. >> you can definitely tell that from the fire on atlas peak. as we look at tebow live pictures, when the photograph ore was able to get a little closer, mark, you could just see the winds really fueling the fire. >> yeah. the winds, they're forecasted to peak, in fact, late tonight, basically right now up until 6:00 or 7:00 tomorrow morning. so it's a late sunday night/monday morning wind event, and these will be relentless. they will continue to accelerate, especially this portion of the north bay for the hills up above a thousand, up above 1500 feet. you can see the current conditions right now. temperatures in the 60s. the relative humidity very dry, around 16, 17%. the winds gusting to around 25 to 30 miles an hour. but there's not a weather sensor everywhere, and the weather pattern can shift quite a bit, and as a result, those winds could spike up easily. , in fact, the national weather service putting the high end around 50 to a 55 miles an hour for a few isolated peaks in the bay area. so as i mentioned earlier, it's like below drier, a

burning at atlas peak. we're working to get more information. as soon as we do, we'll bring it to you. >> fire officials concerned, what the red flag warning would mean for this fire in the days ahead. the warning for the bay area of high winds and increased fire danger extends through tuesday. mike is here with a look at the conditions and the concern. >> yes, this potentially could be the strongest wind event of the entire fire season, with the strongest winds moving in now into monday mornling. a couple of -- morns. a couple of locations in the north bay, santa rosa and napa, it's very dry, but also the winds will be the big concerns. these are the gusts reported around 31 and 32 miles per hour around the napa airport, and these winds will continue to increase other the next three to six hours. the main reason why is strong northerly flow in the atmosphere, so clear skies, no fog to add moisture to the fire zones, and take a look at the wind speeds. fairfield, wind guizot 39 -- wind gust of 39 miles per

the biggest fire is burning on atlas peak. the latest update we have is currently 200 acres but spreading fast. you can imagine this is endangering a lot of people. those flames continue to burn. thousands have been evacuated. silverado resort and spa also evacuated. >> we want to check in with the napa county supervisor who joins us on the phone. i know you have a lot of information and this thing is spreading so rapidly. >> absolutely. good morning. this fire is certainly unpredictable. these winds are not helping our situation. what that has done is placed us in evacuation mode. that is what we are doing at this time. we are in evacuation mode because of the type of fire we fight at this time. we have many communities that are being evacuated. we are dealing with four fires that are a threat to life safety. so i do have the most up to date mandatory evacuations for the fire. >> what area does that surround? >> we still have the petrified forest road and those residents that are evacuated are asked to go to calistoga fair gr

.>> flames still burning from the atlas peak fire. casting an orange glow around. >> wins have stabilized. tonight it is going to get cooler. humidity is going to rise. that will assist firefighters. many are working in places they have not been before.>> reporter: the atlas fire burning silverado trail. it has claimed 2 lives. an elderly couple unable to escape overnight on atlas peak road. according to the grandfather -- granddaughter charles turned 100 years old and was with his wife sarah rippy. leaving the world together after celebrating their 75th anniversary. flames still burning through the afternoon monday sent columns of smoke into the air just be on vineyards on -- creek road. napa county issued an evacuation advisory. police going door to door and tying yellow tape around areas they have searched. the state of each home and business -- the fate of each home and business resting on wherever the winds blew. down highway 12 just over the sonoma county line one couple came to see the old dairy farm. a local landmark pick >> t

as of 6:40 am we have 12,000 acres burned at atlas peak. we have three evacuations in atlas peak as well as monticello road, soda canyon road as well as olive hills lane. the evacuation centers are the napa valley college gym and also the solano county community college library. for that thank you for being here again. >> good morning, diane dylan the county supervisor who represents the county north of the city of napa. thank you for being here to communicate this information to the public. as of 6:40 the calistoga fire is in excess of 35,000 acres. the fire has caused these evacuations in calistoga it is mandatory from petrified forest road two tubs lane. it is voluntary north of tubs. we have an evacuation center at the napa county fairgrounds at 1345 n. oak street in calistoga. thank you very much. we will now talk about the carneros fire. >> my name is ryan gregory i am supervisor of district 2 in napa county. as for the carneros fire it had burned 2000 acres at 6:40. currently we have mandatory evacuations in this area and evacuation

wildfire on atlas peak. it comes as the bay area is >>> updating breaking news, crews are fighting a large wildfire on atlas peak in napa county. it comes as the bay area is under a red flag warning. strong winds out there contributing to the fire danger and this latest fire is burning atlas peak east of yontville. the wire has bumped at least 200 acres from the hosfeld vineyards. we're learning of multiple fires burning in sonoma county about ten minutes ago we got an emergency alert from sonoma county sheriff. it's in napa county, several burning in sonoma county, the one up there on atlas peak last word we had, 200 acres burned. we'll have an update later. >>> looking down now from a coast guard helicopter. new video showing a rescue just off the napa river. watch that man being pulled to safety. two men were riding jet skis near vallejo, one broke down. a good samaritan took one of the men to the vallejo boat ramp, the other stayed behind to tow the brokendown jet ski with the good one, he never arrived.

