Waters edge have been ordered out. Including baresa knockingsville road and all the baresa estates subdivision. Joining us now by for the benefit phone is janet upton with the county of napa. Thank you for joining us. Can you hear me . Yes, i can, good afternoon. The evacuation orders and warnings have been evolving rapidly what do people need to know right now . People in the fire area need to stay vigilant and follow orders of emergency personnel. We just effected another round of evacuations in the area you were describing. Were up to 1900 homes in the area evacuated from a series of fires that burned over 12,000 acre. We expect the number of acres to go up tonight due to the activity that we saw today. Absolutely, this is allen martin now, with fires in e ththe esarea, irem evacuees have a specific place to go. Where is it . The Community Crosswalk church in the town of napa on the west side of highway 29 off first street. Theyre equipped to handle folks. And we have other continge
Take a look behind me. Weve been watching this fire grow in size and intensity all afternoon long out here. You can see the plumes of oke c the ground. The dark smoke typically indicative of homes going up. Theres a lot to be concerned about out here this afternoon. A sense of deja vu all over smoke are building hundreds of feet in the air as fires that had been calm take off in the scorching afternoon heat. We spotted flames ripping through heavy under brush. The people who call were taking no chances as guided evacuation by cal fire emissions expanded in size through the dry winding hills. Chopper 5 saw this man hosing off his roof trying to buy his home a chance at survival. Neighbors still scared from the 2017 fire storm are worried as conditions dryer, and windier,. We know people who live on Hennessey Ridge anfire is reall assist at least the main plume at moment. Were extremely concerned. Its deja vu, and this is day two of it. And you were in the same area yesterday. Are the co
Air pushing on in your windows if you open and i would say you probably should because its going to be another hot afternoon today, and its going to be a hot and windy one this time around so this is where fire danger comes into play a lot of the bay area specially or upper elevations with up in red flag warning says were going to be seeing dry conditions hot weather paired with winds in the east bay gusting as high as 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour an hour. More exposed hillsides where temperatures will be in the triple digits still Solano County entire county lit up in a red flag warning 25 to 40 mile per hour winds. And as for murder in napa and sonoma counties also heightened fire danger specially in those upper elevations, these will remain in effect tonight into wednesday as that when really kicks into gear out of the northwest sonoma calistoga vacaville already on the breezy side and look at winds picking up later today. Sonoma petaluma down through fairfield in danville all going to b
Neighborhoods in Sonoma County. And we actually have a live camera this is a live look from mount accident. The cameras pointed west right at the fire. If you look closely you can see that glow thats the flames and the smoke thats coming from the fire. Firefighters do say that they have stopped the forward progress of the fire but they continue to battle it. And more breaking news as well with military helicopters attempting to rescue more than 60 people who are track right now in the creek fire in Fresno County this will be their 3rd attempt to get to those hikers the rescues had to be called off last night because of the heavy smoke and because it was getting too dark and too dangerous and gosh thats a pretty scary situation we actually have a picture of the hikers take a look. Theyre sheltering at the vermilion valley camping resort at lake edison volunteers are there theyre helping hikers say fed and hydrated as they wait to be rescued, now theyre smiling for now because theyre sti
landing tonight acaliforniaa is under a state of emergency as wildfires continue to scorch thousands of acres across the state. Many of the firessparked by lightning from severe storms sunday morning. The fires are being fuled by winds record last 30 minutes Evacuation Orders were santa cruz county. Thats in addition to the orders already in place in sonoma san mateo napa alameda and contra costa counties we have a full list of Evacuation Centers is all on our website kron 4 dot com grown for has Live Team Coverage for you this tuesday night, michelle kingston is in Contra Costa County as crews try to get a handle on the deers on fire tale of the sec use in napa county has the hennessy fire continues to grow. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is tracking the threat of smoke moving into the bay area and also the money in his keeping is monitoring the threat of rolling blackouts across our area. Here is a map breaking down the major fires throughout the bay area tonight, the s see you