We came up on top of this parking structure at kaiser said he was trying to get his uncle off the hill behind us who lives up there. He said he did get out safely, but he said there are homes up on the hillside that are just destroyed. Hes certain his uncles home is destroyed. I can tell you, looking on top of this Mobile Home Park, there are dozens of peoples homes that are just, they have burned to the ground tonight. Firefighters are actually in the middle of this. We have been watching them try to put water on some of the home that is are still up, doing what they can. This looks like a fruitless situation, something that would be impossible to win here. As we look out from the parking structure, more flames up on the hills. Hearing sirens, not in one direction, but all directions. Fire trucks and police cars going to the north, to the south, to the east, to the west, tro trying to get these spot fires as they are kicking up and getting people evacuated. We are, from this Vantage P
Spot fires burning in every direction, how do we stay on top of this . It is a full force engagement. Resource ors resources and Northern California are here. We are at the mercy of the weather. The wind is making a serious push and that is out of our ntro an t inont of and toco get the f way and make a stand where we can. Do have structures and cones and neighborhoods . It is impacted quite a bit of the greater san jose area. We know that structures have been destroyed and damaged. Its way too early to tell if that is a high number or loan number. We are in the orgy early stages of this. Its life preservation and evacuation, as we speak. Have youeard of injuries . I cant confirm any injuries. Things are so dynamic that that news will come up as the day goes on. This fire has made a hard push overnight and pushed into the city of santa rosa and it is really challenging firefighters. It hit an apartment building. I wouldnt be surprised numerous structures and we can confirm theyve been
People have evacuated. This place is pretty much full at this hour with elderly folks, children, dogs and people sleeping on cots. Some people not able to sleep because they are so worried about their properties at this hour. We dont know how many or if any properties have been burned and we dont know about the injuries. As the sun comes up in the next hour, we will learn a lot more about exactly how devastating this fire was. I talked to folks earlier who described this. They had to grab anything. They grabbed belongings and rushed out. A lot of folks dont know if they can go back home to their properties. We did see video of some farm houses and that kind of thing burned but we dont know if any homes went up in flames. They have food and water and cause for folks at Crosswalk Community church. The Second Center was the napa county fairgrounds and there two centers open for folks who needed. We have back here live at Crosswalk Community church with folks getting through with what is h
Made the decision about 8 00 this morning to deploy the military police personnel. Do you know anything about the rescue [indiscernible] . Id have to defer on that. Yeah, im not familiar with any of the specific operations that occurred relative to rescues last night, but we can look for you. [inaudible question]. Thank you. Thanks, guy ss guys. You have been watching live News Conference at the state Operation Center at the California Office of Emergency Services activated early this morning by the governors Emergency Declaration because of these huge fires burning across Northern California. Of course, weve been keeping a close eye on fires burning in napa and Sonoma County. Thats right. At least total, 57,000 acres are now burning in Northern California. And there isnt any containment on these fires, but this is a welcome shot. I want you to look at your screen. That is a cal fire or a Fire Fighting helicopter that made a water drop from a body of water near one of these fires and w
Helicopters to evacuate people off of their properties up on those hillsides and get them down to the evacuation shelters. Now, as they were just mentioning, hundreds of people were told they have to evacuate. Three Evacuation Centers have been set up in napa county. Those are at the napa county fairgrounds, the Crosswalk Church on first street, and the calastoga fair grounds. Officials say there are many people at each of those centers already. We just spoke to the spokesperson from the red cross. They are ready to take in more. They are opening more shelters. That are doing so now as we speak. As far down as petaluma so people have somewhere to go. A big part of all this is the wind. We have to go to steve paulson. You keep going farther north, and theres multiple fires. Getting smoke from many sources, many sources here. I have my hands here full, folks, with napa and sonoma, but im working on it. Look at it. You have 3 observations a degree off of 70. Look at the wind direction, al