Containment 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to this wildfire in parts of Sonoma County napa county they are under Evacuation Orders tonight. Including what we have been told us the entire city of calistoga so certainly if you need to leave that area, the open evacuation routes include route 29 south and north along with one 28 north for more on the Evacuation Orders for sonoma and napa counties were joined by kron fours Jonathan Mccall johnson, the largest of those evacuations 68,000 ordered so far for folks in Sonoma County want to show you the map of where things stand right with those Evacuation Orders you can just in the last few hours from when we last saw you for kron 4 news at 6 oclock weve seen. Evacuation warnings now being closer to an area near santa rosa weve been talking with cal fire officials all day long and theyve been saying that those flames have been creeping closer to santa rosa. Throughout the but what we were saying earlier is that the enti
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In the glass fire, 2,500 acres burned so far. The night sky in the north bay lit by an ar roing glow. Flames tearing through the rugged terrain. Conditions are extremely dry. The winds continue to fan the flames. Thousands of people under evacuation orders in napa and sonoma. Lets bring in rob now who is tracking everything for us. Rob . At the very latest, very challenging conditions. What is unique about the situation tonight is this area has not burned, considering its a narrow wedge between the tub fire and the nunn fire. Lets show you the conditions again. Somewhat dry as you see. Numbers in the 90s still with some gusty winds at times, up to 25 miles an hour. Humidity down to about 15 . And you can see the area. It is beginning to impact there. This is the urban wild fire interface as we sometimes refer to there. These blue areas are structures in the populated areas. You can see the shady fire in that zone of unburned terrain to the southeast of the tub fire and to the north of
Burned so far. The night sky in the north bay lit by an ar roing glow. Flames tearing through the rugged terrain. Conditions are extremely dry. The winds continue to fan the flames. Thousands of people under evacuation orders in napa and sonoma. Lets bring in rob now who is tracking everything for us. Rob . At the very latest, very challenging conditions. What is unique about the situation tonight is this area has not burned, considering its a narrow wedge between the tub fire and the nunn fire. Lets show you the conditions again. Somewhat dry as you see. Numbers in the 90s still with some gusty winds at times, up to 25 miles an hour. Humidity down to about 15 . And you can see the area. It is beginning to impact there. This is the urban wild fire interface as we sometimes refer to there. These blue areas are structures in the populated areas. You can see the shady fire in that zone of unburned terrain to the southeast of the tub fire and to the north of the none fire burn scar from a
Coverage. We are on highway 128. The fire is behind us, about 20 minutes behind us. We had to come out just to file this report for you. This has been an unusual report. Lets begin with more video from sky 7. Its not off that firefighters know how and when a blaze starts, but theres not much doubt about this one. About 6 30 this morning, 20 different lightning strikes. One person told me the big one shook the ground. He said it sounded like an explosion and saw flames almost immediately. Its burning in steep terrain. By 10 00 a. M. , they begun evacuating residents. Cal fire reports by 2 30, 70 acres had been burned. Now over a thousand acres have been burned. The lucky part right now at least, is the wind is down. That said, we still dont know how many structures have burned, if any. We do know that some are threatened. There was one house we looked at high up a steep road. Flames on the hillside moving in. Cal fire had moved in. We left at that point, but cal fire was going to try to