Containment. Cal fire has 1,000 firefighters on the ground, fighting the flames and crews say gusty winds and dry brush are fueling the fires rapid spread. Take a look at this map where you can see the glass fire complex is burning in napa and sonoma counties. Taking some live pictures as we speak from the glass fire and boy, it is hard to even see anything that smoke is so thick in the sky. Almost an eerie yellow color right now. Dion, think about trying to fight any of these fires from the air when visibility is so poor, it really restricts what firefighters are able to do, because its dangerous to fly in that weather. We have Team Coverage on the fires that are burning out of control, and lets begin with wayne freedman, who is live in santa rosa. Reporter good afternoon. Its hardy a good afternoon. Dion, you were talking about the smoke. The ash is coming down from the sky, its like dandruff. This is a car parked here for about an hour. This is the ash thats come down, its everywhere. Everywhere we drive in Sonoma County, we see burned landscapes, burned buildings. We see Success Stories and we see failures. Tonight, one of each. By the time we reached this building in oak mont, the battle to save it had ended, and clearly with a loss. Three homes going up in smoke here, and with so much otherbure to witness it but us. This is all going downhill. So we should hit that one. Reporter but other fights continue. This one in the castle here at the winy. The owner was surrounded by fire all night. It was jumping into the trees and we couldnt keep it back. What direction was the fire blowing . Coming across here like this. But it was doing the same thing over there. It was come thing way and across the other side, from every direction. Reporter how close did it come . It took the house next door. But the time he got here, it was beyond saving. But he filled a water truck from his wells. At the 12hour mark, the worst of the flames had gotten to plastic pipes beneath his property. All you can do is just do what youre doing, because you dont have time to think. You just keep moving. Reporter talking to steve ledson today, its a reminder. We had just done a story on him four days ago how smoke caused wine taint on his grapes. Now we find out he nearly lost his place. We asked him if its over. He said its over for here for now, but just to be safe, they put a hose on the roof of that building, just to be sure. Wayne freedman, abc7 news. Wayne, thank you. You cant be too careful in these conditions. You can see the mandatory Evacuation Order in Sonoma County right here on this map, indicated by the orange area. The yellow area is the evacuation warning zone. If you live up there be prepared to evacuate. In blue, yellow is the area where theres the warning going on. We have a detailed list of evacuations at the bottom of our screen, as well as the abc7 news app. The glass fire is named for Glass Mountain where its believed to have started sunday morning, where dozens of buildings have burned and at least a couple of wineries. Laura anthony joins us live in the hardhit deer park neighborhood of st. Helena. Whats behind you says it all. Reporter yeah, it does. These scenes are becoming achingly familiar. This fire season especially. This is the foothills adventist elementary school, one of the Main Buildings. Behind it there are some classrooms that looked like they survived. But this scene is playing out all over this neighborhood. The glass fire was far from finished this morning as it continued its march through parts of napa county. Much of it along silveredo trail. This whole neighborhood was engulfed. We got out of here about 2 45, and it was like a firestorm. It was fires on both sides of the street. The school here was burning down. The houses here all around were engulfed in flames. Reporter the school is foothills adventist elementary. The Main Building was completely destroyed. Like so many before it, the wind whipped glass fire seems random in its dedestruction, leaving se buildings in ruins, like others, like this home on Glass Mountain road, are unscathed. The fire got extremely close. Reporter abner considers himself among the lucky. He lives here. More than a century old, located in the shadow of Glass Mountain, where the fire started sunday morning. Im feeling an angel must have been hovering here, guarding the place and kept it from burning. Yorn wh i dont know what else to think when Everything Else burned and this property survived. Reporter this is one of the buildings that did not survive. It looks to be a Main Building of sorts here at the foothills adventist elementary school. This is the deer park neighborhood. Technically, its still st. Helena address. Unfortunately, there are a number of homes we counted, probably up to about 50, that have burned. If theres anything good about today so far, its while its still relatively hot, close to 100 degrees as far as we can tell, the winds have died down here almost completely. Dion, larry . Well take that as a win. Before you go, can we talk about the response . Have you seen firefighters and air support in the area youre in . Yeah, dion. In fact, theres quite a contrast with what weve seen in system of these other fires. We spent time last month for instance, and it was hard to see any firefighters doing structure protection at some of the early fires. We had hurns s gohundreds goin same time, so resources were stretched thin. In this case, i will tell you, and well show you more at 5 00 tonight on abc7 news that we have seen a lot more structure protection, a lot more fire crews, hand crews, staged in front of homes and buildings. And weve also seen at least earlier today that air support, those crucial drops, those airplanes in the air dropping that fire retardant. So it atiers theres more resources on this fire and hopefully the resources are not stretched