Is up the hill west of napa valley. The fog visual all day long. The stag gert family is its been an emotional roller coaster because you dont know who is getting hit with the fire next. Reporter theyre 7 oacre lot includes a winery, they moved out all their furniture and art work. They hired three water trucks to wet down the perimeter. They have a lookout staged on highway 29 and bought a pump for their pools. We called our Insurance Company and they sent out private Fire Departments. Private. Private. A lot of people dont know theyre here but they are. A lot of guy says theres a watch on 300 houses. We have had people staying here all week but we dont know if its safe for them anymore. Reporter along this stretch of highway 329 the heart of napa valley, six choppers. Zip back and forth between reservoirs and the burning ridgeline bufferining water all day long. Along the oakville grade, an army of fire views and Contract Company waiting for their marching orders. Theyll send us up to fine trees they know are going to be a problem. At this point were getting our saws ready. Reporter many tasting rooms are closed. Employees watch from the patio where customers usually enjoy sipping wine. There are no evacuation orders so these oakville wineries are safe for now. So still a smoky haze in the air here. The wineries as you can see behind me in that smoke. The fire is just up above the vineyards on the ridge top. Firefighters successfully holding the line there today and keeping that fire from spreading down into the valley. Reporting live im lesley brinkley, abc 7 news. Thats the same area where a contract worker on the fire lines died today when his water tinder crashed. The guard tweeted this picture an hour ago showing members saluting that man as his body is driven by. Laura anthony explains what happened. My hearts go out to obviously the family and the friends that are impacted by this. It has an impact on all of us. Reporter the death of a private contractor, water tinder driver marks the first fatality of the crews working on the front lines. The driver of this truck killed this morning after the rig was overturned. Well be looking at evidence on the road, fire friction marks, gas marks. Were going to take a look at how far it went down the hill. Reporter the cab landed upside down on the hill. By midday a coronersoronersos arrived to remove the body described only as a male. These parts have been a key part embedded with firefighters right up at the front lines. Its a critical piece of component in the Fire Department operation. We rely on these type of equipment to be able to have water up in these areas for firefighters to build their inn engines. Reporter the drivers are all trained before theyre called upon. Based on the look of there rig it drove from red bluff to help with the nearby fire fights. In santa rosa crews there are continuing the recovery efforts. This is video from the pine bluff home where you can see crews sifting through debris searching for victims. Evacuations wont be lifted in the areas until they can conduct a thorough search. Weather condition today are helping the crews a bit. Meteorologist anchor spencer here with the details. Winds which is light except for gust around 11 miles per hour. The wind is calmer than it has been and we have rain on the way. 50 chance of rain on thursday. 30 chance on friday. The system ranks one on the impact storm scale. It will bring much needed rainfall and the north bay could receive up to of rain. More on the forecast. That is nice to hear. The painful journey home has become evident for some people who return home and find debris and nothing else. The threat there is over today, the damage is done. Abc 7 News Reporter wayne freedmon live in kenwood with that story. Reporter all kind of stories out here. Lets begin with highway 12 through kenwood. Right now its busy, its been pretty much empty all day. This is the road people will use to find their homes in wenwood, oak about what ti oakmont and other areas. Every person we talk to has a story, a little drama, where do you start . In the north bay this counted as progress on day eight. Just smoke not flames. The Fire Fighting one of many battle ranges today. Heres another, the counter intuitive battle to return home through the accident scescene o. Been here every day to get through. Reporter lois wants to get down route 12. Evacuations lifted but debris is still down. Were trying to do for others as we can. Thats melissa and her husband austin filling buckets of water for neighborhood pets and animals that survivor the inferno. If youre wondering, yes, their home looks like this. Whose helping you . My husband. Reporter and whose helping your husband . Me. Reporter whose helping the two of you . God. Reporter person after person they keep coming. And its nothing new for lois dickerson. This is the second home shes had that has burned. In wenwood, abc 7 news. 7 news. 7 Sonoma County say they are confident in the progress firefighters are making. More evacuation orders and advisories are being lifted. Officials say if your house is in a burn area it could be days or weeks before you could get back in. We do have areas out there that are still evacuated. As soon as we can mitigate the threats of that but putting good control on these fires and making sure were not putting people back into their homes and having to pull them back out the next day is illuminated. The Sonoma County death toll stands at 23 and 80 people still listed as missing. The sheriff warn the death tolls could increase. North bay firefighters are