Counties. If there was any positive from this morning it is that the atlas fire did not appear to have grown overnight. Maybe just a few thousand acres but there is a lot of concern for folks who live in calistoga. All of them were told to evacuate and the same for downtown sonoma. I have friends in that area who have left their homes and are waiting word for if that fire is progressing. My friend tweeted me from sonoma he got out, he packed up his pickup truck with everything and they are gone. He says there is no one left. We just heard from cal fire some people are defying the orders to evacuate thinking they will stay and defend their homes but they are putting themselves in danger and theyre putting firefighters endanger. In danger. So at this point we have to understand it is about more than just you. If you are told to get out and get out. When that News Conference starts we will bring you their live. The cal fire chief says the situation will be getting worse before getting better. There are now 23 confirmed deaths from the fires and 180 people have been injured. More than 3500 buildings we are talking homes schools businesses damaged and destroyed. The fires of burn 265 square miles. Combined San Francisco and san jose and that is the amount of land. The biggest fires are burning moving toward each other and could merge into a huge fire. There are already 8000 firefighters on the lines in mendocino, sonoma, napa and lake counties. Crews from nevada, oregon, washington and arizona are headed here. The big question we have for Steve Paulson is the wind. Are they getting any relief from these offshore winds . They got a break last night and early this morning. The gusting has only been up to about 15 Miles Per Hour. Lets take a look outside. Look at the fires that are ongoing. As far as these go they could merge together. When you have the east or northeast breeze and then you start to get the northwest that could send the fire in other directions compared to sunday night and monday. We have multiple fires with some of them burning toward each other. The smoke is the huge issue with the advisory today unhealthy to a very unhealthy and certainly to the north the breeze has not been that bad but it is out of the north continuing to send smoke from mendocino into napa and sonoma due south over san pablo bay. Many other areas as well because you can see the wind direction other than north with the threat strong discussed at mount diablo. Atlas peak right now 21 Miles Per Hour so it is breezy but not so much at the surface mostly at the Higher Elevations and nothing compared to sunday and monday. Humidity at 50 dropping to about 20 but the good news temperatures are in the 70s. The red flag warning is out and that continues until this afternoon. We will have another system coming from the northwest on friday kicking up the wind and after that things will calm down but they will warm up to the 60s and 70s today and today is probably the coolest day. It looks warmer with signs of rain coming. The News Conference is getting underway in napa county. I serve as chair of the board. I would like to welcome all of you to the napa county Sheriffs Office. This is our first briefing of the day so this is the fourth of the week related to the 2017 napa fire complex. Today is thursday, october 12. We are providing updates on the fire in napa county and other healthrelated information. Today is a different day. It is a good day. Today, the beginning of day four fire crews are making progress and we are beginning to contain the fire and that is the story for today. That is the good news for napa county. Where we are in terms of the fire, i would like to invite chief barry. Min. Good morning, first off the good news is the wind event that was predicted through the night into today did not materialize to the level predicted so that give us a better opportunity to have more containment on the fires. We are in red flag conditions with low humidity until late this afternoon and early evening. The wind is predicted to diminish but we do have lowering humidities. We made Good Progress yesterday and we had some challenges. We still have fire growth on some of the fires in different directions. We have a threat that is continuing in multiple areas into structures and those areas we have issued more mandatory evacuation areas yesterday in the Sonoma County area. Those fires are still causing problems and we are trying to address that. Additional resources continue to come into these incidents which is starting to give us the upper hand allowing us to switch from going from strictly structure to protecting lives and getting containment started. We are making sure the fire is out in certain areas but we have to remember the priority is taken care of the lives of the public making sure their property is safe. As more resources come in we will continue to get additional containment on the fires. The numbers will be going up and we hope the weather continues to cooperate and stays mild so we can make Good Progress. Ress. Good morning, my name is chris childs and the commander of the napa chp office. Chp resources are coming in from all over Northern California from as far away as reading and as far south as fresno. Chp is working diligently to ensure the safety of the roadways and the people of napa. Speaking of the safety i would like to remind the public that closures are hard closures, we are not allowing people through. We have worked crews in the area and we have people that need to get through so we have