The sonoma side. More evacuations are being forced, and homes are being damaged and destroyed on the outskirts of santa rosa along highway 12. In the mast hour, we received an update from cal fire, and Sonoma County officials. Again, they say the fire has tripled in size to more than 36,000 acres, and there is still zero containment at this hour. The cal fire said theyre hope of that the winds are dying down. More than 68,000 people have now been evacuated in the path of this fire in Sonoma County. Another 11,000 evacuated in napa county. Crews made a stand to defend homes at Annadel State Park. The fire did make it to oakmont and into annadel early this morning, but there was a valiant firefight by our local firefighters and our cal firefighters here on the east side of santa rosa to save as many hopes as they could, and the statement i heard is theyve saved far more than they lost. We also learned within the last hour from Sonoma County sheriffs officials that a 17 yearold boy has be
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look south down the peninsula. It is tuesday, september 29th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. The glass fire continues to burn out of control. Governor newsom has now declared a state of emergency for napa and sonoma counties. This as flames of written homes and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate. The entire city of calistoga is under a mandatory evacuation order. The glass fire has exploded in size and it was just 25 Hundred Acres and is now more than 3600 acres and is still 0 contained and 113 structures have been destroyed in nearly 1500 fire personnel are battling the flames. We have coverage all morning long and we are tracking the dangerous weather conditions and of course, we are tracking all closures. We have the battle to save calistoga. The glass fire continues to ripped through
Justice, small smoldering bits, whether it is in houses or fence posts or trees, these are spot fires that do not even warned enough attention from firefighters to be here. There up in the neighborhood to making sure that some of those other smoldering spots, they are perusing to make sure that everything turns itself out because there is not particularly a firefight in this portion of Sonoma County. The vast majority of the flames are burning on the other side of the mountain in napa county but in the meantime, as a result of Evacuation Orders, there are 63,000 people or more displaced and Evacuation Centers, they have fled from the flames and as a result of that, schools are also out for these fires because even with Distance Learning, evacuating and picking up and moving out, it does not really lend itself well to learning. Here is a list of the schools that are closed, Bennett Valley union school district, Kenwood School district, no Distance Learning, Rincon Valley Union High Scho
Calistoga is very quiet right now. The entire city has been evacuated. I am at the motor lodge along lincoln avenue and behind me, we have watched glowing fires disappear, looking east near the silverado trail. Hopefully, that is some good news. We are waiting for the latest from cal fire once the sun comes up. However the weather conditions are pretty good for firefighting. It is a lot cooler compared to yesterday. Not a lot of wind to speak of but the official count is 113 structures destroyed and that number could go up as firefighters explore the areas that have already burned. By the afternoon, the entire city population of calistoga, 5300, was being evacuated. The fire had crested the hill where they are. People had to evacuate immediately. We got back to the house a couple weeks ago and we were evacuated for 17 days and there we go again. It is dad. Those evacuation orders are in effect in napa and sonoma encompassing about 70,000 people. No idea when they will be able to return
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