For the pocket fire near geyserville. That order is for People Living north of highway 128 from geysers road to chockhill road. Cal fire says a staggering 90,000 people have been forced out of their homes by the massive fires burning across Northern California. At least 34 people have now been killed. And roughly 9, 000 firefighters are battling the fires. But there is some progress to report tonight. Two of the largest fires in sonoma and napa counties are now at least 25 contained. There are now 18 people confirmed dead in Sonoma County in the aftermath of the firestorm and sadly, that number is expected to rise. Today recovery teams poured through the rubble of a few neighborhoods that burned to the ground. Ktvus Tara Moriarty joins us from santa rosa where more human remains have been found. Reporter crews sifted through the rubble here looking for remains. You can see all of the devastation and, you know, they have been told by someone who is missing a loved one that they believe that a Family Member did not make it out alive. So thats why they are here. Earlier today, recovery teams were at the journeys End Mobile Home Park off mendocino avenue and Fountain Grove parkway where they recovered some bones. They were the remains of at least one person found on a mattress in a bedroom. This fire as youll recall struck at nighttime when many people were asleep so thats really the first room teams are looking at when they go out to these homes. They have been going to areas where they have missing persons reports so its targeted as to not waste resources. Now, there were two missing person reports out of the Mobile Home Park so thats actually good news considering that there were hundreds of people who escaped. Crews then will transport the human remains to the coroners office. We have forensic people up there trying to identify the remains and we have to confirm that the person inside the residence is actually the person that was reported missing. Whether it be through tatoos, through dental records, um, fingerprints, we recovered people with medical devices and things like that. Reporter there are unconfirmed reports was 69 linda tunis. She had called her daughter at 3 45 sunday morning when the fire was raging and the family searched shelters, hospitals, but they were unable to locate the 69yearold so they notified authorities. The crews that were just out here in the Fountain Grove park area, this is on millbrook drive once again, they have just left they are going back to their command center at the base of this hill. Next they will head out to another location. They have been hitting a couple of places actually all week but are keeping that information private. This is a sensitive process they are going through right now. This has been draining for a lot of these recovery teams emotionally. Live in santa rosa, im Tara Moriarty, back to you. It is tough, tough work. Tara, thank you. We got an update earlier today from cal fire on the conditions that fire crews are facing. We have some good aggressive firefighting going on. We had some dozers and hand crews do some work in the forest and put some dirt on the ground excuse me, bulldozer blades on the ground. Got around it, came back improved that with the wind event coming up. Hopefully those trees arent going to torch. So thats a concern in that area. Those winds are a big concern tonight. Thats why another red flag warning is issued for the north bay. Chief meterologist bill martin is monitoring the conditions in the weather center. So far, so good. Is somewhat cooperating. Tonight, late tonight and early tomorrow morning is the linchpin. See the wind directions now green arrows . Not a bad direction. Thats high moisture. Humidity. You have temperatures that are on the mild side. The winds arent out of control. They are not howling. So red flag warning in effect. Through the evening, watch the winds and the color changes. And also watch the green arrows. What do they do . That big swap. See how the winds pick up . Theyre going north there. Then they turn northeast look at the yellow and orange. This is 10 00. We are going to be able to verify this on the ten oclock news. We watch on the winds especially if i Pay Attention whats happening in redding and the Pressure Gradients. Well know early on how significant this wind will be. The models right now are suggesting like calistoga 25 miles an hour, 22 sonoma valley. These are bearable winds. But one of the problems is, the direction they are coming from, the canyons and the grooves and the hills, tend to lie in a northtosouth alignment so these winds will funnel. Friday at 10 00, then boom, theres the reds, right . This is danger zone. Through about 6 a. M. , okay, so the real i think 3 to 6 a. M. Is danger zone. This is when firefighters have their work cut out for them. They know it. Cal fire has been on top of it. Through the day the winds back down. Thats the forecast. Doesnt mean this is what is going to happen. This is less than what happened on sunday night when this started. After midnight into early tomorrow morning, the most one of the most critical times since this fire started. Right now, we are tracking it. The winds hopefully will be bearable. And well know a lot. By 10 p. M. Well know a lot. Even with the winds picking up tonight, containment of the two largest fires is up to about 25 . We have Team Coverage from the fire lines tonight. Ktvus Maureen Naylor is in the northern part of the city of sonoma. First, though, we go to tom vacar in napa. Tom. Reporter i want you to have a look over here. This is one of the fire areas, one of many, many fire areas. Not three minutes ago, those were just columns of smoke rising in the air because there was essentially no wind. Now they are leaning to the left a little bit and the whole valley is very, very smoky now. So the wind has picked