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Businesses there in the north bay. In what is being called the glass fire, 11,000 acres have already been burned. Thats about 17 square miles since it first started sunday morning. Its just so disheartening when you take a look at the scenes. The gross fire is freding room itly. Causing destruction r fires hav with the glass fire, possibly spot fires from the original plays, forcing more evacuations there on the outskirts of santa rosa along highway 12. We have Live Team Coverage for you this afternoon. Greg lee covering the napa side of this fire. Tom vacar taking a look at some of the damage done if Sonoma County already. We want to start with meteorologist mark tomaio, tracking the latest on the weather conditions in the fire zone. Thankfully today were starting to see those winds pull back. Thats right, alex. We have had two big wind events, and we are past those two events. Here is a look around santa rosa, mount st. Helena. Those winds gusting to 55 miles per hour. We take a look at some of the current reports out there, and right now were just talking about winds of around 10 to 14 miles an hour. So a significant drop off in those wind speeds. When this fire started yesterday, this was the satellite, and you can see that narrow smoke plume, but look at the change rapidly. Of course that fire has really expanded in coverage, and its being detected on the satellite with the smoke. It is nice to see, theres no fog in the area, but at least there is fog working its way up the coastline. Also watching the satellite, fire detection, as we come if closer, the satellite goes overhead. It can detect the fire activity, and this was the scene earlier today. But what is interesting, lock at those arrows. They are coming in out of the west, so that is quite a bit of a wind direction shift, basically a reversal. Well check in on some of the current conditions. Temperatures, it is hot in the fire zone, into the lower 90s. Thankfully the winds have backed off, but it is very dry. Relative humidity around 1 to 13 . Could have a few locations into the single digits. So its a very dry pattern, and anything that has not burned can burn easily because it is so dry out there. We put this into motion, showing you some surrounding sites around the fire zone. The winds not too much of a factor, and forecast temperature is dropping up into the 70s and 800s. The red flag fire warning continues into this evening. Thankfully no gusts approaching 50 miles an hour, but still, it is very hot and dry and still a big challenge for the fire crews in this area. All right, mark, thank you very much. As that firefight continues, tens of thousands of people have been told to leave their homes, or prepare to get out there in Sonoma County. Tom vacar joins us now live in Sonoma County with the latest there. Tom . Reporter i want to show you what were talking about challenglook uhere. That have the top of part of annadell state park, and you can see the smoke rising out of there. That is evidence of fire that is still burning , and it does threaten this neighborhood down here, but its pretty far away now. Earlier, it was way down to these houses. I hate to put it this way, but the truth is some of the worst firestorm weather is in october, still ahead of us. By early morning, the fire that roared through Sonoma County settled down as the wind settled town, leaving behind a scattering of thoroughly destroyed homes replete with exploding propane gas tanks. The fire lines proved mostly successful. Amazingly, while some homes were destroyed in the overnight fire, most were left unscathed. This seems to be a direct result not of the wall of flame but embers cast well ahead of the main fire driven by last nights high winds. At another hill side location, this home was burned to the ground, a likely victim of an ember that caught something on fire. Yet all around this home, many, many others completely untouched. In all of the years ive covered fires, this is the first time ive ever seen a water carrying truck actually act as a fire truck, and the reason for that is this is all hands on deck. An engine crew was dousing flames but when two tankers showed up, owned by major contractor jill auty, they could depart for more pressing firefighting duties, while the tankers doused the structure and could quickly refill from a fire hydrant a couple of00 treat feet away. They eventually found critical work in the state park where many crews went into the hills to fight the fire facetoface. In this field of agricultural materials, the dense fertile material gave up huge plumes of black smoke, sometimes rising straight up when winds were calm, but lying down when winds whipped up, an dating the flames, and the air remains fouled and the danger remains high. I want to talk about what youre saying there, tom. You mentioned those fires space homes. Where is the firefight focused . Does it appear close to where you are, or several miles away . Reporter no, no, no, take a look. See these two houses . You can see between these two house there is a fence. The fire was on the other side of the fence no more than six feet away. They is gone up the hill fighting that fire. If you come off here to the left, joseph, youll see a number of fire trucks. They are here just to defend these hours