12 right now right there on the edge of the fire line yoli joining us now live with her pictures and last we talked you goalie were just off of highway 12 theyre really road where are you now, and it looks like we still obviously some activity in the distance. Right right, i further down the legal road they saw a lot of fire trucks also saw some plans but theyve been asked i mean the firefighters have been doing such an awesome job. They were able to get this under control and im a leader road is definitely one of those roads were people were evacuated their homes along this road. And this is just like on the backside of one of the homes that was just up in flames, but theyre all out there just not that up pretty quick or in fact, im just going to walk down a little you can see another. A fire truck right out here and theyre really just trying to get. You know some of the flames that on behind these homes that are on the hillside. Because just right over here hold up for second. Theyre with me. Carol you can see how toward up. How charged everything is over here. And this is this is an orchard he rendered theres actually a home very close by. Luckily, it missed at home. And you had all of this in flames at one point. And then it definitely jumped the road and somehow one on the backside of this fence line here. You can see a glow right behind me right there. And so you have some of the fire trucks up on the hillside trying to fight that fire right now. You can see it is getting purdy stronger once it comes foreign one tree thats if james is just. Really sparked gets really heated. And then my shot you can also see how much ash is in the air. Just floating everywhere and makes for dicey conditions. Sometimes when you go down these roads with no life. Yeah. If the visibility is pretty bad so the only let me ask you this doing a really. Was going to say youre on leader road youre looking at the hillside thats already on the west side of 12 so the fire has already jumped 12 is burning up that. A hillside. No no i still on the east side of 12 of he started well, but i will have to tell you. It did jump in for a little bit because. On the west side that well theres a nursery. And then in that nursery behind the nursery when you came up to me last time felt was best was pointing out old pointing out of and i found in a car fire one of the trees that caught fire them right behind that nursery but they were able to knock it out so thats a big early voting for a lot of people who live on that side. Highway 12 yeah, you know its not over its like the wind is really bad it really is kicking up quite a bit. You can you to see how fast the embers are just flying across and the ash are flying across my land there. Okay wow a lot of people still get old got to cross their fingers so were here were dealing with you know the major road that links highway the city sonoma. It goes up and down between sonoma and napa we have the 4500 residents of oakmont senior community. Theyre under a warning or a mandatory evacuations. Right now and all the way into santa rosa even saint helene a vacuum in hospital so this affecting. Thousands of people there as a 10s of thousands this morning. Lets continue our Team Coverage. As the evacuations continue in the fire spreads go to kron 4 Sarah Stinson in Sonoma County and sarah youre not too far away from where you only is but youve been showing us some really devastating pictures this morning. Yeah and the sun is not even up the worst is yet to come live here still on mountain driver just drove down a little bit further you can see active flames and a lot of devastation as i said very dark out, but i will get behind the camera and try and brightness up for you down here is where theyre actively trying to put out the flames at this home right here you can see right there those active flames and theyre working on trying to get it under control because if one house burns, then it can catch another house on fire and another house and it burns like crazy so the whole point is stop it from continuing on notice this side of the the north side of this mountain top drive is on fire and southside is okay the fences on these homes have actually burn that theyre able to contain that but here they were not so lucky, you can see. This truck right here just completely just charred and the home behind it. Just reduced to rubble as well that fires is actively burning its probably from their gas line and then back here, i mean its so dark can barely tell but its just rubble and rubble. You can the home right here sparking right there. Firefighters Walking Around trying to make sure they can you know contain anything but look how much water they having to use i mean thats crazy to see all that water rushing down and theyre still actively using water to try and get this to just. Out does the cold. The winds are very heavy here so not only do we have action the in the air we have embers we have a lot of smoke and so its really tough fire fight for firefighters there just really trying to get a handle on this as i told you there still this resident here has not evacuated pretty wild sequence. You did not want to be in this fire zone unpredictable and thats why know theyre trying to do the best they can but if just keeps continuing to rage. Then you know theyre going to rescue you rather than trying to put the flames out and try and stop him from continuing. To spread now im gonna continue to see the devastation here in trying to meet up with the Public Information officer see if they can give us some kind of info for all the residents in this area. I know Everyone Wants to know whats going on and more info so im gonna work on that trying to that by 6 30. Well check back you then you go gather and well see and 50 master south and thank you very much sara we know that that neighborhood there around if you look at the map and actually is bordered by couple of other neighborhoods to that all borders up on to some open space. So