On the atlas, sulfur and other fires, but theres a lock way to go. Parts of sonoma are on edge, waiting to see which way the fire turns. We have team komcoverage in sonoma, where residents and firefighters are working to protect the community. Lisa . Reporter were here on wilking way inside the mandatory evacuation zone, and there are some residents who refuse to leave. They have this water truck standing by, and they have also set up all of these ladders. They are watering down that roof. You can see that its shaped shingle and flammable. The fear is if this house goes down, the entire neighborhood will. Were going to make a stand and save the neighborhood. Reporter those arent just words, they are serious about the task at hand. The one leading the charge is a retired battalion chief. Hes organized this entire effort and got a backhoe in to dig a trench to create even more densible space behindthe houses. Because as it stands right now, the fire is less than two files away from here. Once we got the water here, the inch and a half hose, we can take care of it. This is my house. Im trying to protect it, to the extent i can. Reporter and police were manning the roadblock just down the street know these folks are back here and that they are staying at their own risk. Meantime, just about a mile from here, managers at theyre ready to move 78 patients, if necessar. Their site was evacuated today night in santa rosa because of the fires proximity. Back here live now. There is a bit more ash and smoke in the air right now. And the group of neighbors who are watching over this house say they will not evacuate unless the winds suddenly shift in this direction and really rev up tonight. Lets hope that doesnt happen, lisa. Thank you very much. The main job now is to protect people and property and stop these fires. As that process continues, cal fire is investigating whether downed power lines sparked the fires. But remember, pg e has been fined before for lack of paym t maintenance on trees near its lines. Dan noyes talked with some line workers who believe high winds, power lines and overgrown trees were a deadly combination. Reporter just as the fires were igniting across napa and sonoma sunday night, power lines on myers drive in santa rosa were failing. And you see that. Whats going through your mind . I was kind of panicked at first. Reporter christian took this video from the safety of his home, the wind pushing the power hines, some falling on to ryans car. It was terrifying. I was trying to remain calm. Reporter i caught ryan on the roof of his house today, clearing dry leaves with his girlfriend. It was a close call. Reporter its starting to be fall, so theres a lot of dry leaves. So that easily could have hit one of our houses and gone up. Reporter downed power lines and exploding transformers may have played a role in the fires. Electrical investigation, 47 maverick. Reporter maverick court, where homes and lives were lost. Basically hazardous conditions, possible transformer explosion. Reporter several pg e line workers tell me they believe hurricane level winds pushed trees into power lines that failed and pg e has to do a better job of keeping vegetation cut back. This is myers drive today where the sparks fell. I do understand some information was put in the press. Reporter they quoted pg e workers who cite this as a possible cause. The facts will come out when the investigations are come out. Reporter they sent a statement saying when they say weakened trees, thats the very responsibility they have to identify a weakened tree and to remove it before it strikes a power line. Reporter frank petry has filed some of the 1,000 lawsuits pending against pg e for buthe fire in 2015. The Public UtilitiesCommission Fined pg e 8. 3 million for failing to come back a pine tree that contacted a power line and sparked that fire. He sees similarities in this weeks north bay fires. Logic will tell you that the failure of these lines and the equipment, more likely than not, either caused or contributed to te spread of this fire. Reporter dan noyes, abc7 news. Line workers say that customers often object to their trees being cut back, so theres blame to go around here. Cal fire is still investigating. We have posted the entire statement from pg e on our website, abc7news. Com. In mendocino county, the redwood and potter fires have burned more than 32,000 acres between them. Ukiah high school has been closed all week, but volunteers gathered to unload cases of water. Lonny rivera has that story. Reporter in this leveled community, the only lively sound comes from tree cutting crews. Theyre focused on chopping down unstable burn trees to prevent further destruction. The fire got here at like 2 00 a. M. But we woke up at about 1 00 to 1 sa 1 15 a. M. , and people were calling us trying to cake us up. Reporter his family made it out of their Redwood Valley neighborhood. Their home was spared. But tim smith is still processing the devastation. His neighbors lost everything. I dont feel like its really hit me yet. Ive just been running around putting out spot fires in the neighborhood. Reporter firefighters are battling two fires in mendocino county. Eight people have died, 8,000 displaced. But the situation is changing by the day. Today, im telling you eight battalions, and tomorrow once confirmation has happened, the number will go up. Reporter officials briefed residents on the latest on the fires. We caught up with several from potter valley. Chris mccord feels