houses should that fire decide to come back down the hill. But it was right between these houses. These are beautiful homes, and very nice, but they would just be additional fuel for these fires in this thing were to turn around. It doesnt look like, looks like the fire, main body, is up on the top of the hill, but that can always change, and when that happens, of course, anything else can happen. Yeah, right now that protection of neighborhoods happening all across the north bay. Thank you, tom, appreciate it. All right. We head now across county lines into napa, where more than 10,000 people right now are either under mandatory Evacuation Orders, or an evacuation warning. Greg lee joins us now live from right along the silverado trail with some of the damage that we have stoneman that area, greg . Reporter yeah, alex, good afternoon. Right along silvi trail. Fortunately the winds have slowed this afternoon. If you look behind me, you know see some of those flareups that have come along the hillside. I want to show you how quickly embers can start up those new hot spots. You can see on the hill side a few flareup burning through the for forest there. Firefighters moved quickly to get to some embers that ignited flames near homes. Again, so much of this brush is so dry, and these breezes certainly did not help anything. Overnight, the fire ripped through the community of deer park, destroying several homes and other structures. This situation bringing up a lot of bad memories for people who went through the 2017 fires. We live now in a situation where we have our bag packed at all times. So you almost have to get used to it. But it does bring up bad memories when you see the red glow coming over in the santa rosa, just like you did before. It hurts when you know the people, or most of the people around here, yeah. Its really, you know, theres a few houses that made it, but not too many. Reporter that was Peter Emerson whether returned to deer park to survey the damage. The fire also took out the of t adventist elementary school. Neighbors say that school just recently welcomed students back in person which puts this all in perspective, alex, that these fires happening in the midst of the coronavirus, making those shelters more difficult, as well as adding the fact that these people have already been through so much, just sending their kids pack to school, and now that school burning to the ground. Alex . Yeah, absolutely. One crisis on top of another at this moment for folks in that area. Greg lee, thank you. Sadly, cal fire says a number of structures have been damaged or destroyed by this fire, but its too soon to know exactly how many, and Governor Newsom said that fema has approved a Fire Management assistant grant for the glass fire. We get more on the firefight from cristina rendon. Reporter the big unknown right now is how this fire started. Cal fire hasnt given us enindication as to a cause as of yet, but the winds did die down today. It is still hot and dry out there. Right now more than 59,000 people are under Evacuation Orders or warnings in both napa and sonoma counties. The glass fire exploded overnight, burning from wine country in napa county to eastern Sonoma County. There was significant loss between los alamos and oakmont on the north side of highway 12, and then in sky hop, we lost a few buildings, as well as on kala stow ga road. Reporter the rocky steep terrain is challenging for firefighters. Our bulldozers are struggling to construct a line out there. Locally weve had plentiful aerial support in the firefight. Reporter Governor Newsom said more air and Ground Resources are being brought in. An active wildfire generating a lot of attention, appropriately so. A lot of consternation in and around that region that has been hit over and over and over again. Reporter fire Officials Say the glass fire is burning in one of the last remaining areas of Sonoma County with no record fire history, touching parts of the 2017 tubbs fire scars. It sparked two smaller fires that have now merged into the glass incident. Evacuation orders and warnings inner effect for 11,000 people in napa county, and 48,500 people in Sonoma County. Authorities stressing yet again to heed those Evacuation Order unfortunately we did have some people that paid 0 behind. And might have been burned in some areas. When you get that highlow siren and the knock on the door, deputies or Law Enforcement officers telling you its time to leave, i team to leave. Reporter and a reminder, even if youre not in an area under an evacuation warning, have a go bag ready, that can help you leave faster and avoid traffic. All right, cristina rendon, report live rnoon. Thank you. Well, for some evacuees, this was the second time in three years they have been forced to leave their homes. Coming up next, well go to a couple of those Evacuation Centers that have been set up where thousands of people are now headed. And we continue to track the conditions up above the glass fire this afternoon. Sky fox up above. A critical, challenging firefight. Well have more on the fire zone forecast coming up. As we mentioned, the fires in the north bay have forced thousands to leave their homes. Christien kafton joins us like this afternoon with that part of our coverage. Christien, were talking about significant parts of both napa