E is for everyone. Hows it going down there . Thats good. Lica misses you. Im over it though. laughter thats fine. I miss her more than you anyway. Hey, my window is closing. Yeah thats okay. Alright miles. I love you. phone hangs up yeah i love you too. The fire danger is far from over, as the firefighters give us a heartbreaking look at the inferno that they saw. Good evening, it is now been six days since the north bay fire broke out and tonight, firefighters are hoping calm winds will help them gain the upper hand. The death toll rose to 40 and searchers fear are climbing as they are finding victims buried in the buildings. Santa rosas hospital is expected to reopen. Flames approaching the hospital forced it to evacuate early monday morning. A big concern through the Evening Centers around the nonefires that merged in to one. The fire is 15 contained. We have more on the fight tonight. Reporter yes, we are in the downtown plaza, its quiet behind me, everything is closed. The light that you are seeing is coming from our equipment this evening. Heres a look at one neighborhood near a winery. The oldest one. One of the oldest in sonoma. We found a deserted neighborhood with sprinklers going off on the top of a home. The homeowners appeared to have left, but left the sprinklers on. Their defense against the threat. Ad we found an active fire burn engi ing in a grassy field near a home that appeared to be evacuated. We noticed a large stucco home sitting on the hill and below the fire and emergency officials blocked off roads in the area. Cal fire officials are putting in extra hours to try to contain this fire. The lower half, just above sonoma, the wind was blowing and it came in to the north end of sonoma there and the guys were taking action on that. It was headed around the corner and blew out again on another spot. They are actively on it, and its still working its way down toward the city. So, they are attacking the fire from all angles. Sky 7 shows a tanker dropping fire retardant from kenwood. You can see its quiet here. A few minutes ago, i did see a couple of fire trucks leave. Not sure where they are headed and as for traffic. Most of the people around here have left to eEvacuation Centers. The that is the lawsuit estimatestimat that is the latest. Lets check in with the meteorologist who is monitoring the wind conditions in sonoma and the rest of the north bay. The winds have been 20 miles an hour but it has calmed down. We will show you where the active fires are. The winds generally light. One exception in the hills between the tubs and fire and sulfer fire. The winds are gusting to 15 mile answer hour. Thats the exception and not the rule. The winds are light at this hour as well. Winds are light, could have a gust in the 13 or 14 miles an hour. But the winds will stay light to calm for the next 24 hours. We will have a red flag warning. The firefighters are worried that the fires would spread to other parts of the north bay. We will look at the air quality in the next comes days and we are tracking a chance for rain. We will have the details ahead in the forecast. Last night, we showed you the perspective of a sheriffs deputy evacuating people in santa rosa as the tubs fire destroyed homes. Tonight, we get another look from a firefighter on the front lines. This is video posted by the berkley fire department. Late sunday night, they made up the hour north to help the neighbors in the north bay. After driving past a kmart. They made their way to a subdivision, where hundreds of homes had already burned to the ground. The stunning scene of destruction looked like a war zone. From a First Responders camera,s that one firefighter called it the line of sorrow and thats where they made their stand. By late morning. They had stopped the fire from spreading further down the street saving about 30 homes. Sadly, one home they could not save in the neighborhood belonged to a berkley firefighter. They were forced to leave in the middle of the night with the clothes on their backs. The funds have been approaching their goal. The struggle continues for families. We have more on the efforts. Lisa . Eric, a little goes a long way. Thats what those in the community are learning tonight. By bringing things back to basics. By offering a hot cup of chocolate, or a laugh. Dont do the magic trick, okay, open up your hand. Reporter they were treated to an extra special show at the magic aal ice cream shop tonight. Evacuated families came in from the smokey air for a much needed break. After all, laughter is considered the best medicine. Because life has been far from easy with the families with young children. They are scared, they dont know where their kucousins and families and friends are going to go. Theres a renewed effort to bring normalcy back. At the rec center that is now a shelter, they want to stream the 49ers game on the big screen. You have a hot dog and chips and watching the 49ers. That can be not anything more than normal. Anything to keep the stress down, is a good thing. Finding your next meal is likely the last thing that anyone wants to think about. Thats why this volunteer is trying to get food boxes made for those not in shelters but that still need help. Like when they are waiting in long lines at the Assistance Center or while multiple families are displaced and living under one roof. Trying to feed everyone is really hard. What we are going to do tomorrow, we are going to open up a spot here where families can come and pick up food and produce bags and things like that to take home. And tomorrow, people can start picking up boxed meals over at francetti pizza, wood fire kitchen on dutton avenue, starting at noon. The Assistance Center opened up as a onestop shop for federal, state and local assistance to replace drivers licenses and getting housing. They help hadded 387 people today and will be open every day from 97 for the next two weeks and at one point the line stretched a block and a half and some say it was worth the wait. The people here are absolutely outstanding. They are helpful. Its amazing there and they walk you around and make sure you are set, make sure you have water and something to eat. You can register for help with fema there at the center. Or you can go online to disaster