up just a little bit. But its just a little bit enough to change what this looks like. Whats important about all of that is is that they are variable winds right now. And at this altitude, they are still not very strong but that seems to be coming. This terrain and this wind truly makes these fires unpredictable. Reporter a major area of concern today is the large area around mount feeder between yountville and rutherford and the western side of napa valley. The goal if possible keep the currently slowmoving fire from crossing dry creek road. We have different types of fuels that either are smoldering or flaring up but nothing to be concerned with as long as we can keep it on this side. Reporter the winds are expected to increase as the fire marches northward towards dry creek road. We have contingency plans that are placed further out to with additional hand crews and a plan for aerial attack if it get to that point. Reporter at that point residents and businesses would have real concerns. If that fire comes down here, we are worried about it getting into the valley. Reporter a wind from the north would retard this fires progress if it holds. But it could complicate other fires making little or no wind the ideal situation. We have winds from the north that should help the nuns fire pushing it in the opposite direction of dry creek. Reporter and so the situation remains variable as bill said, that the fires laying over a little bit more. But the reality of the situation is that we have to wait for something more substantial and that will come later tonight. Now, coming out live, i want you to take a look, firefighters not unaware of whats going on here. You will see that one lone firefighter over there in that bluff area. But there is plenty of other Fire Equipment all around here. In fact, up here on this hill, there were five or six pieces of equipment up here not all that long ago. But now they have gone obviously to take up a different position. Well keep you updated on this in terms of it whats going on as soon as we know more in the next hour. For now, though, id like to send it to my colleague, Maureen Naylor, north of sonoma. Reporter tom, im standing on Moon Mountain road in Sonoma County north of sonoma. This is where the fireline came up right here. It came up to this road and is still smoldering at this hour. Just a minute ago a fire crew was here putting out hot spots. They wanted this area to burn because they are trying to burn this canyon out. They are at this point trying to protect homes as this firefight continues. Reporter crews fought fire with fight lighting backfires to burn fuel. As hand crews brought help on the ground, a National Guard helicopter assisted with water drops from the air. The marin county fire crew cut a hole in a Swimming Pool cover to use water to protect this house on Moon Mountain road in Sonoma County. Its one of many Beautiful Homes that dot this landscape north of sonoma. So what we are doing today is kind of twofold. The first thing we want to do is protecting homes. Right . What we need to do is get a perimeter. Reporter the heart of wine country is shrouded in smoke. Nearby at the monte rosseau vineyard you will see dusty grapes still on the vine and quite a side down the road dry pink fire retardant seemingly painted on the driveway and plants alike. Its fighting fire since what day . Reporter thats what happens when you have been on the fireline for five days with a 12hour bank. This fire captains family ran for their lives sunday night and he raced to fight the fire. The text i got from my family and friends, saying that my wife left at 11 30. Reporter thats tough. Its life. Reporter once the camera stopped, burbank got emotional describing how his wife safely drove out of their Sonoma County home with their three children and encountered a wall of flames covering the freeway. This is where some authorities have put yellow tape so they can keep track of the residents who are under mandatory evacuation. At 7 00 tonight there is going to be a meeting at the sonoma Veterans Memorial hall so people can get more information from cal fire. The reason why this is so important, this area of the nuns fire, fire crews say this is an important line because if it were to jump this, it would move farther south towards the city of sonoma. But at this point, they say that weather was favorable. They did make progress today. They are concerned about the winds picking up tonight. Reporting live in Sonoma County, Maureen Naylor, ktvu fox 2 news. [ music ] coming up, some residents are being allowed to go back home and well go along with them as they see their neighborhood for the First Time Since the fastmoving flames forced them to leave. Plus helping a Vulnerable Group volunteers are collecting donations for displaced immigrant families who feared going to Evacuation Centers means deportation. And dont even try it. Thats the message from Law Enforcement to anyone looking to loot. We ride with officers as they patrol looking for looters. Breaks. A 4. 