and sonoma counties under Evacuation Orders or warnings this afternoon. And thats exactly right, heather. A big portion of eastern santa rosa currently under evacuation. For many of those evacuees, this is an alltoo familiar story. As the glass fire exploded overnight, napa county officials moved to get resident out of harms way. Napa county has issued similar orders from the county line to as far east as lake hennessey. Yesterday at midnight, we just like it was scary, and we came here. Reporter the evacuation area just a few miles away from the coffee park neighborhood devastated by fire in 2017. Evacuees here say its not the first time theyve had to seek shelter. No, this is almost the second timing, like three years ago, it happened at the same time. And we went to a different shelter. Reporter this is the first time theyve had to seek shelter amidst a global pandemic. So they are taking like a health check first for corona, and they have many spots to sleep, and were keeping six feet away. Reporter numerous shelters have been opened, with even the sonoma raceway opening its parking and rv area for those needing a place to stay. We dont know how many people are being displaced as this thing unfolds, and it is just a big empty field, so its really only suitable for folks who have an rv or a camper, or want to do tent camping, but it is open and available. Reporter at this point, no idea on exactly when those Evacuation Orders will be lifted, and people will be allowed to return home. Officials clearly, closely, watching those fire in the north bay, monitoring their progress. Were going to be talking with cal fire in just a few moments. Hopefully well get an update on those Evacuation Orders. Christien, thank you. Pg e is expected to turn the electricity back on today for all of those affected by the latest round of preemptive power shotoffs because of high fire danger in outage affected 97,000 customers across 15 Northern California counties. Most were outside of the bay area. There were about 300 customers in napa county and a handful in Sonoma County. At the pg e website, you can enter your address to see an estimated time for when the power will be turned back on. Well, of course we continue to track the changing weather conditions. Conditions that are changing in our favor, but still its not going to be an instant help to the fire crews. Just a gradual change. But thankfully those strong, gusty, offshore winds have we have been so concerned with, and rightfully so. But it is still very spot dry. As we look at the graphics for you, we are showing you this, and waking up this morning, taking a look at the satellite, its shocking to see how much fire activity was showing up on the satellite with the smoke from basically this fire complex, the glass fire complex you can see on the satellite. And we also have low clouds and fog. I wish we could push this fog closer to the fire zone. Its trying to, but not really having an impact on the weather just yet. Forecasts around the area tomorrow, we are expecting temperatures in the 90s. Still warm to hot. Winds will be variable. Eventually switching out of the south around 8 to 12 miles per hour, and the relative humidity 15 to 25 . So still very dry, but the red flag warning you see that smoke plume, and then second this fog, which has been cruising up the coast, and as a result, a significant drop off in those numbers right near the immediate shoreline. So we have this southerly surge to track, and right now the fog hanging out near the coast, trying to push locally back into the bay. The heat advisory continues until 7 00 this evening. So we have a few more hours. Temperatures right now right around 100 degrees out toward novato, and napa. San jose 99, oakland 88, and fancy has cooled and that 59 looks very nice in half moon bay. Look at this camera here. Tracking the fog on the satellite. Here is the real deal, looking out toward the golden gate bridge. You can see both towers, we have a layer of warm to hot air, and were feeling that layer compressing the marine layer. So as a result, its basically pushing down on that fog bank. So where its foggy, we have low visibility. Also watching air quality levels right now. We have moderate levels up in the north bay. Actually unhealthy for sensitive groups. More moderate levels for the rest of the bay area. Unfortunately, especially in the north bay, we could have unhealthy air levels. We have the spare the air alert that will continue right on through friday. Here is the forecast model. Low clouds and fog in the morning, clear back to near the coastline. Temperatures for tomorr coast a near portions of the bay, and more cooling in the fiveday forecast. More on that coming up in just a little bit. Of course mark just mentioned those spare the air alerts in effect this week. Even though you may not live in the fire zone, you are likely to be affected by all of the smoke this fire is putting off. Now you can go to ktvu. Com, where we have our own interactiveaire quality map. And our coverage of this breaking news at the fires in the north bay continue is coming up next. Well talk live with cal fire to get an update on the current conditions, and also the outlook there in the north bay. This election, all californians will be able to vote safely from home. Every active, registered voter will receive a votebymail ballot with a unique barcode. 