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this as the fire continues to burn. it has spread to 73,700 acres. the containment is up from 40% earlier today. and schools in middletown could reopen next week. alan wang picks up our coverage tonight in calistoga. alan? many of the evacuees are from middletown. an iron clad community where football brings them together on a friday night. this was day six of sitting in tents and waiting for another red cross meal. and before this latest news morale was taking a huge plunge. news middletown residents can return home tomorrow comes as nerves are beginning to fray at this evacuation camp. people who are fighting everywhere. everyone s emotions are running wild right now. we are all ready to get home. they could use a moral boost here, especially on a friday night when the middletown high school mustangs are supposed to be playing their homecoming game. it brings everybody s hopes up. everybody loves it. a pile of face masks is all that s left in the burnt o ....
live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. after almost a week living here in tents tonight, a lot of people who evacuated the valley fire got word they can go home tomorrow. evacuees are wasting no time getting ready to move. christin ayers is in calistoga tonight. reporter: this is what people have been waiting for. word that middletown will be repopulated. it will start at noon tomorrow, authorities say. and already, people are making preparations to go home. we spoke to one woman named valerie hawkins who was starting to pack up her belongings. her home did not burn. she was one of the lucky ones. after living in the tent for a week, she is ready to go home. many of the people here from from middletown and that is likely going to mean long waits and traffic jams to get back into town. the hardest part will come once they actually get past the checkpoint. it will be a little hectic i think, and sad. real sad. real sad to go to. there will be a ....
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mistook the gas pedal for the brake. sending her vehicle nearly 70-feet into the buidling. kron 4 s haaziqu madyun was the first one to speak with the victims husband. :last thing i heard was relieving to go to do what she loves her leaving to go do //haaziqu :the driver of the s- u-v has not been pubicly named. but has been described as an 80- year old woman from livermore. police say, there were no signs that drugs or alcohol were involved in the crash. she was killed at the gym during her morning workout. :the car was parking directly in front of the gym and it just went through the glass doors and all the way through the jammed and crashed into a wall. reporter :and drang five people and killing his wife injuring 5 people he says he and his wife met in early 1990 while working together at the laboratory :she was easily the best thing that ever happened to me and i will miss her reporter :in livermore pam :the driver of the suvs has not been publicly named ....
as of this afternoon, it is at 73,000 acres and now 40% contained. the death toll still stands at three people. the number of homes destroyed remains at 585. ktvu s tom vacar now with more on today s developments. reporter: even though the fire is 40% contained, with hot weather and low humidity back, the army of firefighters has grown once again. there are nearly 4100 firefighters now on scene working to contain this fire. they are from across california and now from across the western united states. reporter: when police caught one individual with a car stolen inside the fire area and tried to make it look like a police vehicle, the sheriff s office decided to suspend escorting homeowners into the area for now. we re focusing all our efforts, our law enforcement efforts on getting officers out into the evacuation area and actively patrolling for anyone who is looting or should not be there. we re arresting folks out there that are attempting to break into home ....