Bay. Good im deionin. And im dan here oare the headlines 6 00, 42 people have died state wide. That includes a fighter who died after his truck rolled over in napa. Evacuations were lifted today in parts of sonoma, mend see know, lake and napa counties. Tonight the nones fire continues to burn heart of napa valley. Flames seen all on the rooftops of oak valley of some wineries. Abc 7 News Reporter brinkley with the fight from the napa valleys 25 andn, let long, 2. 5 mde. The particular stretch oakville grade, hom some of the the beloved e to come up ank them still safe and to the effs firefighters. You can see the the hill valley. The fog visual a long. The stag gert family is its been an emotionalcoaste who is getting hit wh the fire next. Reporter theyre 7 oacre lot includes a winery, they moved out all their furniture and art work. They hired three water trucks to wet down the perimeter. They have a lookout staged on highway 29 and bought a pumpool. We cal Insurance Company and they sent out privat private. Private. A lotf people dont know but they are. A lot of says theres a watch on 300 we have had peopleying here all week b its safe for them anymore. Reporter along this stretch of highway 329 the heart of napa valley, six zip back reservoirs and the burningridge day along the oakville an army of firewaiting for their orders. Theyll send us up to fine t a problem. re getting our saws ready. Rooms are employees watch from the patio where usually enjoy sipping wine. There are n evacuation orders soville wineries are for so still a smoky haze in the air the wineries as you can see behi in that smoke. Is just up above vineyards on the top. Fifully holding the line there today and keeping fire from spreading down into the valley. Reporting live im lesleybrinkla contract worker on the lines died todayn his water crashed. The guard this picture an hour ago showing members saluting that man as driven Laura Anthony explains what go o the family and the friends that are impactedthis. It has ann all of reporter the death of antct of the crews working on the front lines. The of t killed rig was ll be l marks, gas marks. Were going to take a look at how far it went down the hill. Reporter the cab landed upside down on the hill. By midday a coroners van arrived to remove the body described only as a male. These parts have been a key part embedded withefighters right up at the front lines. Its a critical piece of component iwe rely on these typ equipmenhave water up in these areas for drivers are all called upon. Based on the look of there rig with the nearby fire continuing the r efforts. This is video from the pine bluff home where you can see crews sifough debris searching for evacuations wont be lifted in the areas until they can conduc. Thebit. Meteorologist anchor spencer here with the details. Winds which is light except for gust around miles per hour. The windmer than it has be on the way. 50 chance of rain on thursday. 30 chance on friday. The systemks one on the impact storm it will bring mucheeded rainfall and the north bay could receive up to 3 10th of inches of rain. More on theforecast. That is nice the painful journeyme evident fe who return home and debris and nothing else. The threat there is over today, the damag done. Abc 7 news repor freedmon live inith that story. Reporter all kins out here. Lets begin with highway 12 through kenwood. Right now its busy, its been pretty much empty all day. This is the road people will use to find their homes in wenwood, oak about what ti oakmont and other areas. Every person we talk to has a story, a little drama, where do you start . In the north bay this counted as progress on day eight. Just smoke not flames. The Fire Fighting one of manyba heres another, counterive batt through the accident scescenef. Been h every day to get through. Reporter lois wants to get down route 12. Evacuations but debris is sti down. Were trying to do for other. Thats melissa and her husband austin filling buckets of water for neighborhood pets and animals that survivor the inferno. If youre wondering, yes, their home looks like this. Whose helping you . My husband. Repor helping your husme. Reporter whose two of you . God. Reporter person after person ey keep coming. And its nothing new for lois had t burned. Sonoma county say they are confident in the progres making. More evacuationviries are being. Officials say if yse is in a burn area it could be days or before you could get back we do have areas out there that are evacuated. As soon as w mitigate the threats of that but putting gco making sure putting people back homes and having to pull them back out the next day is illuminated. The so stands at 23 and 80 people still missing. The sheriff warn the death tolls could increase. North bay firefighters are heroes along with deputies, officers and orr First Responders of course, who rushed in. Some of them are victims too. Abc 7 News Reporter david luey introduces you to one of them whose dealing with a real twist of fate. Accepting help with the job is normally to extend help. Reporter the tables have turned after his familys fourbedroom road burned to the ground. Everything was incinerated. Theres fog to salvage. Ive been through here, my home, its unbelievable. Reporter more than 40 First Responders are if the same situation. Imagine being on the fire lines when your own family is imperil. Youre engaged in rescuing people, meanwhile