assistance. Gov, we have all the information on our website. And on our abc 7 news app. People living in the fire zone had a chance to hear from governor jerry brown and our two u. S. Senators in santa rosa today. Tiffany wilson was there. Reporter many of the people inside the townhall were weary with worry and numb. All i got out with was my kitten and dog. Reporter its been an emotional week. They moved to escape new evacuation wagz notices and now she wants to hear one thing. That we are all going to get help. Reporter today Governor Brown surveyed the destruction from helicopter and on foot. He told the crowd, help will arrive. He was met with applause, but his optimistic statement did not satisfy everyone. Mny want to know specifics like where do you get your mail . How do you get permits to rebuild . And what do you need to get a new drivers license . If you go online, its like november before you can get an appointment at the dmv and im not sure what they are going to require in terms of being able to prove your identification. Reporter others had more perhaps impossible questions, like when will the fire start and the recovery begin . Thats the big question. And nobody knows. I just hope that between the politicians, our cities and all of these wonderful people, that, it will be soon. Make it happen. Reporter today, a small glimmer of good news in the acres of ash and rubl, firefighters were able to walk the coffee park neighborhood looking for hot spots. They tell me they did not find any. In santa rosa, tiffany wilson. Ab 7 news. Sky 7 was over sugar loaf ridge. We are able to pinpoint nearby streets and land marks. Here the fire is not far from mccormick lane and stern ranch road. This gives abc 7 news the ability to show the location of the fire and give you a better idea of where the fires are burning. Some people are now able to head home again while others received evacuation orders today. You are looking at the fire that forced people to leave the area on both sides of highway 12. Fairfield Police Tweeted the work going on inside the Emergency Operations center. Many can return to the homes after evacuation orders are lifted. We turned abc 7 news. Com as a resource of evacuation orders. Disclosed schools. Donation centers, wineries that burned and how you can help. More coverage on the north bay fires coming up. The concern tonight in santa rosa about the advancing nuns fire. And. All resources are being used right now. Nothing is coming. You guys are us. A napa man takes us to the front lines of his fourday battle to save dozens of homes from flames and a 9yearold shares his story of loss from the fires this week. Hear a heartbreaking letter to because everyone likes easy. Sure do. Because everyone is on the go. Because we all like to save energy, but sometimes we slip up. Reaching up. Shhh. Because sometimes we want it cool at night then toasty in the mornings. Introducing the easy to use, energy saving, adjustable from everywhere, easy on the wall and the eyes, nest thermostat e. E is for everyone. Back with the incredible tale of two napa men who have the entire community to save their homes. When cal fire wasity n itnot ab make it, they stepped up. Reporter the flames moved in fast and furious sunday night. And quickly began threatening homes. And two men jumped in to action. Nearly week later you can see the trees got scorched. Reporter he showed us where his battle began. Im reliving it as i watch the videos. Reporter the fight that night was against this fire. Their weapon buehle doll dozers. You dont have a lot of time to think, its stop it now or that neighborhood was going to go. Reporter as the heat and smoke intensified the cal fire officials shifted to life safety. With no help on the way, he and his boss stepped up to protect their community. Communicating by cell phone, as they use their bull dozers to dig the critical lines. We are looking, it goes down four miles it was all on fire at the same time. Reporter there were several close calls and adrenalin cooked in. What you dont notice by how looking at the line is how hot it was. Reporter how hot was it . Very hot, my hair was singed. They kept at it for four days. Dan, a former marine, learned to cut fire lines in the military. This is a difference a dozer makes thats why they use them. Reporter the winds are calmer but the fire danger is a concern. Dan is on alert. You can see where we stopped it. Reporter brown volley neighbors are thankful for dan and his bosss work to save this neighborhood. They have set up a go fund me to reburg them for their fuel. But they are refusing any kind of pay back. He said they will likely pay it forward and give the money away. His payback, seeing a Community Still standing, untouched by disasterous wildfires. If that equipment was not here, this line would not be here and the fire would have been in the neighborhood. Reporter abc 7 news. We have a look now with a nuns fire as it rapidly advanced this morning. Intense flames glowed against the night sky, we saw fire truck after fire truck going in to the fire zone. The wind gusts in that area, really drove the flames. Abc 7 news reporter, was along highway 12. Reporter in just a ten mile stretch you will see destruction burning hill sides and homes far enough away from danger. Im surprised that this is where it is. Kevin is staying behind inside an eevacuation zone. Concerned about a spot fire burning just east of him on highway 12. You have to do what you can. Dont want to just sit and watch it happen. . Sandwiched in the middle of the massive tubs and nuns fires. The nearly 200 acre burned forced mandatory eevacuations for the santa rosa area saturday morning. The winds came up and pushed the fire down the hill. Firefighters at first were scrambling to protect the homes of more than 3,000 evacuees but a heavy response is slowing the blaze and another ten minutes east, destruction from the enormous nuns fire. Firefighters believe that the nearby spot fire came from this direction. The only certainty for the First Responders the unpredictablity of the blazes. When the winds picked up, we were not sure which direction the fire was going to go. They checked in with family and friends and social media so they are not reported missing. On