Businesses there in the north bay. In what is being called the glass fire, 11,000 acres have already been burned. Thats about 17 square miles since it first started sunday morning. Its just so disheartening when you take a look at the scenes. The gross fire is freding room itly. Causing destruction r fires hav with the glass fire, possibly spot fires from the original plays, forcing more evacuations there on the outskirts of santa rosa along highway 12. We have Live Team Coverage for you this afternoon. Greg lee covering the napa side of this fire. Tom vacar taking a look at some of the damage done if Sonoma County already. We want to start with meteorologist mark tomaio, tracking the latest on the weather conditions in the fire zone. Thankfully today were starting to see those winds pull back. Thats right, alex. We have had two big wind events, and we are past those two events. Here is a look around santa rosa, mount st. Helena. Those winds gusting to 55 miles per hour. We take a look
Governor brown everybody ready . Good afternoon. Im here to give another update and egons fire situation, im joined on the phone by the forestry, rtment of ire chief degrass, oregons fire state fire marshal. Of emergency anagement director andrew fell ps and Environmental Public Health section manager. Im joined in person by chris struckler, director of the Oregon Department of transportation. I just want to start by saying storm teams tell me a event coming in today will bring moisture. Both along the coast and along both the west and east slopes of cascades. This is a good sign. With are always challenges a storm like this, such as winds and lightning strikes. Firefighting teams tell me that we are very grateful for the rain. My teams also tell me that were making significant progress on fires ing some of these and fire chief doug grass will peak more to that in just a moment. Since my last briefing, ive seen up and close what these done to our communities, to our land, to our oregon
Was on fire. Reporter thats andy immel standing in the photo surrounded by whats left of the home he built over 42 years. H nifds gandline. Nd tdher, j s big cry. Before that it was we dont know, maybe. We kept hope. Reporter but on that morning that the immels were still hoping, this is what was happening in their neighborhood and all over boulder creek. By morning it was all rubble. The bits and pieces that make a home completely charred. This street, fallen leaf drive, completely devastated. Still there were streets that prove just how unfair a fire can be. Her burned to eground. That just goes to show that we dont have the resources on it that we would normally. If this were a normal situation where, say, this were only one or two fires within the state, we would have more resources here. Reporter cal fire crews stretched thin, dealing with this kind of work. Spot fires that are smoldering slight change in weather conditions. You dont really grasp what it really means to be in that
One of the biggest fires is in the north bay. It spans napa, sonoma, and solano counties. Lets get to nbc bay areas cierra johnson. This is where the Evacuation Orders have just been issued. And i know youve been with us since early this morning. How have things changed . Reporter yes. Good morning. Since the suns come up, weve really been able to get a better feel for just how dangerous this fire was. At last check it was 46,000 acres that this fire caused by lightning a couple days ago has burned through earlier this morning before the Evacuation Order was even put into place, folks were leaving because of just how bad things were. This is a cattle ranch im on. And you can see bales of hay just going up in flames. Entire homes were destroyed. 50 structures in all is the latest count that were burned. Right now families were working to get their animals out. 100 acres and they were looking to make entire houses burned to the ground. We have video from English Hills road and canalo roa
Congresss role in funding fema and other support. The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted the event. I am so excited to bring you this event today. We have an amazing several panels of speakers. Project thatture buildars said we need to the loss ofreduce property and life and bring down the cost of a Natural Disaster response. Hit, we convened a task force of former state and federal officials who oversee Disaster Recovery and have had to secure overseas and federal funding. Many of the programs are being withd as never before covid. As we saw with the recent hurricane, there has been a lot of attention about how you safely evacuate and safely shelterinplace during a hurricane and still maintain social distance to prevent spread. These are challenges Emergency Managers are facing day in and day out, especially with Hurricane Season having nine named storms since june. I all indications, there will be more. We are joined by a number of folks to talk about these two distinct crises. First, w