rosa county fire and correction, santa rosa city fire and chief gosner in a unified effort to command the incident. the current situation as the chief pointed out is 25 to 30,000 acres, 0% contained. the fire has done a good amount of magnitude of damage and we are still working with putting our damage a he isment teams -- assessment teams together and getting them out to accurately document the amount of damage that we have. we've had a great cooperative effort throughout the night from local fire agencies in sonoma county as well as local law enforcement agencies. also continuing effort from the master mutual aid system from the local, state and federal fire departments up and down the state of california. cal fire would like to urge you and the public to help us with any new fire starts to insure that we don't get any. as you can see, conditions are severe up and down the state and resources have spread thin with the massive amount of fires that we have up and down the state. thank you. >> evening. i'm rob jordano from the sheriff's office in sonoma county. we've had deputies up on

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out of santa rosa. (steve) staying in santa rosa... let's check in with kron four's philippe djegal... who spent time at the journey's end mobile home park, destroyed in a fire. (grant) that's where search and rescue volunteers spent the day with cadaver dogs looking for human remains. (philippe) for eileen rosetti... the journey's end was home for a year and a half... now, she says it's impossible to point out where her mobile home once stood. eileen rosetti/evacuee- "i can't tell where my rubble ends and someone else's begins." through the afternoon at least 50 search and rescue volunteers, some from as far south as monterey county... walked the grounds in santa rosa, searching for human remains, with the help of five trained cadaver dogs. checking on five specific addresses, then branching out through the rest of the park. eileen fears some of her neighbors who went missing, never made it out of the fire alive.eileen rosetti/evacuee- "i feel really sad. i, i tried to get one of my neighbors out, um, but he wouldn't go. i think he pr

in santa rosa alone... more than 28-hundred houses have been wiped out by fire. ( justine ) we saw another fire erupt in santa rosa overnight... and that has led to a new evacuation order. this map shows the area where people need to leave. however fire officials say it is to get them out of the area to help the firefighting effort. at this time... lives are not in immediate danger... but the threat of the flames has led officials to not take any chances. also... we have heard an area near coffey park is no longer under a mandatory evacuation order. you check the kron four website... and the city of santa rosa's website as well. ( jr stone ) cal fire has been constantly updating its maps... show where the fires are burning. this shows the major fires going tonight in wine country. the areas shaded in red...that is where a fire is burning or has burned. a red flame icon means the fire is active or not fully contained... a black icon means the fire is under control. (justine) also today, governor jerry brown

she is live santa rosa hermela? hermela?santa rosa hermela? (pam) toss to break oh, you brought butch. yeah! (butch growls at man) he's looking at me right now, isn't he? yup. (butch barks at man) butch is like an old soul that just hates my guts. (laughs) (vo) you can never have too many faithful companions. introducing the all-new crosstrek. love is out there. find it in a subaru crosstrek. ((pam)) kron 4 has been on the air non- stop since 4- oclock this morning... covering these fires ravaging california. ((steve)) our team of reporters have been fanned out across the north bay talking to people who lost their homes, others who have been evacuated...((pam)) kron 4's j-r stone spoke with one man ... whose home was spared, but sadly, his neighbors lost everything. (steve) in napa, evacuees are in napa, evacuees are wondering about their homes near atlas peak, where the original fire began sunday night at about ten o'clock. (pam) and kron four's spencer blake was in napa all day... to show us the dozens of homes that burned to the ground. (pk

now let's go over to santa rosa. the mandatory evacuations in santa rosa are east of calistoga road to the city of santa rosa limits and north of melita road to the city of santa rosa limits. this includes all of sky hawk, oakmont and much of rincon valley. they are asking you to evacuate immediately. so again the area where i am standing is under value terror evacuation -- voluntary evacuation. if you're under a voluntary evacuation, that advisory means you have to be ready, you have to have your bags packed, you have to be ready to go at any moment because they could come knocking on your door and you might only have seconds or minutes to get out of this area. they are telling everyone to be as ready as they can be to get out. i spoke to some residents who were able to get in and as they were coming out, they were telling me that they did see some damage from the flames on residents that they say is on castle and north castle. so that area they said as they went in, they saw some fire damage. so just, you know, the

in santa rosa alone... more than 28-hundred houses have been wiped out by fire. (jr stone) cal fire released this map showing the major fires happening tonight in the north bay. here are a look at the latest numbers.... the atlas fire in napa and solano counties has burned more 50-thousand acres and is 48-percent contained. the nuns fire in sonoma county has burned more than 47-thousand acres and is 15- percent contained. the tubbs fire in napa county has burned over 35- thousand acres and is 50- percent contained. and in sonoma county...the pocket fire has burned over 11- thousand acres and is 15- percent contained. (justine) we saw another fire erupt in santa rosa overnight... and that led to a new evacuation advisory. this map shows the area where people need to leave. however fire officials say it is to get them out of the area to help with firefighting efforts. at this time... lives are not in immediate danger... but the threat of the flames has led officials to not take any chances. also... we have he

