They are not out of the woods but the effort continues and will continue for the next week or so. The largest fire in Sonoma County is the tubbs fire. It has burned nearly 35,000 acres and containment is at 10 . Another fire near highway 29 and yountville continues to grow. Some of the top areas of concern are mount veeder and dry creek. Many people have left that area but people who are there have been told to be ready to evacuate. This is the largest fire weve seen. Who knows what it will do. Our house is on the edge of it. We are prepared to evacuate. I am a little on edge. We have basically everything packed up, lined up in the hallway ready to go. Weve had to begin fire activity on mount veeder for the last couple of days. Its working down to dry creek where there are numerous houses and we are attempting to get engines on there to protect them. Flare ups and blowing embers continue to be a risk throughout the area. Fire crews continue airdrops through the day to keep the fires aw
Hour but watch what happens Early Saturday Morning. Those winds are going to increase once again gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour and that will send more smoke south into the bay area. It is hazy. Poor air quality across the entire region. Check out the roads with sue. Metering lights are on. Lots of cars stacked up into the mcarthur maze with delays at about 15 minutes to get all the way into San Francisco. A little sluggish on the upper deck. Slow traffic out of tracy up and over the altamont. An earlier accident cleared. Traffic is starting to thin out just a little bit but expect delays out of pleasanton. Well take a look at your mass transit options this friday the 13th in a couple of minutes. Thank you, sue. This could be a make or break day for firefighters defending the town of calistoga against a major wildfire making an allout effort to keep the flames from crossing a highway and into the community. Live to reporter matt keller in napa county for us. Matt . Reporter good mornin
Told that the fire crews are being more aggressive because the conditions allow for that. They had the back fire operation and doing more of that around the fires. Heres the first briefing for october 13. We will continue to provide information on the fires burning in napa county and what is relevant to the residence. I will say that today is a better day than yesterday. We have confirmed that the cal fire is 27 contain, yet misfire is 18 contain, and these fires are coming together, the cal fire chief will speak on that. The numbers will change. What i want to assure the residents of napa county is that youre getting the help, help is here and arriving by the hour and progress is being made. Your safety is our top priority. We continue to address the fire on two fronts, the life safety obviously is the most important part of what we are doing. We also will continue to fight the fire on the front lines and establishing the hard perimeters. The fire crews are working diligently and they
Breaking overnight, the prison break plot turned deadly. Officer struck multiple times with a hammer, unresponsive at this time. Inmates spark revolt, viciously attack officers, killing at least two and injuring more. And oneonone with jimmy kimmel, preparing for a huge week in his hometown of brooklyn. Brooklyn is a magical place. As he makes headlines over health care, how his son is now doing and the big interview with the legend hes been prepping for his whole life. Good morning, america. To our viewers in the west we have a lot of news to get to this friday morning including raging wildfires. There are new threats from the smoke and ash spreading across the state. You see the Golden Gate Bridge shrouded in smoke in San Francisco. And the skyline covered in haze. This is the deadliest week of wildfires in that States History and millions are concerned about the air quality. Linzie janis starts us off in San Francisco. Reporter firefighters once again concerned this these fires coul
36 with new fatalities reported today in napa, mendocino and sonoma counties. 19 people have been killed in the tubbs fire alone which is now the third deadliest fire in california history behind the Oakland Hills firestorm in 1991 and the Griffith Park fire in los angeles in the 1930s. Hundreds of people are still missing in Sonoma County. Authorities are looking for 235 people. At least 5700 structures now have been burned down including 5 of the housing in santa rosa. We do have some good news on containment figures. Check out the atlas fire in napa and solano counties. Containment on that jumped from 27 to 45 . Significant increase. Containment on the tubbs fire grew from 25 to 44 . But the fire grew by about 500 acres. The pocket fire in Sonoma County grew by about a thousand acres to 10,000 acres burning now and included into one and have 10 containment. Up in mendocino county, the Redwood Potter fires containment is at about 20 . And the sulfur fire in lake county is holding at