Breaks news out of lake county where the last hour the governor has declared a state of emergency because of a Massive Wildfire thats burning out of control. Entire communities, including this one, middle town, have been devastated by this inferno. Good morning, everyone. Im Carolyn Tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, september 13th. Heres the latest on whats being called the valley fire. The fastmoving fire quickly exploded in size to over 60,000 acres after breaking out yesterday afternoon. Several structures have gone up in flames. Hundreds more are threatened. Hundreds, if not thousands, of residents have been forced to evacuate. Many running as the fire came down the hill towards their homes. In the last hour the governor has declared a state of emergency for lake and napa counties. Take a look at this map of where the fire is burning near cobb, a community of 1700 residents. Its burning so fast its challenging firefighters ability to warn residents of the danger. A photo
Latest information. Heres a live picture from sky 7hd over a geothermal plant near st. Helena which has been damaged by the fire. Apparently cooling towers have been lost. You can see the scorched earth around the facility in st. Helena. Firefighters say the fire is just jumping so quickly because of the winds theyre contending with through the area. You can see smoke rising from inside of the power plant. We know the winds are bad. Its warm. And of course, four years of drought has created a situation that is just treacherous. This is what we had feared all summer long. That a fire like this might take hold, and that is certainly what happened in this case. Now lets go to cornell bernard, live in middletown. Residents lost a lot of homes in. Reporter its trulying extraering. So many homes are gone after this fire storm engulfed much of middletown. Im standing in what used to be the driveway of a home here on as you can see the shells of appliances, barbecue, part of the the ferocious
Valley fire, the Lake County Sheriffs Office deployed cadaver dogs to search for four missing people in the Cobb Mountain and middleton area. The cost is estimated at 6. 4 million. President obama called Governor Brown to discuss federal aid. The fire is up to 70,000 acres burned. Most of the new acreage can be traced to fires. Hope Valley Elementary School remains closed but kelseyville schools will be reopened on monday. Lets turn to our reporters in the field. Melanie, tell us about the firefighter that lost his house while he was out fighting another fire. An amazing story. Reporter absolutely, dan. He was fighting the butte fire. This firefighter says as reports came in, he had a good feeling his house was not going to make it and you can see it did not. He told me the image that was most striking to him is that one over there. The outline of a trampoline in his backyard and his 10yearold son, dylan was not here at the time. Over his eight year career, dave wa wattkins as seen fir
We had this house all prepped. Theres still a lot of fire out there on the perimeter and it snuck back in and got this house. Reporter farther than the eye can see theres devastation here. An event so big that firefighters cant possibly protect every structure but can only react hopefully in time to save at least some among the so many that have been lost here. Among the structures damaged the calpine power plant. High atop a hill now abandoned, theringing and the clear sense whoever was here had to leave in a hurry. Down highway 175, a weary crew from the u. S. Forest service kept a close eye on these flames, letting them burn the brush beneath the trees but only to a point. We might be adding a little bit of fire to help keep it low intensity and keeping it nice and square and easy and manageable for us to help the natural surroundings as well as keep the fire very low intensity around some of the homes. Reporter now, despite improved weather conditions here and a thousand firefighte
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