in santa rosa, philippe djegal, kron four news. the air quality has been affecting our sports teams all week. the raiders had to cut practice short due to air conditons being unhealthy for the players. kron-4's sports director, gary radnich is now here to tell us why the n-f-l decided to keep the raiders game in oakland this sunday the n-f-l believes the air quality conditons will improve heading into the weekend. but they'll continue to monitor the air, if things worsen they announce changes about the game via social media. right now their game against the their game right now their game against the charges remains on schedule at 1:25 p-m. the league was thinking of moving the game down to levi's stadium or qualcomm stadium in san diego. the poor air quality caused the north bay wildfires... forced some players to wear facemasks during practice right now -- the air quality index in oakland is 159 here's jack del rio on the league's decision to keep the game at the coliseum "nah, i think will be fine. obviously it's a

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and then the fire near santa rosa -- santa rosa is a series of fires exceeding 25,000 acres. there are a series of 3 to 5 little ones, that are anywhere from 1000 to 6000, and that doesn't even account for the northern california fires, when we expand the map there are more than 14 fires burning around northern california. including lake county where there is a burn water notice.>> 70,000 acres affected by wildfires in just the last 24 hours or less. mendocino, nappy -- napa, calaveras, all affected areas. a state of emergency has been declared for cuba, napa -- napa and sonoma counties. also fema has been called for supplies and shelters. there is a need for water and food. this fire is still being fought.>> we should mention that the number of homes and businesses destroyed, this was given around 11 deck 30 today. -- 11:00 today, was 1500. what's go to this press conference.>> we can have everyone come in to talk about the fire and their areas. we will take some questions. you will be able to take some individual questions as well. we will start with the santa rosa chief. >

park in santa rosa. those include mil burn drive and ridge driver. >> completely obliterated. we're looking and looking and we cannot find any homes standing. >> while the fires burn in some neighborhoods, people still can't return to others to fine out if their homes were spared or destroyed by the flames. >> the death toll is 15 in california and it may take times to see if more victimes are in burned out area, whether there are more. >> we're responding to calls and houses, i know that someone came up because someone was at a place. we ended up finding a body there. that is part of it. >> so far more than 2,000 homes and businesses have been destroyed in northern california and flames threatens thousands more in several counties. >> we've mentioned 183 people are still listed at missing in sonoma county. the sheriff's office hoping some have been found but not yet reported as found. >> if you know of someone who was missing but no longer is missing please reach out to the sonoma county emergency opera

rosa. >> heading towards santa rosa. >> heading towards town. >> santa rosa is pretty big. so, i mean, can you say maybe a quarter of the town -- >> you know, i don't want to say. you can see behind us it's jumped highway highway 101 on the north side of santa rosa. it's a substantial area being affected right now. >> thank you, sir. >> so that's basically the assessment in a nutshell is that if you see it to get out of harms way and this is no joke, these winds are really bad. >> is that ash? in your shot. >> that is ash. >> ash is raining down. >> that was. that was. if i put the light on sometimes you'll see them coming down and stuff. right now another big building is just on fire. that's -- you can see it right there. >> oh my gosh i do see that. >> just burning down. it's like a candle. >> it is a large building. that's not a home, is it? that's industrial. >> that looks like a large building. i couldn't tell you what it was before because it was in the dark and the smoke was covering up things. but you definitely see it now and it's burning down. >> yeah, see that's

again, if you have children in santa rosa schools or know people in santa rosa schools, let them know all the schools in santa rosa have been closed because of this fast moving, growing fire. >> so many people are evacuated. that includes kaiser hospital in santa rosa. our reporter, thom generjensen live at the scene. you have somebody from cal fire, go ahead. >> reporter: yeah, i have a battalion chief, jonathan cox here from cal fire. you are telling me this is a once in a lifetime type fire. what is your priority right now? what can you tell people at home? >> i can't stress enough. this is the initial attack. this is the first phase of the fire. the wind is blowing and the fire is pushing. our priority is life safety, get people out of harm's way. our firefighters are in front of the fire, trying to evacuate them. if they feel they need to evacuate anybody, if they need to evacuate to get out. when they get that evacuation order to leave immediately. this wind and fire behavior is relentless at the homt. firefighters are being outpaced and we are really in the initial stages of th

