Many have led to Evacuation Centers. Some not knowing if they will have homes to go back to. We have visited centers and we are live from santa rosa. Reporter we are outside of Veterans Memorial auditorium comet is one of about 30 Evacuation Centers throughout northern california. Many people are relieved and some are sad and anxious about the state of their homes. About 300 people are staying here. Among them is this couple. They evacuated from their homes in oakmont sunday. I dont want to lose my home. I have spent a lot of time working on it to get it that way. His partner is a retired interior designer. Scary. We are not home. We are the people we heard about who are homeless. We have never been in this situation before and it is frightening. The center is one of two in the area who is taking people livestock. They also volunteers helping in a medical facility. You wonder if it your house will be there tomorrow. You are lucky if it is. Reporter people want to help they are accepting donations from volunteers to diapers to doctored. It is best to check first before you show up. Just curious, how long do they plan to keep that Evacuation Center open . Reporter that is indefinite. As long as it is needed. It could be weeks. It is a fluid situation, no one knows for sure. They wont close them down while people are still needing them. You mentioned that people should check before they want to donate because ive heard in some cases donations are being turned away. People are wanting to volunteer, sometimes Authorities Say they have enough, what is the situation . Reporter that is exactly right, they dont really need any donations. If you want to help, write a check to the red cross but dont bring any goods. At the fairgrounds they are accepting donations. They need livestock food, water and food and each place is a little different. That is wises it is wise to check first. Sometimes people think they can dump stuff off that they dont want. By the way i talked to Sonoma County supervisor earlier today and he said they are setting up a gofundme page to help all of the fire victims. In the meantime we want to show you these pictures. More dramatic pictures coming in as we speak. Skybox overhead this is in glen allen as you can see, another home going up in flames. This is really close to santa rosa where the fire erupted there and wiped out neighborhoods. More destruction and devastation happening as we speak. This time in glenallen where skyboxes overhead. Glen allen is over the hill east of santa rosa. This is part of the tubbs fire. It is off of highway 128 where it started. Into burned over toward glen allen and over the hill into santa rosa. 27,000 acres for the tubbs fire , this is the nuns fire. It is 0 containment and today the winds were working in firefighters favor. They are pretty calm today but still these fires are clearing up and theres an army of firefighters trying to not be spains down. To knock these flames down. We know it can affect and limit what does cruise taking to the air can do. Again, devastating pictures from skybox with more destruction caused by these fires. Our coverage continues now with eliana gomez with an update. The efforts to try to contain these massive fires. When we are talking about nearly 20 fires it becomes difficult to keep tabs on everything. One of the most challenging things for fire crews and also for communities is trying to figure it out and break it down so we are trying to break most of the information down. How fire crews are working and understand as a whole. 17 fires have charred more than 100,000 acres of land. At least 15 people have died. More than 240 people reported missing, just under 50 of them have been found. More than 2000 homes and businesses have been destroyed. Some 3000 people are fleeing to shelters. The sheriff says theyre working on assessments of the area they can get back into so people can return home. Getting people back in their home soon is important to us. The most important thing is keeping them safe. There are down power lines and trees and they are working hard to control the fires. Taking a look at this map you can get an idea of how widespread these deadly fires are the the tubbs fire has destroyed 27,000 acres in crews are working to contain it. Also in napa county the atlas fire has torched 25,000 acres and fire crews look to button up the portion thats impacting the city and county areas. There are mandatory evacuations still in place there and in areas in Sonoma County where the nuns fire has burned many acres. Mike pence delivered a message for crews risking their lives to fight the deadly wildfires. We are profoundly inspired and grateful by the firefighters that are in the fight in many cases men and women whose own homes have been affected. Cal fire is inspiring the nation. We stand with them with great admiration and appreciation. This afternoon we heard about the Sheriffs Office releasing 20 of their employees have lost their own homes. They are still out there on the ground with many of them out on the ground trying to assist the community. The firefighters trying to get everything under control. Another update within the last 10 minutes the southern allen complex includes the atlas fire cal fire is now saying that 39,000 acres have burned in those three fire 16,000 structures there are threatened. More than 570 in that area have been destroyed. Overall 20 agencies are assisting cal fire to get these deadly fires under control. The sad news that came out today about more people found that, do we know anything more about the circumstances . Officials not releasing the circumstances just yet. They know they say the death toll is continuing to claim. Fire crews saying to client. Does climate rise. Im sure more information will come out as we get into the communities. That was the case with the elderly couple. There are so many fires burning it is hard to keep track of it also lets take a look at the map to get an idea of where the fires are burning. We want to give you more details. Down here is the bay area with the fires basically burning along highway 101 fast does past clear lake. Past clear lake. There are three fatalities here in the redwood potters fire