Firefighters are finally making some progress. Many victims of the valley fire are sleeping in tents and campers. Sky7hd shows what its like at the napa county fairgrounds in calistoga, many businesses have showed up to help the people there, so good news, but now they have to worry about a change in the weather coming. Wayne friedman has been talking to evacuees today and joins us live. Reporter good afternoon, 11, its certainly not all the comforts of home but all the volunteers you talked about are trying to make it that way and the people here are making the best of their situation. Is it possible that a tragedy hundreds of people might describe as rock bottom could also feel so warm and hopeful . I am seeing this is humanity at its finest. Humanity intense, humanity on cots, humanity fighting off confusion with only the possessions they could carry or wear or cram into a car. These are the fairgrounds in calistoga tonight where much of burnedout and evacuated middletown has moved
Mount Tambora, also called Mount Tamboro, Indonesian Gunung Tambora, volcanic mountain on the northern coast of Sumbawa island, Indonesia, that in April 1815 exploded in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. It is now 2,851 metres (9,354 feet) high, having lost much of its top in the 1815 eruption. The volcano remains active; smaller eruptions took place in 1880 and 1967, and episodes of increased seismic activity occurred in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Tambora’s catastrophic eruption began on April 5, 1815, with small tremors and pyroclastic flows. A shattering blast blew the mountain apart on the evening of April