start off with santa rosa chief. >> i'm tony gazner, chief for city of santa rosa. 7:00, 7:30, multiple fires throughout the city, drained our esources quickly. and had mutual aid come in and then tubbs fire coming in, realized with the wind we were battling on our own fires this this fire would come into santa rosa. did what we could. ordered up mutual aid early, we -- we ordered up mutual aid early, established a unified command with cdf or cal fire. set up our staging area in k-mart parking lot in city of santa rosa. didn't take long before we realized that was not a good spot. moved to our fire station 3. had thee immediate need strike teams. 25 other strike teams inbound. and it was all we could do to put engines in the right place. had every resource in the county, recalled every firefighter in the city of santa rosa, and used every resource to the best of our ability. but with that kind of wind, that fire, not sure when it started but blew into santa rosa around midnight, little bit earlier, by morning time, fire about 25 to 30,000 acres. came in hard. very windy, dry wind and ta

at the journey's end mobile home park in santa rosa. trained volunteers looked through ash for remains. cadaver dogs were brought in to help in the search. the dogs were also brought in ... to the rincon ridge drive area .. on fountaingrove parkway and millbrook drive. (steve) tonight we are learning more about some of the victims killed in the fires. the daughter of 75 year suiko grant and 95 year old arthur tasman grant posted these pictures on facebook. looking for information on her parents after not hearing from them after the fire.12 hours later she posted these photos of the couple in their primewriting today i lost my beautiful parents. they were not able to escape the fires in the mark west springs area of santa rosa. (steve) this is what's left of the home of leroy and donna halburwho also could not evacuate the larkfield area of santa rosa in time to save themselves. the couple, both in their 80's had been married 50 years.leroy helped found the sonoma county branch of the catholic charity st. vincent de paul. and was an acti

park in santa rosa. those include mil burn drive and ridge driver. >> completely obliterated. we're looking and looking and we cannot find any homes standing. >> while the fires burn in some neighborhoods, people still can't return to others to fine out if their homes were spared or destroyed by the flames. >> the death toll is 15 in california and it may take times to see if more victimes are in burned out area, whether there are more. >> we're responding to calls and houses, i know that someone came up because someone was at a place. we ended up finding a body there. that is part of it. >> so far more than 2,000 homes and businesses have been destroyed in northern california and flames threatens thousands more in several counties. >> we've mentioned 183 people are still listed at missing in sonoma coun. the sheriff's office hoping some have been found but not yet reported as found. >> if you know of someone who was missing but no longer is missing please reach out to the sonoma county emergency operati

in santa rosa. a family neighborhood. in fact we've been talking about the hospitals, a lot of the nurses from the hospitals live in this neighborhood. i'm on pinnen now and doingwood, everything that you see around me is gone. gone, down to the studs. just smoke and debris is what's left of this neighborhood. this is a family neighborhood made of police officers, firefighters themselves, lots of nurses say they live in this neighborhood and their homes are gone. they got the call at 12:00 at night said grab something and go. ironically if you look down the street, all the way past the stop sign, all the houses there absolutely fine. in fact across the street from each other one side of the block houses are okay. on the other side of the street, completely gone. nothing left. no cars, no furniture, nothing but rubble. so people have just been returning back to their neighborhood to see. then other people have been showing up, people in the houses that are okay, they've been coming out handing out water, going around tryin

reporting live in santa rosa. >> we'll stay in santa rosa in the coffee park neighborhood which was leveled by the tubs fire. now another threat, looters, police officers out in force. these looters are showing up before folks have gone to see their homes, sam. >> reporter: it is so frustrating. these families have been through so much already. you know, there's lots of ways to gauge how people are feeling emotionally. one of them certainly the signs on their face. i stood out here this afternoon with a man who had his daughter and son in one arm and his wife right next to him and he was smiling, grinning ear to ear. this as 500 yards away are the rub are you abl rubble of his house, all of the homes have been absolutely wiped away as neighbors are digesting that information they're appreciative for what they have but they're riding out physical signs of disgust by some of the behavior you're alluding to. a portrait of people unfolding before us on this coffee park corner. >> grabbed him by the shoulder, said you have to get out. >> these guys are the heros that saved our street, they woke

just north of downtown santa rosa we spoke with santa rosa's mayor earlier and he says he has no idea what they are dealing with right now he is just trying to stay out of emergency crew ways. -- emergency crews way. where to showing a picture of what some of these folks are dealing with overnight when they woke in the dead of night to get out while the fire was jumping roadways on their escape route as they tried to head toward evacuation centers. the extent of the damage is going to come later in the coming days. at this point people are just trying to make sure that they are out of harms way. >> once again we are looking at a live picture from chopper five. this through the haze. very difficult to see. it gives you a sense of how big the fire is and how thick the smoke is. we are looking at a live picture of the santa rosa area where there have been both homes and businesses destroyed by the fire. a number of areas that have been affected by these various fires, as many as five burning in four counties have been evacuate these evacuated. wilson walker has been in several areas wher

