Destroyed. You can take a look over here and see whats left of a pickup truck. What appears to be an archway and the rest of the home reduced to a pile of rubble. Spot fires that broke out in santa rosa sparked by the larger glass fire led to mandatory Evacuation Orders. Thats when i saw a orange ball of flames. Right down the street. They destroyed homes in the eastern part of the city. Some reduced to rubble. Others were unscathed. Despite the destruction, santa rosas assistant fire marshal tells me improvements made to the Emergency Alert system since the devastating fires of 2017 saved homes and potentially lives. That allowed us to move into where the fire was impacting the city. And able to protect structures without being tampered by people trying to leave. For this man, this is the third time in three years he has been forced to evacuate because of a fire. It doesnt get any easier. You think youve got everything and you dont. You never know if youre going to come back to your h
Medical evaluation as well as that nature. Strong winds pick the first one minor medical treatment. Is saturday night and the overnight shelter and as needed is a major concern and we need everyone to keep on moving. Second one was sunday night there are some people who just into early this morning pick dont know which way to go. Thankfully your past those two especially if they have medical maybe they take a route to work challenges so the winds have conditions that we can, not backed up quite a bit. Accommodate using any types of every day or they leave their looking at the forecast, still neighborhood a certain way and very hot around the fire zone equipment. And provide Mental Health with 90s around 102 degrees. Counseling and connect meibrys of 1525 miles meibrys they get stuck once there is a individual social services. Road closure. What we do is encourage them to of 1525 mph and we are scaling the county social Services Back on the wins but still very network as well as support
The area. Marin county fire crews say current temperature 65 degrees three fires ignited in the area in the area, winds are calm but fog is building around the above Indian Valley college. Coastline including in areas like santa cruz and monterey. They may have been intentionally set. This is the view from a wildfire camera. You can see helicopters circling santa cruz down to less than a half mile of visibility. Here is what were tracking, heading into this afternoon, yoefrn hea which is why that red flag overhead, you can see the warning is now in effect. Flights. The flames are under control but investigators are continuing to it might not look like much right now on satellite radar, look for someone suspected of but if you notice just starting the fires who is also approaching to our south is a considered to be armed and dangerous. Low pressure system. Now back to the massive fires burning across the bay thats whats going to kick you area. Weve broken down the numbers, want possibil
Mountain and this is what has been vacaville and it was bring to the northwest and so its closing in pretty quickly. Thats why people are quickly having to flee their homes covers will tran is there this morning and will we moved to vacaville because things change so fast. Whats going on right now. Well right now im off a highway 80 off a cheery glenn exit and you can see over my Left Shoulder jeans and yuri of the fire along the ridgeline these people these poor people have been up all night watching the fire get closer and closer to their homes and then. Just a short time ago they got the knock at the door from the Sheriffs Department take get out. This is obviously a very busy street as far as people hopping on to highway 80 instead it has turned into a parking lot with a lot of evacuees at this location just pulled over sitting in the back of the pickup truck. Just helplessly watching the fire get closer and closer to their homes. This whole area jeans and area. It is just glowing
Ground today. Now, along the coast, overnight fog helped firefighters finally gain some ground on the czu complex fire. Thats the one burning in san mateo and Santa Cruz County. Heres a look at what crews are up against. Flames have scorched some 63,000 acres, containment is at 5 , up from 2 last night. An update is set for 6 00. We will stream that for you on nbcbayarea. Com. This map shows you where the fires are burning. Nearly 670,000 acres burning in our region alone. 1 million acres statewide. From the fire lines to evacuations to the threat of wind and lightning, we are covering the fires from all angles. We begin our coverage with nbc bay areas roz plater in Santa Cruz County with more on the firefight there. Reporter cal fire says it has more resources on the way, more crews, more equipment. And in one ben lomond neighborhood, they say they need more help. Its as simple as that, getting down to the work. Reporter mark showing us how he and his neighbors have been using hand to