And im Vicki Liviakis one of the hardest hit areas was the coffey park neighborhood in santa rosa. Our kron fours gayle ong joins us now live from santa rosa with a look at the rebuilding process, an Lessons Learned gayle. Grant and vicki this neighborhood is about 97 refills thats about 1300 homes. It was a night of october 8 2017 when the tubbs fire ignited it ravaged parts of napa lake and sonoma counties. The city of santa rosa suffered great losses. So many things that are in place down with fire calfire increase station during roadside mornings. All those type of things that spend you know coffee per cent of concern entire county is concerned theres also some mitigation that can be done just to help those in the surrounding areas, crack he lost his home in the coffey park neighborhood the community was virtually wiped out. 3 years later the neighborhood mostly rebuilt with mandatory coats to make homes safer from wildfires fire outside alarms. So the fire forced those offices, lo
Clear at this hour, although one possible cause is reportedly the electric fencing around a remote vineyard near the point of origin so far flames have burned more than 58,000 acres and the filed fires 5 contain 223 homes are destroyed more than 28,000 other structures are still threatened tonight. We want to show you a live look of the glass fire from a web camera mounted that about 4300 feet at the top of mount saint alina and you can tell from these pam from the last time we looked a it was kind of quiet we could see some flames. Now the video has stopped. But for a moment there those things are really moving around and look like the wind was having quite an effect up there does our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with more on the wind conditions that everybody is worried about lawrence they have started to pick up unfortunately guys in the small were talking about last night concerned about is that these winds, well start to get going in the evening hours and thats what
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital earlier tonight, good evening, everybody thanks for being here 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the accident took place at the departments training yard. An investigation into what happened is now underway or kron fours terisa stasio has details. The fire chief was visibly shaken as she talked about losing this firefighter. She also talked about how the Department Needs to be strong right now during this very sad time we lost a young man named jason cortez who has a wife. And 2 little kids as a father. Retired from the San Francisco Fire Department. All of them are grieving. As is. This Fire Department family. A somber San Francisco fire chief Janine Nicholson reflecting on losing one of their own. In a horrible accident. It was around 10 00am wednesday at the Training Facility on 19th and fulsome fire Officials Say the court has got injured he was rushed to the sucker berg San Francisco General Hospital. A short distance away whe
Evacuate via deer park road. This is the latest evacuations and warnings in place in napa county this morning. In Sonoma County this map shows the order in place in orange and under evacuation morning within the yellow zone. The orders extend east of calistoga road, north of road and north of highway 12. There is an Evacuation Center open at Crosswalk Community church on first street in napa. We have Team Coverage on the wildfires burning in the north bay. We begin with emily turner, who is in santa rosa. Reporter since i last spoke to you have an hour ago, the good news here is that firefighters have been able to save the barn over the ridge behind me. Flames were pretty much bearing down on us, down this hill. They have been put out so that is some good news. Unfortunately there is not much when it comes to good news out here. This fire continues to grow. It is being blown by winds that are up and over the ridge line. Is eerily similar to 2017. This fire started on the napa sonoma li
2 contained it has destroyed 80 homes in napa and sonoma counties and more than 22,000 structures are threatened right now. Nation, this red flag warning has been issued for the north bay mountains takes Effect Tomorrow afternoon. At 1 oclock and that could certainly spell trouble for firefighters already stretched pretty thin as it is. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now with what were looking at. Alright scary as were going to see those winds make a return to the bay area, the winds. Going to be stronger now weve had the effect of that sea breeze kicking in some higher humidity in around the fires to kind of slow things down now very dry northerly wind is going to start to move in and gusting 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour humidity dropping way down 15 to 25 . So certainly were watching that very closely. Weve got active fires already right now and certainly in and around those are going to be very dangerous right now the winds are beginning to pick up a little bit were sta