santa rosa. and on the right is the coffey park area of santa rosa. also... schools are closed in both napa and sonoma counties as the fires continue to burn. ( darya ) good morning, i'm darya folsom.( james ) and i'm james fletcher. there are 5 major fires burning in napa and sonoma county this morning. ( darya ) here is an updated map of the fires burning in napa and sonoma counties right now. the tubbs fire in calistoga is 27- thousand acres right now. the atlas fire in napa county is at 25-thousand acres. the nuns fire in santa rosa is at 5-thousand acres. the partrick fire in napa is 3- thousand acres. and the 37 fire... off highway 37 and lakeville highway in sonoma county is 2-thousand acres. ( james ) and the fires in napa destroying a pump station and now the city wants people in certain areas to boil their water this morning. those areas include hagen road... woodland drive... syar drive... holly court... and old coach road. city officials say you should not drink the water without boil

rosa santa rosa and calistoga. we don't even know about sonoma or napa fires. >>> we will be back with live team coverage continuing, and we will extend beyond 10:00. be a part of it with our mobile app. and we will be back in just a few minutes. beyond is a natural pet food that goes beyond assuming ingredients are safe... to knowing they are. going beyond expectations... because our pets deserve it. beyond. natural pet food. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back. it is 7:54 and we have been on the air covering the north bay firestorm live since 4:00 a.m. and we will continue to stay on the year. this fire is by no means even close to being under control. there are multiple fires burning in multiple towns from santa rosa, live on the right, to calistoga, napa, sonoma and all separate fires with fires anywhere from 100 acres to as on the right, 20,000 acres in santa rosa, alone. viewers have been sending in video as they fled the neighborhoods with thousands evacuated and countless structures from businesses to mobile h

we just got to santa rosa. we're here at the sonoma county fairgrounds and getting an update on the tubbs fire, the largest one burning, the most destructive, and it has been the deadliest as well. catching up here with the public information officer for santa rosa, paul lowenthal, good morning. can you give me the very latest? >> the fire moved into the city of santa rosa, it's been about three and a half days ago causing extensive amount of damage into the city limits. the whole north end of the city still under evacuation. a lot of structures damaged. a lot of neighborhoods devastated or destroyed. we understand obviously now with the way the fire originally moved in and all the fingers with the winds we experienced, we now have issues calistoga roadside, still issues in santa rosa. it's a dynamic situation. >> reporter: you mentioned to me earlier calistoga, parts of calistoga are evacuated? >> the volume evacuations taking place from this fire from this area it's a coordinated effort between a lot of agenc

northeast santa rosa. >> the northeast area of santa rosa, you are encouraged to boil your water. >> the temperature was 91 degrees yesterday at this time at 4:30 am. >> many people were astounded at how fast the wind was and how fast the fire move. >> the good news is i see a lot of low 40s around santa rosa. the wind is a little out of the northeast at 4 miles an hour. upper 70s and 80s today. decreasing wind. some locations not have any at all. humidity is high your. wind, 5-15. the red flag warning has ended but there are so many fires. we will get a break. high humidity and cooler temperatures will help but there is a slight easterly or northeasterly wind for many. that has not changed yet but that's a far cry from anything we saw yesterday. most speeds are less than 5 miles an hour. there is fog out there but it's not moving in. a system in the pacific northwest will usher in a cooler pattern. fairfield, 18. conquered, 14. 12, oakland. wind speeds toward eastern celano and contra costa county is way down. 60s, 70s and some 80s. further cooling tomorrow. >> i am happy to see the

nine people were from santa rosa, one woman vacations in santa rosa, two were from larkfield, one from calistoga. those who have not been named may not have been positively identified yet or their next of kin have not been notified. >>> kpix5 reporter kiet do went to santa rosa today where crew working to find those who are still missing. >> reporter: the work is as grim as it is treacherous. rd out to friends and family that they're ok. combing through ashes looking for any signs of missing loved ones, the flames often leave behind only the tiniest clues that are easy to miss. >> very small piece of bones, maybe a vertebra or maybe a 3- inch piece of a long bone, but very little is being left behind due to the heat. >> reporter: today the sonoma county search and rescue team are looking for a woman in her 60s. after scouring all the local shelters and hospitals, their investigation has led them here to the homer lane apartments where they think she may have died in her home. it's meticulous specialized work as the crew digs through the debris on their hands and knees. >> we're startin

but the santa rosa family isn't really focusing on what is gone they are grateful (grant) santa rosa has put out a map .. it shows which houses have survived the fire .... and which ones are damaged or destroyed.(pam) it features highly detailed aerial images ... you can go house by house, street by street. take a look... the red on the map indicates vegetation ... like trees and shrubs. if you want to know if your home survived ... kron 4 news is here to help. we did this during the kron four morning news.... and we are doing it again tonight. we will be addresses submitted to our newsroom. (grant) right now we are looking right now we are looking at.... to get your address in, just use the kron four mobile app "report it" feature ... or go through the kron 4 website. give us the address in santa rosa... and any details you can provide, along with your story... when you were evacuated, what did you see... and we will do the best we can to get it on the air. be patient because the site has been overloaded throughout the day. (pam) joinining us now is meteorologist anny hong... she's

