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
One of the many challenges that fire crews will face weather wise. We tracked the details, coming up in the forecast. Homes in several committees burned to the ground while others remained untouched. You spend 45 years of your life, it is really, im crying, so im sorry. Fire watch right now on the kpix5 news at seven and streaming on cbsn bay area. The fire in wine country takes a huge jump in acreage this afternoon, mandatory evacuations were ordered for the entire city of calistoga. Everyone, the glass fire in both napa and sonoma counties burning out of control tonight, and showing no signs of slowing down. We have been watching air tankers try to douse that fire all day long. Good evening. Tonight, people are just fed up with these fires. We have been, like, dealing with these fires, like every couple of years. We are full of love and blessed with so much, but it just keeps hitting us, you know, it is like come on all right. All right already, please. Heres where things stand at th
Condition of anonymity hoax is the closest aide to trump to test positive. So far she traveled with him a number of times this week including on marine one the president ial helicopter for a rally in minnesota yesterday and aboard air force one on tuesday nights first president ial debate. We will continue to monitor this situation and bring you the very latest as soon as the white house announces the test results throughout this evening well be monitoring the situation. Other big news here at home tonight winds are picking up threatening to escalate the glass fire. So far this fire has burned more than 58,000 acres in 5 days. It is 5 contained its destroyed 223 homes. More than 28,000 structures remain threatened and while an exact cause could take months to determine one possible cause is reportedly electric fencing around remote vineyard near the point of origin on Glass Mountain we begin tonight with a check on the Evacuation Orders in effect in napa and Sonoma County kron fours Ju
Clear at this hour, although one possible cause is reportedly the electric fencing around a remote vineyard near the point of origin so far flames have burned more than 58,000 acres and the filed fires 5 contain 223 homes are destroyed more than 28,000 other structures are still threatened tonight. We want to show you a live look of the glass fire from a web camera mounted that about 4300 feet at the top of mount saint alina and you can tell from these pam from the last time we looked a it was kind of quiet we could see some flames. Now the video has stopped. But for a moment there those things are really moving around and look like the wind was having quite an effect up there does our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with more on the wind conditions that everybody is worried about lawrence they have started to pick up unfortunately guys in the small were talking about last night concerned about is that these winds, well start to get going in the evening hours and thats what
Calistoga is very quiet right now. The entire city has been evacuated. I am at the motor lodge along lincoln avenue and behind me, we have watched glowing fires disappear, looking east near the silverado trail. Hopefully, that is some good news. We are waiting for the latest from cal fire once the sun comes up. However the weather conditions are pretty good for firefighting. It is a lot cooler compared to yesterday. Not a lot of wind to speak of but the official count is 113 structures destroyed and that number could go up as firefighters explore the areas that have already burned. By the afternoon, the entire city population of calistoga, 5300, was being evacuated. The fire had crested the hill where they are. People had to evacuate immediately. We got back to the house a couple weeks ago and we were evacuated for 17 days and there we go again. It is dad. Those evacuation orders are in effect in napa and sonoma encompassing about 70,000 people. No idea when they will be able to return