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That the fire is calming. The winds calmed slowing the spread of the north bay wildfires. Evacuations were lifted for napa and calastoga and parts of santa rosa, in all, 5700 buildings destroys, most of them homes. Authorities say the death toll remains at 40. The Sonoma County Coroners Office identified four of the people who died in the fires. They are a map updated by cal fire slows where the fires are burning right now. The largest fire, atlas fire and the tubbs fire are now more than 50 contained. The nuns fire in southern Sonoma County is 40 contained. We have Live Team Coverage for you tonight. We were tracking the current conditions. We are live where evacuees are now allowed to return home. First, debra is tracking the progress the firecrews are making and joins us now live from santa rosa. Reporter we are in the states neighborhood north of santa rosa. Two areas that got the all clear to go home about 6 00 tonight. Many will be passing devastation like this. Daily reminder of there disaster. Reporter this High School Teacher comes home to a dusty house that smells like smoke but never looked so good. Thankful, thankful. A lot of people lost a lot and life and structure. I am fortunate to be back and everything is here. We are turning the corner, getting more black lines. The containment lines growing, more people cooperating. All good say fire managers. Overall things are feeling optimistic for us. We are cautious about that. I hope that everybody will just have the strength and get through the hard part and start looking towards the spring. Reporter this victim shows us blades of grass sprouts in the ruins of her home of 18 years. This is what she saw leaving a week ago. She wants her neighborhood to heel. My daughter made this for us. Reporter there are moments like finding these statues that her daughter made some, how in tact. If that is the only thing that i can give her. [crying] that will be the best memory i could give her because i dont have anything else to give her. [crying] the tubbs fire is here. It is it is going to get into the city. Reporter the victim next door is the fire official who gave santa rosas Evacuation Order after driving into the hills and seeing fire coming. There is a piece of me that understand who wondered if i overreacted. Reporter he helped evacuate for hours. After day three when i realized the uniform i was wearing was the only uniform i had, the only thing that i had. It settled in. Reporter lights go on in some places residents are not overlooking all of those left behind. Normal is not the term. A healing process, for sure. We will have to come together, still, as a community and help each other out through this. Reporter the Sheriffs Office expects to repopulate more of the evacuated area tomorrow. Neighborhoods with the damage with gas line problems or of course with any fire nearby those will be the last ones to get the all clear. All right. Live in santa rose a thank you. Evacuation orders have been lifted. Roughly 2500 peep were evacuated from their homes there. People with proof of residency came back. 5,000 People Living in calastoga were allowed back after firecrews keep the flames from reaching the city limits. We are live tonight with todays homecoming. Reporter i am stand on main street here. Plane things here are getting back to normal. If you are within the city limits you are allowed to return home. If youor the out skirts those people are still somewhat displaced. Now, many people are here telling me it has been a long five days. They returned home they returned with smiles but also, heavy hearts. Facing an uncertain future residents endured 5 long days. Finally sunday, a sign things were returning to normal. That is excellent. I can not describe that. I can not tell you how happy we were here. Yes. But we are back. We are back. The first stop for many was the grocery store. One of the first stores to open as Evacuation Orders were lifted. It feels amazing to be back. When we pulled into town and saw the cops with signs saying welcome back we all broke down in tears. Just incredibly sweet. An eager owner of a bedand breakfast was release flood it is all here. The biggest thing that i noticed was all of the ash on the front porch. Reporter this b b teaches cooking classes, before getting tourists back in the kitchen she had work to do. Open everything up. There was a stronger smell of smoke in the house than there was outside. Reporter all of this while south on highway 29 smoke still blanketed wine country and the air assaults continued. This town Still Standing because of the hardworking heroes. I dont know where they got the energy but theres firefighters, amazing, they did a wonderful job getting there taken care of. They saved my property. We know the firefighters mounted a major battle to save our town. We can not express our gratitude to them. Reporter many people here are relieved their homes are Still Standing. I was told pie a few people this afternoon that this is a very tight knit community and what they want to do is reach out and help others in napa county. Yes. A city that relies on tourism. Are tourists welcomed back as well . Reporter yes, surprising, we were coming up here on north on highway 29 and we did see a few tourists taking pictures in front of an Ice Cream Store believe it or not. Many people just fascinated by what they are seeing with the airdrops taking place along the highway. That was some sort of a sight that things really are returning to normal and people are coming back to the community and getting ready to spend money to help with the recovery effort here. Yes, earlier we were told only residents were allowed there. I guess anyone can go in now . Reporter yes. I was surprised. So was the cameraman with me tonight. The police were supposed to check ids and making sure residents coming in actually live in there