heroes along with deputies, officers and orr First Responders of course, who rushed in. Some of them are victims too. Abc 7 News Reporter david luey introduces you to one of them whose dealing with a real twist of fate. Accepting help with the job is normally to extend help. Reporter the tables have turned after his familys fourbedroom road burned to the ground. Everything was incinerated. Theres fog to salvage. Ive been through here, my home, its unbelievable. Reporter more than 40 First Responders are if the same situation. Imagine being on the fire lines when your own family youre engaged in rescuing people, meanwhile your family is calling you for help. We know thats a stretch for our people. Reporter so the Fire Department is stepping up, offering financial help. My first instinct is to push it away and so, no i got this, we can handle this, were good. I have to allow people to help me. Its the first time ive been put in that position. Reporter the temperature reached 1500 degrees and it melted everything except for a plate and bowl that was in the dishwasher and a cell phone. Its extremely humbling but also its uplifting because i have so many people reaching out. Firefighters arent used to disengaging with their victims when their job is dont. With images like this etched in their mind theyre not going to forget this disaster for the rest of their lives. In santa rosa, david luey, abc 7 news. Amazing damage, terrible to see. Donations needed for firefighters who lost homes. A fund raising web page has been set up to help. 100 of the money goes to the family of affected firefighters. We have a link to the website at abc7news. Com. Strange position for them suddenly to be in. Needing help instead of giving help. Another family comes forward to share their story of rescuing 58 residence from a burning assist assisted living facility in santa rosa. Youll hear from a worker of that facility who say when he asked senior Staff Members if there was an evacuation plan, he got no response. A if you encounter a downed power line, you need to stay away from it. 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An employee we spoke with described chaos, attempting to evacuate hundreds of residence from this facility. This is a video to show you of villa capris burning to the ground thursday night. A couple arrived at 2 00 a. M. To check on his mother. They say it was dark and no back up generator running. They say they asked three care givers who they met on site if there was an evacuation plan and they say they were told, no. A Maintenance Worker who was over in the Main Building tell abc 7 news, employees on duty did not have the combination to a lock box to access keys to buses and vehicles that could have been used to evacuate residence. He also said a senior employee told him to turn off the initial smoke alarm that sounded at about 12 30 a. M. Abc 7 news asked that worker if there was an evacuation plan. I wasnt taught it if they do. In fact, i brought it up that night when one gentleman came in, he showed the fire we got back in the building, i brought up twice and i said whats your evacuation plan. I got no response. There was no commander and chief, no one in charge that could delegate so wed all know what was going on. This Oakmont Senior Living write quote, all of our communities have evacuation plans. We have three back up generators onsite. We were unable to areefer every where you know of our vehicles due to the zanger. And a smoke alarm was silent at 12 30 p. M. When the the fire wasnt posing any danger. Coming up youll see how a woman says they broke through a glass at villa capris after they got look locked out from rescuing the 58 residence. Youll hear from the Maintenance Worker as well as an attorney who filed a suit against this Retirement Living last month. This melanie thanks very much. You may notice a knew tool abc 7 is news to get an upclose look at the fires. Check this out on sky 7 showing a video of santa rosa. Abc 7 News ReporterJonathan Bloom has a look at how it works. Were here at sky 7 where were using a new feature called sky map 7 as we take a look at what was scorched and what survived. Lets take a look at some of the images here. These are images from sky 7 with map data overlayed on top of them. You can see u. S. 101 and restaurants that have been destroyed. We can overlay place names on those restaurants so we can see what they were. Apple bees, mcdonalds, arbys totally destroyed. If we look up here we can see the giant kmart store that was completely gutted by those flames. This is a tool we started using a month ago and its a tool that has proven more useful than we expected in providing answers to some of the difficult questions in this fire. A neighborhood like coffee park over here, this is a neighborhood that was completely decimated by the flames. We can slow you what this neighborhood used to look like using a google earth overlay. This neighborhood was houses, trees and sidewalks. If we take that overlay away you can see whats left behind. Absolute, heart breaking destruction. This is technology that was initially only available to members of the Law Enforcement community, we hear at abc 7 news are the first station to use it. It has proven useful in getting some of this information out to members of the community who are wondering what happened to their homes after this devastating wild fires, especially some of the area that is remain evacuated even after some of the flames ripped through them. Well continue to use this technology so we can keep you updated in the wake of these fires. Jonathan bloom, abc 7 news. It is mind blowing the technology these days. Really happy to bring that to people. And were happy to talk about a change in the forecast favorable for the firefighters. Spencer christian standing by with rain in the forecast. Thats true, deion. Then cooler air, humid air coming our way and cleaner air i might add. We have high clouds across the bay area, clouds are bright as we approach a sunset. Let me give you a live look at conditions from the tower over San Francisco. You can see the lingering high clouds. 