They are doing everything they can to prevent tubbs from spreading into calistoga. The city of calistoga is a ghost town right now and thats exactly what they need. Emptiness so First Responders can do their jobs. Now, that mandatory Evacuation Order was set wednesday. Still in effect today. Gentleman. There are no structures or fire activity inside the city of calistoga. We are facing a serious condition. The fire is coming closer to the city limits. Reporter mayor chris canning said as a little hospitable city its hard to tell people to stay away but its for their own safety. We have been getting an updated from napa county every morning at 9 a. M. That will again happen in just a few hours. In calistoga, jackie ward, kpix 5. Moving northwest to the pocket fire its closing in on geyserville in Sonoma County. Clear skies allowed crews to make more air drops over this fire yesterday. The helicopters had to stop at sundown as it got dark. The flames on the ground and in the hills starte
Numbers now. The atlas fire in napa and solano counties has now burned 48,000 acres. Its at 27 containment. The tubbs fire in napa county is nearly 35,000 acres and is 25 contained. And the nuns fire is now a combination of several fires burning 44,000 acres with 5 containment. And heres an overview look at the fires burning in northern california. Still a lot ground to cover. And the weather of course could play a big role in the fight today and into the weekend. Kpix 5s jackie ward begins our Team Coverage live from the Napa Valley College Evacuation Center with the latest there. Jackie. Reporter so some of these fires are beginning to consolidate as they move from sonoma into napa county where we are this afternoon. That is forcing them to merge. So five of the big name fires are now under the umbrella of what they are calling the nuns fire. Prior to this morning we knew that the adobe, norrbom and nuns fire had all become one. Today the partrick and presley fires are expected to jo
Will come to order. The update on first net and this exciting effort to deploy the nationwide interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network. Im glad to convene a hearing and an accord tuesday a attendants from a good friend ended 2012 bin that to lead the development of that Public Safety Broadband Network. With those communication failures in the other National Emergencies including Hurricane Katrina it with those Reliable Communications network to support the essential work. So with those firstsp responders across multiple jurisdictions to provide lifesaving Emergency Services. In to establish the broad base and network. And how it intended to meet the needs of each state of the regular Access Network. In with reliable coverage and into a number of murders of the subcommittee. Subcommi so those with user fees would be affordably priced to First Responders since the time much has happened to open the innovation and test lab with those new applications to be used by c First Responders.
Will come to order. The update on first net and this exciting effort to deploy the nationwide interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network. Im glad to convene a hearing and an accord tuesday a attendants from a good friend ended 2012 bin that to lead the development of that Public Safety Broadband Network. With those communication failures in the other National Emergencies including Hurricane Katrina it with those Reliable Communications network to support the essential work. So with those firstsp responders across multiple jurisdictions to provide lifesaving Emergency Services. In to establish the broad base and network. And how it intended to meet the needs of each state of the regular Access Network. In with reliable coverage and into a number of murders of the subcommittee. Subcommi so those with user fees would be affordably priced to First Responders since the time much has happened to open the innovation and test lab with those new applications to be used by c First Responders.
Att and the Virginia Office of Public Safety. This is an hour and 40 minutes. It is precisely 10 00 a. M. Good morning and the subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. The subcommittee comes to order. The exciting efforts to deploy the nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network. Im glad to convene this hearing and i look forward to the attendance and a moment to from my different friend and Ranking Member mr. Schatz. In 2012 congress created the First Responder Network Authority to lead the development of a nationwide interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network in the United States. With the Communications Failures that plague Recovery Efforts during 9 11 and other National Emergencies including Hurricane Katrina there was and still is a clear need for a Reliable Communications network to support the central work of our Public Safety officials such a network would improve coordination on First Responders across multiple jurisdictions and enhance the ability of First Responders