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We have the eastern side in santa rosa right now, and we also have a lot of activity kind of in the area southeast of calistoga in the napa valley. At the moment, we have a large area with a lot of open line. Jonathan, as you look at the behavior of their fire, what are the Biggest Challenges right now in this firefight, and what is most concerns . Reporter yes, so, heather, think there are a few things going on. One is just the size that this fire grew to in such a short amount of time is really, you know, testing our resources, just to have enough coverage across such a wide area. The second thing were contending with, unfortunately, the weather is well, fortunately the weather is getting cooler and less windy, but that means our aircraft dont have as good of visibility to get in there and do drops. So thats just some of the challenges were dealing with today, and the fact that its fires on multiple fronts. The key is just getting people out of the path of this fire, make sure we protect structures. You talk about getting people out as quickly as possible, out of the path of this fire, jonathan, obviously in those overnight hours, the winds had picked up, and this fire was racing towards santa rosa last night, much as it did in 2017 with the tubbs g able to get out. What did you see in terms of who are getting out early . Maybe not waiting, even, until they get an official evacuation notice . Reporter yeah, alex, i think you know this is early similar of standing here three years ago with the tubs fire. I think what happened last night when the fire really made a push towards santa rosa is evacuations were called early, they were called wide and executed quickly. And because of that, there was a lot of movement of people out of the head of this fire, and out of the fires path. And really it just reiterates what we keep say, which is getting out of the way of the fire and heeding those Evacuation Orders and warnings, is the single biggest thing the public can do to help us be successful. And jonathan, when you are talking about having such a large number of people leave their homes, obviously you have to have a place for them to go. He middle of this pandemic, and actually help tho left their homes have changed because of coronavirus. How are the shelters holding up, and are you seeing them get overwhelmed with the number of people now forced from their homes . Reporter yeah, heather, i do know that several shelters have hit capacity and additional shelters have been opened, and we are in a challenging time, because we have the dynamic of covid, which isnt something we have had to contend with in the past. Our messaging to the public is if you have somewhere else to go, if you can include a larger circumstance in your family or your friends, your bubble, that may be more beneficial for you are than being in a shelter where you may be exposed to more people. We also have great cooperation with our Emergency Operations centers in both counties, and their coordination with the red cross on really thinking through the implications of Evacuation Centers. So i think its being addressed on multiple level, and its our concern as firefighters to make sure that were not sending someone from harms way into harms way, so its definitely something being considered from the very beginning. Yeah, and something, like you said, that weve never really had to think about before the pandemic began. Jonathan cox of cal fire, we appreciate it. Thank you so much. Well, as we mentioned, santa rosa in the direct path of yet another wildfire, coming up next, were going to go back live to sonoma, where tom vacar has been reporting for us all afternoon. Plus well be joined by a former fema president ial appointee talk about the ongoing battle in the north bay. Back to the glass fire which is forcing thousands of people from their homes. We know the community of deer park in napa county has been hit especially hard north of st. Helena. Someone who lives there told us he saw many of his neighbors homes that have been destroyed. Fire has gutted the Main Building of the foothills adventist elementary school. The fire has burned a total of 11,000 acres so far, and firefighters say at this point they have zero containment on this fire, which is burning on a number of different fronts. On the west side of this fire, this fire burning into Sonoma County and the east side of santa rosa, essential under the gun here. Thats where tom vacar has been reporting live from throughout the day. Tom, when we last checked in with you, you were showing us a neighborhood close to annadell state park where crews are trying to protect homes in that area. How are they doing . Well, what they are doing is really waiting and watching. I even saw a couple of them taking a rest, literally try trying to get some sleep, because they know theyre going to be here all night long, because this fire hasnt decided what its going to do and the weather hasnt fully decided what its going to do, and those two things are wildcards that you dare not take a risk with. Think about what has happened so far just in this fire season. Were up to almost 3. 