Quickly as possible. This will make it them in there, they can help to mitigate the situation. You are watching ktvu vox 2 news at noon. We are bringing a live update on the firestorms from officials. They are still there and weve been helping them get in to their farms and ranches so they can feed their livestock. We are working with them and the California Department of food and agriculture to do that. With that, as director ghilarducci and the chief said, we understand how this is affecting many people in this area and in Southern California. We will continue to Work Together as a group to mitigate this emergency and help people get back to normal. Thank you very much. And id like to introduce bob baird, the fire aviation director for the u. S. Forest service. Good day. My name is robert baird, the director for fire and aviation for the United StatesForest Service for the Pacific Southwest region. Which is california and the pacific islands. We have been working together seamlessly with the state and local officials in mobilization of the firefighting resources to support the tragic and terrible fires. Our hearts go out to those who pat a significant loss of life and property. Its a terrible situation and we have been here to support. We are bringing in from the federal firefighters almost 4000 of them to augment the state and assist them with Ongoing Operations happening. We are providing the resources of 12 elite hotshot crews that are designed to go into some of the most demanding wildfire situations as well as over 103 federal crews of 20 each that are assisting on containing the fires we have. In addition to that, 266 federal fire engines are here to support the state with ongoing challenges that we have. In addition to the Ground Resources we have 15 large air tankers available in the state. That will help across the state. In addition to that, 2, dc 10s, which assist with ongoing wildfires. And we brought up to speed a great deal of firefighting helicopters, 37, in support of this challenge. Additionally, as we move the power preparedness level and got that many firefighters here to support the operations that the director and the chief talked about, we are also concerned about low humidity and high wind event that could happen in the future. As the director talked about, Everyone Needs to be prepared for a wind driven wildfire. We have up staffed and mobilized a federal Incident Management Team knowing that the state Incident Management Teams are fully committed in Southern California. In that event, we have a team ready to assume incident command there in support of the citizens of california. With that, thank you. I will be followed by bob center, the regional administrator for fema. Tasty. Let me start by saying our hearts go out to those who have been affected by this event. And have lost loved ones and homes during this event we have been committed since the beginning to help with the response of this event by coordinating the federal response in support of state and local government. We will also be committed through the recovery of this event no matter how long it takes. Im happy to announce today that solano and Orange County were added to the original declaration by the president to provide assistance for debris removal, emergency protective measures and direct federal assistance if other federal resources are needed there. In addition to that, yesterday, the president added on individual assistance for Sonoma County last evening. That allows us to start helping with individuals that were affected from these events. This morning, napa county has been added. We are working as quick as we can to get teams into other affected counties as it is safe to do so. They will do further assessments and make decisions to turn on those counties for additional assistance. We will work through those as quick as we can get in there and it safe to do so. We have outstanding support from the National Guard to help us not only be able to augment our teams on the ground but to do assessments by air which has helped us make decisions for sonoma and napa county. Let me talk about what our individual Assistance Program is. Homeowners and renters in sonoma and napa county who sustained damage to their primary home, vehicle and personal property as a result of the fires may apply for assistance. Disaster assistance may include grants to help pay for temporary housing to include rental and lodging expense, emergency home repairs, uninsured and underinsured personal property losses and medical, dental and funeral expenses caused by the disaster along with other serious disaster related expenses. In addition to what fema provides to our individual Assistance Program, other programs have now been brought from the federal government. For example, Small Business administrations low interest disaster loans. Both for businesses of nonprofit organizations and homeowners and renters. To access these programs, we recommend that you go to and register at www. Disasterassistance. Gov. That is www. Disasterassistance. Gov. Web registrations are the fastest way to apply. Our call centers are open from 7 am through 10 pm. You can also phone our tele Registration Number at 1800 6213362. That is 1800621 3362. And ask questions. Operators can receive registrations in english, spanish and other languages. The reason why i am recommending applying through disasterassistance. Gov is as you can imagine we are managing disasters across the country. Even though we have augmented our teleregistration intake by thousands of individuals of the last month, they are significantly stretched. So we recommend to go onto the website and register through our website again at www. Disasterassistance. Gov. When you register for assistance you will need a Social Security card for one member of your household, a description of the damages and information about