Ghost towns. Its erie. The whole town is empty. Thick smoke bank ets the whole bay area. It burns my throat and nose and makes my eyes water. 8,000 firefighters are on the front lines, facing down the raiming wild fires with continue to threaten thousands of homes. Thank you for joining us tonight. I am pam moore. Heres the outlook, the death toll is at 31, 17 of the deaths from Sonoma County alone. 2800 homes destroyed in the city of santa rosa 400 people are missing in Sonoma County. Tonight we are learning the names of some of those killed in the wild fire, we are live in santa rosa with the latest. Reporter the majority of those missing have been found safely but unfortunately the death toll has gone up and its expected to climb. Tonight we learned the names of 10 people that lost their lives to this fire, the majority of them were from the santa rosa area. On that list is, Carol Collins swasey, Lynne Anderson powell of santa rosa, arthur tasman grant of santa rosa, suiko grant, do
For it to cool down, we spoke with a sheriff. We have been up and down the highway, we went to a devastated area of coffey park, that was an eye opener, i have never seen fires moving through an area that fast being that devastating. The thing that sticks out was how many burned cars there were. More than i have seen, thats an indication that people were surprised and had to get out fast to protect their lives. Reporter unfortunately some people did not make it out alive. We have learned the names of tep of the 17 People Killed, we will share those with you now. The first of them is carol collinsswasey of santa rosa, Lynne Anderson powell, arthur tasman grant, suiko grant, donna mae halbur, leroy peter halbur, valerie lynn evans, carmen caldentey berriz, Michael John Dornbach of calistoga and Veronica Elizabeth mccombs of santa rosa, we are told that most of the victims were found in their homes, one was found by their car, at this point a sheriff said that its hard to say if there are
Hour but watch what happens Early Saturday Morning. Those winds are going to increase once again gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour and that will send more smoke south into the bay area. It is hazy. Poor air quality across the entire region. Check out the roads with sue. Metering lights are on. Lots of cars stacked up into the mcarthur maze with delays at about 15 minutes to get all the way into San Francisco. A little sluggish on the upper deck. Slow traffic out of tracy up and over the altamont. An earlier accident cleared. Traffic is starting to thin out just a little bit but expect delays out of pleasanton. Well take a look at your mass transit options this friday the 13th in a couple of minutes. Thank you, sue. This could be a make or break day for firefighters defending the town of calistoga against a major wildfire making an allout effort to keep the flames from crossing a highway and into the community. Live to reporter matt keller in napa county for us. Matt . Reporter good mornin
Fires burning out of control in the north bay, this is the miramonte neighborhood. We also taking a satellite tour with special technology that can get us into the burned out zones, we doing that on the morning news and also online at our website, kron4. Com. We will go to a neighborhood in santa rosa in a moment but first of all. All, we have a big number of changes, the death toll has gone up to 31, 17 victims from Sonoma County, many from santa rosa, we will have the names of those who have been identified coming up, we are also taking a tour of the damages, sonoma is suffering the most businesses and homes that have been burned at 2834, the names of the missing have grown to 400. Officials are going out, trying to go from door to door to see if people have been able to be found or identified. So far the flames have gone through 191,000acres and counting throughout the north bay. Good morning, we have that incredible Vantage Point from space, the latest satellite imagery over santa