near "atlas peak road" south of lake berryessa. they've burned at least 200 acres, and forced evacuations and several road closures. >>> we continue to follow breaking news in napa and sonoma counties. crews are fighting fast-moving flames that broke out at atlas peak road, just south of lake berryessa. 200 acres, at least, have been burned. several homes, businesses and there are evacuations and road closures that have been going on all night since the fire broke out at around 10:00 p.m. the main evacuation areas, we are hearing that kaiser and sutter hospitals in santa rosa are being evacuated. a frantic and dire situation all around north bay wine country, the calistoga area and silverado resort has been evacuated. there are some live pictures with this orange glow spreading through the area. air quality is awful in the north bay and smoke has extended very some are -- very far south. horrible air quality in san mateo county, with more than 60 miles from that area, having smoked. if you are not evacuating, it's best you stay in

atlas peak, look at those winds gusting to 30 miles er hour. another fire we're tracking this one in calistoga. winds once again 33-mile-per-hour gusts. relative humidity is bone dry. those two conditions can combined make fires easily start and easily spread right now. look at winds across the region. fairfield gusting to 40 miles per hour. 38 at napa. future tracker showing you the winds will increase more early tomorrow morning. by 3:00 monday morning, santa rosa a gust of 46 miles per hour. it's for that fact much of the region is under a red flag warning. high fire danger right now. we're already seeing it at this moment because of the gusty winds and that low humidity. we'll take a closer look at the winds when they'll calm down coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> this is a picture again tweeted by thomson vineyards. if you see the fire, use the #abc7 new to send us video or pictures and we'll stay on top of the story. >>> to our other top story, vice president mike pence walked out of a 49ers game today watching the team play

authorities say the atlas peak fire has claimed two lives. sara rippey and charles rippey who were unable to escape the flames. this 25,000 acre fire continues to burn homes in the hills east of napa and fire crews have no containment. this fire and others started late sunday night and exploded in size because of those powerful wind gusts. investigators are working to figure out how those fire started around the same time. >> unusual. yes. to have that many fires start. all fires are being investigated currently. there is no indication that i have received as to what the causes were, however, being on scene to the atlas fire come the winds were extremely erratic. branches were blown off trees as we were trying to make access. during those conditions of high wind, a lot of things happen. >> reporter: the atlas peak fire and napa county has burned 125 homes and businesses including many well-known wineries. the governor has made a disaster declaration to get more money and resources. on top of that, local lawmakers are stepping up. congressman

an elderly couple unable to escape overnight on atlas peak road. according to the granddaughter charles turned 100 years old. was with his wife sarah rippy. leaving the world together after celebrating their 75th anniversary. flames still burning through the afternoon monday. sent columns of smoke into the air just beyond vineyards -- napa county issued an evacuation advisory. police going door to door and putting yellow tape around the areas they have searched. >> reporter: for some residents it was a painful site. to see local landmarks destroyed. down highway 12 over the sonoma county line one couple came to see the dairy farm. a local landmark. >> i was shocked. i wanted to come out. i had to see it for myself. it holds a lot of memories.>> reporter: he remembers the dairy delivering milk bottles to his porch. company has been bought by clover farms. there was no livestock inside when the flames came down the ridge overnight. he remembers bringing his children and his wife to see ice cream being made and getting a free chocolate milk with the t

atlas peak gusting up to 21 currently. looking at our observations around lake county we have a west wind with knoxville creek north. guys oroville northwest, cloverdale east, cloverdale north. the humidity is varying as well but pretty low. some areas like santa rosa are around 50 to 60%. yesterday at this time we were at 49% so the humidity levels are actually dropping and above the oakland hills 28%. a very dry feel in the east bay hills. 30s, 40s and 50s with the cold air helping out those fires. 18 in truckee and temperatures in mendocino county, we have 28, 29 and 30 in bearing spots. we have a cold freeze warning going until 9:00. we have another system rotating from the pacific northwest on friday picking up the wind speeds. today we have the system today which is not bad then we have one more on friday and much warmer with the next sign of rain coming thursday.>> 42,000 acres for the atlas fire now it is over 43,000. >> atlas peak is 22 miles per hour but below that it is not that bad. >> more national guard troop

atlas peak is east of yountville by six miles. the fire broke out before 10:00 p.m. and has burned 200 acres. cal fire is getting justles people who might be -- calls of people who might be trapped in the fire. a second fire, where the old faithful geyser of california, evacuations. evacuations being reported. we will bring you more information as soon as we get it. this is happening statement we have an off shore flow, dry winds. humidity is down. that is why since thursday night we have been talking about the red flag warnings that are up for the bay area and the winds are not materialing tonight. gusts up to 30 miles per hour. -- materializing tonight. gusts up to 30 miles per hour. the humidity is low. the fire danger at the same time the fires are burning is up. >>> two stabbing victims were rushed to the hospital after an attack that lafayette b.a.r.t. station and the station was shut down for hours on what should have been a busy day for riders. the suspect is still on the run. >> reporter: frustrated passengers looking to get on b.a.r.t. were turned away from