your family is calling you for help. We know thats a stretch for our people. Reporter so the Fire Department is stepping up, offering financial help. My first instinct is to push it away and so, no i got this, we can handle this, were good. I have to allow people to help me. Its the first time ive been put in that position. Reporter the temperature reached 1500 degrees and it melted everything except for a plate and bowl that was in the dishwasher and a cell phone. Its extremely humbling but also its uplifting because i have so many people reaching out. Firefighters arent used to disengaging with their victims when their job is dont. With images like this etched in their mind theyre not going to forget this disaster for the rest of their lives. In santa rosa, david luey, abc 7 news. Amazing damage, terrible to see. Donations needed for firefighters who lost homes. A fund raising web page has been set up to help. 100 of the money goes to the family of affected firefighters. We have a link to the website at abc7news. Com. Strange position for them suddenly to be in. Needing help instead of giving help. Another family comes forward to share their story of rescuing 58 residence from a burning assist assisted living facility in santa rosa. Youll hear from a worker of that facility who say when he asked senior Staff Members if there was an evacuation plan, he got no response. A new tonight another family has come forward sharing how they rescued 58 people from an assisted Living Retirement Community that burned to the ground. A building within Oakmont Senior Community host elderly residence in wheelchairs and with dementia. Were hearing from a worker who was at the building. Melanie woodrow broke this story last thursday and hes here with the story only on 7. An employee we spoke with described chaos, attempting to evacuate hundreds of residence from this facility. This is a video to show you of villa capris burning to the ground thursday night. A couple arrived at 2 00 a. M. To check on his mother. They say it was dark and no back up generator running. They say they asked three care givers who they met on site if there was an evacuation plan and they say they were told, no. A Maintenance Worker who was over in the Main Building tell abc 7 news, employees on duty did not have the combination to a lock box to access keys to buses and vehicles that could have been used to evacuate residence. He also said a senior employee told him to turn off the initial smoke alarm that sounded at about 12 30 a. M. Abc 7 news asked that worker if there was an evacuation plan. I wasnt taught it if they do. In fact, i brought it up that night when one gentleman came in, he showed the fire we got back in the building, i brought up twice and i said whats your evacuation plan. I got no response. There was no commander and chief, no one in charge that could delegate so wed all know what was going on. This Oakmont Senior Living write quote, all of our communities have evacuation plans. We have three back up generators onsite. We were unable to areefer every where you know of our vehicles due to the zang and a smoke alarm was silent at 12 30 p. M. When the the fire wasnt posing any danger. Coming up youll see how a woman says they broke through a glass at villa capris after they got look locked out from rescuing the 58 residence. Youll hear from the Maintenance Worker as well as an attorney who filed a suit against this Retirement Living last month. This melanie thanks very much. You may notice a knew tool abc 7 to get an upclose look at the fires. Check this out on sky 7 showing a video of santa rosa. Abc 7 News Reporter Jonathan Bloom has a look at how it works. Were here at sky 7 where were using a new feature called sky map 7 as we take a look at what was scorched and what survived. Lets take a look at some of the images here. These are images from sky 7 with map data overlayed on top of them. You can see u. S. 101 and restaurants that have been destroyed. We can overlay place names on those restaurants so we can see what they were. Apple bees, mcdonalds, arbys totally destroyed. If we look up here we can see the giant kmart store that was completely gutted by those flames. This is a tool we started using a month ago and its a tool that has proven more useful than we expected in providing answers to some of the difficult questions in this fire. A neighborhood like coffee park over here, this is a neighborhood that was completely decimated by the flames. We can slow you what this neighborhood used to look like using a google earth overlay. This neighborhood was houses, trees and sidewalks. If we take that overlay away you can see whats left behind. Absolute, heart breaking destruction. This is technology that was initially only available to members of the Law Enforcement community, we hear at abc 7 news are the first station to use it. It has proven useful in getting some of this information out to members of the community who are wondering what happened to their homes after this devastating wild fires, especially some of the area that is remain evacuated even after some of the flames ripped through them. Well continue to use this technology so we can keep you updated in the wake of these fires. Jonathan bloom, abc 7 news. It is mind blowing the technology these days. Really happy to bring that to people. And were happy to talk about a change in the forecast favorable for the firefighters. Spencer christian standing by with rain in the forecast. Thats true, deion. Then cooler air, humid air coming our way and cleaner air i might add. We have high clouds across the bay area, clouds are bright as we approach a sunset. Let me give you a live look at conditions from the tower over San Francisco. You can see the lingering high clouds. 