so thin that time. Laura anthony for us live in st. Helena. Thank you. The glass fire forced the evacuation of parts of cowastoga. Cornell bernard has more. I stayed up all night, but i never thought the fire would jump the highway, but it was really windy last night. Reporter dario says his Worst Nightmare has come through. Parts of his winery caught fire monday and was still burning hours later. His employees had to grab hoses to put the flames out. Our laboratory is gone, offices are gone, wines all destroyed. Reporter by midday, the glass fire was getting closer, threatening this winery, built in 2007. The fire is maybe 150 yards, no more from where were standing. Yeah, im nervous. I know the firefighters are stretched really thinly, and im sure theyre working their butts off. I just wish they could have saved our warehouse. Reporter further north, smoldering rubble could be seen off of highway 29. Hillside flames visible where most of the town has been evacuated. The mayor is taking it hour by hour. The fire is burning on the east of us, the west of us and the south of us. So we are kind of pinned up here. With that said, we do still have three evacuation routes that arent compromised. The firefighters are working it hard and keeping close tabs on it. So depending on if it hits certain thresholds that determines when we evacuate the rest of the community. That was Cornell Bernard reporting. Lets get a check now with Spencer Christian and a look at the conditions which are improving. The wind conditions, youre right, they are improving. They have not been nearly so strong or gusty as earlier today. Let me give you a look at weather conditions near the fire complex. 92 degrees. So its still hot there. And the relative humidity, only 12 . But the steady surface wind is only 8 Miles Per Hour out of the north, and gusts up to 8 or 9 Miles Per Hour. So we dont have any strong gusts at the surface. In the Higher Elevations where many of the fires are burning, we have some gusts in the 15mileperhour range, which is, of course, light compared to the 50 or 60mileperhour gusts that some locations experienced overnight. We still have until 9 00 p. M. , a red flag warning in effect for the hills and Higher Elevations of the north and east bay. Red flag warning for high fire danger, even as the gusts are diminishing, that is still considered high. As the smoke building up in the atmosphere, air quality is declining. We are spare the air alerts for the remainder of this week, with very poor air quality likely. Tomorrow, more details and the full forecast later. Larry and dion . Spencer, thank you very much. More to come this hour on the fires that are raging in sonoma and napa counties. Coming up, thousands are out of their homes right now and well take you to the Evacuation Center where is people are looking for some comfort. And the race to rescue and why its so important to in business you have to be then do it all over again. Comcast business gives you fast, reliable internet on the nations largest gigspeed network. And now for a limited time, you can also get fast shipping with amazon business prime essentials. So no matter what comes next, youll always be ready to bounce forward. Get started with powerful internet and voice for 64. 90 a month, and ask how you can get one free year of amazon busines prime essentials on us. Call or go online today. Comcast business. Wean air force veteran made of doing whats right,. Not whats easy. So when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. Thats how you do it right. Usaa insurance is made just the way martins family needs it with hasslefree claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. Because doing right by our members, thats whats right. Usaa. What youre made of, were made for. Usaa back to our breaking news and youre looking at live pictures from sky 7. This is the chopper flying south of the glass fire. And its really hard to make out anything there, because the smoke and the haze is so thick. But as spencer mentioned a few minutes ago, at least the winds have died down to 8 to 10 Miles Per Hour or so. It is still really hot. 92 degrees, and 53,000 people thus far have been evacuated from the region because of the threat of these wildfires. Stephanie sierra is at one of the Evacuation Center where is people are going today. Stephanie joins us live now from petaluma. Reporter hey there, larry. Were live at the sonoma fair grounds here in petaluma, one of three evacuation shelters here in petaluma. Taking in evacuees. Its been at capacity all day long. I want to step out and show you were at the entrance here at gate four. We kept our cameras back due to privacy reasons. You can see through the gate there some cars are filling up the lot. These are evacuees who couldnt get into the shelters, but plan to stay here overnight, hoping their home is still there. We just heard more and more sirens. Reporter they are living in fear, their home in santa rosa just miles from the fire line. It jumped highway 12 over to oakmont. Reporter the two, just a fraction of the thousands who evacuat evacuated, seeking shelter at the fair grounds. Ceo dr. Alison keaney explains the property, transformed from a covid testing site to a shelter overnight. People have different needs, so we have automobiles and car camping in one place, people who need a roof over their heads are sheltered in another place. Were just trying to make it work for everybody. Reporter approximately 160 evacuees from a Senior Living facility in santa rosa are temporarily staying inside several buildings. Ed wayne thought his friend was one of them. If theres someone who needs help, how could you not . Im sorry. We just youve got to help. People need help. Reporter thats what cathy is trying to do. Her friends evacuated from the santa rosa bird rescue center. So several of them had to leave their homes in