Begin this tuesday here on kron 4 news at 5 thanks so much for joining us. Im jonathan mccall. Right now mandatory Evacuation Orders are in place for several communities across the bay area as wildfires continue to burn out of control at this hour. In the north bay mandatory evacuations are in effect across napa county in the following areas from a school we corner to wouldnt valley road including the community of circle oaks atlas peak road to the dead in from loma vista road slash soda canyon road to the dead in all of his the ridge road sage canyon road from charles pope valley road to lower Charles Valley road. Highway 2128 from lower child valley road to monticello road. And the butts canyon road and snow valley road to spanish valley, including the various us states. There are also evacuation warnings in these locations highway one 28 and silverado trail to charles pope valley road, including the pritchard hills area. Highway one 28 and lore Childs Valley road to turtle rock and
Well forcing on top of breaking news at this hour more than 20 fires burning out of control in whats now known as the santa clara unit lightning complex. The flames spreading across 5 different counties from santa clara to alameda. The contra costa, san joaquin and Stanislaus County kron fours dan kerman is live tonight in pleasanton with the very latest on the firefight there dan. Where the cal fire command post in this is where they are staging as they fight the fires throughout this region as you mentioned it is covering many different counties, 25,000 acres charred so far that was as of this morning we still dont have an updated number at this point they were 0 contained again waiting for an updated number there, but they are going to be here for quite some time battling this blaze. Plumes of smoke off in the distance doesnt really tell the story of the santa clara units lightning complex fire. In fact, its at least 20 separate fires divided into 3 zones fire started on sunday prob
The fire expanded to west of highway 101. Weve talked about it jumping the highway, in the northeast santa rosa neighborhood near the kohls store at coffee lane and hopper avenue, the northernmost residential area in santa rosa, there are several structure fires there. Cross creek road, sky farm drive, st. Andrews drive, all residents north of Fountain Grove park way, montecito heights, those are all mandatory evacuation areas. Residents need to heed Evacuation Orders according to the city of santa rosa. Evacuation means you need to leave immediately. Please gather personal belongings, pets and go to the Findlay Community center at 2060 west College Avenue. That is a shelter that is set up for those people. The fire is believed to have started near highway 128 there in napa county and this progressed to santa rosas city limits. Theyre also asking you not to call 911 unless you are reporting an active fire near your area and youre in immediate danger. They dont want phone calls going in
Well have Team Coverage all morning. Latest video. These are images from a kron 4 viewer from santa rosa. This is in the area of mark west springs. The fire has spread toward west shiloh ridge area. Weve received multiple calls of people saying they can smell smoke across the entire bay area. That smell coming from these fires burning in the north bay and were told in the Oakland Hills as well. Here is another picture from santa rosa. You can see just how large the flames are. We have Spencer Blake. Can you hear us and describe what the scene is there this morning. Reporter yes, guys, i can hear you and i am in napa. Im at a command center. Combined police and fire command center. Its at a Shopping Complex right right. Its interesting, i was here about 20 minutes ago when i was asking trying to get some information and one of the sheriffs deputies saying theres not a lot of active Fire Fighting happening right now because the fires are so big and moving so quickly. Right now theyre foc
Together to help show us where the fires are, i have been in santa rosa all day yesterday. My lungs and breathing are still effected. I grabbed a mask my husband had in the garage and it was not enough. Now we have more information on what kind of masks you will need. I have been hearing stories of people having everything burned. Nobody said they are devastated. They just plan to rebuild. Its interesting, the way that fires are hitting so many communities. We are so used to these being in the rule communities, i covered large fires in arizona and they are rule but this is both urban and rural fire fighting. The flames are a challenge right now. Its just an unusual set of fires that firefighters have to try to knock down. Lets pop up the News Conference that is going to start from napa county, we are going to listen in live. This is our first briefing of the day, wednesday, october 11th. This is our third dweefg on the napa fire complex briefing on the napa fire complex, at this time,