0 earthquake hit a mile and a half north of the redwood valley. That area of course is also dealing with major wildfires. Its unclear if there are any injuries or an effect on the fighting of the fires. What should we be watching for tonight and earlymorning hours . Mark neveau joining us. Thousands of firefighters are coming. The red flag warning is sunday we are concerned about the direction of the wind and how fierce they could fan the fire. Thats the big concern. They have had some containment. They have grown from 27 on the atlas fire which is wonderful, great progress in the last 24 hours. I know that the weather is going to be key here are the next 24 hours, by this time tomorrow night, either were going to find out that they are going to get some good containment or could this potentially explode once again . I think they have worked hard enough to have containment. I think they are concerned about spotting. If that thing starts to roar up with embers going miles away, they are also concerned about the head of that fire. But that plan put in place developed yesterday is considering for the red flag period coming up so they are thinking that way. How critical are the lines . We saw Maureen Naylors report on the nuns fire that they are they have made a good stand with that deer creek road and letting the fire burn to the edge of the road. If it was to jump the road it could go into the town of sonoma. They are using indirect attack, fire to fight fire. They are trying to remove the fuel so it doesnt jump the road. They seem to be able to accomplish that a number of different areas. The numbers are staggering. We have 9,000 firefighters, 4,000 federal firefighters on their way including a number of hotshot teams. What would be the point of bringing in the hotshot teams . Hotshots are really ground folks. They have the ability to do a lot of the firing out like we saw that they are talking about. That capacity will grow for the firefighters. The hotshot crews are good at cutting line, cleaning out and getting into that very difficult terrain. We saw tom vacars report about how difficult some of the incline in the valleys they are dealing with. Hotshot crews are very good at that. As firefighters to battle, what should people who have been affected by the fires be doing now . So many people lost everything. Whats your advice to them as far as what they can do . Good news. The press authorized individual assistance for Sonoma County i think it was and santa rosa is going to have a local Assistance Center opening up i believe tomorrow. Basically people who are survivors can go down there and get services they need. A lot of people had to leave quickly so they didnt have time to take papers. One of the best places to start is to go to the dmv. Fingerprint will get you a license. And then you can start the process of applying for aid. Also, disaster. Gov disasterassistance. Gov. They have a unfortunately a long road ahead. Mark, thank you. Great advice, thank you, mark. And so here we go. Tonights sort of an important well, it is very important component to whats been going on this whole week. Sunday night this thing started, firefighters, cal fire have done a nice job preparing, i think really for tonight. I think yesterday and the day before a lot about tonight because the winds will shift and they will become 25, 35, maybe stronger. And they will funnel. Right now the wind direction of those arrows are northwest. The winds after midnight tonight are going to start coming out of the north. And thats a direction i always say this but if you know anything about topography, the way these canyons lie in the coastal hills and in the east bay hills and north bay hills, a lot of them have an orientation north to south. Generally that. And when the winds start to blow up from the northeast, they sink and get funneled in and if it is not going north to south it wont funnel in but east to west. North to south it gets funneling down the line. Thats what happened in Fountain Grove and the east bay hills too and thats what will happen tonight in the fact that well see funneling. Funneling changes the rules of fire quite a bit. We know you probably know, all do you is look at the Fountain Grove stuff. Um, the winds are not going to be that strong tonight. They are not forecast to be that strong tonight. But see the wind shift . See that . Boom. There we are. Now were in the critical zone. This is about 1 a. M. That is blowing. This is bigtime stuff. You can see sonoma, calistoga, 31 miles an hour. 39 up to 40 in calistoga to 6 a. M. Thats the critical time. 1 a. M. To 6 a. M. , very critical. And i dont think cal fire is not all over this. They keep saying this but they are all over it. Winds die down quickly. When i say all over it they have been building fire lines based on this forecast model. So as we go through time, the winds die down certainly on saturday. But the critical time its all coming down in my mind to 1 to 7 a. M. Red flag warning in effect right now. It was dropped yesterday. Again Good Progress has been played. Over 20 in both the tubbs fire and the atlas fire. Thats impressive. Tonight is going to be one of those nights where im going to be here at 10 00. Um, hopefully not later than that. Well watch and well know by 10 00, well have a pretty good idea if those winds are going to materialize because well look at Pressure Gradients and the winds that are occurring way north of here up in redding and the north valley. Those winds, if its howling at 50, 60 miles an hour at redding tonight at 10 00, we are going to have a problem. We are not expecting that. Im just saying, we can look at that. If its blowing 20 miles an hour in redding at 10 00 tonight, okay, the forecast is probably on track. Air quality is bad. Cal is playing. Raiders play on sunday. Um, San Francisco air quality today as bad as it has been in this entire, um, event. Um, you you talk to people there all day and they are snowing smoke. So lots of smoke in the area. Between 1 and 7 a. M. , as critical a time as i have seen in the bay area in terms of fire and what could happen, what might happen, what will happen. Whats your best hunch here . Does the numbers that were you showing my best hunch is 25 to 35 miles an hour. There may be a random blow way up at the top of mount st. Helena higher elevations. I think thats whats going to materialize. What youre hoping is it doesnt go further. I think you guys tonight around 10 00, 11 00, theres indicators that i can look at and it will give us a good idea. The other night remember two nights ago we had that red flag warning . I said its not going to be as bad. I said that because i looked at