Pulled together. Reporter that does not come without some risk. Some officers who have been helping out in fire zones have had to evacuate their own families. Officers are doing what they can. This park police spent the day collecting water and other supplies that they will bring to First Responders and other residences. What we asked to make sure that our firefighters are successful is to leave the area when you are told to do so. While fires are burning out of control in the north bay and more than one dozen people have been killed as firefighters ordered new evacuations. These firefighters are getting a state of Emergency Declaration from President Donald Trump. Tonight, at least that the people are confirmed dead and 2000 homes and businesses have burned. Thousands more homes are threatened from the fires that continue to raise two parts of sonoma, napa, mendocino, and lake counties. We are seeing even more homes destroyed by fires today. Our helicopter was over santa rosa today and tens of thousands of evacuations remain in effect at this hour including new evacuations tonight. Those new hours are in effect near Bennett Valley golf course , and the area south of shiloh Regional Park all in santa rosa. Also in geyserville, areas are under evacuation also. The sonoma shepherd sitting is getting help to aid in those evacuations. The Biggest Issue for us is securing the area that is being evacuated to prevent looting and keeping people out because of safety reasons. It is actually gone really well for us and we have made zero arrest. In napa county tonight, there are mandatory evacuations tonight. People are being asked to use oakville grade to get down the mountain. Earlier today President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration which frees up little age. I spoke with Governor Brown is not to let him know that the federal government will stand with the people of california and we will be there for you in this time of terrible tragedy and neat. The disaster declaration will allow the federal government to provide funding to the state, local, and tribal government to help rebuild. All of these fires continue to burn virtually outof control. The fire with the most containment is burning up in lake county, and it is only about 10 contained. This fire in santa rosa you can see the fire is still burning out of control. There are some homes in this area that are being threatened. We cannot see them in this picture but maybe as a helicopter hands over, we may be able to see them. Pans over, we may be able to see them. This is very hilly terrain and hard for firefighters to get in. There is a lot of ranches in this area, and you can see all of the smoke pouring out of these fires. We are going over to our chief neurologist to get an idea of the conditions he is facing. This gives you an idea these are spot fires. It was so windy the other day as though wind was blowing embers all over the place. Now look over here as there is not a fire between these two fires, but then there is another fire over here. If you could be in a spotter aircraft at 10,000 feet looking down on the napa valley and sonoma up into Mendocino County , you could see 14 of these fires. What are the chances that these two fires could merge. A pretty good chance because of the direction that the wind is blowing. It is blowing off to the east right now, and that is a westerly wind. The wind is going to stay like this tonight and tomorrow, and this is good news for firefighters. There is some open plains right now, and these are pine trees, and these are mature trees in this area. I cannot remember the last time this area burned, but some of these trees are 60 feet high. This is a very active fire right here. What the firefighters are often doing is if there is not a house in front of it, they may just let this thing burn to the ridgeline, and then maybe dump retarded on the ridgeline because fire wants to run uphill and not burn downhill. The fire will be about 70 degrees, and the wind is blowing in the right direction. Tomorrow is not a bad firefighting day. What happens is as we get into tomorrow night and into thursday, we will get another northeast day. A red flag warning will then go into effect, and the humidity will drop, and the wind will not be anything like last time as they could gust to 35 Miles Per Hour but most importantly, you will have a wind shift. The firefighters are going to have a rough 24 hours. Then i am going down the road and after that, the wind shifts to a westerly direction. The firefighters would tell you that is what you wont. The wind is never good, but a five or 10 mileperhour wind out of the west, is exactly what the doctor ordered. You double and triple the humidity and you drop the temperatures. It is a big job. We are looking at a big event. A chance to fight it today and tomorrow will be a good day, and then they will lose some ground on wednesday night and into thursday when that red flag warning goes into effect. After that, then the wind goes back into effect to help them. When i come back, we will talk more about the fire with some live pictures. The mac thank you bill. We know thank you bill. We know of one building that went up in flames as you are looking at it right there. Our reporter is near the scene now and he joins us live him what he is seeing. Reporter i just want you to take a look at this. If you look up in the heel here, you will see some flames directly ahead of us but is on the left side of what you are about to look at. So those planes that are burning in the grass are going to continue to burn, and there may be a very large grass fire out there. If you look off to the right, you will see across the mountain that is facing me all of this. This is one fire. Then getting belonged the seal to the other side, you see more smoke over there along the ridge fire. That is another fire. Lets go a little bit further to the right. That is another fire. Then, all the way down the road, you get another fire and maybe two fires. So the entire sky is full of