the santa rosa station is not upright now. we are looking at the high temperatures today, they will be reaching into the low 80s. low 80s for palo alto, san jose and the tri-valley to the delta. as we head over to mike, updating the changes in the north bay. >> i want to start with the fire related activity. i have a crash that happened in front of one of our cameras. hang on to that as well. we are looking over here, transit agencies. many more open for business or at least partial business. sonoma county transit will not be running today. no service because of the many closures and emergency vehicles through area. avoid that area, if you can. we have limited service for the smart train. emergency service will be running free trains. they are limited coming down along highway 101, which we'll talk about in a second. that is coming through santa rosa. the city bus has no service today, that is not running. they had a saturday schedule for the city bus. transit coming into santa rosa. updates coming in. highway 101 continues to

rosa -- 3/100 of an inch in napa and a little more in santa rosa. 1/10 to 1/4 of an inch of rainfall which will absolutely help elsewhere and arguably be a good thing because too much rain could cause flash flooding. we do not expect that. concord tomorrow, 48 degrees. much cooler for you. campbell 77 degrees, moderate air-quality in the santa clara valley. dental 75 degrees, and san francisco from 82 degrees down to 67 degrees so 15 degrees cooler. santa rosa 80 degrees, cloverdale 84 degrees. sonoma 84 degrees. no rain tomorrow, no rain wednesday. thursday evening, we expect some light rain to stop through. friday, pretty chilly. highs only in the 60s as we rebound back to the 70s and 80s over the weekend. not a deluge. it's not going to put this out but the weather factors were so stacked against the firefight last week. at least now it's the right direction. it's a good change. good news. >> we look forward to that. thank you. >>> still to come, the warriors want wine country. 50 babies were born last week, during the fires. this is baby rayley.. she was set to be delivered at su

kind of chilly in santa rosa, down to 48 degrees. we can show from you san jose where it's 58 degrees. some of the clearest skies we've had this evening in quite some time. 58 right now. to san francisco. pretty view there. 61 degrees. a little more smoke kind of filtering back into the bay as the stronger offshore winds have subsided. during the day here's the sfrut nasa modus imagery looking down toward the north bay. the reason things cleared out was thanks to the northeasterly winds which helped clear things out in san francisco. tonight with the winds relatively light to start, probably a little more smoke filling into the central bay. by tomorrow morning around 7:00 a.m. as the winds pick up we think the highest levels of air pollution again should be centered in napa county, marin county and sonoma county. for tomorrow another spare the air day but the levels you see here about half of what they were two days ago. north bay seeing the worst of air quality for sunday afternoon. in terms of temperatures it will be chilly again.

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santa rosa is still not reporting. the fog is filling in on parts of the coast. 40s and 50s for temperatures. look at the temperature difference. minus20 at the napa airport. some of the fog will make it to the north. i don't think it will make it here until later when this system to the north makes its way down. cooler for the next couple of days with high humidity. there will still be a breeze thursday and friday. >> what does it mean for the rest of us who are away from the fire areas in terms of the smoke that we are breathing? will start getting better? >> is get better late today as the wind turns more west and southwest. if you have respiratory issues, close the windows. it will be better later today. >> southern california deals with santa ana winds which could be a big problem down there right now. and for us to. >> we don't call them that up here but that's what they call it. diablo wind or offshore wind. they are far less than yesterday. they are showing signs of more westerly or southwesterly. >> thank you.

santa rosa, 61 miles per hour. past i-70, the weather service, intends windy conditions they are dealing with. it will end at 11:00 a.m. a bit of relief for those strong winds. the firefighters should get a bit of assistance from mother nature but north winds at 22, it is combed down but intense wind by santa rosa, and all the wind from the north heading that smoke into san francisco. let's check on the road was with jaclyn. >>> right now, a lot of backup on 80, due to the highway 37 closure between 101 and 80. a new accident along westbound 80 just before this area, creating a backup. the smoke is descending and it makes its way westbound. traffic is backing up and the lanes are blocked westbound. big delays along 101. we are co breaking news in napa and sonoma counties, where five fires are burning right now and they have been since about 10:00 last night. we know dozens of homes have burned and there are likely injuries. people were forced to grab what they could and run to an evacuation center. we will keep you

