Has barned 54,000 acres, containment has dropped to 5 . Another 80,000 homes are threatened by flames. Firefighters believe it will take until november 7th to contain the fire. Schools are closed because of the smoke and ongoing Power Outages. We have a full list on nbcbayarea. Com and running them on the bottom of the screen all morning. And tracking new evacuation orders overnight into. Sharon katsuda is live at the frontlines. Firefighters are still on the scene there . Reporter that is right. And we just moved from a decision location so were now here right along spot road in the heart of this evacuation area and you could see behind me there are fire engines here. They saved this home. Im told that the flames came right up to the back side of this home so very good use here but the fire has moved on closer towards santa rosa. That is what im hearing. Now lets take a look at video of the flames. We shot this about 3 00 this morning just off the road here. Got very close to structur
Flags in san rafael. Its not open until 8 00. But in the next hour youre okay to line up and wait for the gates and doors to open. Also the Sonoma County fair grounds is accepting evacuees. The Petaluma Community center and fair grounds, the reason were still mentioning to them, theyre good meeting places. You can meet with people there and then evacuate together. The finley Community Center was an Evacuation Center and it has now been evacuated itself. Again, if you need a place to stay, yourptions in the north bay are currently the marin County Fair Grounds and the Sonoma County fair grounds. Heres a look at the evacuation map you can see. Look how wide it is. People should be ready to leave. In fact n many parts of Sonoma County extends as far as mt. Stchlt helena to the east as far a south as sew bath i co. Highway 101 in santa rosa and cloverdale are told theyre being reopened right now. They had shut them down in both directions which is concerning if youre trying to get out of t