79 degrees in San Francisco, warm for this hour. 75, upper 70s in san jose. 64 at half moon bay. Check out this sunset from our emoryville camera. 81 in san jose. 79 at liver more. Were showing this sunset to you from another angle, the east bay hills camera. Breezy conditions with showers beginning late thursday, continuing into early friday. Of course improved air quality and a lower fire risks. Over night well continue to see haze in the north bay and high clouds elsewhere. Low temperatures in the Morning Hours will range to upper 40s to low 50s in the bay area. Tomorrow, high clouds. Lower 70s around the bay, inland, 80s for the most part. Wednesday, well see increase in the winds on the coast. It will be coming offshore, a flow of bringing us cooler marine air, higher humidity and lower fire risk. Into thursday morning, wind increase will occur, head over advance funnel system that will bring us rainfall later in the week. It ranks one on a storm impact scale starting late thursday going into early friday. Most of bay area will see light showers, the north bay will see a little rain in the system. Starting thursday night about 11 00 well see rain moving into the north bay, spreading i understood land further south, and taper off. There could be snow over in the central sierra. In the bay area were expecting generally under a tenth of an inch. In the north by the way up some much needed rainfall. Tomorrow will be another warm day but light win with slightly cooler conditions than we had today. Much cooler wednesday, thursday and friday will feel more like fall. Clearing skies over the weekend and warming up again next monday. Youre making a lot of people happy. I hope so. Fear is returning to relief tonight for residence in the fire zone of lake county. A fire burning there has destroyed two San Francisco Police Officers recovering tonight after a driver slammed into their patrol car. Abc 7 news ft in the sunset district after a bm w ran a pair meskds took the bm w driver to the hospital. Theyre also suspected to survive. The traffic unit is trying to figure out who was at fault. State watchdogs turning up the pressure on wells fargo. The treasure announced hes extended sanctions against wells for another year. The penalty began after a bank admitted to opening millions of new accounts without their customers knowledge. Chong says hes concerned about reports of over questionable practices at wells fargo and wants more cooperation from management. Throughout this series of scandals fargo has been evasive in responding to inquiries customers, cotate lawmakers may office. He Treasurers Office investi or use the bank as a we are leath that may be rfrom the wildfires. Well hear from a 27yearold santa rosa m who died yesterday. A good hug. And the power of positivity for fire survivors, how the little thing mean so much. And a team effort to fight th firefighters a look at the many who are these people . The Energy Conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. We start this half hour with new updates for thefire lines. More evacuations lifted. Napa county on Wooden Valley road and on mont sell low road. And in santa rosa. Evacuations were also lifted in mendocino, lake and napa counties. Many cities have still in the dark because of fires and damaged equipment. 15,000 without natural gas. Utilities working with the firefighters to get the lights turned back on and the gas hopefully by tomorrow night. Do not relight your own pilot lights wait for pge to do that for you. Some districts plan to reopen tomorrow including petaluma schools. Four u. S. Post offices in Sonoma County that have closed because of the fires will be back open for full service tomorrow. Three still remain closed. Sonoma county says still reported missing. The fatality state wide is up to 42. At 6 00 tonight a a tragedy he suffered a deadly asthma attack from the smoke from the wildfires. 27yearold josh huff ner was taken off life support. His sis says he had an asthma attack on monday and wen to cardiac arrest. He was a registered organ donor. He may have a chance to save a 1yearold right now and that. Happenereaves behind a 5yearold son. A gofundme page set up by friends has raised 1,100 for fu e Petaluma Police katy leonard as part of a check fraud ination. Police do believe the items were taken to vehicles left behind in burned outighborhoods. Right now theyre working to contact the victims. We do full list of businesses damaged or destroyed. Right at the home page of in wit least 1500 homes and commercial buildings, including wineries and restaurants have been lost to the flames. Only did t people loose their homes, hundreds are now unemployed. As businesse look to repair and rebuild one company is l media. Veronica miller with that story. Reporter what was once the wine country overlooking the citys now a mess we could de it was burning. Reporter from human directo second home, along with a place to see 130 cow everything. Lost their homes, somebody has members,y lost pets county offi are seein and others ask. For a few coming to the old