Us this monday afternoon from napa and sonoma counties as a wildfire burns out of control in the north bay fastmoving flames from the growing glass fire has now forced thousands of folks to evacuate to safety. This is new video from overnight and as you can see a wall of fire surrounding buildings. This is near the sky Hawk Community on los alamos road near fawn drive in scotland drive in Sonoma County. The fire sparking early yesterday morning in napa county and quickly spreading throughout the day triggering 2 other fires. Thats the shady fire in the boys and fire all 3 merged and now make up the glass fire incident. So far the fires have burned more than 11,000 acres and is now threatening more than 2000 structures. Thanks so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 oclock this monday. Im Jonathan Mccall we do want to show you a map where that fire is burning right now it is burning east of saint helena in calistoga in napa county just east of santa rosa in Sonoma County. The red dots that you see there on your screen represent exactly the locations where fires are burning. Its still unknown exactly what sparked the fire yesterday morning. It did though start in an area that was currently under a red flag warning kron 4 has Live Team Coverage for you this monday afternoon our crews spread out across the north bay covering every angle. We start with dan kerman live in santa rosa where flames have destroyed a number of homes in the sky hawk neighborhood. Dan bring us up to date on what youre seeing this afternoon. Well were seeing destruction, but its kind of like a chess board you see a house like this that is destroyed the one next door not destroyed the one on the other side. A little bit of damage in the backyard, but also not destroy this really speaks to the work that firefighters have done some of the houses they were able to protect others they were not lets move out of the way so you can get a little bit better idea of exactly what were looking at in this neighborhood specifically as you can see lots of smoke still coming up, we know that pg e is in the area they are shutting off gas. Which has to be done house to house and if you can see those flames right there, but thats gas and as a result that all of these houses that have burned down while the electrical has been cut to this area. You see right there the gas that flame just went out and thats because pg e crews are here on the scene and they are putting out gas to all of these burned out homes so as not to cause any other problems especially to the houses nearby. Now as we pan across here you can see the destruction of this house if you cant see is a tennis court Swimming Pool which stands behind this rubble. Much of the problem and we can tell you is in the neighborhoods of the rincon valley, the skyhawks neighborhood the oakmont neighborhood the neighhorhood and they have added evacuations now in the Bennett Valley neighborhood. Thats because the fire has moved into an adele state park and there are a lot of big concerns about that move into an adele state park and what thats going to mean for those who live there and elsewhere right now were looking anywhere from 15,000 people. 15,000 homes. I should say that are some 7800 commercial structures also threatened at this point no end in sight for this fire at this point weve talked to the neighbors whose houses are still standing. They are relieved at this point that theyve made it through round one. They are relieved that the winds are now home, but they are worried that those winds could pick up again and they will be in trouble once again. Thats the latest reporting live in santa rosa Dan Kerman Kron 4 news of a tough night for all of involved ahead tonight. Dan thank you. Evacuation orders and warnings changing my the men for folks in napa and sonoma counties kron fours noelle bellow continuing our Live Team Coverage this afternoon with the areas now impacted well. And jonathan since yesterday morning Evacuation Orders and warnings have continued to come down. However is since the winds are cooperating, there havent been many upgrades to the current evacuation warnings in santa rosa, but we do want to show you the latest on that now this map shows not only Evacuation Order zones, but also the most recent warnings that were issued earlier this afternoon, the orders are in red. The yellow are the warnings officials were advising folks in the oakmont neighborhood which is down here to use highway 12 earlier today, but unfortunately now a large part of highway 12 is closed to traffic all the way from down here pie the inn road going up to mission boulevard now other closures include eastbound montgomery drive just east of mission boulevard as well as all roads east of calistoga road on us you know boulevard and highway 12 now here is just a wider scope of those Evacuation Orders in Sonoma County right now all these red glowing dots that you see are indicating active flames. Everything shaded in orange, those are where youre under an Evacuation Order that reaches from valley of the moon which is down here all the way up toward crest road up here now there is a warning in place up this way for folks in the Chalk Mountain area. But there are some road closures as you can see at Petrified Forest road as well as calistoga road leading out of that area taking a look to where this all began in napa county the areas shaded in blue are the mandatory Evacuation Orders, the yellow is the warnings now all of these have been in place since earlier today