smoke and on the ground of course, it is full of fire. One of the thing i want you to know about is that down the road here, we have noticed in the last hour or so, about 10 horse trailers had pulled into the area where those cars are parked. About six had pulled out, but apparently people around here wanted to get their stock out of danger and brought them to this field, and that is where they have been picked up. The situation remains however that this mountainside is burning. On the other side is oakmont, which is also burning. The bottom line to all of this is that as these fires burns the one thing that is true is if they do not get quenched is what they become is hotspots. So when the winds picks up, then they will start more flames. That is the situation from here. Thank you tom. An estimated 30,000 people have evacuated from their homes as these fires continue to spread in santa rosa and napa county. This is a very active firefight that is posing a serious threat to life and property. Some people are staying with family or friends, but many people have led to Evacuation Centers not knowing if they will have a home to go back to. We have a reporter in an Evacuation Center in santa rosa. Reporter it is very crowded as we are at the Veterans Memorial auditorium. It is one of 30 Evacuation Centers in northern california. As we travel around, we found many people are waiting and worrying. About 300 people are staying here. Among them is this High School Senior and her family. You think about the worst part is thinking about how all my stuff is burning. Reporter jacqueline says the flames sunday was frightening. There was cars on the sidewalk and it was just so scary. And then you could hear all of the booms going on in the houses as the fires erupted there. It was just so scary. Reporter now she is sad, especially for her parents. It was just devastating that the hard work my parents have done for 21 years, and they were constantly working, and working for us to have a home, and now it is all gone. Reporter jacqueline and her family do not know how long they will stay here. The center has an army of volunteers helping and a fully staffed medical facility and for many pharmacy. They are also taking in livestock. This couple was evacuated from oakmont on sunday. It has been a beautiful home that i spent a lot of time working on. It is tough to lose all of that. It is scary. We are not home. We are like the people we have heard that are homeless, and we have never been in that situation before. It is frightening. Reporter at the center, most people wore mask to help block the smoke. Everyone is displaced and lives are on hold. You are wondering what is going to happen, whether or not your house is burned down or if you go there tomorrow and you were lucky. Reporter these Evacuation Centers will stay open for as long as they are needed. He risk his life by flying into a a fire at night to rescue people trapped by flames in the north bay. Coming up next you will hear from the helicopter pilot about the people he rescued. Some people actually in napa county, more than 40 people were rescued from the massive atlas fire. This helicopter pilot literally flew right into the fire zone in the pitch black and landed on roads to help those trapped by the flames. Earlier this evening, Heather Holmes spoke with one of those helicopter pilots about those rescues. I am going to take you back to sunday night and at one point did you realize just how dangerous the situation was becoming an that there were people that needed help . Good afternoon heather. It apparent that make it became apparent pretty quickly. We started out on a routine patrol flight, but another chp crew put out the information there was a fire up on atlas peak. We started up here from oakland, and looking at the area, it looked like a nuke had gone off or something. We also appear right away and a meal he saw a large line of fire spreading. We can see people trying to get down from atlas speak on atlas peak road. Their way was blocked by a fallen tree or a telephone pole. That is when we realize the situation was becoming dire. And so this is where you made the decision to fly into the fire zone. Walk me through this process and where did you land the helicopter . We made a crew decision that looked like we were going to need to evacuate this people that make these people or they were going to be faced with something tragic. We were not flying into the fire but we was next to it. We landed at eight number of wineries and dirt roads and a trail situation and our flight officer got out and flag some of the cars who were trying to maneuver backup atlas peak road. We convinced them that we were probably the best way out. Just how dangerous was this . How dangerous was this rescue . It is hard to say. We do a lot of training and we do rescue. Obviously, we also do Law Enforcement work. The conditions that night with a really strong wind and really gusty winds and see a fire line made it a real pressing issue. Surprisingly, several of the people did not want to leave and wanted to stick it out even though we were trying to convince him what a big deal it was. I think we took out between two chp helicopters a total of 41 people. So many people are alive today thanks to what you did. Before i let you do, you are so humble in what you did, but what were you thinking as you were headed into this area and was there any hesitation at all . We werent completely on autopilot, but when you see people that are facing something tragic, you know that if something is not done then it is not going to be a good outcome, you just kind of go into rescue mode and make it happen. You are sort of downplaying the heroics of what happened here, but i appreciate you talking to us nonetheless. I am sure that those 40 people are grateful to your effort as well. Thank you. Always so modest. We talked to his boss yesterday and his boss said he spoke to him afterwards, and his pilot said that was the most adrenaline he had ever had on a mission. That goes to