we lost some of these observations in napa. 43% at atlas peak. in northeast, self-report chicago, there is a big difference. they were at 70 degrees yesterday at this time. there is still a slight north and east breeze. there is a system coming in that will turn the window more southerly and southwesterly. fog is out there but it will take a while. 43, lakeport. we are down significantly compared to this time yesterday. the napa airport is 23 degrees cooler than yesterday. in the next couple of hours the wind will turn more west and southwest. cooler today with patchy fog 60s, 70s and a few low 80s. >>> right now we do have traffic that is going to be doing pretty well in solano county and parts of sonoma county as we look at the commute on 101. there are still a lot of local closures from the fire. many detours. too many to mention individually. if you were in those areas affected, there will be detours. we look at the cayman vacaville, fairfield and vallejo -- it is okay heading out to the carquinez bridge. highway 37 is open in both directions

atlas peak is northeast. 10 miles per hour less and humidity is higher. 31% atlas peak. for others it was in the teens yesterday announce 80%. coming out of oakland hills northeast, 62 northeast 52. above the oakland zoo, 61 degrees and 32% feast at 10. a few observations in san francisco still have an easterly breeze. that will do it for north and northwest. that is what's ushering the smoke back in from napa county, even into parts of oakland and san francisco. you can see san carlos east southeast. oakland airport, east southeast. today decreasing wind, higher humidity, almost everyone has said there is no wind and it's cooler, but you still have low fuels on that the fire can create its own wind. temperatures will be coming down , 30s and 40s, much cooler for some. the airport still north, there is north of fairfield. unfortunately the offshore breeze prevents it, 21 degrees cooler in napa, highs in the 60s and 70s. i think we will get more of a westerly breeze. that system is digging in and he begins to make its presence felt. that will cool things down. very low 80

peak fire. >> the biggest challenge is the terrain and heavy fuel. >> reporter: the atlas peak fire burning above silverado trail has claimed two lives. an elderly couple unable to escape their home on atlas peak road. according to the granddaughter, charles had just turned 100 and was with his wife, sara. leaving the world together after celebrating the 75th anniversary. flames still burning through the afternoon monday sent columns of smoke into the air on the ridge beyond vineyards. napa county issued an evacuation advisory and police were going door to door and tying yellow tape around areas they have searched and notified. the fate of each home and business is resting on whichever direction the wind blew. for some residents it was a painful site to see local landmarks destroyed. on highway 12 over the sonoma county line, one couple came to see an old dairy farm. >> i was shocked. that's why i'm here now. i had to see it for my own eyes. it holds a lot of memories. >> reporter: rory remembers the dairy delivering bottles to his porch. the company, founded in 1916, had been bough

we can see people trying to get down from atlas speak on atlas peak road. their way was blocked by a fallen tree or a telephone pole. that is when we realize the situation was becoming dire. and so this is where you made the decision to fly into the fire zone. walk me through this process and where did you land the helicopter?>> we made a crew decision that looked like we were going to need to evacuate this people that make these people or they were going to be faced with something tragic. we were not flying into the fire but we was next to it. we landed at eight number of wineries and dirt roads and a trail situation and our flight officer got out and flag some of the cars who were trying to maneuver backup atlas peak road. we convinced them that we were probably the best way out. >> just how dangerous was this? how dangerous was this rescue? >> it is hard to say. we do a lot of training and we do rescue. obviously, we also do law enforcement work. the conditions that night with a really strong wind and really gusty winds and see a fire line made it a real

hellfire says 125 structures have burned here from the atlas peak fire. there is still another 5000 structures that are threatened. that includes barnes, homes any kind of structures and property in the area near the atlas peak raids. we talked to a lot of folks here at the evacuation center yesterday. they told us they grabbed what they could, but really they just had minutes to get out. they don't know what happened to their homes. this morning they will be waking up seeing if they can go back to their neighborhoods, but a lot of these roads are closed. they have not been able to check out their properties just yet. we did speak to an individual yesterday who says he somehow made it in and saw one of his neighbors homes burning to the ground. the devastation, the destruction here still coming to light. as the sun comes up, we will learn more this morning. there are about 300 people here, but napa valley college is also open to evacuees and the fairgrounds also open to evacuees this morning.>>> that last check, more than 99,000 people are without power.

atlas peak, 30,000-acres burned. no containment but that does not we are not fighting the fire, we are fighting the fire, atlas peak road, evacuations are mandatory. also soda canyon, hagen, hill lane, silverado country club. silverado trail. the canyon between silverado trail, turtal rock to the corners, gordon valley. heartman and monticello mobile home park, while i read these i think about the people being impacted by that, our hearts are with you, we are trying to get you back hope but now our number one priority is your safety. for those that have been evacuated, the evacuation centers are napa valley college, also the solano community college, there are advisory ee vak yaiks -- evacuations for north kelly road. we are talking about a fund that people will be able to access, we received numerous calls from the community to help with relief efforts, it's amazing how the community comes together. now supervisor dillon. >> thank you. good morning, my same is diane dillon, i represent district three. we had an unfo