theyre all still active you can see from this map. Several hot spots with this red these red glowing dots but theres also a lot of major closures here including off of silverado trail and then all up through Howell Mountain which is this area where youre still in a warning. If you are in these areas you need to have your next Alert Program to want to give yourself a lot of time to get out if you need to when there are this many road closures like you can see in this map things can get a little dicey for things to remember to pack if you are in one of those warnings owns include clothes and water for at least 3 days. Bring your portable cell phone chargers any medication you may need or pet food if you have a pet. Jonathan of course, were also dealing with the pandemic so if you have time definitely grab some Hand Sanitizer and masks those are going to be key as you stay in those Evacuation Centers jonathan back to you. Was like well that the fire so close of like this is crazy. Some have been forced to pack up and leave their homes in order to escape those fastmoving flames. Kron fours Maureen Kelly live this afternoon a Cross Walk Community church in napa this is just one of several Evacuation Centers now set up to help folks in need more on what hes saying. Well thats right jonathan behind me you can see the long line of people who are waiting for services here at the Crosswalk Community church. These are people who had to evacuate their homes because of the fires so far there are over 40. 600 homes here in napa county under either a mandatory Evacuation Order or a yearning i talked to people who woke up early this morning to flames not far from their front door. I woke up i went to the door i opened out was a. No this is so i its just too much. Its so much fire. Im scared, you know i it was just so much it was a great and i was like thats scary the 15 yearold saint helene a resident says this was the view outside her front door of her apartment complex. Her family grab their belongings and fled around 02 00am this morning. Now theyre waiting with many others here at the Crosswalk Community churches county workers coordinating with the Red Cross Work to get them a Hotel Voucher feel kind of like scared and mike. We feel emotional because you dont know whats going to happen, you know what could happen like in the next hour words you dont know whats going on many people showing up here are bringing supplies for the evacuees even those. Who were forced to leave their homes themselves. Its nice to see the Community Coming together in times like this i mean you know is pretty close just a few weeks ago and as of last week. Were kind getting blue skies again and were like you know its coming going down now and it just shows that you can never really. Planned for anything you know you have to be ready to adjust and adapt to any moment and not so we did and now were just trying to use our resources to help the Greater Community and people may not have as many resources you do. So a spokesperson for the county says so far theyve given up 400 Hotel Vouchers. Although she tells me that number is from much earlier today theyve obviously been very busy here says she expects that total to go up much further there are close well theres an estimated 12,000 people who have been forced to flee their homes or are getting ready. In case they have to. So you have that number could go up a lot higher in in the hours to come. Jonathan back to you in the studio maureen live our live this afternoon in the napa thank you so much meanwhile Evacuation Centers have also been set up in Sonoma County as well. The Sonoma Marin Fair Grounds is now at capacity. They are not accepting anyone else. The sonoma raceway is now open for folks to shelter in their cars. People can also camp out there a place to play Community Park in santa rosa is open. But only as a temporary evacuation point. Also the petaluma Veterans Building also add full capacity. Heres a closer look at the sonoma raceway Evacuation Center in the 50 acre campground is open to tent an rv campers in need of some temporary shelter. The yellow area you see on your screen is the campground which is located directly across from the raceway on highway one 21. Evacuees should enter the campground at gate 6 which is a quarter mile north of highway 37. Meanwhile smoke in elevated areas from the glass incidents expected to move north later today which is good news for fire crews on the front lines. Kron 4 meteorologist dave spahr here with the very latest conditions and what we can expect as we head into the evening hours stake, okay good afternoon jonathan good afternoon, everybody were showing you a little picture here little snapshot of whats been going on from our standpoint of visible satellite picture clearly the smoke from the fire is being shown you can see it lasting right through Sonoma County. This is the air aloft carrying it out to sea. Whats this deeper white down here to the south thats the friendly marine layer coming back and actually making its way up to the Golden Gate Bridge. So a little bit of relief is sneaking out here. A look at surface winds. Theyre actually on shore already at San Francisco east bay shoreline even little bit up here the north bay look at that napa with a west or south westerly wind so little change trying to happen here at least bit by bit live shot for you again that marine layer checking in here this is half moon bay. Temperatures kept down a little bit because of this marine layer swinging around to