power lines down with smoldering polls so we are asking the public to respect the road closures. If you are asked to leave i would like to remind the public to take your small pets or larger pets and ensure you have the medication with you so you can be insured to be safe wherever you are. Finally i would like to remind everyone we are working with napa county and the Sheriff Department as well as the Police Department and all the Google Public safety personnel. We are proud to say we work great as a team and finally a reminder we are using social media to get the word out as Cell Phone Service returns in napa county so please use those resources to get updates. Thank you. John Robertson napa county sheriff. First of all i would like to thank our mutual ate aid agencies. These resources will give us the ability today to start doing escorts for people with critical needs to go back into some of these closed areas. So we will be starting those as we speak. Right now we are starting at 9 00 at the intersection of silverado trail and monticello road in front of the [null] hill parking lot. Thank you. At this time, we will go into updates on each of the individual fires from our supervisors. I would like to invite supervisor dylan and the mayor of calistoga. Thank you for being here this morning. My name is diane dylan. I am the supervisor for district 3 which is the northern half of the county. I am here to talk about the tubbs fire which originally started adjacent to calistoga and spread into santa rosa and is now most active in the calistoga area which is why i am joined by the mayor. The tubbs fire is over 34,000 acres burned but the most recent activity is northern napa county. It is 10 contained but by no means does that mean we are out of danger with regard to the tubbs fire. The mayor will handle the rest of the tubbs fire report. Good morning my name is chris canning and the mayor of the city of calistoga. We are under mandatory evacuation for the entire city. We have been since yesterday. We are happy to report despite some previous incorrect reporting from the media there is currently no fire activity inside of the city limits of calistoga. There are no structures impacted or anything of that nature. With that said we are facing a serious condition. The fire is becoming closer to the city limits. We have some a credible people in calistoga like our First Responders and mutual aid from around the county and the state as well as cal fire and napa county fire. Our friends to the south have been fantastic as well as sheriff roberts mentioned the mutual aid support we are getting from Law Enforcement. This is a mandatory evacuation. Your presence in calistoga is not welcome if you are not a First Responder. Your choice to stay is a distraction to First Responders. You will not be given life Safety Support at this point. You are on your own. If youre trained to visit calistoga you are not welcome. That is very hard for us to say because we have been known as a very hospitable community but that is not helpful right now. Please keep us in your thoughts. To the calistoga residents scattered around, stay strong. Thank you. Hello, my name is ryan gregory i am the county supervisor for district 2. There are two fires working in our district. There is the partrick fire that is at 10,000 acres and 2 containment. The nuns fire is at 14,000 acres and 3 containment. Both fires are close to each other so it is likely tomorrow we are talking about one fire if they connect. I am heartened by what i saw yesterday. We went to the top where the fire jumped over the road but most of the fire is to the west. I saw a few things that reminded me why it is so important we cant go back in there until it is safe. We saw power poles that burn from the bottom down to a little stub at the bottom. We saw trees on fire and they will fall. This is why it is not safe to go back. Until pg e has done their work. So bear with us as we fight the fire and get people back home. It will take a while. Coming up next is our supervisor, thank you. I am not the supervisor but i am from the fourth district. I want to provide an update on the atlas peak fire. As of this morning we had 43,000 acres burned. 3 containment and we are actively fighting the fire. To all the constituents at district 4 thank you for your patience. Theres a lot of devastation out of there but i am happy to report because of the work of our sheriffs department, pg e, at t and cal fire we are talking about people going back into their homes. We are saying when can we open the roadblocks and we are having active discussions with more good news to come shortly but it is really a team effort and again i cant underscore the patients from all the residents of district 4. You have a Community Standing with you working hard for you. We have some folks at the shelters and that is from Napa Valley College as well as solano. Also folks in the Community Foundation has established an account for donations. Unfortunately we have done this before. We have done tragedy with earthquakes and this Community Comes together in ways we cant even imagine. Please visit the website for donations as well. I have got some news on the advisory evacuation and this is the area that is a result of the atlas fire. Everything east of highway 121 from monticello road, everything east of silverado trail, everything east of the avenue between silverado basically following highway 121 coming down and everything east of highway 29 between highway 121 and jamison canyon. Also, finally