the worry is going to be whether those communities as well. Are seeing the same kind of devastation were seeing right now where sarah is out in lets go live to Sergeant Chris musher and from the Santa Rosa Police department. To get the latest on whats going on with controlling people getting them out safely and. And the like good morning. So how are the evacuations going because weve seen not lots of people still on the move this morning. Theyre called pretty move people what you can expect of helping 10s of thousands of people being evacuated in the middle of the night. There has been some traffic on 12 trying to get them back out to one oh one. But traffic is closed eastbound highway 12 in that area with filtering out one direction but its been smooth for the most part getting people out there. Yeah we were actually wondering about that we thought would you just make it all one direction city can get double the people out quickly. Its amazing that you gave the first warnings were overnight at other is big crowd at what may be one or 2 in the morning. But weve been now live this morning and theyre still just a stream a steady stream of cars are those from new orders or from warnings or or what. No we just had another mandatory order that just came out of the area just west of guy while we were just reporting from that area just had another set of resident all going roughly about 4,000 to 5,000 more residences roughly a little more than 10,000 people. Were told evacuee from that area now well allow so theyre theyre just on the move now an and you recommend that they get out within. Mean obviously the traffic is slowing them down though, but get out within the hour and. Are you telling them to go to family and friends of possible or or should they check in with somebody first to to register their name because youre trying to keep track of whos who right. Right now were trying to do is just get everybody out everyone they stopped going to be the key priority before we actually start identifying to anybody who has family out of the area that they can go to you work her at opening multiple lanes of ways to get out and not everyone has to go highway 12 to go over found grove or some other way to kind of ease that congestion right but want to get people out as quickly as possible. Its amazing when i look at some of the tweets interviews with residents who have been through so much with the wine country fires in 2017 tubbs and with you know with paradise paradise is not under. You know a mandatory, but right now its being threatened which is hard to believe. Its been crazy 3 years that something we hadnt seen before 0. 17 really. And now it just and moment trying to recognize when hes read by warning that there Pay Attention to them how those go bag ready to go and then one is alert come out that you need to evacuate its really really important you go because were trying to get First Responders with many places you money possible and getting those voluntary compliance to go when those orders come out is a huge life saver for more trying to get to all the folks or people with disabilities who really need that special attention people who are able to go is really key that they do i was just looking at a lot of a lot of the residents like Monsignor Center thats 4,500 people saw him. You like youre saying a lot of these people are older and theyre going to need and when i saw the Saint Helena Hospital evacuated that was as a precaution, but you know moving people that are in the hospital is just a monumental and its amazing they are able to do it within just a matter of you know hours. Yeah, its a really its a team effort were having city bus drivers who normally judy lee road to help people get to work going out to be oakmont senior senator pickup group of people that they can they get them to safety, mean its just not First Responders its also people like the bus drivers. No one else out there pitching in to really save lives is that how you do it you pull a bus up and get everybody on an. And then you take them obviously augusta she shelters where again theyve got to be careful about covid to say to stay, you know safe that way too. Yeah were scanning were doing not were making sure we a touch of those things working with the city of there getting all those efforts. A surge just 2 for anybody just joining us now who may have missed it, you said there is a new evacuation area were talking about the spring lake area could could you know that once again. Yeah springlike in summerfield are still under a warning but what just within last 30 minutes or known as the northeast to and the north east require middle rincon ok everything west of calistoga road ice and brush creek and north of highway 12 okay, so north also bring lake that whole area, okay. Got it all right now and then for people that are in those warning areas right now. Who may be paying attention what do they need to be listening for when you guys start coming through to let them know its time to go what do they need to be listening for to know that now is the time. Made a couple things one youre going to hear First RespondersPolice Officers going through with high load byron theyre different than your normal fire and couldnt go into an emergency call. Also youre going to getting Text Messages emails from the city at all letting you know that its time to evacuate. But they can also check out our study dot org she the fire. And that ought tell you where all the updated. Evacuation areas are as well as the safest route out of the city a lot the response from pg you know the authorities have that has been to cut power obviously so you know because of the risk. Im wondering what about are these people in warning areas sitting there in the dark with no power to boot. Im not sure if you know weve heard about the power outage happening on the east side of town. But we do have over a 100 officers out in the field right now going through these evacuation areas to make sure that