I want to go through the cameras to give you a sense of what we are seeing across the bay area. Here is the camera. You can see the haziness over the bay bridge, causing low visibility this morning all across the waters there. This is ssl. It is gray. This is not clouds and not fog. It is smoke throughout the area. Places like san jose are looking pretty nasty this morning. South of San Francisco, you can smell it. Heres a look at the Golden Gate Bridge where you normally see the fog coming through but we are seeing smoke all across the area. Of course, it is because of the fires across to the north. The smoke and the fire is burning. You can see the line where you can see the glow. That is where the fires are burning. It is sending the thick smoke billowing. The High Definition doppler is showing a good view of the smoke, spreading further south and highway 29 is dealing with it it is one thread but we can pick it up on the satellite radar. That is where the smoke is coming in on the radar. That is a 3 hour loop. We start intensifying. Heres what to expect in terms of air quality. It is bad because of the fires. Limit your Outdoor Activities today. Close the windows and doors throughout San Francisco and beyond, because you are going to see ashes flying into some areas. That is what we are dealing with as far as air quality. We have a representative with they are joining us on the telephone. We are getting right around in the county is a nightmare because of the active flames. What are we dealing with . We are dealing with several closures. Many evacuations and the whole sections of the county. It is somewhat chaotic. Getting the people at the greatest risk out of those areas. What message do you have . To the best that you know, are the people that are in the path, the immediate path of this fire have they been moved to safety . To the best of knowledge, yes. We have been working all night with all of the agencies in the valley to make sure that the people were notified and helped out of their residence. Out of their houses. A lot of the houses where the fire has occurred or is occurring are very rural. It is hard to get to them. We needed to get to them as quickly as possible so that they can gather up belongings and get out of the house. There have been very little actual firefighting happening. The main purpose of what we are doing overnight was to get people out of their houses before the fire got to them. One of our reporters in the field has described this fire as crisscrossing the roadway, shifting as the wind shifts. Talk to us about the challenge of keeping the roadways open when it is not simply moving in one direction. It is moving back and forth across the roadway as the wind ships in that area. Generally, the wind has been in a southerly direction. They are giving us a section of the county to keep evacuating. The problem is that there are so many fires all over the place. We have got a fire in north napa county, the big one in atlas peak and some that are coming in from sonoma back into our valley. We are all stretched to a point where all we can do is just evacuate people until we get more help. All right. Thank you for the update. The officer is with the chp. We have another view of the fastmoving flames and nap as we continue our live coverage of this series of wildfires burning in napa and Sonoma County. This was posted to instagram, showing the dangerous drive that many people faced as they raced to try to escape the flames. Kpix reporter talk about the conditions of where you are right now. Tran01 i have been making my way north along appel road. I guess i am on the very eastern edge of Sonoma County coming north on 12 up napa road. The last time we were talking about the accident. A pickup truck. It presumably the Highway Patrol cruiser. The gentleman checked himself into a hospital. Further up the road, there were trees down which had burned. Again, another factor of how difficult it is to keep the roadways open and to get emergency folks around. The last spot i have gotten to, further up the road i am watching the spots that i have seen burned south over highway 12. I have come up on the northern end of this fire, burning along the ridge on the eastern side of the napa road. Now that we have a little bit of sunlight coming up, it is certainly a lot easier to orient itself to what is going on. I have a feeling firefighters are more excited than anybody to see the sunlight. You can see where the fire is. I would not be surprised if it is not long before we see the flames and the helicopters get out here. That will help. Up to this point, firefighters have not been able to begin fighting the actual fire since the main priority is getting people out of harms way. We will find out a lot more about what we are looking at when it comes to loss of property and possible loss of lives as the hours tick by. Wilson walker, live for us in between napa and Sonoma County. Emergency shelters we have been talking about them open in napa for people affected by the fire. One is set up at the fairground at 1435 north oak street and another option is Napa Valley College gym open because the Community Church is full. That is located on napa vallejo highway in napa. We are actually right now in the middle of a continuing coverage of this very dangerous dynamic situation that has occurred overnight. There are several large fires that are burning right now as we speak in the sonoma and napa county areas. There are a couple of