democratic build forget resources. Coming in looking work. Reporter now olson ispon heh family new homes. Power of soci she sent out plea to area businesses with all the position of employees tar now left without work. The only thing i knew how to do is get out there and try to reversal recruit. Reporter hours thousands of peoere calling, messaging and emailing her. I expected a hundred shares as of now its 8,000 shares. I already have seven that have started wo reporter olson says she plans to that list of jobs to other people outside of her ce to get back on their a feet. Inanta rosa, veronica miracle, abc 7 news. Were getting a clear understanding of just how much fire crew support is going into fighting these wildfires, amazing. Take a look at this graphic posted on social media by cal fire. Mutual aid has come in from 17 states. You see as far away as new york andaustralia. They fire engines as well as 135 fire crews and ll. You can text to k 10 to help. Text red cross to 90999 you can call the number on your screen to volunteer. That number is7075777600. There is a pet to the wildfir upnext well take the look at the situationt one Animal Shelter in the north bay. A lift from those hey, are you taking the tissue test . Yep, and my teeth are yellow. I mean i knew they werent perfect, but, ugh. Oh well, all hope is lost oh thanks clearly my whitening toothpaste is not cutting it. Time for whitestrips. Crest glamorous White Whitestrips are the only adaaccepted whitening strips proven to be safe and effective. They work below the enamel surface to whiten 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste. Hey, nice smile thanks i crushed the tissue test yeah you did crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. The fires have overwhelmed Animal Shelters in the north bay with pets his placed by the fire. Youre taking a look at a pet shelter in santa rosa. Others need have food and be washed. We hold an animal until it becomes our animal i guess, when its not claimed. In which case then, we can adopt it out. This is not in that circumstance and not normal so, those time frames dont apply to these animals. And take a look at this, some of the pet food, much donated thats been drivered to the shelter. Weve heard about the endless hours and hard work formed by pge crews in the north bay, now were looking at something extra by a utility server. Molly showed this picture working with pge and the woman you see there has been caring for stranded cats while fixing power lines. Fire evacuees in santa rosa can now get free rides to the local assistance center. The city is offering free trips to the center inside the old press Democrat Building at 406 mendocino avenue. Service is offered from three santa rosa emergency shelters. The finley center, fairgrounds, Veterans Building and lc island high school. And a center also opened in napa. Its the health and Human Services building at naep county drive. Its open from 9 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Today through friday. And 10 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. On saturday and sunday. Progress is being made on the suddenly far fire as well. The fire has charred more than 2200 acres in clear lake oaks. The area being patrolled in case of looting. The residence of mend seen foe county has been able to return home and see whats left of their home. The fire burning there is 57 contained but has destroyed acres and hundreds of people. Eight people have died. Heres a look at some of the animals affected in mendocino county. This picture was taken of a cat and a pig getting a ride home. Naurnl guard members spotted a duck that survived the fire while in its cage. When our neighbors are in need abc 7 shows up. Michael finney with 7 on your side will be at the Evacuation Center to help people affected by those fires. Some see only tomorrow. For a list of all locations head to abc7news. Com 7 on your side. Officials who are these people . The Energy Conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. Tourism is the life blood for napa and Sonoma County. Thats correct. For sonoma its a 2 billion industry. Abc 7 News Reporter carolin tyler looks at the Economic Impact of the wildfires. Reporter when tourist come to San Francisco they often include a visit to the wine country because of the the trip. The wildfires has made a change of plans and a temporary set backs from the daily bus excursions run by tours. Were looking at bookings cancelled and snu bookings not made because of what happened. Reporter the heart of that Community Benefits district tells us the inferno up north may not be having the impact u that you think. This is the entire year where were seeing less of the international and out of state visitor and seeing most of the region travellers. Reporter the San Francisco hotel is collaborating with its wine counter parts trying to find space that had bookings disrupted by the fires. It could be anything from Company Meetings or retreats, to weddings people have been planning. Reporter the hotels are offering discounted rooms for napa and residence that have been displaced. The images of deaf station are haunting but most of the region are untouched. The head of the Sonoma Valley bureau expects when the smoke clears it will be back to business. Its been a long ride for all of us, were exhausted and tired. I think the Business Operations will resume quickly and