atlas peak, northeast and 32%. overall we are looking for not much of a breeze, especially toward fairfield. santa rosa covered northwest at 5. a system in the pacific northwest that comes through will pick up the wind this evening. >>> we are looking at traffic in the burned area and right now highway 37 and highway 101 remain open. as we push in you can see traffic is moving well on 37 and on 101. traffic is going to be okay on 101 between windsor commons santa rosa, rohnert park and petaluma. some of the off ramps do remain shut down including hopper, bicentennial and mendocino. 37 will move along well. we do have 580 westbound -- some slowing coming in over the altamont pass. traffic is a little slow. it's better than it normally is at this time. sometimes on friday we get a break 680 looks okay until you get to the sunol grade. south bend 680, there is a crash and traffic is going to be slowing down. this is an injury accident involving a bus and a car. there is about a mile backup on 680 south down the sunol

when you get that update come up please ask them about atlas peak. many of our viewers have homes and friends and family of they are and are specifically asking about atlas peak. if there any homes left out there. >> reporter: that is where the atlas fire originated. according to the cal fire incident commander, that is the largest of the three fires. it's probably safe to say, i assume, that is a lot of where the damages. i will ask specifically about the homes and that area. we were closer to that area yesterday. as is the case with a fire, the damage is sporadic and random. some houses will be untouched whereas other homes will have burned to the ground except for the chimney. even if we know where most of the damage is, there still may be homes on the streets that are of a. it's hard to know without going to a specific address or specific area. we will try to get more information on that. >> we have seen the. whole areas will be devastated and then there will be a couple of homes. i'm sure these people are hoping and praying that there is a home

west of atlas peak. 87%. these will all eastern and north east and that brought the smoke in and the air flow is nor north west and taking the smoke -- more north west and taking the smoke out of the air. and west of travis and san francisco is showing all west scmpt yesterday yesterday --and yesterday they have an east. it is on shore and patchy clouds. 30s 40s on temps and cool. noticeably cooler as highs come in the 70s and hire clouds in the morning. sfourts and -- higher clouds in the morning. 40s and 50s and they will clear out but the cooler air is moving in and the breeze will pick up and another system on friday to keep the beat going here. 68s and 70s. not a strong north or east wind. not are yet it is more north west but we expect that to pick up later and this is going to be with us until friday and it will calm down a bit. >> thank you steve. >>> up next. so many people want to know how can they help. and what people at the centers say you should not do -- hould not do -- i love you, couch. you g

the biggest fire so far is atlas peak. the latest update we have so far is the fire there is 200 acres, but spreading very fast with high winds in that area. thousands of people are evacuated now. in fact, the silverado resort and spa is e vacuated. we have heard from people that have gone to the evacuation centers who fear they will go back to nothing. right now, we have some of the breaking news we are covering that all santa rosa schools have been closed. now, napa county schools shut down for the day. >> a lot of area being affected by this. we have maps of that area that we have been looking at. take a look at that when we get it up in a moment. this area is widespread. it is 20,000 acres in calistoga, 2000 in napa. a huge area. the atlas peak road is where we got the first report of that fire. this was around 10:00 last night. then, of course, throughout the night, the fire continued to spread. the strong winds we have been seeing in the area, as well as the embers have been affecting a lot of areas. hospitals have b

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this is because of the atlas peak fire that started in napa county. the concern is the fire could come over the ridge and this neighborhood would be downhill from the fire if the flames started coming down the ridge. around midnight, sheriffs went door to door, letting people know it was time to pack up their belongings and leave. we have seen cars coming back to the closure. they have been letting some people come in to retrieve the last of their belongings like this woman who made several trips overnight with her horse trailer. she is still in the process of moving out her eight horses, one goat and 12 chickens. >> just hope everyone stay safe. >> you seem very calm. >> it's not here yet, so, i want everyone to be safe. >> not here yet. >> reporter: talking about the flames. they're not in the rockville neighborhood of unincorporated fairfield yet but we spoke to a gentleman who had to evacuate overnight. he said he drove to rockville and green valley road. from there he said about three miles over this hill in the valley, he was able to see some fl

it started near atlas peak above the silverado trail. it is now moved south and east into solano county toward lake berryessa. officers in the eastern sonoma valley have been going door to door warning people the fire could hit their neighborhoods. this video was tweeted out by the chp in san francisco. new evacuation orders were issued for lovall valley road. people are strongly encouraged to leave. >>> overnight, new video from alameda county fire of teams deployed to the partrick fire west of napa and east of sonoma. the flames are very intense as you can see. fire crews have been working around the clock since sunday night. >>> the evacuation orders and geyserville continue to expand. mandatory evacuations are in place for highway 128 east to the river rock casino and south on 128 from kaiser wrote to kal pine. authorities say 3-4 homes have been destroyed and 5000 acres have burned. one woman described the moments as neighbors got the word it was time to get out. >> it was just neighbors calling neighbors. >> were you scared? >> yes

