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People closure in the area. Reporter now search teams have also been using drones to take video of the burn out areas. Theyre doing that to gather evidence and also to possibly find victims. Now i just got off the telephone with sheriff Gregory Ahern from the Alameda County sheriffs department. He has been out here all day today. He tells me that teams are now at a location where they may have just discovered the remains of five more people and waiting to get some confirmation. In fact he is cal...

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. Lets 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....

To attack them and not have to go into those steep stretches and fight them up on terms that are much more dangerous. Reporting live, im joe vazquez, kpix5. Thank you, joe. Firefighters are gaining ground on almost every other front. The massive atlas fire is now 68 contained. The tubbs fire is 70 surrounded. In spite of that flareup the nuns fire is 50 contained. It may still merge with the aggressive oakmont fire close by. The pocket fire is at 40 containment and the Redwood Valley fire is 50 ...

Still in full force in parts of the north bay. Tonight choppers dropping water targeting rutherford, the hills above this winery. As the fire comes down and progresses down towards the rutherford area above the winery we are working to slow the spread of that fire. Reporter this morning, a tragic loss in the fire fight. A water tender driver working the area of the napa hills lost control of his truck wg rolling it over down the side of the hill where he died. Our hearts go out to obviously the ...

Helicopters move in with yet another water drop. This is an area dotted by some of the most famous wineries in the world including the Robert Mondavi winery. The flames are miles away at this point. Cal fire believes it is making progress. Officials say the plans to let the flames continue to march down toward the valley and meet the containment lines theyve diligently dug. There are a lot of fingers and canyons in there. So if its too steep or the vegetation is too continuance and its too dange...

But the fight is far from over. Tonight were there as some evacuees return home for the first time. Good evening, im allen martin. Ken bastida has the night off. Im elizabeth cook. The trouble spot tonight the nuns fire. Which is burning behind a famous winery. In napa county. Kpix 5s joe vazquez begins our coverage in oakville tonight. Joe . Honoring the 38yearold man for his service. Gay of oakville says her community is filled with her break, nervously watching the fire. You feel comfortable,...

Honoring the 38yearold man for his service. Gay of oakville says her community is filled with her break, nervously watching the fire. You feel comfortable, i wake up and i see flames again. All day, cal fire has been attacking the flames by air. Officials have doug containment lines along the western edge and when the fire occasionally makes a run down the hills and jumps the containment line, helicopters moving with another water drop. This is an area dotted by some of the most famous wineries ...

See you then thank you. The right now rain will be a welcome site for the crews fighting fires. They expect full containment tomato but the fires burning within thet containment lines. More people allowed home this evening. Dry creek reopened in napa county. Only 15,000 people remain evacuated. Down from 100,000 last saturday. Now thats because all five of the north bay fires are more than 70 contained. Authorities today though increased the number of homes and other building destroyed to nearly...

Whos been tracking the storm wenchts eve had reports of heavier rainfall in santa rosa. Its all about the cold front moving into portions of marine, in any capaci napa and sonoma county. Were going to continue to add to the totals in the next two to three hours. Doppler radar shows up in the north bay were seeing light to moderate rain. It will continue to move into sonoma by 11 43, napa by 11 45. And another batch headed to San Francisco downtown by 11 29. Were tracking the rain through early t...

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