8 million acres, far, far beyond what weve ever seen in californias fire recorded history before. So much more fire than weve ever had before, and were just getting ready to enter october, which is one of the worst months of all, october and november, but september, as well. So this is a situation where they have to be fully careful, because they dont want to have to come back here and fight this fire, fight for this real estate again, when there is so much more than they stale have to do, as we will see probably tomorrow, going forward. Tom, you know, every time you and i cover these fires, its always incredible to see one home that is lost on the street, and then other homes around it, that have been saved by those fire crews, and obviously they do a tremendous job to try to save as many homes as they can, but a lot of it is the luck of the draw, and those embers, as you were, they fly through the air and land wherever theyre going to land. Reporter i want to show you something. Come over here. Over this way, joseph. Look at this car. This car is sitting in an ash fall. This is just an ash fall, but some of these ashes are pretty big. The problem is when those ashes are on fire, or glowing, and land on something is that highly susceptible to fire, like just about everything around here, which is pretty much bone dry, except for few trees and things like that, this is what you get. You get kind of stuff flying through the air on fire, and when it gets into the trees, and at one point they thought it was into the rafters of a house, theres not much you can do, other than hope that the Fire Department label to get to it. The problem is on these big fires, they have so many more important things to do that if they get to you, youll be lucky, and if you try to stay and fight that fire yourself, its the same thing as throwing a firecracker at the sun. The sun wins every time. Yeah, certainly not a good idea. Just remarkable to see the size of those embers and the size of the ash there on those cars in that area. Really gives you a sense of things. Thanks, tommy. And now we want to talk more about the situation with mark, a former fremont battalion chief and formal fema president ial appointee. Mark, the response here, unfortunately these areas, theyve been through this before a few times. What actions have local agencies taken to try to mitigate the damage here and to keep people safe. Hi, heather, without question, what weve talked about in these fires is some of these areas have burned before, and even in those areas that burned during the tubbs fire, theres been region race of light grass. So you have unburned areas thats on fire, plus some areas that burned before that are burning again. So its a challenge for them. Now, because theyve been through this before, they are experienced in terms of evacuation and we heard chief cox talk about the success of that. Early evacuation last night got people out of those areas and so there was no loss of of. So that was good news. Some of the new things that are taking place is that technology is coming into play. They have an alert wildfire system across the state of california, which a hows them to see certain areas of the forest early, so they can start to activate. There is also information to and technology that cal fire is using from an aerial recon in asance standpoint at night that they did not have before so they can direct ground crews in where to go, and thats what was happening last night, the aerial recon, contacting ground crews, directing them where to go to suppress the fire. Yeah, that really is an Encouraging Development here, this idea of this nighttime air attack. As you doing this sort of, you know, recon, to figure out what is happening. Talk about why this is so important. Well, its critical. And here is what happened in an air operation, is that theres an actual air tower, its a two set aer airplane that nice at high altitude, has great visibility. And thats really the air traffic controller. Over a fire, it will closed to any traffic except for firefighting airplanes. Thats important for two things. They want to make sure they have right on target and where they want it, but its very dangerous, the weight of some b about not only hitting the right spot, but letting ground crews know this is taking place. So that communication is critical. Yeah, it really is. Mark, youve been a firefighter. You know how tough all of this is. But we are going on now more than a month of firefighters out there every day, battling not just fires, but major, major wildfires here in our state. I imagine that fatigue has got to be setting in. Yeah, good point, heather, and not just for firefighters. Also Law Enforcement officers. Neighbors, residents of that area that have had to evacuate, who have lost their homes. That whole area is suffering from covid19 in the sense that tourism is down, so that Economic Activity is down, so many of the people that live in that area, not only are they threatened with their homes being burned down, but their businesses have been impacted. You add to that this long firefight thats been going on by firefighters. And keep in mind, these mega fires managed by cal fire, but partnered with municipal Fire Departments up and down the state. So there are Fire Departments and Law Enforcement officers that have been working, civil unrest, mutual aid, now theyre into the mega fires. Its been a long duration. When