Breaking news right now, many areas affected why the wildfires. And we are live in those areas , including santa rosa where neighbors jumped into action to save homes. And napa county homes and wineries up in flames. Some of the worst destruction and now what is in the path of the fire. Good evening. I am juliette goodrich. And i am ken bastida. Lets get right to kpix 5 news keit do live in santa rosa where a neighborhood is almost unrecognizable. Keit . Reporter so, this is sky hawk subdivision. We are standing on mountain automatic hawk drive. We are hearing embers were dropping on tall grass. The flames roar ed in from the east to last night coming into the mountains of the Santa Rosa Creek canyon. The winds were so strong the smoke and flames coming in off the structures were going sideways. Not before more than a dozen homes were lost in this subdivision. We caught up with a woman by the name of paula florez. Her home is directly across the street from where we are standing right
Potentially violent winds. The fight to save homes in the glass fire remains a challenge. Last night san jose firefighters had to battle for water when there werent any fire hydrants available. But one of the main hot zones right now is in the Napa Community of angwin. Firefighters are working overtime there. Good evening. Im am ma date. Im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Lets get to kate larsen. Shes live in napa county. Kate. Reporter dan, ama, were up in angwin, and you can see were actually on a winery. This is shaughnessy estate winery, and fire got dangerously close to this area here today. In fact, were going to pan back at this house where you can see a vallejo fire engine is there. They have been protecting this home here all day. Joining me live right now is kevin brown with the vallejo Fire Department. Kevin, like us, this is your fourth day. On tuesday, fire burned through this area. No real structure destruction, but with the wind today, it became a problem. Thats co
James you talked about a 1000 homes threaten about a 1001 because you can see this home right behind me were off a 29 between saint helene and calistoga and you can see the flames on the hillside and standing right in front of the flames is that how so cal fire. They have a couple of crews there trying to say that home one on top of the hill, one of the bottom of the hill. Embers are everywhere and i got to tell you boots on the ground here. It is smoky here today breathing is more difficult than it was yesterday. So it is getting a lot worse. Let me show you some video and pictures of this entire area you talked about the acreage so many homes up in flames others like you said or threaten i can tell you that at this particular time there are a lot of crews patrolling the area and they see huge flames they were pounce on it. Many structures either destroyed or damaged the flames continue to rip through this area that has seen fire for the past couple of years, how horrible the situatio
Rosa. How the fire started still unclear, we know that it obviously broke out during red flag warning conditions on sunday now raging out of control yeah and so its grown now to more than 65 square miles. Part of that fire zone is the city of calistoga theyre concerned about it. It hasnt burned and they dont want it to and with the way the fire can and the wind can travel the entire town was evacuated yesterday for good reason crawfords will trend of fact choosing an example now of homes that are getting pretty close to the fires will. You can i get any closer than this home and ill quickly show to just a few moments, but you can see the fire burning right behind me this is a hillside that was intentionally set by the firefighters they came out here they take advantage of the overnight conditions. High humidity. No when they walked from the top of the hill down set it on fire they had their fire trucks ready to go just in case it got out of hand so they can pounce on it with their wate
Dangerous and record setting heat in areas today. Lightning strikes kaugtd on camera by the california highway patrol. Thunderstorms are expected to be strongest in north bay. A wildfire in st. Helena started around the wildfires. Its been so strange. And power knocked out in mill valley. A bolt hit power lines. You can see pg and e responding, and a salon owner says they were working with clients outside when it happened. We got so scared but five seconds later, the big line happening again. Sop we move everybody inside. We heard like an explosion, and it was a small one and a big one like a bomb. Mother nature is mad because something is going on here. Rough weather. That is what is going on. Pg and e reports power has been restored. Thank you for joining us, those issues are not enough, more than 3 million homes statewide could have their power shut off. If that total is reached, it would be the largest shut off in state history. I know that its going to be highly disruptive to peop