show that even though he would not earlier it minute, it was very dangerous. Oh yes. We do not see rescues taking place in total darkness that often. You know the seriousness of the situation when he goes into that like that. It was a very dangerous situation. We thank them for the service and what they are doing. There is so many fires burning across the north bay that it is very hard to keep track of them. Ken is here right now to look at where these fires are and who is affected. We want to give you an idea of what we are talking about. All of these fires are basically up highway 101 and into Mendocino County and most of them are on the east side of the county. We will start at the top and work our way down. We want to take you into the potters valley location. You will see willits, and highway 101 was shut down for a time near willits, but look at all of these fires here. 21,000 acres and three People Killed and 0 containment. That we want to move out and had a little bit further south over to the clear lake area. Another fire that has not got a lot of attention but is still very significant. This is called the soap for fire and 2500 acres and 150 homes have been destroyed and the fire is just 10 contained. If you believe it, that is the most containment that we have on any of these fires that is burning in the north bay. Then we move into the Sonoma County where there is just a tremendous amount of fire activity. This fire is called the pocket fire that is 1200 acres with 0 containment. We had over to the glen ellen area, and this fire, and i want to skip ahead in the script, i want to get over to glen ellen, it is 5000 acres and 0 contained. Then, the major fire that is burning all along the foothills between Sonoma County and napa county, it actually has hopped over the heel into Sonoma County and burned into the city on the other side of highway 101. It jumped 6 lanes of traffic here and this is the tubs fire. 27,000 acres and nine People Killed in Sonoma County. Then, in napa county, look at this. This is the ridgeline between the napa valley here and it goes all the way up to calistoga , and this is where the fire is burning. This site is the central valley, and this is mount atlas or atlas peak. 25,000 acres are burning with 0 containment and to localities, that elderly couple that we knew that died in this fire. We have a number of people that are still unaccounted for as people have not been able to go to them hope to see how people are doing, so that death toll is bound to climb. We see how long it took you to run down all of them fires, and we are in the second day, and you have to set about fatigue that is starting to set him with the fire crews out there. Some of the firefighters have been working 24 hours straight. The caretaker air taker flight is right here and a lot of the flights are coming from sacramento. So it is in this area just north of 80 right up in here. This is the largest air assault on a fire in american history. That is what we are being told by a state senator. This is a major operation. They were saying every single firefighting aircraft is in california are on its way. That just gives you a sign of the extent and the scope of this disaster. We are going to take a short break and we will be right back. With the Alaska Airlines visa signature card you get a companion ticket every year. So why not take someone that you see all the time. Someone like, i dunno, me . I mean i always spell your name right and put a little unicorn in your foam. No pressure but i really need to get out of here. Theyve been playing the same playlist for three months and im pretty sure youre not supposed to eat scones for dinner this many days in a row. Mexico, hawaii, costa rica, i dont really know. Im a quick packer. Tonight, several hundred people are listed as missing or unaccounted for. In Sonoma County alone, close to 200 people are still missing. Our reporter is in santa rosa as she talked to one family that is still searching for their loved one. Reporter we are talking with people who are still looking for their loved ones and have been talking with some people who have found them safely in their hospital. In talking to these people, they are frustrated and it is an agonizing search and there is not one centralized location that you can go to to get this information. Really people have to visit shelters here like this one, or call one of the shelters, and sometimes you do not give get an answer. We spoke with his family of christina, and she is 27 years old and will cheer bound. We are told that Christina Hansen was last heard from at around 1 30 am on monday morning. She was on the phone with her stepmother and saying she could see a fire that was approaching her. We understand that christina has her cell phone off, and she was in a wheelchair. What is giving the family hope is that a pickup was confirmed by authorities at her address. Affordably, authorities could not tell her family where that person was dropped off two. But, there was a pickup at christinas address. The family has since then been calling hospitals and shelters and putting up pictures on social media in hopes that someone had seen her. We are just looking and looking and looking. Which is keep telling one another that she is out there and she has to be out there. We have our theories about how everything went down, and there are more positive ones. But, in weak moments like this, the reality is that it has been several hours, and it is really very scary. I think it is probably like our nightmare. We are really close, and we want her to come on. Reporter as we mentioned before, christina lives with her father. Michael hansen was able to survive and he escaped the fire. A neighbor took him to the hospital and he has been transferred to a burn unit in San Francisco as he has third degree burns on about 50 of his body. The search continues for his daughter christina answer thats make hansen. She is 27 years old and is well known in the Santa Rosa Community as a church volunteer. We also want to me