grateful to have an rv in this camp, dpimpb a given all thats happened. When i heard one of my best friends lost her home, that made me very sad. Reporter most of the people staying here know each other. But theyve formed a tighter bond from this experience. There are still a number of people unaccounted for in mendocino county. If you want to report someone who you believe is missing, call 7074676428. Lonny rivera, abc7 news. Near fairfield, the voluntary Evacuation Order for the east ridge neighborhood has been downgraded to an advisory. Green valley road is still closed, and the green valley neighborhood, 90 have heeded a mandatory Evacuation Order. A santa rosa couple who just came back from their honeymoon are among the hundreds who lost their home. All of their wedding gifts and belongings are gone. Tough way to start their new life. Janeane dell vega is on that sory. Reporter the couple lives in this neighborhood. For blocks, everything is black, burned, and flattened. It was the picture perfect wedding. Oscar and katie couldnt wait to start their life together as husband and wife. The groom works in marketing, while the bride is a nurse in santa rosa. We just worked so hard to get to this point. Or very first paycheck i put it towards moving into this house. And making it a home. Reporter they just returned from mexico on sunday. They went to sleep that night, but their dog molly started barking. Alerting them to smoke filling their house. I realized something was bad, like something was going on outside. So i woke her up, i said theres a house on fire. If molly hadnt woke us up, i dont know what would have happened. Because our fire alarm didnt go off or anything. Reporter they quickly started grabbing a camera and wedding jewelry, driving away, they knew it may be the last time they saw their home standing. Everything was engulfed in flames. And the embers were just flying down. When i opened up my car door, they were doing into my car. Reporter later that day, once the fire swept through, a friend sent them video of their home, now in rubble, all the wedding gifts gone. The only things recognizable are the garage door and the mail box. I dont know where to begin . I kept reminding her, were out, were alive. This is horrible. But like we have the three dogs with us. And some people werent lucky to get their animals out. Reporter theyre staying with family for the short term. Overwhelmed hike so many others, they face an uncertain future, but are grateful to have each other to hold on to. We wish them well. The Blood Centers of the pacific is urging people not in the fire zone to give blood. The Donation Center on Industrial Drive in santa rosa is in the evacuation zone and will remain shut through sunday. A warehouse in santa rosa survived in tact, along with blood mobiles and supplies. The Fairfield Center is expected to reopen tomorrow. We have turned abc7news. Com into a central resource for fire information. 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He got help from a stranger who knows what its hike to lose something precious. Matt keller was there as these two strangers connected. Reporter the recovery in san to rosa for dana hanson begins in san pablo. All his tools were destroyed on monday. Abc7 news interviewed him about his mistake. I saw dana on the news. I was playing with my phone and i heard iron worker and i looked over and i caught his last name. Reporter she reached out to let dana know she had a full set of iron worker tools. They connected and this morning they met at their house in san pablo. Theres harnessing and the cool belt. Reporter but theres Something Special about these tools. They belonged to another iron worker named michael ewing. Michael was what they called a rod buster, which is he did rebar work. Reporter michael died more than two years ago at the age of 31 from colon cancer. Because of the devastating fire in santa rosa is it enough to get you back to work . Absolutely. Im so glad. Reporter the future is unknown for dana. Hes been in contact with his insurance company, but its unclear when the rebuilding process will begin. But today, he got a little bit back from the ashes. And a grieving mother did, too. Its like a testimony to michael. And what he loved and dana sounds hike this is his passion, too. Im proud to wear his tools and keep them on the steel. Reporter now that dana has michaels tools, hes all ready to go back on the job on monday. Matt keller, abc7 news. Isnt that a great story . Lets check in one last time with sandhya patel, who is tracking wind conditions on the fire lines. Right now the winds are light. Clear conditions, but the winds will be increasing, especially in the hills friday, 5 00 p. M. Until saturday at 11 00 p. M. We have red nflag warnings. Low humidity, you can easily see fires starting and spreading. As we take a look at this time lapse, you see what the smoke did. It did a number on the bay area with thick smoke, just hovering over the bay area today. Causing respiratory issues for many people. And its not going to get much better. When you look at the air quality the next couple of days, its going to be poor to unhealthy friday and saturday and even beyond. Hazy tomorrow, highs in the 60s to 70s. Smoky skies. Accuweather seven day, windy, smoky conditions saturday. By sunday, lighter winds and warmer weather. Sandhya, thank you very much. Well, all professional bay area sports teams, the warriors, as, raters, niners, giants, quakes and sharks are joining together to raise money for the fire victims. They have committed 450,000 and want their fans to donate, as well and fans are doing that. All money goes to the red cross. Nice of our bay area sports teams who are great corporate citizens to be involved in the community in this time of crisis. Larry beil is here with some sports tonight. Theres a chance that the nfl is looking at the raiders chargers game on sunday and perhaps moving it because of the smoky conditions. 