community but there were more or less shaking hands and as in pump in the story. There is hanging back and letting people drive in and i guess some tourists and their curiousity were able to get in as well. All right, rob, thank you. Firecrews are getting a break with the calmer winds. Yes. We will look at the current conditions. Yes, quite a few weather obstacles. The big one, yesterday morning, calmer winds and in fact, increasing moisture levels as l. The fire warning has expired. No more red flannery as well. The fire warning has expired. No more red flag warnings. Warm tomorrow, upper 80s, close to 90 degrees. Dry out there. Moisture levels down to 10 . The winds, nothing major around 10 or 12 miles an hour. Check it out. Current observation from the north bay from Sonoma County. Going hawkeye, santa rosa as well. The levels creeping up. Closer to sonoma valley. Cooling off, 48 degrees, humidity around 53 and the winds for the most part light and variable. You see atlas peek at 7 miles an however. Overnight, a burst in the winds, a bump in the wind speeds i should say around 10 10 10 or 11 miles an hour. Midafternoon, 12 00, scaling back on the winds, more of winds light and variable by monday, you are hearing about the chance of rain not for tomorrow. Look at what happens later in the week. Thursday and friday. Bumping up the rain chances in the fire zones. We will talk more about that. A welcomed change coming up. We will have that in just a few minutes. Several School Districts are canceling classes again this week. The officials will be schools will be closed in santa rosa, geyserville, kenwood, mark west, oliver union, roseland and sonoma valley. Santa Rosa Junior College will be closed this week. You can find more information on other north bay districts by going to our web site. A new fire scare this afternoon for marin county residents. Some people along carmel court were evacuated but the firefighter list the fire contained in less than an hour and those residents were allowed back home. About 10 acres burned. No word yet on the cause. Brush fire damaged two homes. The fire was reported about 1 15 there afternoon on megalita road. A little over an hour the fire went to 3 alarms, thankfully no injuries reported. Cal fire reported firing the fire. Arcing power lines were spotted. Coming up, new video, firecrews going into the interno in the north bay. What it was like inferno in the north bay. What it was like. What it was like. Capturing the overwhelming devastation on video and a firefighter is sharing it to raise awareness and money for fire victims. We are live with the unique perspective. The video is on youtube and watched 80,000 people. They thought they were responding to a large grass fire. They had no idea what they were about to encounter. Reporter they got the call at 5 00 on monday morning that the Fire Department needed help. They and four other engineers from San Francisco headed north. What they encountered was a lot more than they imagined. Wow look at the flames over there. What they thought were hills on fire were homes and businesses. Flames coming from all sides. Berkeley firefighter shot the video and add captions. The three of us that were on that fire engineer that day on october 9th it was the biggest case that any of us responded to. Reporter they were told to stage at the kmart parking lot only to find the 100,000 square foot store on fire. Not stopping because a building that involved in flames, they say, is already lost. Is that a gas station there . Oh, boy. I can actually feel that heat. Can you feel that . Oh my god. Wow , it is blowing out there. Reporter the fire spread. They got uneasy. They came across neighborhoods burned to the ground. Hundreds of homes gone. Now , it is like a bomb went off. They were looking for some to save. Only chimneys were left. Reporter cutting through fences and gaining access. Following back on their training, hosing back what they could as a fire jumped house to fire. Breaking its momentum. It is heartbreaking. Now, now, losing their family t is the most important and special losing their home, Families First and then homes. A firefighter lost his own home. They were happy to make a difference but they wish they  could of saved more homes. Back to you. Authorities today lifted Evacuation Orders for the city of napa. With the containment numbers out today the county supervisor says she sees the light at the end of the tunnel. We have a long road ahead of us but the day that we had hoped would come one week later we are here. After all of the devastation we are one effort lucky ones, we are. We have a house to come back and work to come back to. Hundreds of homes lost, 16 wineries sustained damage with 5 reporting significant or total loss. Finally a forecast with no red flag warning in it, flow warning just the temperatures on the warm side. Dry conditions as well. We started to warm things up today. A lot of 80s in santa rosa and 86 degrees. San jose in the middle 80s. Sanfrancisco, 80. You noticed the warm up throughout the day. Checking out the fire conditions up in the north bay. The temperatures right now, dropping off. Winds at 50. Towards shrael. Thankfully calm wind at most sites. That is a great development. Check it out, the air quality the main focus, the smoke, the haze, up in the north bay today. Checking out the quality at least the conditions for tomorrow. You can see it here. Moderate, unhealthy for sensitive groups. Down the scale it is improving a little bit. These are minor judgings. Judging changes. The number creeps up for the santa clara valley. Haze drifting around, especially up in the north bay. Overnight lows, thinking a lot of 50s out there 40s to start out your monday morning. San jose, 56. Tomorrow, a warm forecast. Warming things up today. A lot of 80s out there remaining unchanged for tomorrow. Here is the bigger change we are waiting for later in the week. Drop