Where is your family home at . From the fire just around zero but maybe one mile from here. What did you see . I was sleeping my brother woke me up at 10 34 so i walked outside and we had a fire about 12 years ago but it was brighter and hotter than this. I just went and packed up my stuff. Outside, it looks like you were at a concert with a red ambience light just huge orange lighting. So you were hiking toward the fire . First of all why and what did you see . I like to take photos and videos so i thought it would be nice to get this perspective. So i hiked up about two miles and the fire was raging along the northridge so i took photos and videos but the wind was blowing down the ridge and all of a sudden the wind changed. So we heard the wind was blowing really hard. Yesterday earlier in the day we were talking about this was probably the windiest day. Reporter how bad was the fire across the ridge line . It was all the way from the base of the houses two miles to the top of the peak. So you know neighbors have lost their homes . Yes, when i got to the top of the trail i saw the first home being burned and i had just been there with a friend. Me and my friend had to get out of there. So i hiked on the opposite side more south of the risk trying to take videos. So you dont know the condition your home is in . When i left it was raining hot embers in our yard and the house up the street from hours is on fire. Reporter what street are you one . It is Pinnacle Peak off of the westgate. From what i saw all of the homes at the top of the highlands are gone. All of the homes at westgate and pinnacle are gone and the fire transferred to burning tree. It is now across monticello all the way across the whole ridge. I saw tractors going up wild horse. How are you doing in spite of all of this . My family got out. From the time my brother want us we got clothing and basic personal belongings. My brother and i went back because he stayed at the house when i went for the hike and when i came back the last 10 minutes i was running past embers and fire. When i got to the house my brother was ready and we left. So i literally ran away from the fire and went to the house. You can see it down the hill across the ridge. I was 1 1 2 miles up the hill and i can run a mile in six minutes and i was running downhill and this was out running me. Very scary. Reporter well, i am glad you are okay. Not sure if his home is okay but he saw lot of his neighbors homes go up in flames as of this fire. A lot of people in this area in a state of anxiety. Not certain what happened to the property. We have seen people stopping at this intersection just to kind of look at this ominous orange glow and the fire behind us. Allie rasmus that is a good graphic description of him saying that he saw houses being burned. Thank you for the update. We are on top of breaking news from the north bay at least six serious wildfires are burning. Strong wind is pushing the flames through very dry grass across napa and Sonoma County. One of the fire started before 10 00 at atlas peak. Cal fire says they have no containment of that fire. Each of the fires may have burned 1000 acres or more. Very strong wind with low humidity making this a dangerous situation. During the night cal fire says they are focusing on saving lives not fighting fires. At this point our priority is to get people out. We are forcing evacuations. They are coordinating efforts with chp to use helicopters to evacuate people from their property on the hillsides and get them to the evacuation shelters. September and october are peak fire seasons. The National Weather service issued a red flag fire warning that runs until tomorrow. Fire crews are very busy with dozens of fires burning across the state. The strike team is being sent from fire to fire. There are several Evacuation Centers set up in napa. There is one across from walk church which has been filled but there are other centers. There is a center at the fairgrounds at north oak street. Another center has been opened at the nappy Valley College jim. There are some in Sonoma County including the Community Center and the high school gym. You will find a relief shelter at the cloverdale citrus fairgrounds and Sonoma County high school. We were watching live the journeys End Mobile Home Park in santa rosa destroyed by this fire. This is close to Kaiser Permanente hospital. We found out this morning the tubbs fire has grown to 20,000 acres. Leigh martinez has moved to now. You have moved away from one of the Evacuation Centers. Yes, we are off of dry creek road and linda vista avenue. Over the horizon is i dont know if you can see the orange flames on the hillside. Counted five spots where you can buy from the ridge. Very smoky and there are a couple of hot lots of the fire looks to be exploding on one portion of the ridge. Crossing over highway 29 headed toward the lake that is what you are looking at this bridge is on fire and several different slots at least four spots the smoke is very heavy, it is very windy to recap where we were, we were at the Community Church and there is evacuation there but it felt up a chaplain there were 350 people by 5 00 in the morning they opened at 11 00 several people were forced evacuees and others were just concerned with the fire being so close to their homes so they felt more comfortable packing up their belongings and going to the Evacuation Center to wait and see what was going on and to get the news from there. There will be another Evacuation Center at Napa Valley Community college. Also, the napa county fairgrounds is also an Evacuation Center. People wanted to grab Important Documents photographs and hard drives. They know that their kid do not have one of the men worked at the wineries he said he does not have work