santa rosa has seen some of the worst damage. a curfew is in effect for parts of the city until 7:15 am. the areas highlighted in red are under mandatory evacuation orders. >>> 30 hours after the fires broke out, another north bay community order to evacuate overnight. >> we are live in the wild oak neighborhood with the latest. >> reporter: we are here in the oakmont neighborhood off of white oak drive in the eastern part of santa rosa. take a look behind me. this is the annandale state park land. what you have here is a wildfire coming down the hill towards the homes in this neighborhood. firefighters are taking a stand. they do not want this fire to spread into these neighborhoods, into the homes. so far there are no structures damaged. this is still just a wildfire. we are seeing firefighters here keeping a watchful eye. the biggest thing happening today is the fact that the winds have died down. if we were still experiencing the same winds as yesterday that were blowing 60 miles per hour at some point in santa rosa, there is

primarily in the santa rosa area. the nuns fire near glen ellen has merged into two others. >>> the atlas fire has scorched 48,000 acres. and crews have it 27% contained. the tubbs fire, nearly 35,000 acres. it is 25% contained. and the nuns fire, several fires merging now into one, 44,000 acres, crews have it only 5% contained at this time. >> we are looking live now in santa rosa. as we mentioned we are awaiting the briefing from the sheriff. we will break into coverage when i begins to talk. he has yet to address the podium we he steps ford we will cut in. let's begin with rabbit handa near oakville with the latest. robert clarify. you are in napa county which we thought it was primarily just the atlas fire. it is the nuns fire approaching where you are. >> reporter: that's right. we are at what cuesed to be called the nuns fire now the central district fire because of the merging of the fires. from this area you can see this fire is spreading fast. in fact cal fire told us we will have to leave this scene soon, th

and my spine surgeon is in santa rosa. i don't know how i'm going to get to either one of them because i'm in lake county. it's really awful. it's like a demon, that's what we call it in lake county, demon fires. >> thousands of people have been evacuated. jan, real quickly, obviously so you were evacuated during the sulphur fire. your daughter is now being evacuated in relation to this fire in the spring valley area of lake county. >> yes. >> i know this is going to sound like an obvious question, but what have you been telling her, you know, what kind of advice have you been giving her besides, when they tell you to evacuate, you need to get out? >> oh, my daughter is very smart, she's 38 years old and she's very prepared. that's why she called us at 5:30 and said, we are going, we are getting out. so -- and her best friend is the fire chief, so she's very, you know, capable of getting herself together. i just didn't know if you all knew there is a new fire and new evacuations happening here in lake county. lake county d

in santa rosa.. victims were found on coffey lane, crystal court, (steve) also in santa rosa - a body was found on hemlock street, two on the sundown trail and one victim was found on mountain home ranch road. fire officials did say today they expect the death to still rise. our team coverage starts tonight with kron4's j-r stone -- (pam) >>> our team coverage starts tonight with kron 4's j.r. stone on the front lines. >> he is live in an area where evacuations have been ordered for the oakmont area of santa rosa just off highway 12 and oakmont drive. j.r., bring us up to date. >> reporter: pam, i can tell you i have some new information for you this evening. i just talked with firefighters who tell me that there was one lost home in the oakmont area. it happened late this afternoon into the early evening hours on trail ridge, which is the southern portion of oakmont, but they tell me it is in the oakmont area. so that is updated information that we've had only in the last 30 minutes or so. so one ho

santa rosa has a patch of smoke. in napa, it is growing south toward vallejo. 29, 12, 101, all these areas impacted and a lot of people are waking up to the smell of smoke. the current conditions in sonoma, temperatures are 68 and humidity is down to 13%. the north and northeast winds, it is sustained at 14 and gusting as high as 39. the direction, we all smell that down in the bay area. the smoke is down in san francisco and there is a wind advisory that ends at 11:00. the next few hours, intense winds will impact trees, power lines and power outages. sustained wind is calm in places like fremont but oakland, 15 and to the north, napa has sustained winds at 14. santa rosa just bumped up and constant wind with firefighters and it is dangerous because we are seeing video of amber's blowing. futurecast shows 22 mile-per- hour winds gusting and strong over napa and fairfield. watch this area in red. the intensity will continue through 7:00 this morning and by 8:00, 22 miles-an-hour sustained winds for napa and will calm

like scott bell.( james ) bell lived in santa rosa for 17 years and taught at santa rosa junior college for many years before retiring to a hay ranch in nevada. when he heard of all the animals needing help after the fire... he loaded up his 53-foot trailer with donated hay and drove 11-hours straight to the sonoma county fairgrounds. he donated almost 500 bales of hay -- or about 7 thousand bucks worth. one bale will feed 5 horses for a day. bell also donated hay during the valley fire in lake county. (james)(james) the air quality is becoming noticably better as crews gain control of the wine country fires.(darya) many north bay schools have announced they are resuming classes this week. schools reopening today include those in the antioch, benicia and marin unified school districts. mount diablo, novato and vacaville school districts will also reopen today. san francisco state university along with dominican university and the college of marin will also resume classes this morning. petaluma and vallejo unified schools will reopen tuesday. analy high school will also resume classes. c