you do that to folks, theres a risk that people can be hurt and killed, and its a compliment to the Incident Management Teams and the incident commanders that weve lost very few firefighters, and i dont think any Police Officers so far. So thats you know, thats a risk associated with longterm duration and fatigue that starts to set in with these mega fires. Yeah, that is the reality. All right, mark new joe, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Youre welcome. Have a good night, heather. Well, year after year, fires for thousands of people in the north bay from their homes. Coming up next, well talk about the psychologist of the mental straighten all of these fires have on people who are evacuating durings these disaster. And in weather, thankful through noise powerful offshore winds have been backing off, but it is still shot and try, and very challenging to fight the fires in the north bay. Well have a gradual cooldown in the fiveday. All of that coming up after the break. The unfair money bail system. He, accused of rape. While he, accused of stealing 5. The stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. The Senior Citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. Replacing it with one based on public safety. Because the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. Vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. We are seeing the same scenes of kay quote and heartbreak that weve seen unfold year after year here in california, as wildfires continue to grow more else policive and dangerous. Dr. Stinson, good to have you on here today. So many folks, especially if north bay going through this over and over, year after year, month after month, being forced from their homes by these fires. What kind of an emotional and psychological impact does this have on people . Its just devastating. My heart goes out to everyone affected by this. Having experience of being having to evacuate, dealing with your children and their experience with the fires, not knowing where youre going to cook your next meal, not knowing where youre going to get services, that will be absolutely challenger for anyone, and, you know, especially if this has happened before, especially during the pandemic were experiencing right now, where people are having difficulty, economic difficulties, and especially with travel problems right now, where they possibly cant see their family or access them. So, yeah, its absolutely heartbreaking, particularly the kind of things we see are symptoms that are related to what we might call post Traumatic Stress disorder. Right, sure. Yeah, and weve seen in past studies i was going to ask you, doctor please go ahead. I was going to ask you about that. How many of these folks who are survive, these wildfires do you think are actually suffering from some type of post Traumatic Stress disorder . Its a very good question, alex. I think from previous studies what weve seen is that several months after a fire like this, there was a huge increase of ptsd symptoms. Something around 10 time what you might normally see in the population, or three to 10 times that. So and those might be symptoms of having trouble sleeping, feeling like youre anxious, and cant calm down. Reexperiencing some of the symptoms of feeling of having left for previous fires, when youve had to evacuate before, and depression. You know, depressivelike symptoms. Doctor, a lot of symptoms that folks should obviously keep an eye out for. What advice would you give to folks write now, the tens of thousands of people who are being forced out of their home once again. What do you think someone who is in this moment right now, feeling that sense of panic, feeling overwhelmed by having to do this once again . What can someone try to do to try to calm themselves, try to improve their mental well being . A great question. I would say for the individuals, you know, do whatever they can to feel calm and normal, and obviously under these circumstances, thats very challenging, but making sure they eat a good diet, and getting enough sleep, exercise. Those are all behaviors that we know improve ones wellbeing and their ability to deal with stress. Although i understand that might be challenging at this teams. One thing people might not realize is this might not be the best time for therapy when people are seeking resources, and just trying to, you knowing, make phone calls to loved ones, or to find food for the day and so i would say for people who are trying to help out, i would say Contact People that you know who are affected, and just really be open to whatever they need in terms of food, or a place to stay, or, you know, resources in that respect. Yeah. A great idea. Checking in with people you care about, to see if you can help at types like this. A great the cosignificanten. Clinical Health Psychologist at cal state east bay. Thanks for coming on. Thanks so much. Its nice to see a familiar friend, and thats the fog, kind of cruising up the coast, trying to cool us off. Its kind of being selective, though, near the immediate shoreline, and thats just about it. Were showing you the fire zone. That big smoke plume from earlier today, and all of that sh off to with those offshore winds. You can see that overall flow, at least the overall growth overnight and into the morning of