Redell, today in the bay. One of many open today. Its nice to hear people being so open to tell their stories. Its bad. They dont know if they have a home to go back to. Their homes, memories, going up in flames. Some people dont know. Exactly. So, those Evacuation Centers we told you about, theres four of them, now five that had to expand. The thing is, the red cross, they are being stretched thin as well. Now, they need volunteers to help. They have exhausted their pool so far. They need to help the fire evacuees at Elsie Allen High School and cook middle school. If you can safely make it to either location, call 7075434542 and you will be given an assignment. We are going to hear the call for volunteers in the coming days. We are going into the today show hour. We are going to stay here with your local news this morning to continue to give you more information about these fire that is are burning out of control at this point. Taking a toll on firefighters as well. We heard from cal
Sonoma county, Finley Community center, federal building. The Memorial Building is being turned into a makeshift hospital. This is the reason why these fire that is are burning, these are live pictures. This is a home fully engulfed in flames, in napa, one of many areas that have been burning. People have been pulling out their livestock, animals and fleeing for their life. This is near redwood. That is where the fire is burning. This is a situation, look at this, that we have been seeing all morning. Fires with buildings, threatening hospitals, threatening homes, forced evacuations. Hundreds of acre on fire and fire officials telling us right now they are just trying to get people to safety. That is the number one priority right now. People have been evacuated from the centers. They are asking for pets to be taken to Animal Shelters, napa county Animal Shelter, as well as the Sonoma County fairgrounds. You can take those tests because they cannot go to Evacuation Centers. They may hav
Safety. Also the Petaluma Community center. There is the Analy High School and Solano Community college in fairfield is a place for shel shelter. Lawrence Cook Middle School in santa rosa. And this is probably the newest one that we have not mentioned yet. This is the Burton Recreation Center and that opened up within just the last half hour. One of those areas that have not seen this morning as of yet any mandatory evacuations. They have been a safe spot for a lot of people. We know that east the Sheriffs Department is heading that direction because they are going to be evacuating that area. As soon as we get more information about that we will let you know. We want to share dramatic video from santa rosa. We are going to get to that video in a second. We want to check in with mike now. How are the winds right now . Earlier this morning the winds were so strong and that was what was fuelling the fire in an unpredictable manner which was a concern. Thats why we had so many evacuations.
Magnitude earthquake at 5 53 p. M. In south san jose process. This is in the allen rock neighborhood. The symmes graph here. 4. 4 magnitude earthquake preliminary at this time no reports of any damage yet. But well follow it closely. Well bring you any information as it comes into the newsroom. Not judge us san jose we goat reports in the newsroom people as far as San Francisco have felt this. In the allen rock area with the southEast San Jose on the east side of 680 you can see a map here. Its a 4. 4 magnitude. If you are looking in the newsroom we are getting calls and emails and texts. It has been confirmed and a lot of people around the bay area especially the south bay felt it at 5 53. About nine minutes ago a pap. And people in San Francisco feeling it. We have a reporter on the way of course latest online at nbcbayarea. Com. This wind and fire behavior is. Ive lived here 26 years raised my kids here. Everything gone. Home service destroyed, blocks gone. This is it. What youre le
Was also burning right now and he was telling us how careful we needed to be. So this is far from over and with all the smoke that is still here, people are seeking help at the hospitals. Weve seen approximately this day 160 patients in our Emergency Department and on average we would see around 120 at this point in time so were projecting seeing around 200 patients. Weve been receiving transfers, six of which came from sutter and then six of which came from keyser which included laboring moms of whom we cared for as well. Reporter power lines are down, the power is out, so it is very dark here this morning. Obviously it is very smoky, so its still a very dangerous situation, a big challenge again here on day two for the firefighters. Reporting live here in santa rosa, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. Amy, thank you. Sergeant spencer crumb with the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office tells us that the number of people missing may not be 100 but they have received about 100 calls from people who r