off in temperatures, increasing chances of rain. Building confidence later in the week. Answers to show you into monday. Thursday starts out dry. By the evening hours we bring in a chance of rain showers especially up in the north bay. Late on thursday and friday. The rain line moving to the south. Potentially up around the fire zones. We could have a quarter of an inch. That could be thursday night and into friday morning. The upcoming weekend looks dry and it looks warmer as well. The temperatures for tomorrow on the warm side. Look at all of the 80s. Warmest location, 90 degrees, that could be the case up towards santa rosa. Not talking about off shore wind events, warm, dry, fire danger, elevated for this time of the year. Seeing more fire activity during the warm hours, as far as cooling temperatures, we are expecting it later in the week. Here is the rain cloud, thursday night, friday. Looks like the weekend should be warmer with mostly sunny skies. But, there is the weather pattern we have been waiting for. Multiple obstacles in the last day, last week, major one, major test was saturday morning. Since then, the winds for the most part, not gusting too much. It remains on track into tomorrow. We know they are working hard out there. Absolutely. All right, thank you. Sports wrap just a few minutes away. Scott and jason here with what they are working on. 49ers set a record for close losses. Did they find their quarterback of the future today on the field in washington, d. C. . We will try to figure out what is going on with the raiders and dodger drama in l. A. Earmuffs for that part if you want want still ahead here at 11 00, criticism over the Emergency Alert system. Residents never got a warning to get out before the fires grew out of control. First, getting attention, two children from the north bay wanted to spread happiness to Santa Rosa Police officers. They did just that. Here it is right here. T is right here. 7yearold and 5yearold it is loading, loading, we will slow it to you. All right. We will slow you when we come back emergency emergencies warned people. Tonight, we are asking officials about the warnings. We learned that there is now a review to understand just how the response played out. A battle against time. Taking house by house. We were behind before we got started. Now, the mayor focused on helping his neighbors rebuild. 2 investigates is questioning the response playing out one week ago and those that are saying they received little or no warning. We had no time. There was no time, no evacuation it was that fast. Called the Fire Department. I see fires, do we need to evacuate. They said no, you dont need to evacuate. 20 minutes of being told dont need to evacuate she was driving through fire to get out. Multiple alerts were activated and alerts went out. Reporter the sheriff explained alerts were sent out after the fires began through the Alert Systems. The problem is that you can not receive them unless you sign up. Only a fraction of people actually did that. Why not everybody in my community got that call. It was confusing. Within 45 minutes our community was on fire. Reporter you see the officials could of sent out an emergency sirenlike alert, vibrating and lighting up and cell phone in the geographical area developed by fema. Lake county used it last sunday. Homes were quickly evacuated and so far no one has died there. We wanted to reach those that did not subscribe. People visiting the area and people that did not want to be bothered with every day notifications. Reporter why not send that wideranging cell alert to 500,000 people in Sonoma County . We asked the sheriff. I dont know that it works here because of our geography and roads. Panic, preventing First Responders from battling the fierce flames. In all of this the Officials Say 80 cell towers were destroyed, lines down, stopping additional communication. Even if everything went perfectly i am not sure everybody would of gotten a notification. Reporter now, a review plan to look at the Alert Systems and the county wide response. What would you say to those people that were not alerted . I would encourage them to sign up for the alerts. The problem we are having is the world has changed. People all had hard lines going to their house we called everybody in the area easily. People get rid of the hard line and there are consequences to that. Reporter the sheriff said the county is Getting Better at using the system and it will assess the communications break down from last sunday. In fact, he mentioned that the nixel system got a major upgrade just this weekend. You have to sign up to get those alerts. Back to you. And it is nixle. Com to sign up. Okay. Good thing have. All right. A 5yearold and 7yearold are giving highfives to the officers heading out to the north bay fire zones. We wanted to show you before we leave you tonight. Good night Airlines Visa signature card you get a companion ticket every year. So why not take someone that you see all the time. Someone like, i dunno, me . I mean i always spell your name right and put a little unicorn in your foam. No pressure but i really need to get out of here. Theyve been playing the same playlist for three months and im pretty sure youre not supposed to eat scones for dinner this many days in a row. Mexico, hawaii, costa rica, i dont really know. Im a quick packer. Raider regression continues in oakland. Nobody is feeling sorry for us in the world. Why the devil is in the details in this skid. A change under center in the 9ers. Going with a full youth movement. Reporter a new quarterback could not solve an old problem. Speaking of problems. Shoulder, right elbow. Reporter how the injury bug bit multiple stars with bay area ties this weekend. Drama in so cal. How the dodgers provided the lasting image of this years playoffs. You cant kafrp all of the action so we sum it

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