additional counties as well. This fire has grown dramatically overnight from the original estimate of roughly 200 acres burned to now more than 20,000 acres burned, five different fires, four different counties, and large parts of the north bay and wine country have been evacuated to get people out of harms way. We have spoken to several people with the Fire Department, cal fire, Law Enforcement and they said that the first and greatest priority is the evacuation of people at greatest risk and they said that we spoke to someone from the chp who says that there is little firefighting going on at this point. Obviously, there are things that firefighters are constrained by at night. They cannot do air lifts they cannot do choppers and airplanes and water drops and things of that nature. That will begin as soon as the sun really is up in earnest this morning. It is a very dangerous, dynamic situation. It is a frantic situation since the fires broke out at about 10 pm last night. All night long, authorities were going door to door to get people out of their homes. For people to get to the Evacuation Centers was a nightmare and very dangerous when you saw the fire jumping many of the road closures that we saw. We are going to hear about injuries and we are likely going to hear about deaths from the fires as dozens, possibly hundreds of homes have earned and one of the most dangerous places has been near the santa rosa area. One fire turned from a wild plane they wildland fire into a fire within the city limits and Katie Nielsen has been watching the evolution and the Evacuation Centers are opening in that area. Katie has more. Tran01 we are standing on top of the parking garage of Kaiser Permanente. If you look behind me, you can see what is left of the journeys in Mobile Home Park which is basically nothing. There are dozens and dozens of homes destroyed. We are literally surrounded by fire right now. As you can see, what you are looking at are some mobile homes that have already burned. Some are still an active fire. There is one fire truck that we can see inside the Mobile Home Park that is position between the Mobile Home Park and the hospital, trying to keep those fires at bay. We are also hearing and seeing what looks like some type of a gas fire, where it sounds like the flames are actually being fed by i am not sure if it is propane, natural gas, Something Like that, but there is no sign of that stopping. Flames are continuing up the hill. The hospital has been evacuated. 100 patients were taken out to kaiser san rafael hospital. The most critical patients were taken to Memorial Hospital in santa rosa. As we are talking about right now, this fire is unprecedented for a city of santa rosa. When we spoke with cal fire earlier, they said right now they have the fire estimated at 20,000 acres. It started up near calistoga in the overnight areas and because of these incredible winds whipping the flames, it traveled all the way down and it is impacting the city of santa rosa. It has jumped the freeway and it is on both sides of 101 near bicentennial way. Again, what we are looking at right now is what used to be a Mobile Home Park. I can only seem they i can only see about two dozen possibly mobile homes that are still here and do not seem to be impacted by the fire. The rest of them are all basically piles of ash at this point. I am not sure if you can hear it but we are hearing multiple higher pitched explosions right now. We were told that on the other side of the roadway from the Mobile Home Park was a gun and ammunition shop and it sounds like potentially that shop has caught fire because we are starting to hear what almost sounds like rounds of ammunition exploding. Again, we are on top of the Kaiser Permanente parking garage off of bicentennial way in santa rosa, looking down at what used to be a Mobile Home Park. No doubt the People Living here barely had any time to get out we dont know if there were any injuries and cal fire says that they will not have a better idea of what the damage looks like and how many people are injured until the sun starts coming up and they are actually able to get a look into some of these areas. That was Katie Nielsen not live at in santa rosa and here is another view of the fastmoving flames in napa. Another fire as we continue the Live Team Coverage of the wildfires and video shows what it was like as many tried to drive out of the fire zone which is massive. Wilson walker has been traveling tracking the fire and he filed a report minutes ago. Tran01 i have been trying to explain what the roadways are like if youre trying to make your way around napa and Sonoma County. This is it. This is what driving around his leg. Truth be told, i think that everyone up here has been making it up as they go along, poking around, trying to figure out where it is safe and not safe and where somebody might be telling you to go and sometimes you have no choice but to stand around and watch the fire what watch what it is doing. Hopefully it moves and you can get down the highway. Incredibly dangerous driving conditions. It is dark and smoky. There is fire along many roadways. Sonoma county, wilson walker. Emergency shelters are open for people affected by the fire. One is set up at the fairgrounds at 1435 north oak street. Another option is the Napa Valley College jim, just opened because the center of the crosswalk Community Church is full. That is located on knapp of alejo highway in napa. The city of napa posted on