the middle of the night. Reporter just like valerie and tony. Are you scared . In some sense, as they say, you hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Reporter now, its that mentality people are trying to focus on, because for many of these families, this is the fourth or fifth time they have had to evacuate due to fires in the past five years. So extremely emotional time. Again, seeing a lot of these families use their ring doorbell cameras to identify if their home is still standing. I can imagine how exhausting that must be. Stephanie, many thanks. Now, sonomas raceways camp ground is open to wildfire evacuees. Theres 50 acres of Space Available for rvs or tents. You are asked to enter through gate six on highway 121, north of highway 37. The raceway is teaming up with United Site Services to offer basic services to those seeking temporary shelter. We have the land and the resources. Weve just always been on call when these arise. And if we can help, obviously, we are happy to do it. Covid19 safety protocols are in effect, including mandatory face coverings. Its familiar refrain, when the Evacuation Orders are given, get out. Those who dont are putting their lives and the lives of Law Enforcement at risk. Well, the Sheriffs Office tweeted out this video showing the deputy making his way through this wall of flames. Could you just imagine driving through this, how scary that is . You can see the fire burning on the roadside, left and right. Officials say when you hear whats known as that highloci remember, its time to get out highlow siren, its time to get out. The august complex fire has burned 878,000 acres and 45 contained. The north complex has burned 306,000 acres and 38 contained. The creek fire is still burning east of fresno and wiped out 304,000 acred and 39 contained. Full containment is expected on the scu and lmu lmu lmu lmu crews are working to beat back this fire that exploded overnight in shasta county. That fire has burned more than 15,000 acres since it broke yesterday afternoon. Reports say the fire has destroyed at least two Historic Buildings in the Small Community of ono west of redding. The blaze is too early to know how it started. If you would like to keep track of all of the fires burning in the state, you can use abc 7s exclusive wildfire tracker. Its all at our website, abc7news. Com and the free abc7 news app. We also have an air quality tracker there, as well. Lets get back to Spencer Christian with a look at the conditions. Spencer, we kind of have forgotten about the other fires that were burning a few weeks ago. But theyre still burning. Its unbelievable what were witnessing right now. Its been a devastating fire season, larry. Its a longer one, the fires started earlier in the season than they typically do. The weather isnt helping, because its been hot and dry and windy until now. You can see the current surface winds are relatively light, compared with some of the gusts we had the last 24 hours that were over 60 Miles Per Hour in some of the Higher Elevations. Right now at the surface, we have most wind speeds under 15 Miles Per Hour, and even the gusts in the Higher Elevations right now are beginning to weaken. This is a smoky view looking out over San Francisco. 10 degrees warmer across the bay in oakland. 88 there. 98 at gilroy. 88 degrees right now in santa rosa. Novato, 100. Napa 103 degrees. 99 and fairfield and concord and 97 at livermore. Another hazy view here. High fire danger, and the warning expires at 9 00 tonight. Heat holds on for the next few days. And the spare the alert for poor air quality is in effect for the remainder of the week. We expect poor air quality, poor at best at every location around the bay area through friday. And very poor air quality in the north bay where the fires continue to burn. This is our forecast animation, taking us through the overnight hours. Youll see a little bit of a marine layer coming back to the coastline. It will have a cooling influence at the coast, and around the bayshoreline tomorrow. Still going to be warm, but not quite so hot as it was today. And still hot in our inland areas, but that cooling influence will be felt along the coast. And those of you who live near the coast will probably appreciate that. Overnight low temperatures will be mild to warm for the most part. Low to mid 60s around the bay shoreline. We can find some upper 50s on the coast. Thats relatively cool. Tomorrows high, 72 at half moon bay. 75 in San Francisco. 82 in oakland and fremont 87. South bay, 90 at san jose. Upper 90s in virtually every inland east bay location. Up in the north bay, upper 80s to low 90s. Here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. So once again, spare the air alerts in effect through friday. Notice how the heat holds on inland and may bounce back up a couple of degrees on thursday. And friday and the weekend, we get some cooling autumnlike relief. Larry . Cant get here fast enough. Thank you, spencer. Just ahead the fight against covid19 and the governor taking steps to avoid a twin the governor had good news about the covid19 infection rates. Although there is one trend that raises concerns. He also bared his biceps to encourage everyone to get a flu shot. Reporter david louie has the latest numbers. Reporter the governor started his briefing with good news that the covid19 Positivity Rate has fallen almost one percentage point in two weeks from 3. 6 to 2. 8, and a 20 decrease in coronavirus hospitalizations over the same 14day period. However, the governor says Health Officials are watching a trend in the bay area that is on the rise. An indicator that tracks the virus ability to spread. Youll see in the bay area alameda, contra costa among many counties, you can see that trend line where the last few weeks, it is beginning to march back up. Reporter still, he hinted there will be news tomorrow