Vegetation around it. Right now evacuation orders are in place. They use reverse 911 calls to warn residents. Cal fire also tweeting saying reporter one woman evacuated to los gatos was worried for her pets and neighbors. Yeah. I have pets all my neighbors have pets. One of my neighbors has some young kids. So they got out right away. The neighbor has some antique cars and stuff but he pulled those out. Back out here live throughout the morning we have been watching these flames again going from the left side of the screen to the right side trees just bursting into flames with dry conditions. I have a few new updates from cal fire. They are saying one inmate firefighter was treated for smoke inhalation. Also two Evacuation Centers are open right now for any residents. You can go to Boulder CreekElementary School and lakeside Elementary School in los gatos. Once the sun comes up they will be doing aerial attacks to get the flames under control. Its at 0 containment. Live from the Santa Cruz Mountains, Sandra Osborne, kpix 5. Gianna is also tracking the road closures in santa cruz counties because of this fire. In the area because the fires of course when there are evacuations, some of the side streets get bogged down with extra volume on the roads through there so lets tell you about some of those closures. First of all, bear creek is completely shut down. Its between highway 9 to highway 35. Parts of highway 9 are still open as well as 35. But there is some road closures in effect on 35 as well from las cumbres to highway 9. Caltrans is working earlier but thats wrapped up quickly. Hawk ridge at deer creek shut down. Bear creek at deer creek. Also closed bear creek at deer canyon. Highway 35 also completely shut down at bear creek and, of course, our eyes are on the roads but expect extra busy conditions again for evacuations. Those roads definitely might get clogged down because of that. Lets get another live look at the bear fire in Santa Cruz County as those flames are just spreading across the trees and the brush in the area. Again, this is burning near bear creed road and neda is in the Weather Center tracking the Current Conditions in the area. You can see all those tall trees those are all dry drought stricken and, of course, there are the fuels in the area, as well. So thats not a good combination. Weatherwise, at least the winds are cooperating in that area this morning. Heres the current forecast. 68 degrees now with a northwest wind coming in at just one mile per hour gusts up to three. Thats it. That is going to help in the firefight. Temperatures warm up this afternoon. The forecast will reach 10 Miles Per Hour. Among the ridgetops and valleys it can make an impact. Humidity is dry, 14 . Thats not a help. And once we get a shift in our winds, we will see that humidity rise. We are expected to see that today. Heres a look at some of the fire forecasts. Temperatures will be dropping five degrees today compared to yesterday. 10 degrees tomorrow. So as we continue to cool, that will help firefighters out. The onshore flow is also going to bring those humidity levels up with that moist air coming in and theres a chance of rain this week thursday night into friday. Lets send to you wine country now and show you what theyre dealing with up north. Oakville 45 degrees. So it is cool out there this morning. Temperatures just dropped off even more the past hour. North winds there at 3 Miles Per Hour. So barely a breeze again. Humidity levels in the 60s so that is nice conditions for those firefighters and today temperatures will be right on average where we should be this time of year so low 80s for a lot of those areas that are currently burning. Ill send it to you. The wine country wildfires the number of dead in all these fires is 41. The grim search for the missing continues. 5700 homes and businesses have burned. Cal fire is gaining ground in the north bay firefight. Most of the fires are at least 50 contained and cal fire says the tubbs, pocket, nuns fire and oakmont fires will be fully contained by friday. This morning crews are focused on one trouble spot the annuntio vobis gaudiam magnum burning behind a famous winery in napa county. Kpix 5s Jessica Flores begins our Team Coverage in oakville. Reporter we are off highway 29 about a mile from the Robert Mondavi winery. It was 53 contained, with famous wineries in the area. It will keep this fire from endangering any wineries in this oakville area. Officials say the plan is to let the flames continue to march down towards the valleys and meet containment lines. Cal fire attack the fire by air with water drops. There are a lot of fingers and canyons in there. So if its too steep or the vegetation is too dense and dangerous to put people in there, well slow the spread of fire with the aircraft. Reporter those on the front lines are also facing a tough loss. Yesterday, a water tender died when it crashed on rolled at a steep grade. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Authorities will be looking at fatigue. Firefighters and workers now have been on the front lines for nine days. Back to you. Thank you. More people are being allowed to return home in Sonoma County. Evacuations have been lifted for parts of the city of sonoma, kenwood, boyes hot springs, glen ellen and santa rosa. As some evacuees return home, they are getting a firsthand look at the damage left behind. On the left a satellite photo taken above santa rosa before the fires ripped through. And look at that on the right, the devastation left behind. This morning, many in santa rosa are grateful that their homes survived but feel terrible that their longtime neighbors and friends werent so lucky. Its heartbreaking. Im trying not to have survivors guilt, i think they call it. But we have been here 20 years this week. We raised our kids in this house. With the initial report from the city of santa rosa, Officials Say that the total projected damage is now estimated at over 3 billion from the sonoma fires. What a difference a week makes. Heres newly released video of the evacuation at sutter hospital in santa rosa as the wine country wildfires begins early last week. Less than an hour from now, the hospital is actually set to re open. And anne makovec joins us live from santa rosa right now. Anne. Reporter yeah. The things that you can take for granted. This hospital has electricity, the air is clear and it is about to finally reopen with full services after just about a week now. We have another clip of time lapse video from one of the Security Cameras here at sutter hospital. This is you can see the fire advancing from the left. The high winds last week had embers close to the building. This is overnight last sunday into early monday. Sutter evacuated 77 patients with within six hours. The hospital was closed all week. Its been cleaned and inspected by two state Health Agencies and deemed ready to go but in the meantime a lot of the patients ended up here at santa rosa Memorial Hospital causing a sudden emergency in their emergency room an influx of transferred patients, combined with fire victims. And we heard from some of their staffers yesterday. The first few hours we had 5 doctors unscheduled come in to help caring for people in the emergency. Reporter sutter hospital was not the only one that had to evacuate. Kaiser permanente also to evacuate and this is some video from that early monday morning. That hospital partially reopened yesterday. But that was obviously a harrowing experience there. And were going to hear from some of the staffers here at shut they are morning about their stories, their first day back to work and that is of course after many of them have been concerned about and lost their own properties in the area. So a lot of stories to be told. Live in santa rosa, anne makevoc, kpix 5. All 8,000 people evacuated in Mendocino County are being allowed home including Redwood Valley and willits. Those in cave Creek Subdivision can go back but an evacuation is still in effect. And starting today, Mendocino County will have a local Assistance Center for those available affected by the redwood fire. It will be open for two weeks from 10 a. M. To 7 p. M. At the mendocino gym in ukiah. Drones are interfering with fighting fires. Drone pilots will face fines if caught interrupting emergency operations. Chp santa rosa posted on facebook our Team Continues to follow breaking news in Santa Cruz County where a new fire is burning right now. The latest evacuations and time now 6 10. Our Team Continues to follow breaking news in Santa Cruz County. A new fire is burning right now. The latest evacuations and road closures coming up next. Plus, neda will explain what this new fire will mean for the already hazy conditions in the bay area. Wow nice outfit. When i grow up, im going to mars. Were working on that. Some people know how far they want to go. A personalized Financial Strategy can help you get them there. See how access to j. P. Morgan investment expertise can help you. Chase. Make more of whats yours. dog panting another 2am stroll, huh . Im worried. I have this medical bill. Dave, you have anthem, and they have people to talk to who are empowered to help answer any question you. dog grunting, panting is. Is he okay . Real people . Living and breathing. Hopefully not breathing like that. For all the things that keep you up at night, Anthem Blue Cross has a solution. Scene of the bear fire. Th right now, were continuing to follow this breaking news in Santa Cruz County. Cal fire on the scene of the bear fire. This is a live look now there on the right side of your screen. Residents are evacuating to Boulder CreekElementary School at 400 west lomond street in Boulder Creek. And as of now, bear creek road and deer creek road are closed. Lets send it to neda with the forecast. The big news here with that area of the fires is humidity is extremely dry down to 14 . The trees are dry and that will cause spread of the fire. It went from a house into the brush. The winds are calm. If it spreads throughout the morning hours, it will be because theres so much fuel. Boulder creek temperatures right now 68 degrees. We are forecast to see winds around 9 to 10 Miles Per Hour. So its not going to be too intense but any amount of winds is not a good thing. Lets show you whats going on right now to the north of us where all the fires are burning. We are looking at calm conditions there. Northnorthwest winds for petaluma east winds for sonoma and 4 and east winds in napa. Our futurecast for that region looks like this. The next couple of hours, well see gusts just around 2 to 4 Miles Per Hour. Very calm conditions. So thats going to help them out this morning. Here we are at 3 00 this afternoon. Gusts should peak around 13 Miles Per Hour for sebastopol, glen ellen 11, sonoma 12 possibly. So thats over those ridgetops. It will feel more breezy. Nothing like saturday or last week when the fires first sparked. What we can expect today, here it is. Temperatures will be cooling compared to yesterday. We will get these west winds to come through. That could increase our chance of a marine layer tonight and tomorrow and we do