as to if he has to report to work. The last that he heard the winery lost our power. So they are waiting until sunrise and then it will have the information if they can go back to their homes or if they need to make other plans with local family. There are also people visiting from michigan and they asked is the vacation over . I dont know what to tell you. They wanted to check out the wineries and now they are at the Evacuation Center. So, the air quality we were talking earlier it is hard to breathe . Reporter it is still very strong. It is not as heavy as it was before because we experienced a lot of wind. It is very windy. Is a little cool this morning i dont know if that is helping. We have placed more phone calls into cal fire to find out the latest conditions are. We spoke with cal fire in sacramento but they are reporting to the nasa team. It is kind of spotty in certain areas with cell phone reception. Im not sure if my calls are getting through. You mentioned some people brought their pets to shelters what about those with large animals . Reporter the last that i heard about large livestock, people are taking them to the fairgrounds. There was large animals at the Community Church. Several people decided to stay in their cars in the parking lot because there were so many people. They felt they needed more privacy. Some people were just Walking Around because they had nothing else to do, they had no word if they should report to work and very early in the morning plus with the Cell Phone Service being spotty a lot of people dont have power. There kind of waiting it out. We just lost her. Leigh martinez we will get back to you. Tens of thousands of people in the north bay had to evacuate as crews are scrambling to control several fires. This is in napa mendocino and lake county. There is a fire on canyon road in mendocino. This one is the Redwood Valley fire with the redwood complex fire. In clearlake though sulfur fire as triggered evacuations near Clearlake Oaks. There is a fire on puerto rico road near calistoga. The tubbs fire has burned more than 20,000 acres further south there is also a fire near cirrus point. In napa county there is the atlas fire near atlas peak road and silverado. Overnight 50 miles south of these fires we woke up three times to hear the whipping wind with free. We have seen the wind calm down a little bit. Just a little bit. The wind has improved a little bit but it looks like the santa rosa fire is headed southeast toward rohnert park. Thank you for your information everybody. Christin says rohnert park two areas are being evacuated. Lets hope that things calm down a little bit because of the fire. Maybe it has lost a little bit because the wind is tailing off. Philip price says i wish that was the sun that it is all the smoke and fire. I dont care where you are if you smell smoke close up the house because this is really thick. People are smelling smoke everywhere into san jose and santa clara as well. It looks like the wind has turned a little bit for some. I know that the sulfur fire in the Clearlake Oaks area is a major fire as well in Mendocino County and Potter Valley. It looks like northeast at lake county they have winds at 30 Miles Per Hour. The east is there but humidity is extremely low. Lakeport at 37 containment. Cloverdale you have the east wind at 30 containment. Napa county at 25 containment. Almost 70 degrees with the northwest wind. American can turning southeast 53 humidity so it is amazingly dry. With that fairfield gusting up to 30. Santa rosa has come down. Petaluma southwest wind and there is a little bit of a variable with the wind direction in santa rosa. It is not all north or northeast. 50s and 60s for your temperatures. I think some of these sites have been lost the red flag warning until tomorrow morning at 5 00. The wind will be tailing off until 11 00 and i think it will verify because after the noon hour it should calm down. Things should improve at the surface eventually, smoking and windy conditions from this system that went to the internet you can see this in nevada and salt lake city. The good news is we have another system coming and it will be much cooler arriving wednesday or thursday. 60s and 50s for most people. Lakeport at 48 so we have a few signs of a westerly breeze for some but it is mostly north. Napa airport 20 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago because of the northwind. East at sfo that is not very common. It is howling out to the delta. Davis 25, vacaville gusting up to 44. Fairfield there is no fog just smoke and haze. This system already this is the one that caused the wind today it is all about sunshine and smoky hazy conditions, breezy and windy at times but decreasing breeze throughout the day. Tomorrow not as bad and then cooling begins wednesday. I have some news about highway 37. They are thinking about reopening. Highway 37 is being reopened now eastbound only. Westbound is closed but eastbound is going to be reopened headed away from vallejo. We have some other slow traffic in the area. Highway 101 in the north part of santa rosa is closed between river road and shiloh. A lot of slow traffic on the 101 from santa rosa all the way into novato because of the normal commute plus a lot of people are leaving the area and Emergency Vehicles. This is a good area to avoid as we move toward napa county we have a lot of closures at highway 121 and highway 12 as well. A lot of these freeways and highways are close so please take off the roads. Help chp get those Emergency Vehicles in and out of the area by staying off the roads unless it is not necessary. We have been looking at the region might affect people not being able to use 37 they have been on 80 and it has been busy from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze