I do want to go to some of the video because i was up on that hill earlier this evening and if it werent for the cell signal, wed be going live up there right now. You can see those flames and just how close they were to some of the homes earlier this afternoon, at one point between 30 to 50 feet from those homes on woodley place, but they have since dissipated at this point and even gone in the other direction a bit and the good news this evening is the fact the wind is not nearly as strong as it was earlier this afternoon in this area. Most of the people have been evacuated from here. I mean it was a mandatory evacuation. I did talk with a couple people who chose not to leave despite that mandatory evacuation. They advised us get out now and i said we will be ready to go if we think were in jeopardy and they were insistent and we said, you know, bear with us. We want to stay as long as we can. Its really sad. Its so sad. We love oakmont. Weve been here for almost 20 years. We really
All right. As sundown approaches and those worry. It certainly does. When you look on the hillside, i can zoom in right underneath. You can see one of the houses that is very, very close to that smoke. That is the closest home to this big black smoke there is a hope that that breeze dies down and does not turn into an all out wind like we saw a couple of nights ago. We will be in touch with you. In the Oakmont Community. We will be back with you shortly. Utter devastation. That is that many evacuees are returning to find. Some homes are reduced to rubble, as we have been showing you. Live in santa rosa again in one of those neighborhoods. Justine . Reporter right now we are in pham Fountain Grove. Another hot spot just popped up. This fire crew just rolled in a second ago. We are right off Fountain Grove parkway on hadley hill. This home is still standing. Firefighters just saw flames coming up from the garden. They pulled out their hoses, their rakes, and they are now working to try t
There are a total of 13 fires burning in napa and sonoma firefighters struggling to get containment. Here is a closer look at the that is the buyer that is threatening the oakmont area. It is only 1 contained. ÷nt fires is north of glenallen, about 10 miles east of santa rosa. Also, the Sugarloaf Ridge state park and the crane creek also, the sugarloaf ridg6 state 571 structures have been destroyed just in that fire and 16,000 o nare still threatened. Here is a quick look at the atlas fire, everything inside the red line is whereuhb;u kit spread. It is stretching as far north as robertson ski vineyardshae, al the way down to skyline wilderness park. So far it has destroyed 125 buildings. That fire just 3 contained. Pxoionthen there is the partrid fire. The v5eievlatest informat shows it has burned at least 6000 acres so far. It is also spilling down into it is only 1 contained with 5000 buildings still threatened. There are new mandatory evacuations or parts of Sonoma County 7clodthi
These fire so far. They continue to burn this morning out of control. Good morning, i am darya fosom. I am james fletcher. The wind has shifted a little bit and we have new Evacuation Orders to update you on this morning. Lets begin in the north where there is a mandatory evacuation right now including the area you see outlined here. This is the northern portions of Sonoma County. Take a quick look. Several areas in that area out of out on location. If you live north of grant street, you are actually, north of the River Rock Casino, you are being told to make plans to evacuate right now. Lets look at another map with another area. Actually, not another map, but specific streets that are impacted by mandatory evacuations this morning in case you know anyone on nutter rolled, fullers road, fay ranch, fox ridge, vineyard road , willow ridge, ram hill and rockmouth road. Those are under mandatory evacuation this morning. Also in geyserville impacted is deerpath road and lakewood lane. Thos
Roads and full creeks and streams and clogged storm drains. Also a Flash Flood Warning in effect for parts of moore county and Cumberland County. Because of the woodlake dam is still at risk of failure. Were keeping a close eye to see if it will breached fully but its something to keep in mind. 45 degrees is the current temperature in raleigh. Highs ths afternoon once again in the 60s with normal highs of 74. The full forecast coming up. Emergency officials are keeping a close watch on the tar river. This will crest sometime between 8 am10 am this morning which could force the diet to fail. Catastrophic flooding in 1999 from hurricane floyd and there were to could happen again this is what the tar river looks like yesterday. It will crest between 810 am this morning anyone how high the water gets it might get to the point princeville dike is unable to hold all the water. If that happens the town could flood eres a mandatory evacuation happening in princeville all you can do is pray. Ke