pilot pete gavin looked out of his chopper towards atlas peak. >> it looked like a nuclear bomb had went out. >> they raced to the rescue and spotted the family trapped. they knew it was life or death. >> you get out or cook. >> they're a family of five and the helicopter could only fit four. >> pepe insisted he stay behind. >> it was like we were the titanic, and he's saying take my family and go. >> his son, jesse, wife and her parents were safe. pepe was alone, surrounded by fire. >> i called my daughter and brother, and said if i don't see you again, remember i love you. that was it. >> so when we returned to that landing zone, pepe was gone. and my heart dropped. >> reporter: the chp chopper game back again and spotted him. >> it was close. it was really close. >> reporter: they lost their home in the fire, pepe went back up to atlas peak yesterday to see what had become of his car and his dog he left inside. the car wasn't touched, the dog alive and well. terry mcsweeney, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, terry. >>> most of us are not near the fire but we can see and smell the smoke

there is that northeast at atlas peak. 57 degrees. napa has a east wind. 40s and 50s on these temperatures. there is that system. once that comes down, that will pick up the breeze tonight. >>> good morning. traffic is doing pretty well if you are driving on many of these roads. highway 37 is open and so is highway 101. there are closures near the fire zone in santa rosa of the off ramps. we do have some roads that are closed. highway 128 into and out of calistoga and highway 128 near lake berryessa and parts of highway 121. parts of highway 12 have reopened. there hasn't been much of a commute between santa rosa and petaluma. it's understandable since people have been tending to other things. this is a look at 80 westbound. vacaville, fairfield and vallejo. this has been okay. traffic has been a little slow on the carquinez bridge. if you are driving from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze, it's taking 18 minutes. when you get to the bay bridge there is a slight delay in some lanes. >>> the city of calistoga remains under man

in the atlas peak area, which encompasses monticello road, atlas peak road and soda canyon road. and now down including new mandatory evacuation through all of the avenues, first avenue, second avenue, third avenue, fourth avenue, north avenue, wild horse, which is probably new from your last update. and then we also have the fire out in the carneros area. we have evacuations from 121 to buman. buman to henry and henry over to dealy and back up to old sonoma road. we have additional mandatory evacuations for that carneros road. so, that is on both sides of 121 right now, the carneros inn area and there's a mandatory evacuation. we also have partrick road, which has mandatory evacuations, but that has not grown in the evacuation zone as of yet. >> you mentioned so many different roads now being evacuated. you mentioned some new evacuation areas. do you have any idea of how many folks are being evacuated, what the number is there of people being affected by this? >> at this time, we don't know. we simply are in -- we're in life-saving mode right now. we are in evacuation mode. our

i was probably within 200 feet of the flames atlas peak. i felt like i was about to get roasted.>> reporter: many neighbors on greenbrier circle came home to see this like this. >> it is pretty devastating. to realize that everything you have is gone. not only your possessions but those possessions that have been given to you from your ancestors.>> reporter: she and her husband brought escalated to see if they can find a precious heirloom. >> we are in questa for this toy canyon that was my husband's great-grandfathers.>> reporter: her next-door neighbor's home survive. she is and asking herself why me. >> i feel sorry for a lot of these neighbors. our house is down. they will come home every day and just see a war zone.>> reporter: it is unclear how many homes were lost. the estimate at least 100. most were multi-million-dollar homes. the fires aftermath brings a mixed bag of emotions. happy for those whose homes made it. heartsick for those on the losing end. people say they know someday this community will return to some sense of normalc

atlas peak is now west. the breeze not s not what they -- is not what they want but a west south west at napa and a west at port chicago. those were north or north east yesterday and 40s and 50s. it is cool on it temps. they will not warm up today. they will be in the 70s for everyone. but 11:00 a.m. we have the fire weather warning because you have the breeze and in the hills there could be gust over 30 miles per hour which would change the direction and it may go backover itself again. -- back over itself again. 40s and 50s and the system produced fog and that is on highway 1 and watch out for that. this one has more over us. so while it will be a cooler air mass and higher humidity the wind will pick up later. >>> steve, right now we have plaint of closures in the -- plenty of closures in the fire area. a lot of closure near in the santa rosa area. highway 28 isope close is closed. they made -- is closed and we are backing up and looking at the rest of the bay area commute and right now we don't see a lot

atlas peak has a northeast at 10. nothing compared to the northeast at 60 on sunday night and monday morning. then it turns a little more north/northeast. santa rosa gets a northeast at 7. napa airport atlas peak north at 27 miles per hour tomorrow morning. so, again, the difference is the temperatures are down 25 degrees for some. the humidity is up considerably. but the wind will pick up. even though it will be more north/northwest. south/southwest. that is taking the smoke, a complete reversal of yesterday when it was northeast t came back to san francisco. now it is going out to the valley. 40 in windsor. that will keep the temperature held up. very cold air and patchy low clouds. 50s on the temps. 40s for some. santa rosa is 37 degrees. sonoma county airport, 37 degrees. that is down 30 degrees compared to a couple days ago. that will help firefighters big time. another system coming in on friday. that will keep the breeze going. it is not the east wind yet. it is more of the northwest. 60s, 70s on the temps. all

