Firefighters on the lines in mendocino napa and lake counties. Crews from novato as well as nevada washington and arizona are headed this way. We expect a fire update in the next hour but here is a quick recap of what we know. The atlas fire is the biggest at 42,000 acres. It is only 3 contained. Napo officials are devising People Living in the area east of silverado trail to get out. There is also an evacuation advisory for People Living near jamison canyon road in Solano County. The secondlargest buyer is the tubbs fire it has forced the town of calistoga to be evacuated. The fire has burned 27,000 acres and is 10 contained. There is no video to share of this fire that has burned 9500 acres west of napa, east of sonoma. This fire is just 2 contained. The nuns fire is burning north in Sonoma County. There are evacuation advisories for people in napa and solano. The nuns fire has burned through 8500 acres. Police in the eastern Sonoma Valley have been going door to door warning people
Quickly as possible. This will make it them in there, they can help to mitigate the situation. You are watching ktvu vox 2 news at noon. We are bringing a live update on the firestorms from officials. They are still there and weve been helping them get in to their farms and ranches so they can feed their livestock. We are working with them and the California Department of food and agriculture to do that. With that, as director ghilarducci and the chief said, we understand how this is affecting many people in this area and in Southern California. We will continue to Work Together as a group to mitigate this emergency and help people get back to normal. Thank you very much. And id like to introduce bob baird, the fire aviation director for the u. S. Forest service. Good day. My name is robert baird, the director for fire and aviation for the United States Forest Service for the Pacific Southwest region. Which is california and the pacific islands. We have been working together seamlessly
Night. They have destroyed at least 5700 homes. There are 9000 firefighters trying to contain the fires. 90,000 people out of their homes. The Sonoma County sheriff said anyone living near any of the fires should be concerned and keeping an eye out for advisories. There is no reason to get stuck in traffic waiting around. Get out now. There are some new mandatory Evacuation Orders in northern Sonoma County for parts of the geyserville area and alexander valley. Bill martin is tracking the winds and red flag warnings. Robert malcolm is live in napa with the latest on the firefight. Deborah is in geyserville and Sonoma County where there is a mandatory Evacuation Order underway. Reporter we are at the river rock casino. It is empty on a friday night. Part of that mandatory evacuation with fire nearby and winds uncertain. Better to evacuate people and to take chances the chaos of five nights ago. Getting out not happen fast enough. This is bodycam video from the night of the firestorm. On
Students resumed classes at sonoma state today. Their campus was closed due to the fires. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is there. A few special events planned for today, right . Reporter there are, jessica. This campus has a lot to be grateful for, but also some people who need some support and some care from fellow students. There were some students and Staff Members who did lose their homes including the university president. She lost her home in santa rosa. But the campus is fine. It was not touched by fire. It was saved. A lot to be grateful for there. They will start the day off with coffee and doughnuts in the student center. Everyone invited to that. Theyll also have a banner that people can sign to thank the firefighters for all that they did during this firefight. And then late this afternoon theyre inviting everyone to come and get around that banner and take a picture so they can give it to the firefighters. So they are certainly going to mark what happened in this comm
Even with the fog youre doing okay. In the green at 15. Alexis, thank you. 600 firefighters working to contain a 271acre wildfire that weve been telling you about in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This started monday night on bear canyon road. So far the bear fire has destroyed four structures, 150 more still threatened. That fire is only 5 contained. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller is live at one of the Evacuation Centers. Well check in with him our next half hour. And now some of the biggest fires burning in the north bay. The nuns fire and napa and sonoma counties burned nearly 53,000 acres, 73 contained. Over to the tubbs fire, 432 acres burned, 87 contained for that one. Finally, the atlas fire in napa and solano counties, its burned just over 51,000 acres and, as you can see, at 80 containment. Students resume classes at sonoma state after the campus was closed due to the north bay fires. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is there and, amy, good morning to you. Some special things pl