twitter that the Company Opened the Animal Shelter to take in household pets. As for the Evacuation Centers, the Family Community center is full but other Evacuation Centers are open at the santa rosa memorial building. The Community Center on moore street and the center on north mcdowell boulevard in petaluma. All of the santa rosa schools will be closed as the crews firked to lebae th. E schools. If you live in the north bay wine country you want to check that before you send your kids out. We are monitoring the situation closely and calistoga. Flames engulfed a home on top of the hill in the city. That was one of dozens, possibly hundreds of homes that have burned in this series of fires. They burned closely to a fire truck that was speeding down the roadway. That highlights the challenges of getting around. Near calistoga, manda terry evacuations are underway for People Living along Petrified Forest and the Mountain Home ranch road. Again, School Canceled in that city as well. Power is out in calistoga as it is all across the area right now in napa and Sonoma County. A lot of communities are affected by the Power Outages. That will be in effect until 11 am. At least. One of the things that has been a challenge is we have had strong, gusty winds that are fueling the fires. You said that as the morning goes on, the winds are going to taper off. Has that begun to happen . Be back the peak of the winds were between midnight and three ampere that is why you are smelling the smoke. People in San Francisco are seeing the ash from the fires. It is really what we are waking up to and smelling. The winds are going to taper off. The past few hours have been intense. Lets show you some live cameras to give you a sense of the nasty smoke that is from the fires to the north. It is spreading it is showing the intensity of that smoke. A lot of times with the fires they create their own weather. It is not just winds coming from the north but in the areas of the fire, it is causing these swirls and winds blowing in Different Directions and that is what the firefighters are dealing with. The doppler gives you a sense of the smoke in the air. You can see it from the sky. This is south of napa. Look at how far it is blowing. It is over berkeley, oakland, highway 24, 580, 185, all dealing with low visibility because of this. It is as far south as places like fremont getting the impacts of the smoke because the wind is blowing in this northeast direction. It is dry wind coming down and it is sending the smoke into the bay area and further south. High fire danger and a warning is in effect so this is the worst Case Scenario for the firefighters. Sustained winds are picking up, coming from the north, fairfield at 18. I will send it over to you. Evacuations are underway and Sonoma County. Here is a map showing the area straddling 101 in the northern part of santa rosa. Tran02 Katie Nielsen continues our Live Team Coverage. The fire was getting close to your location. Have you been forced to move from that parking structure near the hospital . Tran01 yeah. We actually had to move from the Kaiser Permanente parking garage. We are now at mendocino and Fountain Grove. If you look behind me, you can see what used to be the Fountain Grove inn and hotel. What is amazing is that this has burned down to the foundation. There is not a single fire truck in sight. That is because all of these firefighters in this area are trying to save lives. We see the trucks going back and forth. That was a fire truck from cal fire that just went by. They are not stopping. They are not worried about property. What we were told by one of cal fires spokespeople a few minutes ago is that we are at the northwest corner of this fire. It originally started overnight as a 200 acre fire near calistoga. These incredibly strong winds pushed the fire. It is now 20,000 acres and it has pushed its way from calistoga all the way down into santa rosa proper and we are on the other side of the road from where we were at the Kaiser Permanente hospital in santa rosa at bicentennial way. We were looking down at the Mobile Home Park. We are on the other side of the Mobile Home Park. We saw dozens of mobile homes burning. You can see what used to be the hotel it is burning out of control. Firefighters have no intention of putting this fire out right now because their main concern is saving peoples lives. They are saying, we do not have the ability to get to the property. We do not have the resources. When we talked with cal fire, they said that they have a couple of hundred firefighters in santa rosa and they are calling for mutual aid statewide across the entire state of california. They are calling firefighters. That is because of the sheer number of fires that are burning right now in Northern California. He said that there are five large fires burning just in Northern California alone right now. This one is in santa rosa. It is one of them. The reason that this is so unprecedented is that this turn from a brush fire into a very densely populated structure fire after structure fire. We have seen countless homes go up in flames. We are looking at a business that is literally wiped out. There will be nothing left of this once the fire is eventually put out or burned itself out. Again, as we were talking about, firefighters are not doing anything to try to save the structures. They are trying to save people. So Kaiser Permanente hospital where we were just a few moments ago that was evacuated because