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Already destructive tubbs fire north back to its calistoga start. The entire city is under mandatory Evacuation Orders. Welcome to 4 on 2 this afternoon, i am heather holmes. In calistoga, there is a real fear about the fire making it into the area. Earlier this morning, half of the people in the city of 5000 were told to leave. A short time ago, that Evacuation Order was expanded to all of calistoga. Tom vacar is live. Reporter it happened at 3 15 pm. They put it out on the system saying everybody in this town have to go. Let me show you how bizarre it is. This is the main street of calistoga. This mainstreet, lincoln, is absolutely blocked off. Except two people leaving at the last minute. They have been told to get out. Other than that, all you see is official police cars. Firetrucks and other official cars that have business here. All of the stores are intact. They ha ....
Of water this morning at a time from agricultural retention ponds just north of calistogas east side. Its been a day long rotation of chopper after chopper taking their huge bags of water from here to the west side of the napa river where mount st. Helena rises above the valley. They were precision dumping their loads on a smoke over on a smoky fire thats rapidly climbing the mountain. At the top of the mountain, a large group of contract and inmate hand crews were taking positions near the summit. They come from cal fire. The u. S. Forest service and the National Park service. Theres one reason and one reason only to have this much fire power here at the top of st. Helena to keep it from getting over the top and should it get over the top, they can run right down the mountain into middletown. Between the mountaintop crews and the water drop spot well below, we then happened upon inmate crews from a san diego correctional facility. ....