The air and from the freeway you can see the flames. We are at cherry glen and Pleasant Valley road and chp blocking that intersection only letting law enforcement, First Responders in to try to prohibit that traffic to do their job. For hours folks have been working to evacuate, preparing to evacuate from this fire. Earlier you heard from one of our own discussing how stressful it is. He said he could see the flames from his home and began taking photos of the belongings, photos of the home in case to document the damage. Good advice in this vacaville area. May be best to prepare or get a plan together to leave. When we were here we were actually parked next to a car of a gentleman and his dog. They left their home seeking higher ground. Take a listen to what some of these folks are going through as they prepare to leave this area. Been through fires before. Ive never evacuated before but why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and coming fast and winds were probably about 4
Of the road man to dev moving a burning quickly. We have had a photographer on the scene overnight gathering that video and getting the stories and spoke with folks burned trying to escape the fire and heard people gathering the belongings, taking photographs of the inside and outside and belongings to document what they have in case there is any damage from this fire. It is important to note that this all stems from the lightning that we had a couple days ago, that lightning struck some very dry brush creating this fire and thats where we are right now. Take a listen to someone working to escape this fire here in ive never evacuated before. But why this time . Because it was it was coming hard and fast and winds probably 45 miles per hour. Reporter and i can tell you the smoke out here very, very heavy. You cant see the flames. They look like fire flies in the distance but that fire still burning out here smoke very thick. There are cars covered with ash and looks like 5,000 outages a
One of the biggest fires is in the north bay. It spans napa, sonoma, and solano counties. Lets get to nbc bay areas cierra johnson. This is where the Evacuation Orders have just been issued. And i know youve been with us since early this morning. How have things changed . Reporter yes. Good morning. Since the suns come up, weve really been able to get a better feel for just how dangerous this fire was. At last check it was 46,000 acres that this fire caused by lightning a couple days ago has burned through earlier this morning before the Evacuation Order was even put into place, folks were leaving because of just how bad things were. This is a cattle ranch im on. And you can see bales of hay just going up in flames. Entire homes were destroyed. 50 structures in all is the latest count that were burned. Right now families were working to get their animals out. 100 acres and they were looking to make entire houses burned to the ground. We have video from English Hills road and canalo roa
Some of them burning dangerously out of control tonight. Here is a map of where those fires are burning at the moment, the u. S. See you a lightning complex that has burned the most scorching more than a 137,000 acres across 5 counties. Then closer to the coast. The seas eu august lightning complex fires, those are burning in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz counties and finally the l a new lightning complex fires are burning in the north bay, including napa sonoma and solano counties. The lnu lightning complex fire. So far have scorched a combined total of a 131,000 acres imagine that a 105 structures have been destroyed 70 have been damage and right now the entire fire is 0 contained and we want to share with you the evacuation map now for sonoma county, heres a look at the Evacuation Orders and warnings in that county as you can see there anyone living in the red area they are under mandatory Evacuation Orders. The yellow area. Thats under an evacuation warning, which means
Is burning in a large area of the north bay. Leveling homes and impacting thousands of People Living in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties and the woodward fire that is burning in the Point Reyes National seashore area of marine county. And so far those devastating north bay fires have scorched a combined 215,000 acres and 4 people have died 3 in napa county one in Solano County. 480 structures have been destroyed. These numbers were just updated and they have really jumped 125 other structures have been damaged tonight more than 30,000 structures are still threatened. And right now the entire complex in the north bay is 0 contained. And tonight, were learning all Evacuation Orders have been lifted in vacaville with the exception of south of fort hill drivein west of alamo drive from monte vista avenue to interstate 80 was michelle kingston is in vacaville with what conditions are like. Well theres not much activity here outside the eu lead his community center. This is the only