people are getting notices and if we know that area that need special attention there are some door to door theyre doing as well prices so extra hard right when you. You know that the evacuations are sparked it won in 2 in the morning and then again as we just reported at you know 05 00am its still dark out and i know people are supposed to undergo bags, but its just can be really disorienting to try to leave your your house for maybe the last time with all of your stuff in the dark. It really can and its troubling to know that youre you mayor right never see your house again and i know our Fire Department is doing a fantastic job of trying to save as many houses as they can though, just make sure you have ready can the best and are replaceable want to get one of best we can. And would you mind again just reiterating for anybody whos thinking well, im gonna stay behind i think ive got my hose we but we saw somebody morning again please remind them what the proper thing to do is. As soon as you get that emergency order to evacuate. It is essential that youve actually you may be healthy and able in order to try and fight off the house, but you may be taking First Responders away from somebody who actually really need that physical distance together home, so please ago. Okay thank you so the update will let you go get more information and will probably want to check in with you later this morning at ok. Not a from a thank you sergeant. Well again 2 other fires in napa county believed to be spot fires in last 4 and we were just talking about that situation Sonoma County which is one of those spots right so we had the glass fire break out and that was went from 20 acres to 2500 and then it blew about 25 miles to Sonoma County in santa rosa and so now weve got fires, theyre called the shady fire in the boys in fire and this is a live look. At Sonoma County from us am fixed camera looks like p g is providing is shot calfire local firefighters are diverting their resources and weve seen them fighting the blazes there in Sonoma County. So were continuing to follow that all of is of course throwing a wrench into education. I schools which are online the kids can study you think about whole families and how it affects them effects their families their kids their pets, their livestock, so all of that is affected this. Theyre all inside these evacuation zones that have been minute by minute this morning fact, Robin Winston in the breaking news desk with more on that problem. Yes, we School Districts that are under mandatory evacuations. We have some major closures in place just to quickly go over those School Closures once again. Bennett Valley Union School District kenwood School District and rincon Valley Union School District, all clothes for the remainder of the day and that does include Distance Learning now as we take a look at the evacuation map that we have here on your screen you see the area where the watches and warnings are in place but for those of you who may be living or working in the sonoma or saint helene calistoga area. There are some major closures that are in place that you need to know about and i built a mask on traffic tracker so producers and directors you can take that map whenever you have a road closures in place for highway 12 or between calistoga road and arnold drive if youre trying to access sonoma. Santa rosa youll want to get out north of calistoga south of arnold drive. Once again. Those are the areas that chp has completely blocked off you will not be allowed into those areas for work for school or if youre trying to retrieve something if youre youve been evacuated once again a little area thats highlighted on your screen that is highway 12. It can see the fire burning very close to that stretch of roadway. So once again both directions shut down from calistoga road to arnold right now on the calistoga saint helene aside you see the little area thats highlighted in purple there you should avoid that stretch as well so this includes 29, one 28 and silverado trail from 29 all the way over to deer park so one 28 south of deer park, you have access to that stretch to the north north of calistoga one 28 and silverado trail you have access to the area north of that north of 29, but the 2 areas right there in between highlighted in purple between 29 and deer park remains closed to traffic and i think you know its safe to say that because the fires are not contained were not even close these areas that you see highlighted here will be blocked off for the remainder of the day or at least the remainder of your morning commute. Well talk about some more closures coming up in just a bit darya james all right, thanks a lot 6. 17 and lets continue our Team Coverage now. And see about who this is affecting all these Evacuation Orders. Affecting people who live in wine country weve already seen homes go up in flames, a winery and in the has gone up in flames and has been destroyed. So its going to will tran you are in calistoga last time we saw you with a big stream of cars people trying to get out where you now. Im still at the same location and its calm down just a little bit only because the chp officers, they have a better handle on the situation let me piggyback on what Robin Winston was talking about his first closures im at foothill and lincoln and as you can see there are Police Officers this is the stopping point you are not allowed to go any further than this you can see the cars over here, thats pretty much the heart of downtown calistoga other many coffee shops and boutiques they are leaving as we speak now normally you would see this place pretty much empty at this particular time, but you can see cones out cars are being told you can go anywhere you want, but you cannot go towards napa towards the fire of course and its a little dark right now and im really low as far as sea level but i can tell you the fire is on the ridgeline can see it a little bit further when i was a few miles from this location