Been devastating to see those homes lost in this fire right behind me they are carrying out their morning to briefing to you have agencies from across the bay area here to help put out this fire. But i enjoy life right now with captain saw lopez is with the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office you know, lets talk about how its been for your department in the most important thing you want people to now so were currently working with cal fire in communicating with our residents in the south coast area thats been affected and many of those areas or rural and steep. So when we do issue a i suggest that everybody listens to those warnings you pack up your things and be ready to evacuate if those mandatory evacuation notices come out what have you seen anyone or people trying to stay back and not wanting to leave their houses and if that is happening. What do they need to do so those are some of the challenges we have experience at in the last 48 several deputies have interacting with residents
That winery is 130 years old. Back out live to chopper 5. You can see the amount of smoke atfire as it continues to make progress in that very dry terrain. Its kind of steep there as well. A little bit of a eesoze itbr this evening to get that thing knocked down. Well be monitoring those fires throughout the news cast and throughout the evening for you. And our andrea borba will have a live report ahead at 6 00. You can always fine thteste on allen . About 60miles west of the napa complex, the socalled 134 warning south of lake sonoma. Its at 100acres and its growing. People living south of the lake and north of the austin creek Recreational Area should be on alert. Just about three hours ago, an evacuation warning was issued for the communities of loma mar and Dearborn Park in southern San Mateo County where this smoky fire is burning. This is a live shot for you giving us a picture of the latest of the smoke fire in the hills in the mountains of San Mateo County. People who live near
Begin this tuesday here on kron 4 news at 5 thanks so much for joining us. Im jonathan mccall. Right now mandatory Evacuation Orders are in place for several communities across the bay area as wildfires continue to burn out of control at this hour. In the north bay mandatory evacuations are in effect across napa county in the following areas from a school we corner to wouldnt valley road including the community of circle oaks atlas peak road to the dead in from loma vista road slash soda canyon road to the dead in all of his the ridge road sage canyon road from charles pope valley road to lower Charles Valley road. Highway 2128 from lower child valley road to monticello road. And the butts canyon road and snow valley road to spanish valley, including the various us states. There are also evacuation warnings in these locations highway one 28 and silverado trail to charles pope valley road, including the pritchard hills area. Highway one 28 and lore Childs Valley road to turtle rock and
Almost burned his building down. Reporter he says many people are staying behind, using what they have to protect their properties, knowing fire resources are stretched thin after monday mornings lightning strikes ignited dozens of fires across the region. I keep my sprinklers going and my water pumps working. Reporter a fire incident spokesman admits lack of resources has hurt containment efforts and he tells us these fires are moving in all directions and those who do stay behind need to keep their heads on swivels. Be aware of your surroundings, be aware of your environment and definitely be ready to go. Reporter evacuations across the growing fire complex, a fluid situation all day. Even catching commuters in a web of road closures. And that turtle rock bar and cafe and Lake Berryessa, the western edge of the lake, among those emergency mandatory expanded evacuation orders late this afternoon. We just saw police head up the road here towards Lake Berryessa with their lights on tryi
Waters edge have been ordered out. Including baresa knockingsville road and all the baresa estates subdivision. Joining us now by for the benefit phone is janet upton with the county of napa. Thank you for joining us. Can you hear me . Yes, i can, good afternoon. The evacuation orders and warnings have been evolving rapidly what do people need to know right now . People in the fire area need to stay vigilant and follow orders of emergency personnel. We just effected another round of evacuations in the area you were describing. Were up to 1900 homes in the area evacuated from a series of fires that burned over 12,000 acre. We expect the number of acres to go up tonight due to the activity that we saw today. Absolutely, this is allen martin now, with fires in e ththe esarea, irem evacuees have a specific place to go. Where is it . The Community Crosswalk church in the town of napa on the west side of highway 29 off first street. Theyre equipped to handle folks. And we have other continge