the fires. But a change in the wind direction right now, were seeing more of a westerly breeze setting up, and thats quite a reversal to this time yesterday, instead of the offshore flow. Current numbers around the fire zone near 90 degrees. Its really dry. Put thankfully the winds have backed off quite a bit and the red flag warning will expire at 9 00 tonight. Satellite is picking up on the smoke plume, and there is that fog bank to the southerly surge trying to push the fog closer to the bay area, and that is happening right now. Heat advisory, that continues until 7 00 tonight, but it has already cooled off in San Francisco quite a bit. We santa rosa in the upper 80s. Here is our live camera looking out towards San Francisco. You see that haze and the spare the air alert contint thing tomorrow morning. Were going to start out 50s an the 60s. Here is the forecast mod pam few spots well inland, could be right around 70 degrees. The clouds will clear back to near the shoreline. Temperatures upper 60s to upper 90s. Here is the setup. This area of High Pressure is still sticking around. But we have that southerly flow. Were still going to keep it hot inland over the next few days. Midtoupper 90s until the weekend. Highs for tomorrow, as you can see, still lots of 90s. The hot spots out towards livermore and pleasanton. San jose 90 degrees. Here is a look ahead. Still a hot stretch inland. Not as hot for the coast line, and thankfully were not talking about any extreme fire danger conditions. Site not an instant drop off in temperatures for the inland spots, but at least somewhat of an improvement in e firefight. Our coverage of the wildfire in the north bay conditions after the bring. Were going to talk live with the Napa County Sheriffs Office to get an update. Back to the north bay wildfires. Joining us now on the phone is Henry Wofford of the Napa County Sheriffs Office. What can you tell us about evacuations and whether that mandatory evacuation zone has been expanded . Heather, thank you so much for having me as a part of your newscast. Yes, the number of Evacuation Orders, the mandatory order that many people call it, it has increased. Right now were looking at approximately 6,600 people who are under mandatory Evacuation Orders, another 5,000 for warnings. So combined, were looking at about 12,000 people who really should be out of their homes right now. Theres a major difference between evacuation warning and Evacuation Order, and evacuation warning is potential threat to life or property. And you may know an Evacuation Order is immediate threat to life and property. So when you hear Evacuation Order, we are encouraging everyone to leave immediately, because weve seen this happen so many times where a person says im going to stay and protect my property, im not leave nothing matter what. Approximately 60 to 90 minutes later, we get a call, and they say can you come back and please come save us, rescue us. Its not really fair for so many other people whose lives are in danger that we have to go pack track. It jeopardizes many lives. Yeah, certainly does, and uses up valuable resources. Henry, are you getting a sense, though, that most people are complying with those warnings and orders . Reporter absolutely. Its something that weve been pretty muching for a very long time around here. And more importantly, dont even wait until you get an evacuation warning or order. If you see smoke coming in your direction, if you dont feel safe, leave, leave immediately. Basically, we cant arrest someone for refusing to leave their home. We will educate them, and really try to convince them to leave, but theres not much we can do. But if you think back to 2017, up until now, nearly every fatal the directly related to the fires was because the person refused to leave. Yeah. Yeah, something for people to think about, and again if you get those Evacuation Orders, it is time for you to leave. Henry, really appreciate it. Grit work by 37 at the Napa County Sheriffs Office. Thank you so much. And 37 stay safe. Thank you. On the coverage of the glass fire in the north bay continues in a moment. Well be right back. Registered voter will receive a votmail ballot with a unique barcode. You can track it using wheres my ballot . And youll receive automatic notifications by text, email or voice call to let you know the status of your ballot once you mail it, drop it off at your polling place or at a drop box. Vote by mail ballots. Simple, safe, secure. Counted. Learn more at vote. Ca. Gov you hear the highlow siren and the knock on the door, deputies or Law Enforcement officers telling you its time to leave, homes in the north bay, as a wildfire continues to burn out of control. Several homes in and wineries already destroyed. And firefighters facing dangerous conditions on the front lines as they battle the flames in tripledigit heat and in steep terrain. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. Here is a look at where the fires are burning. The flames have caused damage in saint helena and calistoga on the napa side. Two other fires that may be spot fires from the original fire have now merged with the glass fire, and that is forcing more evacuations on the outskirts of santa rosa along highnow from sky fox, and you can see the thick

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