there will be a rebound. Carolin tyler, abc 7 news. I talked to one person i know in the wine business they opened today for the first time and trying to get back on their feet. Yeah, everybody wants to know how with the rain increase. Heres a look at live doppler. Today was a warm day, over day will be partly cloudy. Tomorrows going to be another relatively warm day but cooler than today. Well see this cooling trend continue later in the week. Speaking of later in the week well have rain coming our way. Well have shift in the wind to offshore. The rain fall system breaks one of the impact scale. Much needed rainfall for the north bay. Heres the south dakoevenday f. We had highs near 90. Spencer thank you. A lot of sports to talk about. Lion backer has a new team. Warriors kick off the regular season, hosting the i no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. Wondering, what if . I let go of all those feelings. Because i am cured with harvoni. Harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Its been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. And is proven to cure up to 99 of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. Certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. Before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if youve ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after harvoni treatment. Tell your doctor if youve ever had hepatitis b, a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv or any other medical conditions and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. Taking amiodarone with harvoni can cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. Common side effects of harvoni include tiredness, headache and weakness. Ready to let go of hep c . Ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. Warriors tip off the regular season tomorrow hosting the Houston Rockets and will receive their Championship Rings from last year. Doors open at 5 30. Assistant head coach stop by earlier and i asked him how distracting its going to be getting the ring before they face jim hard enand the rockets. Ill take the distraction. Its awkward but im looking forward to it. Tomorrow night should be a fun night. Lets talk about the west, Houston Rockets picked up chris paul, okc, so everybodys trying to create the super team the warriors have created. I think the west is going to be tougher this year. It is. It seems like everybody that was mvp all stars or potential candidates come west. Its scary but its fun. You live for the competition of things. I think there year is going to be more competitive than any other year ive been in the league. The toughest thing to do in sports is to repeat as champion. You guys fknow that going in. Have you guys talked about how that have it is to repeetd . We are talented, theres no secret about that. What wooes going to push on them on a daily basis are the small thing. The small thing people dont see that can help you get over the hump especially with you go get complacent. Lion backer Larry Baldwin was released last week. Today he signed a one year deal with the raiders for 3 million. They will not be playing him as much as theyd like they reached an agreement to go their separate ways. Navarro wanted to go to a contender. Some say the super bowl raiders may not be that at a 23 start. Bowman may play which may have a lion backer which the raiders need. Its a veteran guy, played a lot of good ball over the years. Were excited to have him. Were a little green at the lion backer position so to have somebody with the experience that he has, we think its a nice edition for us and well get him up to speed and see how quickly we can get them there on the field. Speaking of the youth movement, rookie quarter cj against the cowboys sunday at levi stadium. He took over for brian horder and they lost to washington. Heed well. Pass to andre, his first as a pro. 09 niners needed to see what they had in betham for next years draft. This week will be different fcj knowing hes going to start all week. I was adjustments, hes going to see a lot of things he hasnt seen before and that will change each week. It will probably change each quarter. How does a guy handle that stuff. Ive seen a lot of guys come many and struggle early and learn from it and be pretty good. Ive seen guys come in and play very well, things change and they dont adjust that well. And of course larry beal and myself will be live tomorrow night for the season opener. Dont try to touch the trophy. Yeah. Tonight at 9 00 on coffey t. V. Cable 13 and right here at abc 7 news at 11 00. A santa rosa hospital shows its surveillance as the fire approaches. On abc 7 news at 11 00 they lost nearly everything in the fire but feeling relief after learning a family treasure survived. That story for you. Thats it for this edition of abc 7 news. Look for breaking news on twitter, on abc news bay area on facebook as well. Thank from all of us. Thank from all of us. See owe again at 9 00 and 11 00 is recorded in front of a live studio audience. Mike hey, babe. Hey. Whats the matter . Oh, nothing. Im just im just right on that lateafternoon fence. Do i have another cup of coffee or just say screw it and pour my first glass of wine . Tough one. Well, which way do you love me more a little jittery and chatty or passed out and drooling by 8 30 . I love you both ways
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