. >> one of the fire started before 10:00 at atlas peak. cal fire says they have no containment of that fire. each of the fires may have burned 1000 acres or more. very strong wind with low humidity making this a dangerous situation. during the night cal fire says they are focusing on saving lives not fighting fires. >> at this point our priority is to get people out. we are forcing evacuations. they are coordinating efforts with chp to use helicopters to evacuate people from their property on the hillsides and get them to the evacuation shelters.>> september and october are peak fire seasons. the national weather service issued a red flag fire warning that runs until tomorrow. fire crews are very busy with dozens of fires burning across the state. the strike team is being sent from fire to fire. >> there are several evacuation centers set up in napa. there is one across from walk church which has been filled but there are other centers. >> there is a center at the fairgrounds at north oak street. another center has been opened at the nappy

this started near atlas peak above the silverado trail in napa county. since then, it has moved south and east into solano county and towards lake berryessa. >>> overnight we have new video to show you from alameda county air teams being deployed to the partrick fire. this is west of napa and east of sonoma. the flames on the front lines are very intense. fire crews have been working around the clock since sunday night. >>> more napa neighborhoods are being warned to be ready to evacuate. >> allie rasmus joins us with the latest developments that that -- there. what's happening there. >> reporter: we are in a vineyard east of highway 112. as we were driving into napa we saw this orange glow and veered onto highway 221 and took anderson road and went up this hill. there are some workers here at the vineyard. they could not tell me the name of the vineyard. you can see the flames behind us creeping over the mountain. we have also seen fire trucks and emergency vehicles in that area where you see the flames in the canopy of the trees. i'm not sure which dir

atlas peak, 19 from the north and 29% humidity. the fire where the warning goes all the way to the south. it is covering a wide area. there is a freeze warning to the north in parts of mendocino county until 9:00 for temperatures in the low 30s. higher clouds and fog yesterday. that is not the case today. 56 at napa airport. if you have a north wind, it is probably warm. if it's called, it's probably pretty cold. one more system will come from the north on friday and that will keep the wind going again. 60s and 70s on the temperatures today. >>> we do have road closures and sonoma county and napa county and a lot of them -- we can't mention all of them because there is a long list -- i do want to mention if you're driving to the area, highway 37, 101 and 20 not are open. authorities are asking you to stay off the roads unless it's necessary. you will see that the purple is where we have the closures. highway 128 into calistoga from north to south and also 128 near lake berryessa is closed. many of the off ramps are closed near the

napa county, northeast atlas peak 10. other locations with the slight northerly breeze, the humidity is up. that will change tonight though. wind advisory 11:00 p.m. it kicks in for the north and east bay hills. red flag warning kicks in at 5:00 p.m. gusts over 45 to 50 in higher peaks. 30s and 40s on the temps. cool air mass in place. no clouds or fog coming in. 37 ukiah. and the wind is a little bit all over the place. you're getting a southeast, a west, northeast,ing in. 30s on the temps and upper 20s. a freeze warning has been posted until 9:00. that is the system that goes through. we will be on the back side. then the wind picks up tonight and into saturday morning. it will decrease ask we will see warmer temps over the weekend. 60s and 70s. rain next thursday morning. >> i'll take the rain. thank you, steve. >>> we continue to monitor the air quality across the bay area. it is not healthy. up next, how the smoke from the wildfires in the north bay could impact your weekend plans. ah, dinner. throughout history, the

i want to provide an update on the atlas peak fire. as of this morning we had 43,000 acres burned. 3% containment and we are actively fighting the fire. to all the constituents at district 4 thank you for your patience. there's a lot of devastation out of there but i am happy to report because of the work of our sheriff's department, pg&e, at&t and cal fire we are talking about people going back into their homes. we are saying when can we open the roadblocks and we are having active discussions with more good news to come shortly but it is really a team effort and again i can't underscore the patient's from all the residents of district 4. you have a community standing with you working hard for you. we have some folks at the shelters and that is from napa valley college as well as solano. also folks in the community foundation has established an account for donations. unfortunately we have done this before. we have done tragedy with earthquakes and this community comes together in ways we can't even imagine. please visit the website fo

rose peak, middle peak and atlas peak, between 25-35 miles per hour gusts. along the coast, 43 at bodega bay. the strongest wind is mount diablo. 61 miles per hour. even if you're in the east bay we have wind cranking. let's look at lake county. we have a new fire burning in this area. we continue to watch the wind come from the northeast in some areas.25 miles per hour or so and relative humidity down to 25%. we talk about wind being a factor and relative humidity being a factor. imagine the dryness ads to the fire. it burns easily and quicker when you have dry air and dry fuel. it makes matters worse. here are the winds in areas like napa and santa rosa where it has been generally light. atlas peak reporting 20 miles per hour from the north and we are also squeezing in a look at where we have those evacuations. it's easy to see, that wind is going from the north and northeast and has pushed into areas of sonoma and portions of the sonoma valley. wind coming from the northwest along the valley around 17 miles per hour. the wind is expected to peak over the

that's the golf course over there and more of the same heading back out to atlas peak drive. along the silverado trail in napa valley, rob fladeboe, kron 4 news. >> story after story of people returning to homes finding them destroyed and homeowners who grabbed the hoses and fought the flames themselves. >> we have the story of one couple who returned to survey the damage. >> reporter: well, this is headquarters for cal fire crews, crews that have been battling all of napa's wildfires. right now the biggest is the atlas fire burning 26,000 acres in napa county. today we met one family who didn't leave their home without a fight. arthur garcia and his wife marie torres are searching for signs that remind them of home in a place they almost don't recognize. lingers...an as they walk through their property, smoke still lingers and they remember what the atlas fire did sunday night. >> i can't believe we don't have time for anything. >> reporter: she said her husband warned her to pack up and leave when the flames approached their home. >> i thought we was going to go. >> reporte

