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KOFY ABC7 News 900PM On KOFY October 12, 2017

Immediately. Take everything and going. Joining us on the phone is scott alonso with the Sonoma County Emergency Operations center. Scott, can you hear me . Yes, i can. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming on. I gave a quick thumbnail sketch. Up date us on whats just happened from your perspective. The winds are still flowing in pretty high tonight. Were very concerned that fire activity is still on the rise and in certain areas of the county. We have advisory evacuations that came out of northeast santa rosa a few minutes ago. Were very concerned about the fire in guyserville and in Sonoma Valley like you mentioned so were urging residents if they have received an Evacuation Order to please gather their belongings and leave if its a mandatory evacuation and if anyone has been issued a mandatory evacuation do not return home because its not safe. We need to be able to clear those areas and ensure its safe to return. One thing to point out here, scott, so many areas in and around wine country, there are twolane roads to get in and out of. They clog up pretty quickly. Dont want to waste any time. Sometimes it comes out and residents can be prepared and back their cars ahead of time and gathering their belongings and important papers and pack your medications cant you cant get them in time. Most of the form sis nor Sonoma County is open and you can get your prescriptions filled on an emergency base sxwlis what are you going to be doing with your people overnight. What are the priorities . Again, its life saving responses from our firefighters and Law Enforcement personnel. That is still the pop priority. Protecting life and property and thats ongoing. We have a lot of support from the state and our partners through mutual aid and various low chases are sending resources here and we really appreciate it. We do want folks to keep using our Community Hotline which is 7705653856 to report any mission persons. Weve had 600 reports. Weve been able to locate safely 315, but theres still 285 outstanding. Okay. All right. Us boston whats happening in sonoma. What are you hearing about downtown sonoma and what are your concerns . Theres an advisory evacuation from boids hot spring. The fire is moving. Had to issue an evacuation for agwa caliente. A lot of areas in that area are under a threat and we want to make sure people can be prepared and evacuate immediately if needed. Before you go, conditions are turning again not in your favor with low humidity and winds picking up again. What are your concerns what are your thoughts rather on how much more this could spread and how much worse this might get. Were not out of this yet, are we in. We are not. It is changing on an hourly basis. The situation is very fluid. Its dangerous in those areas. Were asking folks to take these Evacuation Orders seriously and not return to their home if an Evacuation Order was given if its a mandatory one. Its not safe out there. Still doing Fire Suppression and lifesaving operations. Okay. Scott, thank you. I know you and everyone up there in an official capacity are doing everything you possibly can to protect people and property. Scott alonso, Sonoma County Emergency Operations center. Thanks for coming on. Thanks, dan. Parts of geiserville are also under a mandatory evacuation tonight as youve just heard. 50 engines from oregon were helped to call in the flames and threatening this small Sonoma County town. Helicopters and tanker presence and even a 737 spent the evening dropping water and flame retardant. Most of that air attack has to stop after sundown because its simply not safe to fly but the ground crews will remain this 24 p an fighting all night long and the big tanker back up at first light and many more. Also an evacuation advisory in parts of healdsburg. Many residents have left and thats where we have this report. Reporter dan, within the last is a minutes, the Sheriffs Office put out a new evacuation advisory and thats for the Rio Lindo Academy and surrounding areas, so those folks need to be ready to go if they get the call. As you said, the shelter has been housing people from santa rosa and surrounding air why is and they are now starting to get locals as parts of healdsburg on local advisory list. Cardinl newman is gone. Reporter healdsburg ambulance drivers took this video as they evacuated patients sunday night and monday morning. Some of the drivers and emts have lost their homes and continued to work for days since the north bay fire started. Now the companys offices are threatened in healdsburg as part of the city are under an evacuation warning meaning be ready to go at a moments notice. Fitch avenue, blach mountain and the bottom of witch mountain which is us. Well wait, i suppose. Its hart to leave your job when this is supposed to be what you do. Reporter people are loading their photos and mementos into vehicles preparing to leave hand grabbing the crucial documents. We saw other people wetting down roofs and yards with sprinkler systems. At this point the Healdsburg Community center does have available pets and they are also a petfriendly shelter and they have current updated information regarding the fires. Live in healdsburg, katie youdies, abc 7 news. Thanks very much. Many