Arthur tassman brant, 95 years old from santa rosa. Soico grant, 75 years old from santa rosa. Donna may hal birr, 80 years old from larkfield. Peter haller about, evans, 75 years old from santa rosa. Carmen brooez, 75 years old, vacationing here with family. Michael john dornback. Cal stoeg ga and Veronica Elizabeth mcconsumes, hearts and thoughts for the friends and family currently, 1,100 missing persons reported. Were whittling the list down, still 400 outstanding. Were going to continue what i mentioned this morning as target searches. Working missing person list, going to specific houses to look for people as recovery search. As area cools and safer to go in, do more broader searches. Reiterate the importance of calling 7075653856 to report people missing and also report them not missing when you find them. Using resources to find them. Keep us informed how its working out. Names i read will be posted on facebook in 15 minutes, information that i just gave you, thats what i have
Bring it live on abc7 and our news app. Im kristen sze. In for ama daetz on maternity leave. And im dan ashley. Get you to the latest on the wildfires. Several are affecting Sonoma County. All bun of the bay area fires less than 5 contained. Dealing with active fire behavior, warning people to Pay Attention to social media and notifications from local authorities for possible notices of more evacuations. Every fire rereceived influx of resources today. Getting folks relieved that have been out there from beginning and getting them rest they need. Hour by hour more resources pour in from around california. So far 29 deaths, 15 in Sonoma County. Just updated to 17. Thats how quickly things are changing. Hearing from Sonoma County. Six years old from santa rosa. Lynn anderson powell, 72 years old from santa rosa. Arthur tassman brant, 95 years old from santa rosa. Soico grant, 75 years old from santa rosa. Donna may hal birr, 80 years old from larkfield. Peter haller about, evans, 75 year
For it to cool down, we spoke with a sheriff. We have been up and down the highway, we went to a devastated area of coffey park, that was an eye opener, i have never seen fires moving through an area that fast being that devastating. The thing that sticks out was how many burned cars there were. More than i have seen, thats an indication that people were surprised and had to get out fast to protect their lives. Reporter unfortunately some people did not make it out alive. We have learned the names of tep of the 17 People Killed, we will share those with you now. The first of them is carol collinsswasey of santa rosa, Lynne Anderson powell, arthur tasman grant, suiko grant, donna mae halbur, leroy peter halbur, valerie lynn evans, carmen caldentey berriz, Michael John Dornbach of calistoga and Veronica Elizabeth mccombs of santa rosa, we are told that most of the victims were found in their homes, one was found by their car, at this point a sheriff said that its hard to say if there are
Santa rosa. Evans of santa rosa, and Veronica Elizabeth mccombs of santa rosa. The sheriff said identify something of these victims was very challenging, because in some cases, there wasnt much left of their remains. Lets take a lesson. Some of these remains are actually intact bodies, much easier to identify and get things from. Some of them are merely ashes and bones, and we may never get truly confirmative identification on ashes. Cremated, you cant get i. D. We were able to get identification in some of those cases by medical devices. A hip implant, for example, has serial number on it. So we actually did in that this case. Two of the identifications were done by medical devices or implants. Two were done through dental records. One was done through difficultinging tattoos. Others were by fingerprints, so they were combined with information from family members. Most of the victims were found in their homes. One was found by the car. The youngest person on the list was 57. Most of t
Santa rosa. Right now there are 400 people missing in Sonoma County alone. And more than 191thousand acres have burned state wide. And that number could rise. james good morning and thanks for joining us. Im james fletcher. robin and im robin winston. And we are continuing our coverage of the deadly firestorm in the north bay. Another big story from the fires, the smoke. And winds are pushing the fire smoke all over the bay area causing bad air quality and forcing hundreds of schools to close. james the state schools chief says nearly 600 schools with about 260 thousand students are affected. Heres the list of school closures. Lets go ahead and begin cycling through them. adlib over full screens of school robin robin robin fire officials have began the process of identifying the bodies of loved ones who were reported missing. The search itself has been incredibly challenging because the fire is still raging. Homes are too hot to search. Even when they know there is likely someone in th