Now at 11 00, this is one of the worstfire disasters in worst fire disasters in bay area history. The rising death toll and the new orders to evacuate. Reporter im allen martin live in santa rosa tonight in the coffee park neighborhood where house after teete, hocar after car, block after block, it all looks like this. This is an area im told is a mile and a half by a mile. Total destruction. I know we keep saying it looks like a bomb went off, well, you know what . It was. A fire bomb raced through this neighborhood on sunday night and early monday morning and left nothing behind. Now fire crews still struggling to make much headway on containment of all the fires burning up here tonight. Firefighters are under extreme pressure. Fire commanders keeping a close eye on mother nature, whats going to happen with the weather because shifting gusty winds expected to make their way into the fire zones tomorrow and could very well wreak havoc across the north bay. Right now there are at least 17 fires burning across northern california. Heres a look at the biggest one still causing some major problems tonight. Heres what we know right now. The number of dead raised just a few hours ago up to 17. Now crews are making a little bit of progress, and i stress little. The largest fire, the atlas fire is 3 percent contained. Two other big fires in the area are now only 1 percent contained. So a little progress, but clearly they have a long way to go. Border. One of those fire Social Security tearing through parts of glen ellen near the napa and Sonoma County border. In that community we watched home awful home go up in flames after home go up in flames earlier. Some are multimillion dollarest kates. Joe is estates. Joe is live there for us tonight with the latest. Reporter that fire storm ripped through this part of glen ellen over night on sunday, but since that time its been smoky, its been hazy, and theres been no sign of the flames until this evening when the horizon started to light up again. Its a little surreal. Reporter along highway 12 in glen ellen, an orange glow on the ridge marks a sudden change. It just started off as smoke, and then you see the flames, and it continues to go down. Reporter chopper 5 flying above the ridge shows us flames devouring a handful of large homes. Firefighters were not able to reach them in time. We decided to try and get a close up view of the fire. Some locals pointed us up cave dale road, a narrow, winding road. You can see the awesome size of the fire from this vantage point. Flames are ripping through the tries, consuming the hillside. We decided it was not safe to stay up there. Some folks who live here in the area are making much larger decisions. We left yesterday and came back to just check on our home, and everything seemed fine. But were thinking about leaving again. The winds are supposed to shift again tonight, head back there way, so were not real sure. The cars are packed, the sprinklers are on in the yard and around the roof tops, and were just waiting to see what happens. Reporter yeah, its all about the winds at this point. Right now they appear to be moving in an easterly direction, but some time tomorrow, perhaps early afternoon when the winds come back its not clear what will happen. Well be here to monitor it, but a lot of folks here on edge. Live in glen ellen, kpix 5. Yes, we know its going to change. In santa rosa there are some new Evacuation Orders to tell you about. Its in the oakmont neighborhood. Andrea borba is there for us tonight from the latest. Reporter well, here in the oakmont neighborhood this is a 55 plus senior community. Most everyone has evacuated. There are a few stragglers tonight, but as we pan over to the ridge line you can see what theyre facing. That surrounds the community of oakmont here in santa rosa. We have a lot of Fire Fighting to do. Reporter the neighborhood is ringed by flames tonight. Theyre slowly creeping down the hill and it concerns us because waveshaped wind shift weve anticipated wind shift the next few day. Reporter this afternoon the fire began flaring and spotting down this ridge line toward these homes. Our cameras watched as the skies filled first with white smoke, then black. A telltale sign of a structure and not vegetation burning. When we got to the top of trail ridge place, the home at the top was gone with flame glowing as embers flew, driven by wind to a new location to wreak havoc. You can see the marks cut into the asphalt here. Crews tried to save the neighborhood, but the fire proved too powerful. At 0 percent contain. , each glowing hillside seemed to dwarf the fire engines and water tinders below. At the end of the day were just as heart broken as everyone else out there. Reporter now here in the oakmont neighborhood, the problem its surrounded by this ridge. There is fire atop all of these ridges. Tomorrow when the wind shifts, depending on which direction it shifts and how fast it gets, thats the part of this neighborhood that will likely be effected by these flames that will come racing down the hill yet again tomorrow. Allen martin in sa. Reporter all right, andrea borba, thanks very much for that update. We want to point out that theres still a curfew in effect. Basically dusk to dawn involving this neighborhood as well. Every once in awhile well see a Police Officer come through, a fire truck. We saw a motorcade of San Francisco motorcycle Police Officers come through tonight, so theyre enforcing that