everything north of jamison canyon between highway 12 and the napa Solano County line. An advisory evacuation is not a hard time to leave your home. It is mainly a warning to let you know you are in an area that if the conditions change they could change rapidly and you could be having a hard evacuation. What we have done is gotten a couple of suitcases, put them in the car and we are ready to go when the Evacuation Order does come. All mandatory evacuations are still in place. We have a number of Evacuation Centers. We have 658 people staying in the Evacuation Centers last night. The Crosswalk Community church is still one place you can go. The Napa Valley College gym at 2277 napa alejo highway is still operating. The Solano CommunityCollege Library parking lot at 4111 Suisun Valley road mostly for folks from over the hill from us here. Also the American Canyon high school at 3000 new old road and that is in the city of American Canyon. That opened up with the need for the evacuation of calistoga. We still have animals that are being taken care of. Solano county fairgrounds at 900 fairgrounds drive in the alejo they are taking large animals and household pets are being taken to the animal shelter. A lot of the Evacuation Centers have pets that are working with them. The Napa Valley College gym as well as the Crosswalk Church are having some pets. Finally i want to reiterate for today be safe and be well. Visit the safe and well website. This is the best way to get yourself listed as a person who is looking for somebody and somebody who is looking both ways. It is getting people together and so keep doing safe and well. Thank you. At this time we continue to have Power Outages in napa county. As of wednesday we had 5400 residents without power. We are working closely with cal fire and pg e. They are on the scene they have deployed a base camp to report they have restored power to approximately 25,000 residents since the beginning of this fire incident. In the coming days they will deploy crews and as i said yesterday they do expect nearly 800 members from a crew team around various Service Areas including mutual aid gas crews coming from southern california. Stay tuned for more information about conductivity. As the information is changing it is favorable at least for the atlas fire and we are vigilant when it comes to calistoga. Getting the information to residents is key and we think back the Media Partners for helping. Today at 4 00 pm we will host a Community Meeting that will be streamed online and live on the county Facebook Page and at the physical location of 2425 jefferson street in napa. That is the Napa Valley Unified School district auditorium. You do not need to come down to the auditorium to be aware of this information. We will put it on facebook and we will stream it with those resources. I trust the local Radio Station will broadcast it out so there is no need to come down. If it is troublesome we dont want you on the roadways but we do have a venue at 2425 jefferson street. That is today at 4 00 pm. At 6 00 we will have a Spanish Speaking meeting at st. John the Baptist Church located at 960 case street. Napa county is continuing to share information through our website and through social media on facebook and twitter. By now, i hope if you are in napa county you have loved ones in napa county and you have registered for our information page. Text your zip code to the number 888 the number 888777. 94558 has all of the fires including nuns fire and atlas peak. We are coordinating through the media and we thank all of you for being here. We ask the napa county employs to check in with their supervisors. It is absolutely heartening to see the tremendous amount of support and mutual aid we have received. I would like to say on behalf of napa county and the board of supervisors we are grateful for the cooperation to the city. You can see behind me all of the mayors are present. We are in this together and we are responding as napa county. That is the entirety of napa. We could not do this without the tremendous support of the state and federal representatives. Present with us today to provide support and to carry the message back to sacramento is the Lieutenant Governor, gavin newsom. I would like to introduce congressman thompson and senator bob god to talk about state and federal aid that is coming our way. Thank you very much. I am the state senator for this district. I was heartened to be at the fairgrounds this morning for the 7 00 briefing by cal fire. Let me tell you we have got a professional Team Literally 500 to 1000 firefighters there getting ready and they were ready. We have fire units probably from all 58 counties and most cities that are embedded in the county. I am appreciative as we also have the National Guard that is also here in full force. I am appreciative of the Lieutenant Governor gavin newsom for being here and our leader in the senate yesterday kevin dave lyons flew from los angeles to survey what was going on. We have remained vigilant in moving forward to support everybody. Thank you. I am mike tomlinson. I want to thicke dilutive in the Lieutenant Governor. I wanted to give an update on the resources that are coming into the area. We learned yesterday there are 900 additional firefighters coming to the combined effort of sonoma, napa and wake county along with 123 additional engines coming to respond. This is the number one priority. Bill mentioned the mutual aid and there is tremendous mutual aid across the country. From the beginning we have had