Calistoga is very quiet right now. The entire city has been evacuated. I am at the motor lodge along lincoln avenue and behind me, we have watched glowing fires disappear, looking east near the silverado trail. Hopefully, that is some good news. We are waiting for the latest from cal fire once the sun comes up. However the weather conditions are pretty good for firefighting. It is a lot cooler compared to yesterday. Not a lot of wind to speak of but the official count is 113 structures destroyed and that number could go up as firefighters explore the areas that have already burned. By the afternoon, the entire city population of calistoga, 5300, was being evacuated. The fire had crested the hill where they are. People had to evacuate immediately. We got back to the house a couple weeks ago and we were evacuated for 17 days and there we go again. It is dad. Those evacuation orders are in effect in napa and sonoma encompassing about 70,000 people. No idea when they will be able to return
He leaves behind his wife and two young children. He is the son of a retired firefighter. He started the Fire Department since 2007. He was most recently assigned to station three in the tenderloin the busiest in San Francisco. This is a very trying time as jason was wellliked in our department. Reporter the San Francisco Firefighters Union said our hearts go out to his family and loved ones especially his two young children. Firefighters mourn the loss of our brother and we are committed to doing everything in our power to support the cortez family in the days months and years to come. This is the first onduty depth of the San Francisco Fire Department since 2017 when the battalion chief died in his office after returning from a call. In 2011 two firefighters died after a house fire. Todays death will be investigated by cal osha. Was this the kind of training that just happens every year for firefighters . Cortez was obviously an experience firefighter. Is this something they train in
Theres a red flag warning so we have to watch out for more fires threats as we go through the weekend more bad air in the bay area and were looking at more damage the entire city of calistoga has been evacuated calistoga still okay but everybody had to get out your kron fours will tran has been driving around there for us this morning giving us boots on the ground, a first person perspective and will what are you seeing this morning. I see the flames are right behind the same house that ive been showing you since 5 oclock in the morning. We have a location the firefighters tell me this is tucker road off a highway 29 about a mile from calistoga so this is your home. It is fine for now they have dozens of firefighters and i just stepped out you can clearly see there your backyard. Right now theyre actually laying down some Fire Fighting fire with fire creating a line and how hunting is this james and darya theyre saying right now the fire is playing nice so theyre keeping a close eye on
Much tougher for them so you can see theres a canister in his hand right there theyve been setting fires along this hillside and heres what theyre doing its genius they actually started at the top of the hill and started walking down the hill closer to the home meanwhile they were just doing it keeping a close eye in case it erupted they have their hoses on the ground ready to go. Let me show you give you an education on firefighting because he was giving me an education yulia sevens and i look at how the fire burned itself out you can see the smoke right there, theyre saying thats because the humidity level is high so they set it on fire. They watch it and then it burns itself out, but he had they done at noon it would not have burned itself out and therefore could have gotten closer. So the home, so thats why they do a lot of heavy lifting with the humidity level is up and the overnight hours. You can see just how smoky the conditions are embers flying everywhere. Trees are falling d
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