in santa rosa. that was not a good spot so we moved an hour later to fire station three. we had three immediate strike teams. 25 other strike teams inbound, and it was all we could do to, you know put engines in the right place. we had every resour in the county. we recalled every firefighter in the city of santa rosa. with that kind of wind, that fire, i'm not sure when it started but for us it blew into santa rosa around midnight, a little bit earlier. by morning time the fire was about 25 to 30,000 acres. so, it came in hard. it was very very wind. and it was very taxing for the entire city. >> all right, that is from authorities today holding a news conference updating everyone, the media in particular on what's been happening today as they try to access where we are at this moment. >> we think it's worth reiterating that there is going to be a mand curfew starting 30 minutes from now in the areas of sonoma county that is under that mandatory evacuation zone. they are serious about it. this will

schulz airport in santa rosa. be careful and treat it like dense fog. slow down and use your low beams. it's going to be around for a while. you can see the smoke is starting to thicken even around the bay now from east bay hills, can barely see berkeley. can't even see the bridge, can't even see san francisco. breezes, fire danger, poor air quality. it tapers a little bit tomorrow but it returns again friday. another possible red flag warning and an offshore breeze will bring us warmer weather and push the smoke out to beaches this weekend. speaking of beaches, mid to upper 60s, 64 to 67. 70 to 75 around the bay, north bay, south bay, 75 to 78. tonight our valleys will be in the 40s. everybody else in the 50s. up in the hills because of the breezes in the 50s and 60s once again. by the time we get to the weekend, yeah, the air is going to be bone-dry but will be hot and that will further exacerbate the fire danger. alexis? >>> i want to take you back to the san mateo bridge where we are in recovery mode now. it doesn't look like it but all lanes opened

rosa -- 3/100 of an inch in napa and a little more in santa rosa. 1/10 to 1/4 of an inch of rainfall which will absolutely help elsewhere and arguably be a good thing because too much rain could cause flash flooding. we do not expect that. concord tomorrow, 48 degrees. much cooler for you. campbell 77 degrees, moderate air-quality in the santa clara valley. dental 75 degrees, and san francisco from 82 degrees down to 67 degrees so 15 degrees cooler. santa rosa 80 degrees, cloverdale 84 degrees. sonoma 84 degrees. no rain tomorrow, no rain wednesday. thursday evening, we expect some light rain to stop through. friday, pretty chilly. highs only in the 60s as we rebound back to the 70s and 80s over the weekend. not a deluge. it's not going to put this out but the weather factors were so stacked against the firefight last week. at least now it's the right direction. it's a good change. good news. >> we look forward to that. thank you. >>> still to come, the warriors want to show their respect for fire victims. what you want see during tomorrow night's season opener. >>> and tonight's gue

and this is just south of santa rosa. you can see that traffic is getting by, but off ramp closures and on ramp closures to 101, so getting to 101 may be tricky, but, again, 101 open in both directions. we do have closures still in place highway 128 at chalk hill road. that is closed as well as portions of highway -- excuse me, of mark west stream and old redwood highway, that remains shut down as well. and the river road on and off ramps to 101, those are one of the ramps that are shut down. 121 between bishie and trenkiss street is that's closed as well. we have mass transit to tell you about. that coming up in the next traffic report. back over to you guys. >>> time is 4:14. and firefighters have been working around the clock to try to bring all the wildfires under control. we will have more on their efforts straight ahead. a lot of people in santa rosa still don't know w ill standing. >>> back now to our coverage of the wildfires in wine country. a lot of people in santa rosa still don't know whether their homes are s

and napa and santa rosa. we are still hopeful for the for the fires are burning picking up more than maybe close to a half inch. nonfriday into saturday, skies clear, one more system tries to come in. sonoma county might see a chance of showers early saturday. but the weekend trend looks dryer once again. the chances of rain picking up late thursday into friday and look at the temperatures in the 80s the last couple day. inland locations dropping to the 60s. that's good news for firefighters. we hope to see the highest rain totals north bay late thursday, froods. but not with the off sheer wonder. >> we need the rain in a big way thank you. >>> still to come the trial for the murder of kate steinly begins what is going to take a while before witnesses can be called? stay with us. some families who lost everything in the coffey park neighborhoo-- >>> happening now on our twitter feed, a lot of families who lost everything in the copfy park neighborhood of santa rosa say they rant come back. too emotional. we t

sutter regional hospital in santa rosa is again open for business. they had to scrub all the walls and floors this past week. and restock all of their supplies because of smoke damage. but today, they're ready to serve the people of santa rosa. >> but it's good to be here now. it's good to see the people in the building again that things are cleaned up and that at least here, we're bouncing back. >> reporter: and to give you an idea of how badly this community needs this hospital, it opened at 7:00 a.m. the first patient was here waiting at the e.r. at 6:59. reporting live in santa rosa, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> amy, thank you. >>> hundreds of kaiser permanente employees are also back to work this morning after the tubbs fire shut down medical offices in santa rosa. abc 7 news was there in the early morning hours of september 9th when these patients were rolled o ut of intensive care into ambulances. we're going to double check on that date because it's not september 9th. of course, the hospital remains closed. but two medical buildings next to