your insurance. Because Disaster Assistance does not replace insurance, a current address where you can receive mail and Contact Details is helpful. Lastly, we know you are eager to return home. Please put safety first and follow guidance from local emergency officials before returning home. With that i will be followed by general beavers from the National Guard. Thank you. Good afternoon. Once again our thoughts and prayers are with everybody throughout the affected areas. We continue to pray for them on a regular basis. We also continue to be well postured across the entire fire emergency area. To date we have 2100 personnel assigned to support cal fire oes, fema and others. We continue to provide fire mapping for cal fire as well as provide damage assessments for fema. Today we will have two of our module airborne firefighting system equipped c130s flying to support the fires and eight rotary wing type 1 aircraft. We can to do to control Traffic Control points and sport patrols throughout the counties of mendocino, solano and napa. We have open our armories in santa rosa and petaluma to support first responders. With that i think we will take your questions. Any word on missing [ inaudible question comment ] i would not say thats less concern. We are certainly continuing to work closely with the local sheriffs departments to bring that number down. The fact is that it will remain a concern until every last person is accounted for. Any updates on numbers . I do not have any updates on those numbers this morning. [ inaudible question comment ] we all have a lot of things i would not say a surprise. These are the conditions we have been talking about for several years and we have been experiencing for several years. Two years ago the valley fire north of these in lake county see, very similar conditions. The butte fire and calaveras county. These are the fires california is experiencing now and is going to experience into the future. Dry vegetative conditions, weather patterns that are changing. The enormity of this disaster, we are only beginning to understand. And i think its how we go forward once we are done the saving lives and putting these fires out and caring for people and moving on, we will evaluate how these fire spread. We are looking at Building Construction and all those questions. We want to know is there more that we can do and all of those areas . Right now the focus is life safety. Lets get people out in front of these, lets get these fires out and take care of the people impacted. [ inaudible question comment ] we are not scrambling. We are very well organized. We were briefed this morning by the four Incident Management Teams that i indicated today. They are very well organized and deliberate plans. Those plans have very clear objectives and those resources are deployed based on those object lives and work is getting done. Thats why you see increasing containment and deliberate trigger points for evacuations so we are well left of these fires if they change direction or increase in intensity. We will know where to place those evacuations and get people out of harms way. [ inaudible question comment ] it depends on access back to do the inspection and whether they have all the information. It can be a very quick process. There is additional assistance that may be made available right away. For example, transitioning shelter assistance in the days to come if they need help with hotel and need to get out of a shelter. And there is other assistance that could be provided to take cares of some of cost they may have expended for hotel. The best thing to do is if you think your home was destroyed entering the affected area, go ahead and phone in the number. Go to the email address and start the registration process. It could be a very quick process depending on whether you are able to provide all the information. Ultimately we will continue to work with you. You may get some assistance up front and then get more assistance after we do the inspection and see what level the damage was. The other incidents around the country, will that have an impact on how quickly people in california get help . Thats what i was talking about as far as recommending everyone go on the web and apply to our Disaster Assistance i. Assistance site. Even though weve expanded our callcenter capacity, they are still handling millions across the country. The more we can let the Electronic System operate, the quicker you will get assistance. Our recommendation is to go to the website and register there. There is a checklist over here for disaster survivors we have put up that they can follow. I recommend you get it out to them and it will have them go through the process to apply for assistance. Can i also add on the administratives comments. Tomorrow in santa rosa we have a local Assistance Center. That Assistance Center is a place for people who have been impacted by this disaster, that is a one stop shop location. You will have all your state agencies, federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations. They go through, there will be an opportunity there to register. And an opportunity to get information and what you need. The dmv will be there. They will be able to give you a new license on the spot. We can handle your tax paperwork and any other kind of critical documents that may have been lost. The idea behind this local Assistance Center is to immediately get that process out of the way and get you on with rebuilding your homes in your lives. This will open up and we will have numerous local Assistance Centers established in all of the counties that have been impacted by the fires as the situation allows us to get those in there. We are working with local partners to do that. Tomorrow there will be a local Center Opening up and that will with many of the things the administrator is talking about. Do you know where