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KGO ABC7 News 600PM October 11, 2017

Information for us because they say theyve pulled crews out of here. Theyll pulled firefighters out of oakmont. Definitely Police Officers have been pulled out of oakmont because of the safety concerns. All of that that are being said, there are people that live here that are refusing to leave. Weve met two people and talked to them personally. One was an older woman walking her dog. She said shes received evacuation orders three times previously, nothing ever happened so she is not heeding this evacuation order. Another want was man named Leonard George we talked to for quite sometime. He was busily hosing down his house and all of his neighbors homes. He shared with us he built his home, it was a very expensive home he shared with us, and he did not want to leave. We talked to him about the importance of his life over property. He is not leaving. Santa rosa pd has gone house to house earlier today and individuals that were refusing to leave, theyre taking their pictures and taking their names down so that they will have a list of who they believe is still in this area in oakmont. This is an older Retirement Community for the most part, 55 years old and older. Theyre taking names, and photos so theyll have a sense of who is still here. If you come to us now, you might be able see, looks like some sort of fire Truck Driving by. This one says will mar fire. Thats another reason that there were mandatory evacuations. As you get deeper into the oakmont the roads are narrow. Because of that they wanted to make sure the different vehicles that needed to get in, firefighters and other emergency vehicles wouldnt have to be navigating that roadway with anyones whose car is still here on the roadway. Lots of people contacting us on twitter and social media saying theyre trying to get in touch with their parents here on oakmont asking us to check individual addresses. I want to say for the most part the santa rosa Police Officers who are in this neighborhood, who are in oakmont going door to door have since left and their imploring anyone who lives in oakmont to heed this mandatory evacuation. Live in santa rosa. Abc 7 news. Theres a fire fight a few miles away near the glen ellen area. Sky 7 was over this billing and saw it burning a few hours ago. This is right by kaf dale road, that is a few miles away from the oakmont neighborhood. This is east of santa rosa and highway 12. This neighborhood were sad to say is right by rincon ridge park in santa rosa. Those include mil burn drive and ridge driver. Completely obliterated. Were looking and looking and we cannot find any homes standing. While the fires burn in some neighborhoods, people still cant 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. Were 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. Weve mentioned 183 people are still listed at missing in Sonoma County. The Sheriffs 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 Operation center 7075653856 so they can take that person off their list. We want to give you a closer look at where the fires are burning right now. You can see the names of fires highlighted in red. The tubbs, Atlas Patrick fires now being grouped together and called the napa complex fires. All of the fires shown on this map combined burned 127 square miles. That equals an area larger than San Francisco. Smoke from all the fire impacting air quality across the bay area. This is a live look from our emoryville tower. Spencer christian is here with a look at air quality. Dan, air quality not likely to improve over the next 24 hours. The wind is relatively light up in the north bay right now, except in santa rosa where wind is blowing 12 Miles Per Hour. Check out the increase around 2 00 a. M. When gust will be around 26 Miles Per Hour. 8 00 a. M. Winds increase to 31 Miles Per Hour. The gust across the north bay in the santa rosa area. Winds will be out of northwest, that will be blowing the smoke southward. Early tomorrow afternoon well see gust over 35 Miles Per Hour. You can see it will be coming out of north northwest. Strongest winds about on the coast up in the north bay. Smoke will be blowing southward and eastward at the remainder of the bay area tomorrow into the tomorrow evening. Itll start get lighter, the winds on thursday. High fire danger in several electronics. That later. Christian. We are now live with sky 7 over the wildfires burning in snow may county. This is in kenwood. Ive seen on twitter a lot of people asking is kenwood on fire and people werent sure. Now we have a visual confirmation from these flames and smoke rising from the burning of the vegetation. Parts of kenwood touched by the fires. We are hearing stories of just how narrow the escape margin was for some families. Abc 7 News Reporter Lesley Brinkley live from napa with one of the stories. Reporter ive been wearing my mask, glasses all some day, its still smoky up here along the silverado trail. Im standing next to what was the backyard Swimming Pool of this house. Its a house where an elderly couple lived. They were 99 and 100 years old. They tried to escape but they perished here in the living room and bedroom. Tragedies to report. Also up the hill some stories of survival. I said im done, im going to die. Reporter peppy that mayo, his wife, parents and son tried to escape. Acce access of on peek road was blocked. That was like a nightmare because we go up and down up and down until finally they told us to park here. Helicopter came here and lift us up. Reporter the horses survived and slowed up this morning at what was that mayos home steady. He used extension cords to them out of this fire zone. You drive and see home after home and estates, ghostlike remains and a moon escape devoid of color. And then surprises, whats the possibility