Are now 1 contained. New mandatory evacuations were issued an hour ago in calistoga for people north of grant street. Neda iranpour will tell us about the weather conditions that may cause shifts of wind and flareups throughout the day. Jessica flores is at the atlas fire with the spread from napa to Solano County but we begin with jackie ward in santa rosa. Reporter this situation is constantly changing. We are on Bennett Mountain road and we were coming from santa rosa trying to get over to glen ellen. But we were met by several road. So we are here at Sonoma Mountain road. Behind me is the ridge thats highway 12. The flames were intense. You can see the glow coming from them. But now the air is still just an hour later and those flames have gone down from what we can tell right here. However, they are still on the move. They are heading southeast towards a little area in Sonoma County called glen ellen. This is a place that has a population of less than 800 people according to the 2
Border. Jackie ward is live near the area right now. Jackie. Reporter were on Bennett Mountain road and this is as far as we could get on the way to glen ellen right now. We got stopped at sonoma Mountain Road because of road closures. I just spoke to cal fire. They have a station just down street here. Firefighters have been at this now four days straight without any sleep. And right now, behind me, it looks like a black hole but up on the ridge, thats highway 12. And when we got here earlier, could you see how intense the flames were. Right now, that fire is moving southeast towards glen ellen and they have already had a tremendously terrible time with this fire. Chopper 5 got some amazing video of homes being destroyed one after the other. This was we also got access to cavedale road. Its a narrow single lane and you can see the magnitude of the fire as it took down everything in its path. Some people said this is a terrible time. [ pause ] reporter right now, glen ellen has some ma
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
In and i i am praying for them. Reporter he received the purple heart award in 2015 after lewintankel was hurt on the job while trying to protect others. We also learned that he recently started law school. He is a volunteer in the tenderloin. Clearly a well liked and respected officer in the department. Officers have been stopping by to offer support. We also understand that his family is asking for two things. They want privacy and they are also asking for prayers. They say he is a survivor. They want him to get through this. They have faith he can but they are asking for prayers. We are set to receive an update from the police chief in 1 minutes. Well be here to cover it and bring you any updates that we get. Are you getting a sense of the update, is it about the version the officers condition . Reporter we dont know. The chief is going to be coming out and giving us an update around 5 15. Other than that, well wait to see what comes out of that update. As you said, well carry that
As well. This pattern looks like it will be here for a while. I just call it as i see it. I dont favor anything over another. But it looks like seven to ten days we are going into a cool pattern for may. The wind has just been flying out towards the delta. So that means cooler weather out to sacramento and probably sacramento, San Joaquin Valley. 50s on the temps. A couple of upper 40s as well. The clouds will get chewed up tomorrow because of the cold air coming in. Impressive low spinning in the four corners. That is getting knocked out by the next system. This will give us an unseasonably cool pattern into the weekend. 60s, 70s. 7 01, sal. Sal, the traffic is doing what . It is slowing down, steve. Okay. We are seeing more slow traffic in the south bay. Just a few moments ago if you have been with us for the last 20 minutes, 280 was light. Now that is changing. 280 is now slow. That is near bird avenue downtown san jose. It is beginning to slow down. It is slow also getting up to hi