. >> reporter: i'm allen martin live in santa rosa at the journey's end mobile home park in santa rosa where earlier today fire raced down that hill after it got into the big hilton hotel, jumped across the road, and got into this trailer park, and i'm telling you it's just wiped it out. destroyed it. 100 homes are gone. behind me that twisted burned out metal, that was someone's home. next to it is a driveway, the burned out shell what was someone's car. next to that, another burned out home. then a car, then a home, then a car. you get the idea. this goes on street after street after street. 100 homes destroyed as i said. firefighters were able to save between 50 and 60 of the homes. we'll be running updates for at the bottom of the screen to deal with the evacuation areas, the shelters, and also the closures happening. we'll show it to you at the bottom of the screen. now at least 15 fires are burning in six counties tonight. napa, sonoma, yuba city, lake, butte, and mendacina. none are contained or close to being contained. at least 10 people have been killed in the fires. 7 in son

we have folks from the santa rosa pd, from the santa rosa fire department, cal fire, oes. there's a number of agencies here helping facilitate and get things out to the public and answer questions. >> looking ahead to 9:00 a.m., yesterday we were told there was going to be a press conditiofer an update of sorts? >> so the sheriff usually does a press conference is he sonoma fairgrounds between 5:00 and 6:00 in the evening to update the community on the challenges faced throughout the day. >> let's talk about nixle alerts and social media and those tools that cal fire has been able to use with local agencies to get the word out about these evacuations. >> that's a huge help for us, that alleviates a lot of concerns. we post those things as often as possible. folks with smartphones, they go to facebook and get updates on where the evacuations are and things like that. having that is really helpful. >> and for people who have decided to remain back, if heaven forbid the fire actually gets close to their home, i mean, you know, or their vehicle, say you become trapped in a veh

in santa rosa. that was not a good spot so we moved an hour later to fire station three. we had three immediate strike teams. 25 other strike teams inbound, and it was all we could do to, you know put engines in the right place. we had every resour in the county. we recalled every firefighter in the city of santa rosa. with that kind of wind, that fire, i'm not sure when it started but for us it blew into santa rosa around midnight, a little bit earlier. by morning time the fire was about 25 to 30,000 acres. so, it came in hard. it was very very windy, very dry wind. and it was very taxing for the entire city. >> all right, that is from authorities today holding a news conference updating everyone, the media in particular on what's been happening today as they try to access where we are at this moment. >> we think it's worth reiterating that there is going to be a mand curfew starting 30 minutes from now in the areas of sonoma county that is under that mandatory evacuation zone. they are serious abo

santa rosa, actually, i'm told right now. trying to, you know, help some of the animals. >> back to our live coverage happening today. smart trains will operate on a limited schedule. this is because of the wildfires. smart services a free today for those who need transportation options as the fire continues to burn. now, southbound starts at 5:01 a.m. from santa rosa downtown station, and northbound services at 6:29 a.m. out of san rafael. they run 28 train trips today. some colossilosed because of po outages. smart officials say the fire conditions can change at any time, so that could impact the schedule. >>> if you're looking for a way for emergency updates, we told you about this yesterday on "today in the bay. law enforcement agencies, first responders, and other officials send latest emergency information to people in affected areas. if you never signed up, it's very easy. all you have to do is text your zip code to 888777. that way, they send you information that is pertinent to where you live. >>> a lot of people are

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this video is an area in santa rosa. the couple writes in the caption, we have lost count of how many friends have lost everything. it's unbelievable. and take a look at some photos from southern california. thankfully, it seems the danger is finally subsiding a bit down there, although warm temperatures and high winds have firefighters on high alert for any major flare-ups. >>> two more wildfire-related deaths are now confirmed in mendocino county bringing the total there to 3. a lot of people feel cut off because fire has knocked out cell phone service in many areas there. many people can't dial 911. a lot of them showed up at a library yesterday to listen and demand answers from authorities. >> so, yeah, a lot of people are kind of cut off with what's going on and they're all scared and, you know, it's so -- it's not good. >> a lot of other difficulties, as well. in many cases, atms don't work, gas is running low. and bottled water in stores is scarce. >>> a lot of road closures in sonoma county are preventing people