79 degrees in San Francisco, warm for this hour. 75, upper 70s in san jose. 64 at half moon bay. Check out this sunset from our emoryville camera. 81 in san jose. 79 at liver more. Were showing this sunset to you from another angle, the east bay hills camera. Breezy conditions with showers beginning late thursday, continuing into early friday. Of course improved air quality and a lower fire risks. Over night well continue to see haze in the north bay and high clouds elsewhere. Low temperatures in the Morning Hours will range to upper 40s to low 50s in the bay area. Tomorrow, high clouds. Lower 70s around the bay, inland, 80s for the most part. Wednesday, well see increase in the winds on the coast. It will be coming offshore, a flow of bringing us cooler marine air, higher humidity and lower fire risk. Into thursday morning, wind increase will occur, head over advance funnel system that will bring us rainfall later in the week. It ranks one on a storm impact scale starting late thursday going into early friday. Most of bay area will see light showers, the north bay will see a little rain in the system. Starting thursday night about 11 00 well see rain moving into the north bay, spreading i understood land further south, and taper off. There could be snow over in the central sierra. In the bay area were expecting generally under a tenth of an inch. In the north north north north h much needed rainfall. Tomorrow will be another warm day but light win with slightly cooler conditions than we had today. Much cooler wednesday, thursday and friday will feel more like fall. Clearing skies over the weekend and warming up again next monday. Youre making a lot of people happy. I hope so. Fear is returning to relief tonight for residence in the fire zone of lake county. A fire burning there has destroyed two San FranciscoPolice Officers recovering tonight after a driver slammed into their patrol car. Abc 7 news ft in the sunset district after a bm w pair meskds took the bm w driver to the hospital. Theyre also suspected to survive. The traffic unit is trying to figure out who was at fault. State watchdogs turning up the pressure on wells fargo. The treasure announced hes extended sanctions against wells for another year. The penalty began after a bank admitted to opening millions of new accounts without their customers knowledge. Chong says hes concerned about reports of over questionable practices at wells fargo and wants more cooperation from management. Throughout this series of scandals wells fargo has been evasive in responding to inquiries of customers, congressional and state lawmakers and may office. The Treasurers Office will not investigate in wells fargo or use the bank as a we are learning of a death that may be related to smoke from the wildfires. Well hear from a family of a 27yearold santa rosa man who died yesterday. A good hug. And the power of positivity for fire survivors, how the little thing mean so much. And a team effort to fight the firefighters a look at the many state by living off the grid. Completely. Or. Set the washing machine to cold. Do your thing. Energy upgrade california. With the Alaska Airlines visa signature card you get a companion ticket every year. So why not take someone that you see all the time. Someone like, i dunno, me . I mean i always spell your name right and put a little unicorn in your foam. No pressure but i really need to get out of here. Theyve been playing the same playlist for three months and im pretty sure youre not supposed to eat scones for dinner this many days in a row. Mexico, hawaii, costa rica, i dont really know. Im a quick packer. We start this half hour with new updates for thefire lines. More evacuations lifted. Napa county on Wooden Valley road and on mont sell low road. And in santa rosa. Evacuations were also lifted in mendocino, lake and napa counties. Many cities have still in the dark because of fires and damaged equipment. 15,000 without natural gas. Utilities working with the firefighters to get the lights turned back on and the gas hopefully by tomorrow night. Do not relight your own pilot lights wait for pge to do that for you. Some districts plan to reopen tomorrow including petaluma schools. Four u. S. Post offices in Sonoma County that have closed because of the fires will be back open for full service tomorrow. Three still remain closed. Sonoma county says 80 people still reported missing. The fatality state wide is up to 42. New at 6 00 tonight a reaction to a tragedy, the family of a santa rosa man says he suffered a deadly asthma attack from the smoke from the wildfires. 27yearold josh huff ner was taken off life support. His sister says he had an asthma attack on monday and wen to cardiac arrest. He was a registered he may have a chance to save a 1yearold right now and that makes us happy. Happener leaves behind a 5yearold son. A gofundme page set up by Family Friends has raised 1,100 for funeral expenses. Petaluma Police Arrested katy leonard as part of a check fraud investigation. Police do believe the items were taken