More than 70,000 people under evacuation orders. Fire officials are giving an update on the glass fire in santa rosa. Once that press Conference Begins we will bring that to you live during our newscast. I want to talk about the entire town of calistoga. It is still under that mandatory evacuation order. More than 5,000 people are out of their homes. Reporter good morning. Its a situation that folks here in calistoga are all too familiar with. Just driving through town, you can see the roads are more empty than they typically would be and many of those businesses have shut their doors. Its because of that mandatory evacuation because of whats happening just over my shoulder, weve been here since about 4 00 this morning. And this particular hill has been calmed and reignited and calmed and reignited. And now its a huge plume of smoke that weve seen the last 45 minutes. This is just one example of the impeding danger folks here in calistoga are under. Weve had crews here since last night
Calm down in the afternoon giving firefighters the upper hand really trying to get everything we can get done. Done before the wind picks up and then of course nighttime brings additional complications, firefighters unable to catch a break many coming from other fires in the region, the glass incident fire broke out during a red flag warning about 200 pg and e napa county customers were scheduled for a Public Safety power shutoff down more than a 1000 homes under an evacuation warning really urge you to do what you can. To clear Defensible Space around your home. The ready water things to evacuate with that you need know what you need to pick up so youre not trying to find important papers things like that at the last minute. And this point in time it is too early to tell and many buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Firefighters are focusing on structure protection and stopping the spread of the fire the cause is under investigation. In saint helene gayle ong kron 4 news. And wer
Evacuation orders have happened in san matteo county, take a look. We are live over the fire. Look at all the smoke coming off of the mountains. Man, that is certainly intense as sky 7 gets a closer look for you us. You can see a bit of that orange glow coming off the ridge of the mountain right there in the trees and that dark smoke. We are covering this closely right now. Good evening, thank you for joining us tonight as we follow all of this. Reporter glad you are with us. Immediate evacuations are ordered for the communities of lo mamar and deerborne park and the state park including the baronco community and theres an Evacuation Center at pescidaro high school, now, we are there live, bring us up to date, please. This fire continues to rage inching up to a community of 200 to 300 people i spoke to several residents who gearing up and getting ready to evacuate the area. You can see behind us, the white smoke expanding and picking through the trees, you can see the flames rages as t
China and d asean member statato resolve disputes through coconsultationon as well as steg confrontation between countries and the area. He said china hopes countries outside the region, including the u. S. , will respect the wishes and expectations of those in the region, instead of creating attention and seeking to profit from them. At the same meeting, japans foreign minister said hes concerned that unilateral efforts to change the status quo in the South China Sea have continued. Motegi toets meet urged nations involved, including china and the u. S. , to take constructive action to address the situation. He urged n nations involved, including china and the u. S. To take constructive action to address the situation. I translator i conveyed japans position and concerns to Chinese Foreign minister wang yi. I will conontinue to do so. Beijing asserts sovereignty over most of the South China Sea. Washington has described that claim as completely unlawful. China and the u. S. Have escal
Of the road man to dev moving a burning quickly. We have had a photographer on the scene overnight gathering that video and getting the stories and spoke with folks burned trying to escape the fire and heard people gathering the belongings, taking photographs of the inside and outside and belongings to document what they have in case there is any damage from this fire. It is important to note that this all stems from the lightning that we had a couple days ago, that lightning struck some very dry brush creating this fire and thats where we are right now. Take a listen to someone working to escape this fire here in ive never evacuated before. But why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and fast and winds probably 45 miles per hour. Reporter and i can tell you the smoke out here very, very heavy. You cant see the flames. They look like fire flies in the distance but that fire still burning out here smoke very thick. There are cars covered with ash and looks like 5,000 outages a