complex right outside ukiah and willard. All of these fires burning in this area. Right now 21,000 acres are burning in this part of Mendocino County and 0 contained. Three people lost their lives here. Also will its its pretty much cut off between with communication. They are still having problem getting cell service and internet out of that area. We will move down to the software fire which is burning near Clear Lake Oaks right here this fire is 2500 acres and 10 contained. Lets go down to Sonoma County with fires burning here between cloverdale and kaiser felt this is the pocket fire off a pocket ranch road in geyserville 1200 acres 0 containment. This is the major fire that is burning in Sonoma County. Its a series of fires. This is the tubbs fire up in here and hopped over the hill between Sonoma County and napa county. All of these fires burn along here burned right into the heart of santa rosa. We want to show you what is going on. It jumped highway 101 where the coffee park neighborhood is where dozens of homes were taken out. This is Bennett Valley and the whole area around that we were talking about has a new evacuation going on. 27,000 acres, 0 containment on the tops fire tubbs fire and then we move on to the nuns fire where we are showing you pictures. Here is glenallen that fire is still very hot right now. 5000 acres 0 containment on that. Then we headed over to napa in the atlas fire and the atlas fire. Here is fairfield, this is all burning here at his peak is right up in here near this little reservoir. The atlas fire is burning here 0 containment. All of these fires burning across northern california. You can just see how large they are and widespread it is throughout the region. We will have more wind issues coming up. Lets go to the weather center. Improving conditions today when it came to the weather that will switch back around as we get into the bay area wednesday and what did not improve today was the air quality. Is expected to be just as bad tomorrow. It is expected to be just as bad tomorrow. The winds are from the southwest gusting to about 35 miles per hour. That is the strongest i have seen in this area for the afternoon. Relative humidity is up from yesterday. Santa rosa reporting about 29 . If i pull back the lighter winds doesnt help when it comes to the airquality because the smoke is lingering and earlier today, it was a veritable winter. Napa is a southerly breeze. When the wind is variable everybody gets the smoke. Before the afternoon today improving weather when it comes to relative humidity being up, the windsor down and temperatures fell as well. The winds are down and temperatures fell. Things are likely to worsen tomorrow with a north breeze coming back. The airquality for tomorrow everybody from the coast to central bay east and down into Santa Clara Valley expected to have unhealthy air especially if you suffer from respiratory issues. If youre in the north bay it includes everybody. Just be aware about how you are feeling. We also have a red flag warning expected back into place with the north wind kicking up into the overnight hours. They will turn northeast at some point into the afternoon and thats when we are expecting the red flag warnings to move into place. Its expected to last until thursday afternoon. I will talk about the weather pattern change coming our way coming up. New information from lake county thats where a wildfire there is now 10 contained. About 5000 people are under evacuation orders. Shelters are open in those middletown areas. It has burned 2500 acres. Want to learn more about the situation in lake county, it hasnt gotten a lot of attention because of the other fires but we are joined by the sheriffs the share. How many people have the share of. Sheriff. We have open many shelters. It happens to be the site of one of the Evacuation Centers in a previous fire. They remain in effect so we want to make sure the sheriff wants people to get home as people wants people to get home as quickly as possible. Destruction in york county, can you put some perspective into the number of homes and structures that have been lost . We are estimating about 150 homes. That comes on top of three years of very serious fires. Back in 2015 we had fires which was the third most devastating fire in california history. And last year we got it was another fire which was started by arson. Now we are dealing with this this year. Over the course of three years we lost a couple of thousand homes. That is just devastating for the economy. How has this fire affected things and you mentioned the arson is it too early to say what is behind these fires . It is. With the amount of fires that were started simultaneous i dont expect any foul play. Cal fire is investigating. They are working on determining a cause. They are overloaded right now. You are talking about the difficult task for all of the firefighters, you feel like you are getting enough resources . I dont know that anybody is getting enough resources. I think we all understand with everything going on, theres a finite number of resources but there are so many firefighters and fire trucks, there are so many air tankers and only that many available and everybody is jockeying for the resources. We would love to have more resources. We also understand that our neighboring counties throughout the state are in need of that assistance as well. We are out of time. Anything people here in the bay area can do to help out . Thoughts and prayers. The time for donation comes around i will tell you. That becomes problematic trying to manage all of those resources. These people need cash donations, gift cards check with your local Operations Center to find out if something has been set up. People who lose all of their belongings, it would be nice if they could have a refrigerator but a lot of times they dont have a home. Theyre looking for some basic goods. Cash donations as well and gift cards. Thank you. The need is great all across the county. A pilot who risked his life by flying into the fire zone to rescue people with the embers flying up into the aircraft. Joins us live next. He joins us live next. Hundreds of evacuees arctic shelter. People are being temporarily