Napa County wants to increase its wildfire prevention skills. As part of the effort, it hired Cal Fire veteran David Shew as its first fire administrator.
malibu where flames well, i ll just step out of the way and show you. they ripped through this area right down to the pacific ocean, which is about a mile way from where we are. this would have been an absolutely beautiful home. you can actually see, you know, there s a pool in the background. there s what would have been a really nice house. over to the left you can see a van here completely burned out. there are some evacuations being lifted today but because there are mandatory evacuations still in place for this area there s hardly a person in sight. we did find one person who came back over the weekend. he had actually tried fighting the fire with a garden hose, shovel, whatever he could find. it was coming up the canyon. fire moves a lot quicker uphill than it does downhill. he eventually gave up and had to get out because there were just flames everywhere. when he came back, he was visibly emotional. he dug through what was left of his house, which wasn t much.
missing. the deputy chief scott mclean with the department of forestry and fire protection. thank you for being here and for doing what you and all your teams are doing on the ground. they say at least 100 people are still unaccounted for after the camp fire. do you have any updates on had an? no, that would be under the county sheriff s department offices there. they opened up some lines yesterday. we see an influx of information on that. you can only imagine, folks have gone to relatives, hotels, anywhere possible. we re look at a quarter million individuals evacuated on all these fires. the images we re showing some of them as we speak to you. we know, some people died in their cars trying to escape on crowded roads, some people died in their homes. we also know this was a fast-moving fire. right.
your questions here. high pressure sets up there. somewhere over nevada. the wind from that begins to blow offshore. tas comes down the hill, this is the sierra mountain range right there. as it comes down the hill, through the canyons, it picks up speed, dries out and warms up as it gets down toward the ocean. all three of those things are bad for fire. you don t want dry air, you don t want wind speeds higher and you certainly don t want temperatures going up either. there are red flag warnings going on even still right now. the focus has been on the woolsey fire and the camp fire. and i get that. they re still out of control. only containment in the 15 to 25 range. you cannot take your focus off what we re going to see where winds again will pick up, mainly to the south of l.a., into san diego, where winds could be 50
american dictators who have overthrown democracies in venezuela and cuba. let s go to dan simon, who joins us first on the ground there. you re in paradise, california, dan. what can you tell us this morni morning, before the sun even comes up there? reporter: hi, poppy. this fire happening at a level and scale of destruction that, quite frankly, we ve never seen in the state of california. and we re still hearing some of these harrowing tales of people who evacuated. the road that leads to paradise called skyway. it was just filled bumper to bumper cars, people frantically trying to leave town. in that traffic you had a mother and daughter and you can hear just how terrified they were as the fire was ravaging everything around them. take a look. it s okay, mama. it s okay. please, please drive. just please drive.