30 percent. Where it was at this time yesterday evening. Some 200 homes have been evacuated. Kron 4s jr stone is live near the fire line with the latest details tonight. J. R. . Reporter the good news right now is that the wind has died down. Especially in comparison to what it was earlier this afternoon reporter new video into the kron4 newsroom tonight. Shows a wall of flames. Eating away at a north bay hillside. Reporter the heat and low reporter since it is hard to see at times because of all of the smoke officer to see that it was straight up and down. Firefighters have of stability with the notion tried to climb it begins to get very dangerous. Reporter residences have burned to the ground. Firefighters have been fighting on the ground and in the air. Droping water hunter is have they evacuate many as 10 had been living in the subdivision. Not understand theres only one way and and one way out. Reporter for now the focus is for putting the fire out before it causes more damage. R
Percent. And some 2hundred homes have been evacuated. Kron4s jr stone explains why this fire has been so challenging for crews on the front line. Flames shooting into the air in northern napa county and parts of lake county. Firefighters have now been fighting these flames for more than 24 hours and they are still dealing with challenges. The heat, the low humidity, the fuel bed is so dry. Temperatures wednesday reached into the upper 90s. As i drove along butts canyon road in napa county it was hard to see at times because of all the smoke. Really the topography. If you go you can see that it is straight up and downheavy rocks so its the firefighters having the instability platforms to work fromyou have the dozers trying to climb that rock. It gets to be very dangerous. So far no one has been hurt but 9 structures including 2 residences have burned to the ground. Those with cal fire arent sure if anyone had been living in those homes. Firefighters have been fighting on the ground. And
I do not care about any of the key six in my house i just want to see my docks. Dogs catherine the last man is a hiker who had to walk out of the fire area on foot. He says he was very nervous and got uncomfortably close to smoke and flames. As he says he at least managed to get word to family and friends. Catherine tonight a lot of people are still waiting to hear news on whether their homes are okay. And it continues to be a tense time. And there are a lot of charred hillsides, scorched power lines and smoldering trees in the wake of the fire. Reporter the biggest concern for the next two hours is that there is a breeze that we are dealing with. Something that they did not have to worry about yesterday but there is a strong breeze of that is picking up within 200 yds of the home you can see flames at the hillside in on the other side large clouds that are into the sky. You talking about 1000 firefighters in this area all over the place and the area around. We are talking about 180 ho