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
Contained. The fire has destroyed 223 homes. More than 28 1000 structures remain threatened and while an exact cause could take months to determine one possible cause is reportedly electric fencing around remote vineyard. Heres a point of origin. It has been nearly a week since it started, but the glass fires refusing to give firefighters a break chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow tracking the dangerous fire weather conditions that are expected to last for the next few days or yeah, really just to the winds going to keep switching directions here right now were seeing a turn mainly out of the north and the winds. Now after a day where they had calmed down now they are really beginning to pick up just was we had feared. And now were looking at some pretty gusty winds in around an active fire, not what firefighters wanted to see your everybody lives in these locations so here the very latest wins. It is 19 Miles Per Hour out of the northwest right there the po valley sailing at 11 miles
Much tougher for them so you can see theres a canister in his hand right there theyve been setting fires along this hillside and heres what theyre doing its genius they actually started at the top of the hill and started walking down the hill closer to the home meanwhile they were just doing it keeping a close eye in case it erupted they have their hoses on the ground ready to go. Let me show you give you an education on firefighting because he was giving me an education yulia sevens and i look at how the fire burned itself out you can see the smoke right there, theyre saying thats because the humidity level is high so they set it on fire. They watch it and then it burns itself out, but he had they done at noon it would not have burned itself out and therefore could have gotten closer. So the home, so thats why they do a lot of heavy lifting with the humidity level is up and the overnight hours. You can see just how smoky the conditions are embers flying everywhere. Trees are falling d
Samples of various vintages the damage from the glass fire was being assessed by the winerys owner. The 11,000 square foot farmhouse was gutted equipment and approximately a 120,000 bottles of wine were lost in the blaze and because this winery was built to replicate a 13 thcentury tuscan castle. Theyre going to need to bring artisans in from italy to make the repairs. The owner says the back to back fires here in the north bay coming after having to close for 3 months because of the pandemic is the worst catastrophe hes experienced in 45 years in the wine business and its a pain being felt throughout the napa valley which relies heavily on tourist traffic and how can people help. They can help. Visiting the napa valley. Im going to rush for i from the napa valley just coming up here spending little money because a lot of businesses are simply going close down. Theyve wracked fires are new covid over and over and its just its impossible stay open. I found a group of tourists here toast
Peninsula. Tonight people breathing a sigh of relief after flames got way too close for comfort. Good evening. Dozens of homeowners in belmont on edge this evening. Theyre back home after a fastmoving brush fire forced them to evacuate. This happened near alhambra drive, which backs up to open space near san juan canyon. The outcome could have been very different but quick work by firefighters saved homes. Nbc bay areas jean elle has more. Reporter standing on the rooftops of homes, firefighters poured water on a fouralarm brush fire moving up a dry canyon in belmont. While crews attacked the flames, Belmont Police officers went door to door. They said, sorry, you have to evacuate. So we just got ready. Reporter telling people in 40 homes in the cipriani neighborhood to evacuate. One woman snapped this picture of flames out her back window before she left. Some didnt know they were in danger. I saw the smoke. At first i thought it was the regular stuff. Reporter officers tied caution t