4 1 2 hours of bizarre tonight with dusty baker going through all the emotions, looking for victor oh, you yeah ht butch. butch growls at man hes looking at me right now, isnt 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 allnew crosstrek. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. At Stanford Health care, we can now use a blood sample to detect lung cancer. If we can do that, imagine what we can do for asthma. And if we can stop seizures in epilepsy patients with a small pacemaker for the brain, imagine what we can do for multiple sclerosis, even migraines. If we can use patients genes to predict Heart Disease in their families, imagine what we can do for the conditions that affect us all. Imagine what we can do for you. Good evening. Dusty baker knows all about postseason despair. There was the agony with the giants in the 2002 series. Managed the cubs in 2003. And tonight his nationals built a 41 lead in game five of the Division Series with the cubs. A lot of nervous nationals fans in our nations capital. Dusty brought in his ace, max scherzer in relief in the fifth and it was a disaster. Two outs, Addison Russell doubles. Contreras and zobrist score. So the cubs take the lead 54. A strikeout here, but the ball gets away here, but the throw is bad. And that leads to another run. So 64 cubs. And with the bases loaded, what could go wrong here for the nationals . What else . Well, scherzer hits jon jay. Chicago with a bizarre fourrun fifth. 98 cubs in the ninth. Wade davis with a sevenout save. Cubs take the series 32. And now its on to l. A. For the National League championship series. Football tonight, the eaglespanthers. 1010 high at the half. Cam newton threw three picks. Cant blame him for this one. That led to carson wentz, a 17yard touchdown pass to zach ertz. 2823 eagles, the finally. Philly 51. To the ice we go. Oh, baby. Sharks looking to avoid their first 03 start since 1993. That was the year the tank opened. Hosting buffalo. Kevin he bank, the pass, off the pass of hurdle. 10 san jose. Oh, pretty pass, no look, behind the back. 21 sharks. 22 in the second. Right place, right time. Thats your game winner, 32, sharks. One final note on dusty, his teams have now lost ten straight postseason closeout games. That is agony. Thats in their head now. Thats tough. Thanks, larry. That is our report, this special extended edition of abc7 news at 11 00. Covering the north bay wildfires. For sandhya patel, larry beil, all of us, im dan ashley. Keep in mind that tomorrow morning, the morning news will start half hour early at 4 00 a. M. Right now on jimmy kimmel, kate hudson. Have a good night. Dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight kate hudson. Jared padalecki. This week in unnecessary censorship. And comedian Ismael Loutfi. And now look at this heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] jimmy hi, welcome. Thank you very much. Very kind. Im jimmy, im the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thanks for coming. [ cheers and applause ] im glad youre here. You know, i dont know if you know this. But we almost didnt make it tonight. We live in a dangerous universe. Early this morning at 1 42 a. M. , an as tried passed by the earth, missed us by 26,000 miles. Which in space temples is close. In fact, the asteroid was planning to hit us, then it saw whats going on down here and said, you know what . Im going to keep going that way, i want no part of that. President trump this morning got to work doing the damage the asteroid couldnt. Today he signed an executive order that threatens to cripple the Affordable Care act, obamacare. Hes been very focused on doing this. He tweeted, since congress cant get its act together on health care, ill be using the power of the pen to give Great Health Care to many people fast. This is big, usually when trump uses the power of the pen its to declare bankruptcy. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] but he was so fired up, so fired up about this executive order, he almost forgot to sign it. We will have Great Health Care in our country. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Jimmy oh, yeah, all right. Thank at lot, mike pence. First thing the guy does all year, and its that. [ laughter ] meanwhile the president s inexplicable battle with puerto rico rages on. Trump fired off a trio of Early Morning tweets saying puerto ricos infrastructure was a disaster before hurricane maria, blaming them for their own financial problems, warning that the government wont be there to help them indefinitely. And also those paper towels . He wants those back. [ laughter ] he wrote, we cannot keep fema in puerto rico forever. Which, okay. But its been three weeks. He has hemorrhoids that last longer than that. [ laughter ] i dont know what what his problem with puerto rico is. Didnt he say he loves puerto rico . Puerto rico. We love puerto rico. Jimmy we do. 80 of puerto rico still doesnt have power and hes tapping on his watch. I feel like the only way to get donald trump to care abou