have rain chances in our forecast. Live look right now across san jose, Clear Conditions out there this morning. Twinkling lights and also across San Francisco same kind of story. You can see the bay bridge there. So it is going to be a lot clearer as far as air quality is concerned. All thanks to that onshore flow. Thats going to help push a lot of that smoke out east. So right now moderate for unhealthy for sensitive people in santa rosa and napa, the rest of the region moderate for particulate matter. Heres the shift in winds, that will help a lot of folks lungs finally get a chance to get outside and breathe a little better. Heres our chance of rain in the forecast. Its going to arrive thursday night. Thursday overnight into friday a little rain. Temperatures dropping through friday. We need the rain. Thank you. So gianna, we have this fire down in santa cruz causing major road closures in the area. There are closures in effect in the area. Bear creek is a main closure shut down between highway 9 and 35. Parts of 35 are also closed. Highway 35 to las cumbres to 9 is closed. Hawkridge at deer creek, bear creek and deer canyon and highway 35 at bear creek also closed with other roads closed. The rest of the south bay loading up. Northbound 101 loading up out of downtown san jose bogging down at 280 680 connector. No accidents though in the south bay. Ill have details coming up. Joining us now on the phone with more on the firefight in the Santa Cruz Mountains is a cal fire chief. Good morning, angela. We saw the fire expanded from 10 to 125 acres overnight. Whats the latest in terms of containment . Yeah. I dont have a number for you about containment but i can tell you that we have a lot of resources out there, um, working really hard to fight this fire. We know that resources are spread thin right now especially with so many crews in the north bay. How many firefighters are on the scene right now . Its hard to give you exact numbers. But you know, we have what is it . We have at least 58 different pieces of equipment out there with firefighters fighting the fire. Angela this is the fire now thats burning in the area near bear creek road. Tell us about the conditions and what the firefighters are looking at now . Yeah. Its a very, um, heavy timber and brush area. Steep slopes. You know, deep canyons. So, um, thats what they are working with. And they are out there trying to, you know, go dodirect fire attack to get some lines around the fire. Yeah. Steep terrain always makes it difficult for firefighters to fight the flames. We are actually right now seeing this huge flame just spark that wasnt there just a few seconds ago. When daybreaks, what happens . Reporter well, the plan would be to get some air resources out there which would be a huge help for the firefighters on the ground. So as soon as we have some light we can get helicopters and air tankers out to help. Angela, is there any message that you want to any message that you want to send out to the residents in that area . We have heard that there could be up to 100 residents evacuated near the surrounding areas. Reporter yeah. I think we estimated about 150 homes. We do have a couple of Evacuation Centers set up. One at the lakeside Elementary School in los gatos. The other was at the Boulder CreekElementary School but now we are moving it to a fire station in felton. Those two schools will be open for school today. Angela, thank you so much for being on the phone with us and telling us the latest on this fire. Well be right back. Cal fire is on the scene of the bear fire. Which has already scorched 125 acres. Welcome back. We are following breaking news in Santa Cruz County as we take a live look right now. Cal fire is on the scene of the bear fire which has already burned 125 acres. And this is a live look. You can see those flames shooting behind those trees right there. This is near bear creek road. We are told that residents in the area are being evacuated and an Evacuation Center is now open at xiante fire station. It was at Boulder CreekElementary School but thats no longer the case since that school is now open today for students. Lakeside Elementary School in los gatos is also another Evacuation Center set up. At least 100 structures are being threatened by the flames right now. Residents have been evacuated already. At last check about 100 families evacuated. Cal fire says they are going to start aerial attacks at first light. We are keeping an eye on the conditions there including the wind conditions which are light right now. Well be right back after this. A big focus for cal fire today containing the nuns fire. Ill have the very latest coming up. Working quickly to try stop the flames. Breaking news in Santa Cruz County. A fastmoving fire is forcing evacuations this morning so we could see the flames across the canyon. As many flee the area, cal fire is working quickly to try to stop the flames. Its tuesday, october 17th. Im michelle griego. Good morning. Im kenny choi. We have live Team Coverage. We are tracking the current weather conditions there and the road closures. But first, kpix 5s Sandra Osborne is live in the Santa Cruz Mountains with more on the firefight thats under way right now. Sandra. Reporter hey, kenny and michelle. Were learning about a firefighter that was injured after a fall battling this blaze. We are told he fell about 50 feet down the hillside. Ultimately, suffering what they believe to be a broken wrist and lacerations to the face battling the flames behind me there. You can see its very steep terrain up the hillside. We are