housed at the exhibit hall were they being provided with a caught food and water. As of midnight last night there were about 700 people in shelters there as well as in terra linda in west marin. No donations or volunteers are needed at this time. We spoke to one santa rosa family who said they were in a state of limbo right now. You dont know what to do. You dont know whether to stay on alert if they will evacuate again, we dont know if the fires are contained. The shelter currently has room for couple hundred more evacuees and small pets are welcome. If this location reaches full capacity a contingency plan is in the works sing another shelter would be opened nearby. Several people got out of the path of the massive fire in napa county. It was a Daring Rescue by the chp. Helicopter pilot flew into the fire zone to get those trapped by the flames to safety. One of the pilots is joining us now. Thank you for joining us. I want you to take me back to sunday night, at what point did you realize just how dangerous the situation was becoming and that the people were there who needed help. It became apparent pretty quickly. We started out on a routine patrol flight, but another aircraft crew and airplane put out the information that there was a fire so we started up there from oakland and looking at the area from under night vision goggles it looked like a nuke had gone off so we held it up headed up and saw a large line of fire spreading and we could see people trying to get down from atlas peak in their vehicles but it was blocked by a fallen tree. That is when we realized it was becoming dyer. This is when you made the decision to fly into the fire. Where did you land the helicopter . We made a crew decision it looked like we would need to evacuate these people or they would be facing something tragic. We flew into the fire, we were next to it but we landed at a number of wineries and different dirt roads kind of a trails situation. My flight officer got out and flag the cars down that were trying to maneuver back up the road and convinced them to, we were the most expeditious way out. How dangerous was it . Hard to say. We do a lot of training, we do rescue and medevac were, obviously Law Enforcement were, but the conditions that night were strong winds, obviously a pretty fast advancing fireline, it was a pressing issue. Surprisingly several of the people didnt want to leave. They wanted to stick it out even though we were trying to convince them what a big deal it was. I think we took out between between 41 and 42 people. A lot of people live because of you. You are so humble in what you did but what were you thinking as you are heading into the area and was there any hesitation at all . We were just, we werent on autopilot but when you see people who are facing something tragic, they will not have a good outcome, you go into rescue mode kind of make it happen. You are sort of downplaying the heroics of what happened. We appreciate you talking to us. Thank you for what you do. I am sure the people are grateful for your efforts. New video showing flames and smoke surrounding a building near napa. We will have an update on the firefight in the white country next. Wine country next. A day in almost in almost 2 nights of firefighting and there is 0 containment on three fires burning in the north bay taking a look inside the fire zone. What is the latest . Reporter the area behind me has been blackened by swift flames that blew right through here and burned everything. There is still pockets of earth that is smoldering and area where trees and utility poles are on fire. Fire crews right behind it canvassing the fire trying to ensure new problems do not erupt. Lets take a look at the video, there are five principal fires burning. The atlas peak fire near me at 25,000 acres, no containment. A dark cloud billows along the ridge line which means event mandatory evacuations are in place. The nuns fire is at 5000 acres, the socalled 37 fire of lakeview highway it is has burned 2000 acres. We are still having active fire in all locations, we are unfortunately continued to experience additional structure loss that happens due to the fire growth. Reporter 15 people are confirmed dead to the wild due to the wildfires. They were not able to get out in time and died in the 100 block of westgate. There is one reported death in encino county. Crews are out right now trying to restore power. This is outside the fire area but it is slow going. Many of the polls have been damaged or burned away. Lines have been left low hanging across many of the streets. Selfservice Cell Phone Service is not very good. Comcast is bringing in free hotspots for several different zip codes in this area. No charge to log onto that. For those looking for information on their neighborhood, the napa county Officials Say you can text your zip code to 888 777. Then put in your zip code in the body of the text and pertinent information will be sent to your phone about your neighborhood as far as getting people back into the area, it is a much longer deal to talk about. For more on this situation in simona county where joint on the phone by the supervisor. Thank you for joining us. What is the biggest thing you want people to know . That we still have an active fire going on with areas of concern. You want to make sure you stay out of those zones. This thing is very serious and firefighters are doing a great job. It is still a relatively young event and we have more time to go. We ask people to avail all of the restricted areas and stay out. You referenced areas of concern can you be specific on what areas officials there are worried about . I think i just got an alert with an evacuation so theres an active fire there with concern for oakmont and down in sonoma although it is still widespread. A lot of resources and we are grateful for that and appreciative of all of the work everyone has put into trying to stop this fire. Understand their are 75 homes that have been lost and there is an evacuation underway right now in oakmont. Germany specific information on exactly what is going on . Do you have any specific information on exactly what is going on . I really dont know. Just the issue with