the Golden Gate Bridge covered up by karl, the fog was back again already the red flag warning is still in place if they were to lift this one were on the broadcast you will see it disappear east to the east bay hills also Solano County all in places you will notice sonoma napa in murray and coming up a little bit well take a look at that forecast looks like for tonight. Jonathan and thanks so much you can find more coverage of the glass fire at kron 4 dot com. Right now we have an interactive map of the burn in evacuation zones, a complete list of Evacuation Orders and a statewide map that shows all the areas impacted during this historic wildfire season here in the golden state thats available right now at your fingertips kron 4 dot com. Wild card wildfire coverage continues here at kron 4 news at 3 oclock with the very latest evacuations road closures and containment progress. After the break a look at previous bay area wildfires and how they hold similar to the one burning for some of the folks impacted by the glass fire. Its an eerie reminder of the 2017 tubbs fire. The 3 Year Anniversary of that fire next week. When did he both to blame are to blame and both of those fires but a 3rd factor, an overabundance of dry fuel is also helping to fuel those flames for us rob fladeboe live this afternoon from the Santa Cruz Mountains continuing. Our Live Team Coverage wrong. Thats right jonathan as you most of these wildfires have 3 things in heat wind and of course an abundance of fuel but in this that fuel is much drier than it normally is all of Northern California drying out far sooner than it normally here in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains above los gatos to help illustrate that point. Lets take a look at the video and what you see here is a lot of the slow growing scrub that you see in the wine seat in the sierra foothills and of course here in the Santa Cruz Mountains, its a combination of shimmies and chaparral greece would and other low growing plants, ive been talking with the folks at San Jose State University is unique Fire Weather Research lab they have a mobile unit that they send out and theyve been measuring the fuel moisture content in these what they call life ewells here in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the wine country and elsewhere and they say that it as low as its been in many many years in some cases, 50 to 60 lower than normal. They say theyre seeing levels right now that they would normally see until well into october, heres more on this now from professor Craig Clements with the fire left. The fly fuel moisture a living shrubs and trees so we sampled that says a state that has number of agencies also sample around Northern California and southern california. The fuel moisture content of these right now are our record low. And that has to do with the fact that we had this drought year. I mean we had a low rain near this past winter and so that really is problematic that so we had a lot of big fires this year because that fuel moisture content. And right now solar sites that we sample last week. There are below 60 in the high 50s thats really really critical and so we get to those low thresholds its its makes these plants just easy to ignite and burn. Fire weather lab as a mobile unit that you see it here and what they do is theyve been taking this unit is equipped to slide our radar. They took it to the tubbs fire a couple of years ago, theyre currently analyzing that data and theyre a finding that these downslope winds in the high heat there are similar this time around to what they saw during the tubbs fire now back out here live just have a couple of samples of the of the brush you see out this one over here. This is the of greece would that you see behind me incredibly dry and then here a brush that off of some greenfield the supine bow and normally you would expect this to be kind of spongy in your hand in some of some of that would be coming off in your hand it feels like sandpaper and so again fuel moisture levels down to about 50 to 60 according to the Fire Weather Lab were not anywhere near the end of fire season they say again this moisture levels are seeing right now we would normally see that until the end of october live in los gatos rob fladeboe kron 4 news jonathan. Rob thank you. Meanwhile, lets check in again with our 4 zone forecast hot weather and winds. Impacting the fires today, a live look at an alert wildfire camera at same calling the southview red flag warnings are in effect for most of the bay area until late this evening. Kron 4 meteorologist dave spahr is here with a look at Current Conditions right now a lot of folks will be paying attention to next few hours because as we enter the the maxx heating part of the day you know were now starting to exit that a little bit and this is a current snapshot of those winds interesting enough we have talked a lot about the east bay, but its enough on the east bay shoreline we have. On shore happening from the east bay shoreline in the meanwhile inland offshore wind. Basically the east bay hills were getting winds coming from both directions there up in the north bay, it looks like a little turn has happened in the winds favoring at least at the surface now on shore we like that trend thats definitely in our future snapshot of what we had all that smoke, its thrown high in the atmosphere so a lot its offshore this is actually weather factor for santa rosa keeping those temperatures very suppressed. And we like this to that marine laye