Than 50,000 people forced to flee their homes in the middle of the night. As the glass fire explodes in size engulfing homes. And landmarks this is crazy terrible. Mike sick to my stomach, the threat to life and homes returning to the region yet again almost become a familiar drill now after a few years the burn zone even overlapping with the tubbs fire just 3 years ago the tubbs fire started on a sunday night it was very reminiscent of 3 years ago, no rest for weary residents or firefighters, this is a fullon firefight at all levels we are working in just miserable conditions. 10s of thousands of people forced to flee as a wildfire explodes to more than 35,000 acres in just over a day. We begin with that breaking news tonight at 6. Good evening. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis Jonathan Mccall in tonight for grant lotus our top story this monday night the fastspreading wildfire burning in napa and sonoma counties. The glass fire erupted yesterday morning in so far has charred more than 36
Containment 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to this wildfire in parts of Sonoma County napa county they are under Evacuation Orders tonight. Including what we have been told us the entire city of calistoga so certainly if you need to leave that area, the open evacuation routes include route 29 south and north along with one 28 north for more on the Evacuation Orders for sonoma and napa counties were joined by kron fours Jonathan Mccall johnson, the largest of those evacuations 68,000 ordered so far for folks in Sonoma County want to show you the map of where things stand right with those Evacuation Orders you can just in the last few hours from when we last saw you for kron 4 news at 6 oclock weve seen. Evacuation warnings now being closer to an area near santa rosa weve been talking with cal fire officials all day long and theyve been saying that those flames have been creeping closer to santa rosa. Throughout the but what we were saying earlier is that the enti
Destroyed more than 36,000 acres and is still 0 contained. The fires also forced thousands of people to flee their homes good evening, im ken wayne and im Vicki Liviakis of firefighters are up against it hot and dry weather conditions out there on the front lines making it really tough. The handle on the flames. Heres what we know tonight. Cal fire says a 113 structures have been destroyed more than 8500 are threatened. Back shun orders have been issued for parts of sonoma and napa county including the entire city of calistoga. In napa county the glass fire tore through the world renowned metal wood resorts near saint kron 4 state of sec. He was there she joins us live shes been monitoring the situation throughout the night taylor. This is a devastating blow to the community. How does it look out there right now absolutely devastating can i drove through that property and a long and i saw several different spot fires which made it really hard for firefighters while they were able to sa
Out ok getting away unscathed the fire 10 tearing through this area early this morning but crews remain here on the scene tonight. They are putting out some hot spots and mopping up the area roads in this area also remaining closed police making the rounds out here hillsides surrounding these communities also have been charred throughout the day today an into that into tonight. Theres been thick smoke in the air and theres also been a lot of ash that has been falling from the sky. Other communities all along highway 12 also having to deal with the flames buildings there and property there burned and destroyed. We actually spoke with one man who says that he was lucky that he did lose his home. But unfortunately his neighbor did. We got here they were you know a lot of activity this house was you know and claims are trees are on fire. The backyard with on fire the backfield behind us. Does seem like. If properties are starting to flare up. The house to my left is completely burned down.
Destroyed or actually homes on Mountain Hawk drive thats in santa rosa kron fours dan kerman went to the sky hawk neighborhood to show us the damage. Were in the sky hawk neighborhood of santa rosa and as you can see behind me burned down homes, however this is not like 2017, yes. There are numerous homes that have burned but numerous homes are Still Standing its not like entire neighborhoods have burned down. Fire Officials Say thats because this fire is completely different than the one in 2017. This was not one solid wall of fire that moved in the city limits, its spotted in the city and sometimes some areas a mile ahead of itself. So a lot of areas with a lot of work that needs to be done. And we understand that the evacuations of affected 10s of thousands of in santa rosa as well as in Sonoma County. We definitely want to be able to get people back home but its going to potentially be several days in order to do that neighborhoods that have been evacuated include rincon valley. As