curfew, ken and liz, to make sure theres no looting going on. And im sure homeowners are as well are desperate to see whats left of the their homes, but its still dangerous, the fire is still very unpredictable. Reporter it is indeed. All right, allen, thank you. Some people ran to escape the fire in Sonoma County. There if you look closely you can see people running down the street. Tonight fire investigators still do not know how all of these wildfires got started. But mark sayer says we have a better idea of where at least one of them broke out. Reporter cal fire emphasized nobody will be allowed to return to the evacuated areas until its completely safe, and theyre very concerned about the winds tomorrow. Smoke, fire, wires down. Reporter as hundreds looked on, cal fire and other agencies briefed residents on the status of the fires and help thats available. But key questions focused on where the fires started and how it spread so quickly. Because of those wind conditions, these fires got out very quickly. Reporter the tubbs fire started just outside of calastoga and was whipped quickly to the west into santa rosa. The santa rosa fire chief choked up describing having to move his command post several times and being unable to spare residents from devastation. On another route it was burning behind us. I know all you guys lost a lot of houses. Reporter cal fire says the danger is not over yet. These fires just happened in a very close succession, so you can imagine resources going a lot of different directions. Reporter crews say getting information is difficult. At least 77 cell sites in sonoma and napa counties went out of service due to the fire. Some at the meeting wished there could have been more specific information, which in some cases simply does not exist. I think, um, you know, a little more direct information around actual events, what to do, how to react would maybe be more helpful. Reporter and tonight the Sonoma County sheriff says that theyre still running down reports of at least 190 missing people. That just in Sonoma County alone. They are hopeful though that some of the people simply havent reached out to relatives. Its poor communication in the area as far as cell service is concerned. Live in santa rosa, kpix 5. And chief meteorologist paul deanno tells us the fire danger could go from bad to worse in a matter of hours. The fire officials have been talking about the fire danger on the increase tomorrow. What changes wednesday . Well the wind speed is going to change, its going to get stronger. The wind direction is going to change again, going offshore once again. Theres a cold front passing through. Its not going to give us atropa of rain fall, but a drop of rain fall, but will give a wind and speed direction change, two things we dont want. The gusts up to 40 Miles Per Hour and the were wind out of the north and the winds out of the north or northeast. What that also will likely do is take all the smoke billowing over the north bay and send it south to san jose. Everybody with bad air quality tomorrow. If the winds verify, everyones air quality could be worse than today, and today was pretty bad. The sevenday is coming up. Heres a look now where the biggest wine country fire, the atlas fire is burning right now. The yellow is the actual fire zone, and the red spots are the actual active flames. This napa neighborhood was at once full of homes, but tonight its in charred ruins with only a mailbox standing. 100yearold and richard and his wife sarah were the first two victims to be identified. We could see he was trying to get from his room to her room. He never made it. And, um, even if he had gotten there and couldnt get her out, she couldnt move well at all. Theres no way he would have left. 900 residents and 40 also in napa county tonight, the california Veterans Home has just evacuated 900 residence departments and 400 residents and 400 staff. Its the largest Veterans Home in the united states. A number of schools will remain closed tomorrow. All schools in the napa unified district, Santa Rosa City district, and Santa Rosa Junior College as well as Sonoma State University all will close tomorrow. Pg and e says. 75thousand tens of thousands of people still without power tonight. Pg and e says 75,000 customers at last check. A majority of them are in santa rosa. About 50,000 there and about 15,000 in napa. Now a lot of you want to know how you can help. Or go to red cross dotorg. There it is. You can donate to the red cross by calling the number on your screen or you can go to the red cross website. More information on ways to donate is on our website. 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Martin, than theres a lot of memories in this house, and um, this was horrible. Reporter bob and tammy have lived on hopper avenue in santa rosa for 30 years, and raised three kids in this house or what was this house. The fire sunday was a shock. My wife pulled up at 10 00 of 2 00 10 after 2 00, and we had about 10 minutes to get out. Reporter they were stuck in traffic grid lock as houses burned all around them. Now less than 48 hours later, their house like many of their neighbor Social Security ash and rubble. Neighbors is ash and rubble. But theyre back to salvage what they can. Shes hoping she can find Something Else and try to dig something out of the rubble. It was important to come back because theres a lot of sent mental items i was hoping to find supplier like her wedding ring. He