than 50,000 people forced to flee their homes in the middle of the night. as the glass fire explodes in size engulfing homes. and landmarks this is crazy terrible. mike sick to my stomach, the threat to life and homes returning to the region yet again almost become a familiar drill now after a few years the burn zone even overlapping with the tubbs fire just 3 years ago the tubbs fire started on a sunday night it was very reminiscent of 3 years ago, no rest for weary residents or firefighters, this is a full-on firefight at all levels we are working in just miserable conditions. 10 s of thousands of people forced to flee as a wildfire explodes to more than 35,000 acres in just over a day. we begin with that breaking news tonight at 6. good evening. everybody, i m vicki liviakis jonathan mccall in tonight for grant lotus our top story this monday night the fast-spreading wildfire burning in napa and sonoma counties. the glass fire erupted yesterday morning in so far has c
containment 50,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to this wildfire in parts of sonoma county napa county they are under evacuation orders tonight. including what we have been told us the entire city of calistoga so certainly if you need to leave that area, the open evacuation routes include route 29 south and north along with one 28 north for more on the evacuation orders for sonoma and napa counties we re joined by kron four s jonathan mccall johnson, the largest of those evacuations 68,000 ordered so far for folks in sonoma county want to show you the map of where things stand right with those evacuation orders you can just in the last few hours from when we last saw you for kron 4 news at 6 o clock we ve seen. evacuation warnings now being closer to an area near santa rosa we ve been talking with cal fire officials all day long and they ve been saying that those flames have been creeping closer to santa rosa. throughout the but what we were saying earlier
destroyed more than 36,000 acres and is still 0% contained. the fires also forced thousands of people to flee their homes good evening, i m ken wayne and i m vicki liviakis of firefighters are up against it hot and dry weather conditions out there on the front lines making it really tough. the handle on the flames. here s what we know tonight. cal fire says a 113 structures have been destroyed more than 8500 are threatened. back shun orders have been issued for parts of sonoma and napa county including the entire city of calistoga. in napa county the glass fire tore through the world renowned metal wood resorts near saint kron 4 state of sec. he was there she joins us live she s been monitoring the situation throughout the night taylor. this is a devastating blow to the community. how does it look out there right now absolutely devastating can i drove through that property and a long and i saw several different spot fires which made it really hard for firefighters while they
out ok getting away unscathed the fire 10 tearing through this area early this morning but crews remain here on the scene tonight. they are putting out some hot spots and mopping up the area roads in this area also remaining closed police making the rounds out here hillsides surrounding these communities also have been charred throughout the day today an into that into tonight. there s been thick smoke in the air and there s also been a lot of ash that has been falling from the sky. other communities all along highway 12 also having to deal with the flames buildings there and property there burned and destroyed. we actually spoke with one man who says that he was lucky that he did lose his home. but unfortunately his neighbor did. we got here they were you know a lot of activity this house was you know and claims are trees are on fire. the backyard with on fire the backfield behind us. does seem like. if properties are starting to flare up. the house to my left is completely
do it with a summons and drizzle out there. we do have some areas of dense fog right now but temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s. oakland waking up to 60 degrees. we will be tracking these numbers into the afternoon and highlighting your labor day forecast coming up at 715. good morning george. george: are tracking a few incidents that have the potential to become hot spots. 1 01 north bound at the 280 interchange there is an accident started to slow the traffic just north of the 280 interchange. there is also a report of broken glass that s been spilled on the roadways here on out the name and the westbound direction darya: if we are just hours away from the complete closure of the bay bridge. it starts will end at 8:00 tonight and then will reopen tuesday after labor day where you will get to drive the new span for the first time the new eastern spent. right now ago, commuters are driving the old span for their last morning commute because started thursday and frida