Bring it live on abc7 and our news app. Im kristen sze. In for ama daetz on maternity leave. And im dan ashley. Get you to the latest on the wildfires. Several are affecting Sonoma County. All bun of the bay area fires less than 5 contained. Dealing with active fire behavior, warning people to Pay Attention to social media and notifications from local authorities for possible notices of more evacuations. Every fire rereceived influx of resources today. Getting folks relieved that have been out there from beginning and getting them rest they need. Hour by hour more resources pour in from around california. So far 29 deaths, 15 in Sonoma County. Just updated to 17. Thats how quickly things are changing. Hearing from Sonoma County. Six years old from santa rosa. Lynn anderson powell, 72 years old from santa rosa. Arthur tassman brant, 95 years old from santa rosa. Soico grant, 75 years old from santa rosa. Donna may hal birr, 80 years old from larkfield. Peter haller about, evans, 75 year
Calistoga. The entire city remains evacuated. From the air, a scene of destruction in santa rosa, block after block of homes. Left in ash and rubble. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. The death toll from the many fires affecting Northern California has gone up once again. The Sonoma County sheriff said 17 people have died there. That makes 31 victims in Northern California. More than 1,000 people have reported loved ones missing. The sheriff said 745 people have been located safely. More than 25,000 people remain evacuated but some orders are slowly being lifted. The director of cal fire said every fire burning in the state received an influx of new resources today. Allowing many firefighters to get muchneeded rest. While last nights expected dry winds did not materialize, firefighters are still dealing with very active fire behavior, and theyre worried about it. These are the latest acreage numbers from cal fire. The nuns norbaum fire. Containment has not improved
Westbound is not a problem. We head up to highway 37 near sears point. That earlier overturn chp was unable to locate so better news there. No problems westbound 37 and of course road closures through calistoga with the evacuations. Well check on those in a few minutes. Sue, thank you. Flames in sonoma growing closer to homes, wineries, even sonoma square. There is one culdesac residents are still there trying to save their homes. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield live. Amy . Reporter hi, reggie, good morning. No fire here this morning and no homeowners. It looks like they are standing down overnight. It looks like they went to bed. They did bring in a lot of quichlt. Take a look at what they brought in to protect their homes, a water truck and a backhoe to carve out a protective perimeter. This gave them a confidence that they will be fine. Once we got the water here, the inch and a half hose, we can take care of it. This is my house, im trying to protect it to the extent that i can.
Good evening everyone. Search teams in Santa Rosa Napa and mendocino recovered more bodies today. The death toll up to 36. It is likely to rise again. We also have new evacuations in Sonoma County north of santa rosa. The pocket fire has been threatening homes east of highway 101 and the Alexander Valley area. Tonight we found families clearing out under evacuation order. A late air attack and some bulldozer lines appeared to have slowed it down. Cal fire says the fires have destroyed at least 5700 homes. And more than 340 square miles of land has burned. Tonight there are 9000 firefighters trying to contain the flames. 10 times that number 90,000 people out of their homes. This summer, Summit County sheriff said it is not safe for them to go back. We are worried about where the fires are going. We are not going to have people go back in. I would not think about going back until monday. That is my best guess. Sonoma county announced they plan to open a local Assistance Center tomorrow
Your screen. The order affects People Living north of highway 128 from geysers road to chockhill road. The pocket fire has burned about 10,000 acres and only 5 contained. Farther south in Sonoma County, cal fire says 4 fires have merged into one. Thats at the Bottom Center of the screen youre look at. That complex of fires has burned 44000 acres and is only 5 contained. We want to show you some live pictures now from the Sonoma County fairgrounds where we are expecting an update from officials any minute now. They are also planning to release as weve learned some body camera video that took place during rescues earlier in the week. They just walked up to the podium. Good evening. Im rob. He yordano rob giordano the sheriff. Let me start with missing persons. Still work the missing persons report. Still working on remains collection and searching, unfortunately. 1485 reports of missing people now. 1250 located safe. So again, still communication issues, still working through that. 235 s