highway 12, veronica miracle. Abc 7 news. Take a look at all the item this is that were donated today to the north bay fire victims. You can see, a van and an suv packed full of items full of toiletries and bottled water and clothing. The ems staff loaded all the items up and drove them to the north bay today. Time for a look at the forecast. We know the winds were driving the fire last night. But they calmed down a bit today. And the good news, we will enter a stretch of whether we will have calm winds for the next several hours and days. Firefighters are certainly getting help from Mother Nature tonight and tomorrow as well. Live doppler seven with satellite, its a quiet picture and many of you were commenting early today, the air quality was better today than it was yesterday. This from nasa earlier today, the satellite picture showing you the smoke from the north bay fires was getting pushed off shore thanks to gusty winds that were running 2030 mile answer ho miles an hour. Outside of the north bay today, you had some pretty blue skies out there. However, the air quality will be changing overnight tonight. Right now though, live look outside. You see good visibility but typically from the shot, we should be able to see su the. Ro tower about here blinking. We are seeing a bit of haze reenter the picture over san francisco. Right now the air quality is the poorest in the north bay where the firs are active outside of the thorth bnorth bay. The winds are turning calm and what it will do, it will prevent a lot of the smoke from moving off shore overnight tonight and much of that smoke will settle right back in to the bay area. So, tomorrow, that air quality will fluctuate to moderate and poor, in the north bay, it will be unhealthy. The trend over the coming days is for the air quality to increase to good, from inland east bay to the south bay. And moderate everywhere else and then we will track a chance on rain on thursday. Out there right now, 62 in san francisco, we are down to 48 in santa rosa, and 49 and 62 in antioch and 48 degrees. The winds are cooperating for firefighters on the front lines in the north bay. They are generally calm in the north bay right now and elsewhere, across the region, generally, about less than ten Miles Per Hour at the hour. Future tracker winds will show you the next 24 hours. The winds are generally light by 7 00 tomorrow morning. Winds are away from the coast. Generally less than ten miles an hour. Thats the theme in to the afternoon on sunday. So, as we take a look at overnight tonight. Heres the call. We will have the haze over many of our cities overnight. 51 the overnight, and dropped to 50 in san jose, cool spots like Half Moon Bay and cloverdalelele will rebound quickly by the afternoon on sunday. It will be a warm fall day. And temperatures above normal for this time of the year from the coast to the bay and inland, you are going back in to the 80s. That is 11 degrees above normal and 82 in oakland and 88 hin jose. Then as we go in to mid week, we will track rain. The storm exact scale, we rank our storms from 15 and gives you a better idea of what to expect with each and every storm. And the rain we are tracking starting on thursday. Its a one, its a light system. It will bring higher humidity and theres a chance that some spots could see more than 3 4 of an inch of rain. Fast forward, watch the time stamp. Corner of the screen. 1 00 in the afternoon. The green on the screen is the rain entering the picture. The darker green are the heavier amounts of rain and by friday morning we will still track light showers moving through the region. And we will keep you updated on the forecast, you can download the accuweather app and track the rain coming your way in the parts of thursday and friday. Sevenday forecast, its warm and hazy tomorrow. Light winds through mid week and thursday and friday, wep we are watching for the rain starting and lasting in to friday morning. We will keep you updated on it, and it will be great news. I like hearing the sound of rain. Yeah. Thank you. Now, to a heartbreaking letter written by a 9yearold whose house burned down this week. He wrote to the oakland as, i love watching your games. I want to be an as player and i play at Mark West Little League and play baseball in the backyard all day, loving the as and making up my own game in my backyard, they won six world series in a row. But my house burned down in santa rosa and the saddest things are the baseball collection cars. The 17 jerseys and ten hats and my baseball from the game. And also a ball signed by the whole team, including Rickey Henderson and bob melvin. Im 9 years old and i had a Major League Baseball and it all burned up. So sad. I know you are not all together. But hope they get this. And lauren if you are out there tonight watching, we are working on it, and we will let you know when we hear back from the oakland as. All right, more sports. Knowing the as, they will make sure he gets some of that back. The alumni showing love to bryce love. He continues on the opposing including carpet and hardwood, tile, stone, even air ducts and window treatments. And your satisfaction is 100 guaranteed or your money back. Thats 35 off everything coit cleans. Call or click today. Thats 35 off everyhey grandpa. Leans. Hey, kid. Really good to see you. You too. You tell grandma you were going fishing again . Maybe. vo the best things in life keep going. Thats why i got a subaru, too. Introducing the allnew crosstrek. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. Now, abc 7 sports. Starts off, College Football, stanford and oregon, faced off and once again, bryce love led the way in a well rounded stanford victory. A jack rabbit on the field. More elusive than bryce love. Finally escorted out. Love scored on the first touchdown, and then finds a hole and he is gone. 49 yards. Finished with a 17 carries. A season low 147 yards on the night. 140, stanford after the ducks made it a one possession game. First of two tds. 217 after one quarter. Second quarter, special teams getting involved. Stanford blocked. Brandon simmons. Scoops and scores. And its 287 cardinal at the half. Third quarter. Bryce love. Short gain. Comes limping off the field. Injured his ankle, did not return and i