people are leaving the sonoma vale after being advised to evacuation. Abc 7 News Reporter lilian kim is live along one of the main escape routes. Lillian . Dan, arnold drive and the roads leading up to it had been bumper to bumper as people who live in this area chose to leave to in. Boyds hot springs, alvarano and north sonoma are under an evacuation advisory and most people heeded the warning and left. Because it is an advisory some people are taking more time to pack. One couple we spoke with said their priority is to take the items that cant be replayed, things of sentimental value. Many are surprised to be in this situation. Flames have been hovering along the ridge for days but the fact that they have now been advised to leave is something most people here have never experienced. Sonoma plaza is like a ghost town. Everything is closed and now that flames could be coming this way the owner of figonas Olive Oil Company took the time to empty his store hauling away as much inventory as they could. Told that the fire is getting close to the square. I belt 30 years in my business and im not going to let a fire take it. Clear everything out, as much as we can, and if the fire doesnt get to the square well head and move everything back in. Trying to save everything that we can. Sky 7 captured video of the flames that are threatening boyds hot springs, alvarano and knowna springs. Those who live on eastern edge are now under a mandatory Evacuation Orders and as soon as were done here well be heading that way. Live in Sonoma County, lilian kim, abc 7 news. Well hear from you then, thanks so much. Eerie and frightening. An evacuation advisory, not mandatory, has been issued for parts of the city of napa. The affected area is east of downtown and the silverado trail. Its roughly bordered by highway 12 to the south and highway 221 on the west which becomes soscal avenue downtown. The weather is the key factor of what happe in the next few horse. Sandhya patel is here with a look at the westbound conditions and humidity conditions. The humidity was really low this afternoon. It has come up, but in turn the wind is also beginning to pick up as we take a look at live doppler 7, youll notice that the skies are clear here in the bay area. Watch our radar. This is taking you back in to im. The fire is so intense, fires in the north bay that you can see, some of the intensity of the smoke getting picked up by our live doppler 7 here, so this is just how immense the fires are. When had you take a look at the winds in the hills they are beginning to increase out of northwest at mt. Tam. Thats why a red flag warning is up for the north bay hills until 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow night. It goes up for the east bay hills, the Santa Cruz Mountains and monterrey counties and it runs until 5 00 poly. Gusts could reach over 50 Miles Per Hour. Low humidity which means fires could start and sprepd rapidly. Wind advisories for the same areas and toppling trees. Power lines not out of the question. Notice that the winds are increasing as we head into the wee hours of the morning. Over 30 Miles Per Hour hat lower elevations and this continues into tomorrow morning and it is only going to remain on gusty side going into the afternoon and evening. Smokey skies capturd from our emoryville camera. Air quality is terrible out there. Ill be back with a look at the forecast coming right up. Dan . Sandy, thanks very much, a look at whehe fires are. Atlas fires in thana county is now at 42,000 acres plus. The tubbs fire is 28,000 achers were 10 containment and the partrick fire is now more than 9,500 acres. Fires in mendecino and lake counties have burned 32,000 acres between them. Sonoma county raised its debt toll sadly to 13 bringing the total number no 23 of those killed from the fires burning across several counties. More School Districts have decided to close because of the wildfires, some outside fire zone because of all the smoke in the area. Schools have been closed for the remainder of the week. Diablo, martinez, pittsburgh, antioch and west contra costa west unified School Districts have closed all schools for tomorrow. Most Public Schools in the fire zones will be closed through friday including all Sonoma County schools except for those along the coast and northern edges of the county. Also closed all napa valley unified schools and napa vale college. Calistoga, st. Unified and helena unified are shut. We have the complete list at abc7news. Com and on the abc 7 news app if you need to go there for the full list. Please, do so. Santa rosa has been hit very hard by these wildfires, devastating destruction there. Seen several neighborhoods literally wiped out, burned to the ground. On rolling oakes, abc 7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow found one family who says they feel a mix of guilt and also gratitude. Reporter a row of mailboxes in santa rosa still standing, each of the homes they go to demolished. Nothing seems real yet. Im going to start crying if i talk about if. Reporter other rooms blend together. The remnants of a bed suggesting this one was someones bedroom. Looking at our neighbors home on either side us are gone. Theres nothing. Reporter miraculously brine and brads house is unscathed. 