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.
News at 6. Im afraid that at that. The whole time is going to burn down that starts thats like a disaster looks like a disaster happening. Now its 6 o on alert and on edge north bay residents. So anxious as the winds pick up again escalating the wildfire threat in sonoma and napa counties, thank you for joining us at 6 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the bay area is under a red flag warning. Tonight through saturday morning that has cal fire closely tracking the weather is the last fire just keeps on burning. The wildfire. So far has scorched more than 56,000 acres in 5 days the to 5 containment a long way to go has destroyed a 143 homes so far over 26,000 structures remain threatened tonight. As we mentioned the bay area is now under a red flag warning set to expire saturday morning at 6 oclock. Of course this could spell big trouble for firefighters over the next couple of days chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now with what were looking at the avera
32 and the winds arent blowing 2,3060 Miles Per Hour. Gusting to 4 Miles Per Hour. Much easier this morning. We are under a spare the air and today potentially has our worst air quality you can see right now everybody doing green. Were okay. The policy is there as we head through the north bay especially for unhealthy air for all of us and poor air quality for those most sensitive else where and those incompasses wednesday and thursday forecast. 75 in San Francisco and near 100 inland and i know that says monday but that is for todays forecast and that is significantly cooler the closer you are to the coast. Ill let you know about the rest of our neighborhoods coming up. Sounds more promising, thanks, mike. Cal fire giving us an update on how theyre doing in the glass fire. Jobina is at the live desk with more details on that. Thank you, reggie. Cal fire officials will give the update from the Sonoma County fairgrounds around 11 00 this morning and we will stream it live on the abc7 ne
Breaking news tonight it is happening again. More fires erupt tonight in the north bay forcing new Evacuation Orders. Its a cremation. If anything gets into the yard itll all be gone. Theres a mountain right there. And you could see the flames. Those fires erupting as the glass fire near st. Helena explodes in size, threatening homes. The rush to get people out. And we are really going to do our best to impress this idea, the size of this fire right now from where we left off at 7 00 is dramatically larger and has now moved well into Sonoma County. The eastern side of santa rosa needs to pay close attention to this for Evacuation Orders. We have a lot more coming up. And good evening to you im juliet goodrich. Were tracking new fires. New evacuations have just been ordered for Sonoma County. The site of the tubs fire three years ago. This is the latest evacuation map. The area extends east of cagastoga road and north of highway 12. Evacuation orders expanding tonight in napa county. Ma