that will be . I dont have the address but i will get it to you. In addition to that we send people to help register people at the shelters directly. To make it easy on them we are going where those survivors are at to help them out. [ inaudible question comment ] i dont have the answer to that right now. The governor is briefed multiple times a day by the team here and is providing direction to all of us. And communicating with the white house and other elected leaders that are necessary in the overall response and recovery of this operation. As soon as he has an appropriate time there are a lot of moving parts to getting the governor into this area he wants to focus on the firefighters and the responders getting the job done. When that happens, we will let you know. Thank you for coming today. You have been listening to a blithe briefing from state officials outside sacramento. At the same time bringing you images of the plane making fire retardant drops in the area of the tubbs fire. Skyfox cooling us the situation above napa. Weve seen two drops in the time we have brought you this live picture. We are now showing you that terrible plume of smoke. Also look at the center of the screen. You see that bright orange line of fire retardant. Thats an attempt to stop the flames from spreading. We started out this briefing with the cal oes officials about 45 minutes ago. They are saying they will use every available resource and will be on the fire lines as long as it takes. They gave us some containment numbers. The tubbs fire is at 25 . Atlas, 27 . The number of people dead stands at 31. Some encouraging numbers coming out. Not only the containment on the tubbs fire those were Single Digits a couple of days ago. They are making progress. 9000 firefighters are now on the front lines from a dozen different states including north and south carolina. 840 fire engines. 3500 evacuees and 43 different evacuation centers. 40 capacity. Our was restored over the past 24 hours to over 17,000 but 29,500 are still without power. Many folks are trying to communicate. When the fire broke out sunday night there were 77 towers that failed. Now all but 8 are working. Some good news. But as they said, they are not out of the woods. There are different phases of this event. Some people have been allowed back into their neighborhoods. Some have been burned up. We heard from the regional fema director saying napa in Sonoma County can apply for federal disaster grants to help them pay for temporary housing and emergency repairs and personal property losses in medical and funeral costs. We are giving you a live look above the tubbs fire and napa county. We will stay on top of this developing situation. More of ktvu news at noon in just a moment. Some mixed news regarding the north bay wildfires. Napa county announced today that circumstances are improving but an evacuation advisory was issued overnight for an area west of highway 29. Right now the wine country fires have officially claimed the lives of 31 people. Sonoma county is checking out 400 reports of people missing. These fires have combined to burn 300 square myers, that is six times the size of the city of San Francisco. And napa county come the fire known as the nuns, adobe and norbert fires have burned into the partrick fire. The outline of that area, 56,000 acres, is the spot in the middle of the screen. The atlas fire is threatening a new area around napa. Allie rasmus joins us with more on that. Reporter concerns about the nuns fire led to that advisory Evacuation Order in the middle of the night. That impacts residents who are west of highway 29 between oakville grade and rutherford road in the community of oakville. We are on bella oaks drive and highway 24. There are quite a few wineries here. This is part of the mondavi winery. There is cake bread sellers and that building to the left there. And a short distance away is highway 29. The fire we have been watching is the western edge of the nuns fire. Its burning right now on mount saint john. This has been going for a while but its become more visible to some of the people that live in this area. What we will show you in our story is an area several miles west of here called dry creek road to the oakville grade. That is closer to mount veeder. That was the focal point of a firefight overnight. Firefighters say they won that battle for now. Reporter you can hear the crackling fire in seabright flames from several hotspots along dry creek this afternoon. Firefighters say this is an improvement from conditions last night. Coming down to dry creek but its been able to hold at the riverbed. Reporter firefighters from Ventura County were one of three teams charged with holding the nuns fire northwest of dry creek road overnight. And that is what we did the last 24 hours. We held the fire in check. Keep it down in the creek bed and not allow it to come up toward structures. Reporter battalion chief said firefighters but back flames and cleared away brush from homes. This afternoon you can see with the flames reached within a few feet of some of those homes but not one of those burned. Right now this is one of our main concerns. We do have engines that are strategically placed throughout the street so we can mitigate any hazard that does arise. Reporter concerns about this part of the nuns fire burning and western napa county led to it overnight evacuation advisory for residents west of highway 29. If that fire comes down here , we are worried about getting it into the valley. Reporter people who live and work in the area watch flames and smoke creep down mount st. John on the far eastern edge of the nuns fire. If the wind picks up come the fire will pick up. We have to wait. Does not much we can do. Reporter as you mentioned, the partrick, norbert, adobe and nuns fire all combined into one. Cal fire is classifying it as one fire pit