17 years of memories, untouched. We feel so grateful and yet we feel a little guilty that people we cared about lost everything, my mom included. Reporter abandoned vehicsle in the middle of the roadway could be signs of desperate attempts to escape. It was not there when i drove out and the fire was on the property already. Reporter returning here made the family wonder what if it had been them . Would they rebuild . Initially i would say we were done because you have all your love and 17 years of money into the piggy bank and its just horrible, horrible. Reporter as their neighbors work through the same question there are new concerns. Gusting winds are expected to pick up spreading to areas spared by the fire so far. In santa rows, a, Melanie Woodrow, abc 7 news. Well, the impact of the wildfires is not limited to it the immediate area. 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If youve seen or know the whereabouts of any of the people weve shown here go to abc7news. Com and well link you to the offices of Emergency Services hotline immediately. I mentioned earlier theres an evacuation advisory for part of the city of napa. Officials want people to be ready to leave home as soon as an evacuation is issued. Residents packed in city hall this evening to hear the latest details from city and state officials. Winds as sandhya told us will pick up from the northeast which is a concern from the eastern side of the city. I know youve probably been preparing like crazy wondering how much preparation do we need to do and when do we need to hit the go the button and get the heck out of dodge. We hope to give you as much notice as possible. Thats our goal and with the extreme weather changes and extreme behavior it continues to beat us to the punch in some cases. So if as sandhya says the winds from the north pick up, could be real trouble. Cal fire and its Incident Command Team is in charge of the operation and it will make the call to evacuate specific neighborhoods just as soon as necessary. Well, smoke from the north bay fires impact flights at San Francisco International Airport today. More than 100 flights, in fact on unit, sky west, virgin and jetblue were cancelled. Others delayed. Heres a live picture now from the airport. With low visibility, planes could not land simultaneously. Many arriving flights were delayed and average of two hours and arrivals and departures were affected by the smoke today. So what about tomorrow and the days ahead . Meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the full forecast. I suspect there will be more delays in the days ahead as we take a look at a satellite picture which really captured what it looked like this afternoon. Can you see very clearly that the smoke, high clouds passed through, but the smoke was basically in this vicinity heading southward as the northerly wind kicked up. Policeability has gotten better, but it certainly was not like this earlier today. Visibility right now at fairfield. Five miles, and i know its still smokey across oakland, concord, livermore roaring visibility down to six miles, so we have seen an improvement but its not going to last very long. Heres a look at the forecast. Bad air quality the next several days. Youre look at high fire danger through tomorrow and it is going to be warmer as we hit the weekend so heres a look right now at a live picture from our east bay hills camera. It is shaking a little bit as the winds are beginning to come up. From live doppler 7 perspective were seeing clear skies right now and airport delays do continue at sfo. 206 minutes right new so well over three hours on arriving flights, and as i mentioned youll likely see delays in the days ahead. Golden gate bridge camera, it is terrific from this vantage point. 60 in San Francisco and 50s in gilroy and half moon bay. Kgo roof cameras, lower elevations, not seeing a whole lot in the way of the wind. The wind will ramp um later on as we head towards the overnight hours. 58 in santa rosa right now and currently 60 degrees in concord and we will continue to see poor air quality. Spare the air alert will remain in effect for days to come, unfortunately. So when you take a lock here for your thursday, very unhealthy air in the north bay where the wildfires are. For the rest of you, notice, youre all in the reds including San Francisco, so definitely unhealthy air. Try to limit your outdoor activities. If you have respiratory issue, i would stay inside and definitely cope that inmileperhour. Friday doesnt get much better, still unhealthy to poor and as we head towards saturday and sunday, not expecting a lot in terms of it improvement. Relative humidity tonight. Pretty high at 1 is being p. M. But heading towards tomorrow afternoon they are dropping again down to the teens in some areas and thats a big concern for the firefighters. 17 relative humidity in santa rosa going into 3 00 p. M. Friday as well so very dry air. Windy in the hills and temperatures low 40s to low 50s. Definitely smokey and hazy out the door as we head towards your afternoon, keeping the hazy to today. You. Low 80s to 70s. Its going to be smokey and breezy for your thursday and windy at the highest elevations, low 60s to mid80s and well keep that apartment going into midfriday. As we head into the weekend the winds do relax but the warmth builds mid60s to l

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