Pulled together. Reporter that does not come without some risk. Some officers who have been helping out in fire zones have had to evacuate their own families. Officers are doing what they can. This park police spent the day collecting water and other supplies that they will bring to First Responders and other residences. What we asked to make sure that our firefighters are successful is to leave the area when you are told to do so. While fires are burning out of control in the north bay and more than one dozen people have been killed as firefighters ordered new evacuations. These firefighters are getting a state of Emergency Declaration from President Donald Trump. Tonight, at least that the people are confirmed dead and 2000 homes and businesses have burned. Thousands more homes are threatened from the fires that continue to raise two parts of sonoma, napa, mendocino, and lake counties. We are seeing even more homes destroyed by fires today. Our helicopter was over santa rosa today an
Information for us because they say theyve pulled crews out of here. Theyll pulled firefighters out of oakmont. Definitely Police Officers have been pulled out of oakmont because of the safety concerns. All of that that are being said, there are people that live here that are refusing to leave. Weve met two people and talked to them personally. One was an older woman walking her dog. She said shes received evacuation orders three times previously, nothing ever happened so she is not heeding this evacuation order. Another want was man named Leonard George we talked to for quite sometime. He was busily hosing down his house and all of his neighbors homes. He shared with us he built his home, it was a very expensive home he shared with us, and he did not want to leave. We talked to him about the importance of his life over property. He is not leaving. Santa rosa pd has gone house to house earlier today and individuals that were refusing to leave, theyre taking their pictures and taking th
The danger far from over in the wine country. Shifting flames lead to new evacuations tonight. Elderly veterans and acute care patients forced out into the night. Most recent evacuation affect mt. Veeder road. And oakmont and heights. Geyserville, highway 120, river road, ridge oaks road and seller road. Its been a tough night and its not over yet. Sadly not. Many veterans removed from one of the largest veterans homes in the country in yountville. Katie marce Katie Marzullo is there live. Reporter update from cal vet, anyone who evacuated voluntarily is allowed to come back. Veterans home is not in danger. What happened a few hours ago was partial evacuation due to poor air quality. Smoke in the air from the growing fire that did grow to 6,000 acres but 1 contained. In flames from the part rick fire forces new. Caravan of ambulances rushed to pick up 80 veterans with compromised respiratory systems. Others taken by bus to staging area in case a fullscale evacuation is necessary. Most
Mcguire in santa rosa. The fires in napa and sonoma have been spreading. The death toll has gone up to 17. Others are unaccounted for. 85 have been injured. 2,000 home and other structures have burned. 115,000acres have been burned as fires hopscotch through the counties. Here is a look at the fire map focusing on the north bay. You can see how the fires are hitting the heart of wine country spanning two state park there is. The fires are destroying hand and property in glen ellen and kenwood and the silverado trail in napa. Tracking another red flag warning which is a problem for firefighters. We are in napa county where new evacuations are taking place. Live in santa rosa where emotions ran high, deb. Reporter people are still raw, traumatized. It is all so fresh. Even as they arrived at Santa Rosa High School looking for answer and guidance, fires are still burning. The measure of what santa rosa is up against with strike teams at work, heavy smoke plumes line the ridges. New evacua
Jim donovan. Im rahel solomon. That is not the kind of alliteration i like. Katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things, good morning , guys. Happy wednesday. We dont want wet roadways. We have in construction. Things are looking good. Dont jinks me. All right; fine, i wont jinks myself. Katie, will we have problems in the morning rush. For the most part, no but parts of the area, further outskirts of the region are starting to see wet weather rolling in here and that is true for Sussex County. I think we will get through bulk of the morning rush without any major problems. However, what you are finding on storm scan i think is indicative of what is yet to come and that is wet weather. We have been expecting this. Nothing new, but it is starting to encroach at this point now. So when we take a look, come on, clicker, you can do it. Something about 5 00 a. M. And this clicker it does not want to cooperate. Matt, can you hit that space bar give it a shot on the old keyboard, the old co