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More indications crews are getting a handle on the ferocious wildfires after a brutal week. The series of fires claimed 41 lives. The latest a cal fire contractor. Killed today while driving a water truck that went off the road 102 people are listed as missing in sonoma and napa counties. 11,000 firefighters are still tackling the remaining fires burning in stubborn corners of rough terrain. Cal fire has new containment numbers of the major northbay fires. The pocket fire is 45 contained. The tu...

Napa and sonoma counties are being allowed back into the neighborhoods. This is one of several indications that firefighters are getting a handle on these fires. Evacuation orders were lifted last night for many neighborhoods. Two more late last night in santa rosa. People in geyserville and healdsburg have been told they can return. So far these fires have claimed the lives of 41 people across four counties. Sonoma had half of the big rooms. 102 people are still listed as missing or unaccounted...

They started the air attack, the first drop was half an hour ago. The front page of the chronicle said, catching a break from the fires, then you wake up this morning to a new fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I hope that the weather helps out. Definitely, the timing on the new fire is similar to what we saw in the north bay, flames there started 10 00 sunday night and crews had their hands tied until the next day to get the air drops going. Lets show you where the new fire is burning, it starte...

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Christien, as dawn has broken, we are getting a much better look at the area that is burning. Reporter absolutely. That is exactly what firefighters are looking for at this point in time. The bear fire 0 containment. Estimated around 125 acres. Now that the sun is starting to come up, the heat is starting to warm up, and that smoke now started to go higher and higher airborne, this fire very, very large. And at this point unchecked. There are at least three crews back there fighting this fire. F...

Trees nearby. Christien kafton a standing by to give us a look at the efforts to get the fire out. Reporter in the last couple of minutes we saw massive flames. You can see that cal fire helicopter bringing water to the scene. Crews are working to get containment as quickly as possible. Moments ago we saw massive flames on the north east flank of the fire. We can show you what it looks like from above and you can see how big these claims are at how quickly they are moving. In the time we have be...

County sheriffs, we needed to evacuate. Reporter the bear fire went on to consume hundreds of acres in dry brush and steep terrain torching trees, four structures and threatening 150 more. So for our area, this is it. This is basically with all the winds and all the dry weather that we have been having, its just been accumulating and accumulating. Reporter once the light came up, cal fire launched an air attack. Nine helicopters conducted a seemingly nonstop attack, crisscrossing the sky, hoping...

Social media pages, we are putting out those updates. Right now, we are just letting the firefighters do their job. This is fortunate for us that this is mostly hilly grassland area, not really surrounded by a lot of homes but there are homes on the east side of dublin that could be affected. So were very fortunate the weather has been decent and we have a lot of resources that were putting on the fire. But mostly its the terrain this is a grass fire, grassfires are much more manageable than hea...

We are told by cal fire even though we cant see the fire from where we are, hundreds of people are working to put out the flames. Nine helicopters took passes over dry brush pouring gallons of water on the bear fire burning in santa cruz county. Cal fire said it started around 10 30 pm monday night when cruise got a call of a structure fire in the bear canyon road area. I didnt see or smell anything. As soon as they got around the bend, the whole thing was lit up. Reporter at least four homes we...

Students resumed classes at sonoma state today. Their campus was closed due to the fires. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield is there. A few special events planned for today, right . Reporter there are, jessica. This campus has a lot to be grateful for, but also some people who need some support and some care from fellow students. There were some students and Staff Members who did lose their homes including the university president. She lost her home in santa rosa. But the campus is fine. It was...