells. Even the batteries melted leaving silver drips down the driveway. That family plan to stay on east coast until the power is restored. The neighbor is also without power. He is concerned areas like out here will be getting 1st priority when it comes to getting their infrastructure restored because they are much more densely packed. His concern is that rural customers like himself will be without power for weeks if not months. This is video of flames coming dangerously close to homes in Sonoma County. Our coverage of this devastating firestorm continues after the spring. This is a live picture looking out over the San Francisco bay. Very hazy day we went to she will lie picture looking out over San Francisco bay. Very hazy that smoky air making it hard to breathe. We are getting reports as far south as morgan hill. We have had another School Closure as a result. Antioch schools close tomorrow. Is it getting any better as my phone arrives. It seems like things are clearer at that vision may be deceiving because all day we have been breathing in and smelling that unmistakable scent of smoke. Your he reports that School Districts are closing, antioch close tomorrow and well see if that will be a pattern across the bay area. We would emphasize this is a acting the entire bay area. We are getting phone calls all day of schools not having students go outside, keeping them in classrooms trying not to have them participate in Outdoor Activities in the wake of all the smoke drifting down south. I want to give an idea of how farreaching this impact goes. We spoke with the San Joaquin Valley air pollution control district. They told us parts of fresno were at level v readings for airquality this evening. That means its unhealthy for many groups and people in fresno were advised to stay inside because of the harmful smoke. Fresno Unified School District canceling Outdoor Activities as well. Were driving here from fresno over the bay bridge which looks stunning as the lights are coming on but as we drive over looking at the haze we saw all across the day, we could see drivers wearing protective masks you have seen our reporters and so many others wearing. Thats just an illustration of how seriously people here are taking the effects of the smoke coming over. We should just tell everybody, a number of School Districts are shutting down because of the thick smoke blanketing the bay area. You may want to check with your individual School Districts. Lets check back in with grants. Reporter we are with you a couple minutes ago and said theres been a mandatory evacuation for the sonoma area north of the square including hot springs. That is an advisory. They are encouraging people they way to leave but is not officially mandatory yet. I apologize for that. There are several evacuation advisories throughout the bay right now. There mandatory Evacuation Orders. Obviously its more imminent threats when its mandatory. Even with this advisory includes the area north of sonoma, they say you should be ready to go at a moments notice. He should have everything packed and ready to roll. I just want to make that clear, and in fact that she evacuation advisory north of the square through hot springs. We will chief meteorologist looking at what the impact is having in the area. We have an alert will stay in effect until thursday. We dont expect to see improving conditions until we head into the weekend. We have the red flag warning and went back into effect until Tuesday Morning now and went back into effect 5 pm tonight and will continue until 5 pm tomorrow. We are basically seeing dryer air move back in. Humidity levels will be 1020 and as we go into the overnight hours we tend cr humidity recovering from the wind speed specifically the concern my 15 30 Miles Per Hour gusting up to 30 Miles Per Hour. Future wind gusts show we have 3 different models we are watching. They go into the 11 oclock hour tonight so basically if everyone is sleeping, thats when the wind speeds will be the strongest and will stay strong overnight. These are 3 different models and when they start to agree the confidence is higher we will see wind speeds in the 20s, was a 27 Miles Per Hour. Same thing near napa. By 9 am, we start to see everything decreasing a little bit. Easier conditions expected for santa rosa. By 5 oclock tomorrow we will see another round of struggle wind speeds. Flag warning set to expire thursday at 5. The spare the air alert stays in effect until tomorrow. I could get extended depending on where you live. Equality will be worse on thursday especially for Northern Counties and that ties into a windspeed staying strong overnight into tomorrow and again by sunday we should start to see improvement with our air quality. Coming up, well talk about in store for the work week. Some people were briefly allowed to go back into their homes to grab important personal items they left behind when they were initially rushed out. Reporter near a Police Barricade, the line for families to catch a ride with Law Enforcement to check on their homes grew larger by the hour. I just want to know what Still Standing. Reporter retired architect stood in line with his girlfriend and caretaker struggling to find the words for how he felt not knowing if his home was still up or had burned to the ground. Impossible to even describe. Reporter so much of napa county has been leveled. Several cars and other vehicles were destroyed. This neighbor lost a lot but it appears the house and pool are still intact. As bob mikell and family were escorted up the mountains, fear of the worst crept into their minds as they pass by burned out fields and structures. Im expecting the worst, but praying for the best. Reporter fortunately by the time they reached the house, it was still there despite being made of wood, there was no damage. Im delighted. I thought for a minute i had to rebuild but now i dont have to. Reporter the may the home may still be in jeopardy. Time to go. Reporter all part of the reality on the ground here in that the conditions and situations change on a minute by minute basis. A lot of people wondering how to make a difference. Some driving up to the area to bring things. Donating food and blankets the shelters is good but there are a lot of other important ways you can make a difference. The red cross accepting donations to help fire victims. That will be needed to help for a long time. You can text red cross 2909999 and ill make a make an automatic 10 donation. You can also make donations to the Salvation Army located in 93 stony circle unit d in santa rosa. There collecting monetary donations. The crews are asking people to refrain bringing anything to the Community Center so they can work on distribute what they have. Evacuation locations, the areas under Evacuation Order advisories and beyond, we have you covered. Call the Sonoma County information hotline. You can also check to see if loved ones have marked themselves safe. This is video of destruction in napa county. Our coverage of this devastating north bay firestorm will continue right after the break. Last w there 21 people now dead because of the firestorm in the north bay. 170,000 acres and hundreds and hundreds of firefighters on the line. Is still a very active tire situation and a very dangerous one. Psychic medication is improving. There fighting the fire from the air and our 8000 people on the frontline trying to make a difference. At the same time, many evacuations on this night. We will continue to report them through this prime time addition it will be here until 11 30 pm and you can turn to us for the information you need. 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. This is the day areas news station. Kr 014 news starts now with breaking news. The Sheriffs Office job is evacuations. Security and finding the missing people. That is where our focus has been. Life is what it is about right now so evacuations are going on. We have 300 Law Enforcement officers working right now this county and they are from all over the state. A lot of resources poured into do that. We were able today to work on the missing person listen more so having new set of numbers for you. 600 total. The Sonoma County sheriff we heard them in a news briefing talking about a lot of priorities and part of it is keeping people safe. Wildfires roaring across the north bay causing a lot of devastation and destruction. Crews working around the clock. Some people have been on 24 hour shifts since this started on sunday. They are eating maybe sleeping for 20 minute