A lot of the responders were going door to door pulling people out of th hobody was able to t hereand mye es, motherbu and father bei and 98 were not able to move fast enough to get out at all. Reporter so very, very tragic. Now some homes in the silverado resort area were just wiped clean off the face of the earth leveled by the flames. Weve seen so much ruin here, many families, of course, wondering tonight are they going to have homes when they get back into their neighborhoods . Others able to get back into their streets, theyre finding just like behind me here there is nothing left. Kpix5s Juliette Goodrich introduces us to two sisters here in santa rosa. Juliette . Reporter allen, theyre just like so many. They had just minutes to evacuate and i want to show you whats going on directly behind me. This family is returning back to whats left of their home sifting through the rubble to see if there are any valuables they can collect. They have masks on because of the dust in the are
Now at 11 00, this is one of the worstfire disasters in worst fire disasters in bay area history. The rising death toll and the new orders to evacuate. Reporter im allen martin live in santa rosa tonight in the coffee park neighborhood where house after teete, hocar after car, block after block, it all looks like this. This is an area im told is a mile and a half by a mile. Total destruction. I know we keep saying it looks like a bomb went off, well, you know what . It was. A fire bomb raced through this neighborhood on sunday night and early monday morning and left nothing behind. Now fire crews still struggling to make much headway on containment of all the fires burning up here tonight. Firefighters are under extreme pressure. Fire commanders keeping a close eye on mother nature, whats going to happen with the weather because shifting gusty winds expected to make their way into the fire zones tomorrow and could very well wreak havoc across the north bay. Right now there are at least
After street, car after car, block after block, it all looks like this. This is an area im told is a mile and a half by a mile. Total destruction. I know we keep saying it looks like a bomb went off, well, you know what . It was. A fire bomb raced through this neighborhood on sunday night and early monday morning and left nothing behind. Now fire crews still struggling to make much headway on containment of all the fires burning up here tonight. Firefighters are under extreme pressure. Fire commanders keeping a close eye on mother nature, whats going to happen with the weather because shifting gusty winds expected to make their way into the fire zones tomorrow and could very well wreak havoc across the north bay. Right now there are at least 17 fires burning across northern california. Heres a look at the biggest one still causing some major problems tonight. Heres what we know right now. The number of dead raised just a few hours ago up to 17. Now crews are making a little bit of prog
To even see the firefighters who did the work. Im gratified that they came and stopped it. Reporter he was one of the lucky ones. While fire crews managed to stop the flames at some doorsteps, the very nextdoor neighbor often lost everything. Destruction here was widespread. All the houses around me are all burned to the ground. Reporter but not every house. My grandma just died. This house was hers. And i i just kept asking her to protect it. And it stopped right there. And we are so blessed. We are literally by the skin of our teeth, we have a home. Reporter in napa county, wilson walker, kpix 5. [ music ] good to hear a little piece of good news. Its 4 31. There was also a frantic effort in Sonoma County to save horses in the fire zone. Coming up, a group of animal lovers who came together to help. And were live between santa rosa and glen ellen both areas getting hit hard by these wildfires that are continuing to burn. [ music ] wildfires broke out in wine country. And theyre alrea