a helicopter rescued an injured firefighter on the top of atlas peak. the firefighter was on an atv when it rolled. he fell off and injured his head. he is expected to make a full recovery. >>> the town of calistoga, near the top of napa county is still not in the clear. >> it remains a ghost town. last check t tubbs fire was burning north of the downtown area on state road 29 but burning toward lake county. some folks in calistoga decided not to leave, people like greg winter that is are going to try to protect their homes by any means necessary. >> ash, but nothing ember wise. we are trying to defend the property. it's been in the family since the '70s. >> 5,000 people live in calistoga and we should get an update on the evacuations later this morning. firefighters continue to battle the stubborn flames. evacuees are allowed to return home. sadly, some of them are finding there is nothing left. there is a lot of damage and no power in the silverado country chub neighborhood. >> jean elle is in napa with a story. >> reporter: the good news is people li

we will have the very latest on the atlas peak fire, coming up.>>> i'm michelle griego. and i'm anne makovec -- kenny is off. the fires that tore through napa good morning. it is tuesday, october 10. >> the fires that tore through napa and sonoma counties yesterday are still raging out of control. they have already proven deadly. 11 people are dead. at least seven people killed in sonoma county, two in napa county, and one in mendocino and one in yuba county. we will not know the full extent of the damage for some time, but we do know at least 1500 homes and buildings have been destroyed and more than 20,000 people have evacuated. at least 15 fires are burning in seven counties. evacuations are in effect

this area has been really devastated by this atlas peak fire. what you're looking at behind me is one of the first homes engulfed in this fire. those flames racing down the hillside right behind the home. and inside the home an elderly couple. we now know that's the couple that is confirmed dead. they were together until the very end. now we spoke to cal fire earlier today is and they say they just don't have a sense at this point exactly how many homes and structures have been burned or how many people have been injured. we do knee at last check the fire ripped through at least 25 thousand acres. 0% containment right now. fire crews are in life saving mode. they just want to make sure that people are safe. now i did speak to the son of the couple who died here in the fire. he said the couple lived here for decades. they just celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. they met in grade school and are survived by their five children. >> it was like a rainstorm except it was fire. it was blowing hot debris through the air. and the like i say there

the atlas peak fire near me at 25,000 acres, no containment. a dark cloud billows along the ridge line which means event -- mandatory evacuations are in place. the nuns fire is at 5000 acres, the so-called 37 fire of lakeview highway it is -- has burned 2000 acres. >> we are still having active fire in all locations, we are unfortunately continued to experience additional structure loss that happens due to the fire growth. >> reporter: 15 people are confirmed dead to the wild -- due to the wildfires. they were not able to get out in time and died in the 100 block of westgate. there is one reported death in encino county. crews are out right now trying to restore power. this is outside the fire area but it is slow going. many of the polls have been damaged or burned away. lines have been left low hanging across many of the streets. self-service -- cell phone service is not very good. comcast is bringing in free hotspots for several different zip codes in this area. no charge to log onto that. for those looking for information on their neighborho

those that are reporting show atlas peak north at 19. 29% humidity. some areas are not reporting much information. red flag warning continues out to the valley for everyone. it's not just the north. even with all this cold air we have the freeze warning for parts of mendocino county until 9 am. the higher clouds of cleared out but the smoke is not going anywhere. 30s and 40s on the temps. we end up with temperatures today in the 70s for many. cooler than sunday and monday where we had lows in the upper 60s to near 70. dry air is coming in and then one more system cut will come through. the next system will come in tomorrow and that will pick up the wind. hazy skies. the wind picks up on friday into early saturday. after that it looks warmer. upper 80s and maybe a few near 90 on monday. it does look like rain by next thursday. >> we could use that right now. >> a week away. >>> thank you. >>> a few months after a shooting incident before the baseball game, congress taking the field again. the special game they played with some of the people credited wi

atlas peak, 18%, northeast at 10. there's a northerly or northeast component for just about anybody. 40s, 0s, and 6 0s. if you have an off-shore breeze, it's pretty warm. if you don't, it's very cold. one observation reporting in napa at 47. cloverdal, though, is 58. winds are 42. there's your high clouds coming in from the west, southwest. waiting for a system to dig in from the gulf of alaska. we're still 4 days away. . >>> all right. sal? . >> traffic is going to be busy if you are driving on the commute here on 80 westbound. vacaville, fairfield, vallejo. highway 37 is getting slow on the way over to marin county. then we have traffic on 80 westbound, which is slow. parts of richmond, san pablo does get better by the time you reach the berkeley area. at the bay bridge, the metering lights went on early. we had a big back up at the toll plaza. >>> let's go back to the desk. >> as we have been telling you earlier, firefighters are making some progress against the wine country wildfires. >> some are going back to see