find. Reporter like her wedding ring. Another woman found hers so i said i have to try, so we got in and i found out. Reporter and she had a pretty good idea of where to start looking. I started in through the front door and immediately went to where i know my jewelry box was and started sifting, and there it was. And it was still in pretty good shape after all these years and a fire. Reporter that doesnt tell the whole story. A week before the fire, the christiansons daughter was at a bachelorette weekend at a Country Music concert in las vegas. It was a rough week because the sunday prior, the 2nd of october, she woke me up about 10 00 to let me know there was an active shooter in las vegas and my daughter was at the concert. So we were up all night trying to find her location and made contact with her while she was barricaded in a building in las vegas because of the shooter. Reporter now bob and tammys daughter, their future daughterinlaw, the whole group all made it out of the ordeal okay, and one word they kept using today was theyre grateful. Theyre grateful. Despite all of this and whats happened, theyre going to rebuild. And one quick update to the wedding ring story. When we aired the story at 5 00, Christy James jewelry saw the story and called, ken, you know the family, he called in and said hes offering to restore the ring for free. Tammy is going to take him up on the offer, so hes making that offer to anyone who had jewelry damaged if you can find it. Yes, hes saying hell help you with your jewelry. Your fine jewelry damaged in the fire that the family will take it in. They have a great Jewelry Store there and theyve offered that. And its really indicative of what were seeing, people coming forward to help each other. Not wanting anything in return, just want to get people back to living a normal life. And the attitude from that couple just amazing. I think theyre an inspiration to everybody whos lost so much. Unbelievable. Reporter and theyre not alone in the neighborhood. A lot of other people had their same type of attitude and want to move on and rebuild and get going with their lives. All right, allen martin, thank you. Consumed 21 thousand acres. Cell service is out in much of feel cut meanwhile up north a deadly wildfire has consumed 21,000 acres. The cell service is out in much of that area and people are completely cut off. Susie is in redwood valley. Reporter you may not have heard as much about the disaster up here partially because the communication lines here have been completely cut off. Today we learned that if another Evacuation Order is put in place, residents would have to find out by police knocking on their doors or walking down the street with bull horns. And people here are afraid they could end up trapped. 50 homes, 40 structures, 3 lives. All taken by wildfire in mendicino county. The disaster isnt garnering as much attention as the napa and Sonoma County fires are because the remote area is now completely off the grid. Yeah, a lot of people are kind of cut off with whats going on, and theyre all scared, so its not good. Reporter wildfire took out the main cell tower for this area leaving people without the ability to even dial 911. Desperate for information, they packed into the Community Library to listen and demand some answers from authorities. Right now were just pretty much cut off from communications. Reporter atms dont work, gas is running low, water and food is scarce, and people are growing anxious. Very confusing, and like an apocalypse. Reporter its easy to miss of the personal items here, but here is what used to be a bathtub, and in the corner of what was this home, the bindings of maybe a family photo album. We dont know who lived here, and Authorities Say it still isnt safe for them to come back. The fire is sending up giant plumes of smoke over the north bay causing bad air all over the bay area, and kpix 5s Christin Ayers reports it could go from bad to even worse. Reporter for some time today, this area was the most impacted by heavy smoke outside of the north way. Were talking about the northern shoreline of contra costa. Tonight as the sun is setting you can still see some of the haze hanging around, and air quality experts we spoke to today said this could be just the beginning of the bad air. Its the worst ive seen it in ten years. Reporter the worst of the bad air is settled over the north bay where uncontained wildfires are still raging. But today the smoke spread. Were also seeing unhealthy air travel down into contra costa county, san mateo county. Reporter causing some of the worst air quality experts have seen in recent history. They say the bad air is fueling an up tick in hospital visits. Were getting an increased number of calls, and in the hospital too. Theres an increased number of folks coming in. Reporter dr. Gupta said the biggest threat is for people with heart problems or respiratory issues. People with chronic heart or lung disease must be very mindful of going outside. Reporter the poor air quality may not let up until the weekends. Tomorrow a week ends. Tomorrow a red flag warning warning for the east bay hills. We expect poor air quality for at least the next two days. Its really dependent on the weather and wind and how quickly firefighters can get a control on all of the fires were seeing in the north bay. Reporter Christin Ayers, kpix 5. We are fairly confident that tomorrow the wind will turn to a northerly to northeast wind which will ta