of a pumpkin and scare coe unscaved. What about these chairs untouched outside a home that is no more. These incongruent images lit you at every turn and show the nature of a vicious fire that roared down atlas peek road along the silverado trail here in napa valley. Literally everythings gone. Reporter david hard burden lost his family home and his business. This is what it looked like before the fire and now today. He said his dad, mom and 97yearold wheelchair bound grandmother was trapped by fire surrounding them. A rescue helicopter saved them. My dad was raised here. Theres so many memories. I think about all the pictures that were lost. Just irreplaceable things. Reporter but your family, your grandmother theyre safe, yeah. Reporter the pet dog drake along with two e mus also survived. Joining me live is david shoe. You have new information for us on new ens. Just within the last hour the fire in Sonoma County has blown up and has now impacting the mount vehicle coder area in napa county and dry creek road. Evacuationes are in place on the west side of the county. On the east side, its affecting gordan valley, so new evacuations in place for those areas also. One of the problems up here is the lack of communication. No texting, no cell phone calls no internet why is that . Weve been told the fiber opo damaged. It will take a lot longer to repair. Many more things happening and unfolding as were up here just off the silverado trail. Im Lesley Brinkley abc 7 news. Its deadly quiet in one neighborhood in santa rosa called coffey park. Homes burned to the ground. Vick joins us live with their story. Reporter well, this is whats left of coffey park, take a good look. Theres a subdivision about two mles from santa rosa, thousands of people live here. Or i should say thousands of people used to live here. Looks like somebody dropped a bomb. Yeah, i dont know where to go from here. Be a long road. Reporter yesterday, this was for many a story of loss. Today for them, its becoming a story of recovery of the stark reality for those who have return returned that their lives have changed. The mall people visited is like a ghost town, mcdonalds, apple bees, ar byes all gone. There is what it looked like before, this is the reality now. Arm gedeon. Looks like a bomb went off in this area. And the winds were blowing so hard the gusts were coming south like 60 Miles Per Hour. Theres nothing you can do reporter but run. And we heard people yelling for help, open the door and all you saw was like a fog, but obviously it was all ash and smoke. Thats when i told the family lets go. Were not waiting. Reporter larry and Teresa Holden bought their homes two decades ago. They got out with treasured notice and teresas lab top. We ran out the door and you cant even see. Reporter larry had to leave his prized 1972 trans am he spent money restoring. The couple had a familiar place to move to temporarily. Thankfully we have a travel trailer and its usually parked over there it was at the shop. So we went and picked it up. Reporter thats what you live in . Yeah for a little bit. Reporter hanson is a union iron worker, there was his first home which he bought last year, and this was his first truck. The one in back was pick up his dad gave him. Yeah, every house was on fire including mine as i was leaving here driving through flames. That tree was down the road on fire. Couldnt see the front of my joke it was all smoke and embers just pounding. Reporter like many we spoke with here, the young homeowner is pondering whether to rebuild. You dont want to be the only house to have a burned down lot next door. Reporter the aftermath and wiefrlds. Whats different, the people and their stories. Vick lee, abc 7 news. Coming up next the abc 7 news i team and dan norris. He tooked with the head of cal fire with the Alaska Airlines visa signature card you get a companion ticket every year. So why not take someone that you see all the time. Someone like, i dunno, me . I mean i always spell your name right and put a little unicorn in your foam. No pressure but i really need to get out of here. Theyve been playing the same playlist for three months and im pretty sure youre not supposed to eat scones for dinner this many days in a row. Mexico, hawaii, costa rica, i dont really know. Im a quick packer. Has crazy low prices. Do you know how we do it . How . Bargainomics say, if california has a bumper crop and produces too many oranges. Or a winemaker in sonoma suddenly has 1000 bottles too many. Weve got namebrand, topquality groceries priced 4070 off every day. Bargainomics. Thats our Business Model. And our Business Model is. Delicious. Grocery outlet bargain market it feels good to be back. We are live right now with sky 7 over some of the wildfires burning in Sonoma County. You can see the flames rising along with lots of smoke over that entire region. Really pushing deeper into Sonoma County today. This is over the glen ellen area, you can see why theres so much around the bay area. Whether y when you see this one series of smoke you can understand why its so bad all over the bay area. Crews are too busy saving lives in order to stop and see what stopped these fires. Chances are fire was caused by man. Dan with more on the story. Half a battle is going right now and why were seeing so many more wildfires this year compared to last. At the state Emergency Operation center outside of sacramento, the fire chief compared the wildfires ranging across california to the very early stages of a boxing match. Were still in this fight itsy. With the winds subsiding we dont see the conditions we saw sunday night. We have very little containment on these fires. Fire crews are focusing on saving lives first, property second and getting containment of the flames. He says the investigation into the fires origin will come later. 