peak road, pretty close to us and we live near there. they said you should step outside and take a look and sure enough, flames were a couple of hundred feet high and a couple of miles away. we just e t and we ansat d here and saw tanks exploding. we waited for the next course of action and about 1:00 a.m., the sheriff's department indicated we should evacuate. we ended up, from there, just trying to find out where the location was to go to an crosswalk was one of the locations to evacuate too. we've been here since about 1:00 this morning, getting no sleep and waiting to see what happens. hopefully, we will have a place to go back to. right now, i've heard there are some pretty bad areas out there right now. you saw the flames a couple of hundred feet away and you hadn't seen them die down at all? >> the only time they really died down was when the smoke came down on top of us and up until then, the clouds were up high and smoke was up high and we saw flames and all of a sudden it crept down where we were living and became pretty much u

on sunday night as the flames raced through atlas peak, they left their home just before it burned to the ground. >> all i can see was flames, like, 15, 20 feet high. >> they drove up to a feield along the mountain. that's when the crew saw the family. they landed the chopper. >> i said we can take four people. he made the decision of who was going to go. a very selfless act on his part. >> i thought these guys, please take my family, you know. i'll be here. i'll be all right. >> i was crying. my son, my mom, everybody was crying. >> reporter: he tried hard not to show his fear but the flames were close. >> i call my daughter and i tell her, if i don't see you again, remember i love you. that was it. >> the courage and selflessness did not go unnoticed. >> he's saying take my family and go. i mean, kudos to him, you know. what a guy. >> i told him we were coming back. i don't think he believed us. >> officer lowe meant what he said. later that night they found him and picked him up. >> i was, like, nervous when he didn't come. he came. >> when i saw him again, i so happy. >> we want t

this is behind silverado country club near atlas peak road. you can go all throughout the wine country with this map. this also shows some evacuation centers. check it out. we have a link to the map at ktvu.com. hopefully it will help you out. >>> residents and business owners in sonoma can apply for disaster aid to cover their losses. fema has announced there are grants available for temporary housing, home repairs and property losses not covered by insurance. the assistance will likely be expanded to other counties. fema said it will offer more assistance in the near future and tax relief could be on the way for people whose properties were damaged by fires. sonoma county announced they are working to identify and adjust property values and tax bills on properties that will have more than $10,000 worth of damage. >>> with so much devastation in sonoma and napa, one area that's not getting as much attention is mendocino county. wildfires have scorched 34,000 acres with containment at 10% at this hour. so far the there 8 confirmed deaths. offi

on sunday night as the flames raced through atlas peak, tomayo and his family left just before the home burned to the ground. >> i can see the flames 15, 20 feet high. >> they drove up to a field along the mountain. that's when pilot pete and flight officer whitney lowe saw him and his extended family. they landed the chopper. i said we can take four people and he made the decision who was going to go. a very selfless act on his part. >> i told these guy, please take my family, you know. i'll be here. i'll be all right. >> i was crying. my son, my mom, everybody was. everybody was crying. >> tomayo tried hard not to show his fear. but the flames were close. >> i call my daughter, and i tell her, mi hija, if i don't see you again, remember i love you. and that was it. >> tomayo's courage and selflessness did not go unnoticed. >> he was saying take my family and go. kudos to him, you know. what a guy. >> i told him he were coming back, and i don't think he believed us. >> officer lowe meant what he said. later that night, they found tomayo and picked him up. >> like i was nervous when he

these have caused evacuations on atlas peak road, medical evacuations and monticello road, atlas peak to circle oaks, soda canyon, the avenues, olive hill, monticello park, silverado country club, wooden valley road, comsville road to wild horse valley. silverado trail to sage canyon between silverado trail and now a lot of folks are asking where folks are going to. for our district, it's the napa valley college gym, 2277 napa valley highway in napa. and we have crosswalk church at 2590 first street. there was a lot of air attack in our district. i had a chance to visit our district yesterday. we will do everything to keep you safe and make sure that you guys and gals can go back to your district. our concern is your -- you're safe. >>> good morning. i am the supervisor for the tubbs fire. the city of calistoga is safe. power was restored yesterday afternoon. the tubbs fire has not increased in size that we know of but petrified forest road is closed, highway 128 is still closed. the road from calistoga up to nice valley. so the main thing we want to size, we have a voluntary evacuati

on sunday night as the flames raced through atlas peak, tomayo and his family left just before the home burned to the ground. >> i can see the flames 15, 20 feet high. >> they drove up to a field along the mountain. that's when pilot pete and flight officer whitney lowe saw him extended family. they landed the chopper. i said we can take four people and he made the decision who was going to go. a very selfless act on his part. >> i told these guy, please take my family, you know. i'll be here. i'll be all right. >> i was crying. my son, my mom, everybody was. everybody was crying. >> tomayo tried hard not to show his fear. but the flames were close. >> i call my daughter, and i tell her, mi hija, if i don't see you again, remember i love you. and that was it. >> tomayo's courage and selflessness did not go unnoticed. >> he was saying take my family and go. kudos to him, you know. what a guy. >> i told him he were coming back, and i don't think he believed us. >> officer lowe meant what he said. later that night, they found tomayo and picked him up. >> like i was nervous when he didn't c