and a lot of people are using the Richmond Bridge. Highway 24 is slow through lafayette over to where the tunnel and at the bay bridge it is looking better as the smoke is not as thick as it was earlier. So far the south bay commute is relatively quiet. We will check more on that coming to. Lets get back to the desk. Firefighters are helping crews across the bay area. Last night san rafael and other county fire crews announced they will send crews. Alameda and contra costa announced today they are sending crews. Many more crews are expected to follow. A quick piece of information in rohnert park, there are mandatory evacuations in parts of rohnert park. That is just a heads up to you there. Our coverage of the wildfires will continue throughout mornings on 2, we will have more live coverage coming up. The sun is up and we are getting a better look at what the fire has left behind. We will have evacuation updates and where you need to go. Its time for our fall sale on the only bed that adjusts on your sleep number setting. Omfort does your bed do that . And right now queen sleep number beds start at just 699. Save 200. With free Home Delivery on select beds only during our fall sale. Ends monday. Welcome back to mornings on 2, cal fire and local Fire Departments are battling several fires in napa and Sonoma County. There are mandatory evacuations for several areas including the Silverado Country Club area. Evacuation centers are set up in napa, sonoma and lake counties jake. With schools across the area closed today. Fire crews from all over the bay area are coming to help battle the flames. We have been told there have been injuries related to the fires but we do not have details to pass along it. We have been bringing in live reports from alex savidge in Sonoma County at the journeys End Mobile Home Park which is on fire. People have been evacuated from the park and we spoke live minutes ago with a cal fire firefighter who called the fire explosive growth overnight. It started at 200 acres last night and the latest estimate was 20,000 acres and growing with zero containment on the fire burning in Sonoma County. The cal fire firefighter says we are still saving lives so at this point it is people over property and it will always be that way. Certainly it is urgent potentially deadly situation in the north bay with a number of large fires but it is always going to be people over property. All hands are on deck so if you have not received a phone call or a knock on your door to evacuate but you think you might have to, if you feel in danger than get out. It is not the time to wait for someone to tell you to leave. It is better to be early rather than late. Again, these are live pictures of the Mobile Home Park. It is too early to tell you how many structures have burned but we do know that some people have been injured in the fire in Sonoma County. Lets talk about the school closures. A number of north Bay School Districts have enclosed. Napa valley, santa rosa, petaluma and im guessing there will be more district officials making that decision. If you have to leave us on the air you can take this with you in the form of the ktvu mobile app and all of our reporters are tweeting out information as we get it. Ultimately we are trying to keep you safe. We want to go back to alex savidge in santa rosa. You have been busy and these pictures behind you so give us an update. Good morning, it is not good news at the orchards community. This is a community on piner road and marlowe. I have one of the neighbors giving an update on where we are. This is the scene in santa rosa. Unbelievable devastation. You can see this in the orchards neighborhood. There are many many homes on fire. I was speaking with one of the neighbors how many homes . Probably 60 homes. Reporter do you know your home . We are okay. We got a break. But the wind can shift. Currently we are in good shape but it is a disaster. I have never seen anything like this. Reporter take me through overnight and this morning. My neighbor called me at 2 15 and said there is a big fire going on. So i came out and they were coming across with the wind blowing in your the area. I left and took my wife down 2 1 2 miles and i dropped her off and walked back. So this is it. Reporter unbelievable. Do you think that everybody got out safely . I would hope so but there are elderly people here. So i went knocking on the doors but you can only hope. It came on quick. Reporter how fast did the whole block go up . The first house went up at about 2 30. And then we left and when i came back in a few hours all of this was totaled. They are burnt right to the ground. Reporter we hope that everybody had enough warning. There are about half a dozen fire trucks and they have done their job saving me and all of those on that side. But the wind switched on the side. We will guess this is the result of one of those spot fires. How far would you say we are from highway 101 . We are west of highway 101 and you can see over here this is a separate fire. This is one Community Called the orchards. According to neighbors there are dozens of homes that have been destroyed. Looking east over this back wall there is another neighborhood that is on fire right now. Those are the Railroad Tracks. So you can imagine, we are pretty far from highway 101. We are pretty far west about two miles or so so you can imagine the fire came in and you had the incredibly strong wind and it took the big members and drop them into the neighborhoods like this one where we have the huge fires. We have fire crews here but you can imagine there is not a lot that they can do to try to save homes like this. Theyre going to stand by and protect these homes. The man there said he was going door to door as a neighborhood leader so per