95 of the time wildfires are caused by plan. Thats all caused it could be caused by someone putting their car off to the road in drygas. Is there any indication of arson . Thats what were going to get into. Theres no these do not throw your cigarettes out your window. Confirmed the number of wildfires up 35 . 1500 more fires than last year and he blames Global Warming at least in part. What has changed . Fire seasons are longer. 78 days longer if the west and thats been based on average over the last 40 years. Cal fire spending 42 million if theres year for what theyre calling climate a adaptation. Adding a new air tanker to serve the central valley. Were fining fires are occurring year around in california not just the traditional summer months. Some may argue whether climb change is real but the chief says hes seen it firsthand and taken action. I dont know how they keep up with dozens of fire all over the state. So widespread. Growing all the time. Lets talk about the conditions on the fire lines, thats what was so crucial when this thing started. Its interesting, spencer because whats good for firefighters may not be good for getting smoke out. Thats exactly right. We have more smoke building up in the atmosphere as you can see. We expect an increase in wind tonight, thatll be browing the smoke down into more populated areas. Air quality really poor. Lets move along to a live view from emoryville of a setting sun. The forecast features will have high fire danger in the next few days. Itll be winnier and cooler tomorrow. Before we get to that well have to deal with increasing wind, all the smoke blowing around. Windy in the north by the way, windy in the inland east bay. Conditions will be upper 40s to low 50s. Tomorrow the haze will remain, itll be bright in the mid60s at the coast. Low 70s around the bay and mid70s inland. Cooler but still have high fire danger. Red warning will be in effect from 5 00 tomorrow to 5 00 a. M. Thursday. In the east bay itll be in effect from 11 00 p. M. Tomorrow to 5 00 p. M. Thursday. During that period of time well see gusts upo Miles Per Hour and very low relative humidity. Down to 10 or 20 . Heres our win gust summation, over night hours tonight into tomorrow morning gust over 30 . Still near 30 per hour tomorrow night. That contributes to the increasing fire risk. The winds will taper off on thursday. Humidity increased today which was good news in terms of fire and danger, its going to drop going into thursday. Itll be quite low. Whether you combine those factors, the increasing wind and humidity it means fire danger. Over the next 48, air quality worsening. More smoke moving from the fires up north and increasing fire danger. Heres the sevenday forecast. Sunny skies above all of this cumulating particularly matter here on the surface. High temperatures over the next three days wont change very much. Mid to upper 70s inland. 60s on the coast. 70s on the bay. Warming on sunday next week. It will feel like summer sunday and monday. Coming up next, the Silver Lining to these fires. See some of the good deeds and a new evacuation orders are in affect tonight for wildfires. Anna dell heights in santa rosa. Alissa herrington live from the neighborhood with more. Reporter im along hone avenue where employees santa rosa are getting ready to evacuate people from that center. That is an extended care facilitate for people who have broken bones, andtail be loading them on to that bus. We have seen neighbors packing up their belongings. People seem to be in a panic. Some grabbing their animals. These cars, a lot filled with belongings. This line stretches for a good mile, people trying to get of these neighborhoods as that fire comes over the hill. These are mandatory evacuations north of summer field road and south of park field. Police officers are knocking on doors, making sure people get out of their homes, theyre not letting anybody stay behind. Weve seen what this fire is able to do. Its wiped out entire neighborhoods so those mandatory evacuations happening right now. Get your things together and get out if this includes you. Reporting live in santa rosa, alissa herrington. Abc 7 news. Well have the latest evacuation orders for those growing wildfires. Well listen live to new flare ups on several of the north bay fires, promming new evacuation orders tip. East of santa rosa people being evacuated from the oakmont and anna dell neighborhoods. And dry creek road being evacuated. To the east residence in gordan and coppell valley are told to leave their homes. These are man story evacuationings. A death toll stands at 15, nine deaths willing blamed on the fire alone. Officials looking for 183 missing people. The sheriff plan to begin in large burned out areas looking for missing people. Many people not being allowed home to look at their homes. But many have begun the task of shifting through ashes to see what they can find. A live update will be provided soon as a town hall meeting in santa rosa. They are getting ready for that and well bring it to you live once it begins. Scheduled to start any moment so stay tuned. Poor air quality is noticeable across the bay. Heres a live look from mount tan in marin county. Abc reporter david luey have a look at the health concerns. Reporter the north bay fires have sent an unprecedented amount of pollutants over the area. You can see how dense the smoke is in san rafael. Air quality Officials Say seeing or spelling smoke is reason enough to stay sanjay gupta is a permnologist. He say taking but also by the general public. Stay indoors try to avoid getting out breathing out all the pollution out there. Keep those windows closed. I think its the safe thing to do. Couple of days for the kids to stay indoors probably right now is a good idea. Reporter in South San Francisco the <

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