A monster fire burning right now in lake county has grown by thousand of acres in hours. Thousand are evacuated right now. And because of road closures theyre having trouble getting out of town. Several buildings have been destroyed. And hundreds more are threatened. Four firefighters are in the hospital after getting hurt in an absolutely massive blaze. Good evening, everybody. Im larry deal. The fire is burning near the town of cobb in lake county. From 50 acres at 2 00 p. M. To 25,000. We have Team Coverage tonight on the monster fire. We begin live with lake county at the Evacuation Center near cal stow ga. Kati calistoga. Katie. It is evacuation mode. They left with a few items and pets if they had time to grab them. People are streaming in by the hundred. Thousand. Red cross shelter, napa county fairground in calistoga. Red cross, offering food, water, pets can stay for the night. That will be reassessed in the morning. Best in foep wefo from evacuees. Cal fire is simply trying to save homes and get people out. People drive frantically on 29 as the valley fire stormed across lake county. Looked like a side ways tornado. The smoke was rolling across the flames. First reports of the fire came in at 1. 30. In high valley. Near cobb. The pastures, their family owns the Trucking Company has lots of chemicals up on socrates knight road. We talked to evacuees at twin pines casino to wait for family. Behind the gas station, everything is gone. The school is gone. The store is gone. I mean, a lot of people have dogs stuck up there. Reporter some people barely made it out. We were stuck in the middle of the fire for a while. Joyce and her husband likely lost their home of 20 years. We came down. Fire everywhere. And our, our houses, our neighbor houses, friend houses, everybodys houses are burning up. Its awful. Reporter with highway 185 closed, reopened. Joyce had to set the horses and chickens free and get out. There is a spring by our house. Praying the animals went up there. Cell service is spotty. People wait for news from loved ones. My dad lives in Hidden Valley. They wont let him come this way. They will let him go towards walmart, clear lake. He is trying to get out. My brothers house is gone. Reporter spreading from 50,000 to 10,000 acres in the span of five hours many homes have likely been lost. Four firefighters are being treated for Second Degree burns. And it is unclear if everyone has made it to safety. Cant seem to contact anyone on our cell phone or anything. Taking a live look at one of the buildings at napa county fairground. Evacuees can sleep. Many have taken them outside. Want to sleep by their cars and belongings. At this point many people are walking up asking, do you know which areas have burned. How many houses have gone. At this point. Cal fire is really just battling to get people out. To save what structures they can. They have not updated how many places have burned. We do not have those numbers. But we are working to get them. There is another Evacuation Center in kelseyville, for folks trapped north of the fire. This is southern evacuation point. Red cross has no idea how many people are here yet. They expect many more and they are prepared to take people on. So if you need a safe place to stay. Napa county fairground. In, calistoga. We will work to get you updates as far as which areas have damage. Live in calistoga. Abc 7 news. Katie. Thank you. Such a difficult situation for all the people. Displaced by this acht m. Daniel berland with cal fire. Joining us live. Can you address the question, katy posed moments again. How many homes . How many structures have gone up flames to night . We know this has been a very destructive fire, very fastmoving fire. We do not have an exact count of destruction left in the path of this fire. You can hear from emotion. Earlier interview. Residents did not have much time or notice to get out of harms way. This has been an incredibly fast moving wildfire. 28,000 acres burned by the fire. Continues to rage throughout the evening hours. We are doing our best here. Working with the Sheriffs Department. Both in lake and napa counties to get residents out of the area. Get in there. Do the job. Protect the structures we can. Do everything we can to slow down the fire. Unfortunately, gusty wind. The dry conditions. All working against us. This is one of the fastest, most explosive fires this season. Cooler temperatures. Very strong wind. Is that what contributed to this . Despite the cooler temperatures. You would think a helpful piece. Enough with the gusty wind. Because conditions are so critically dry from the drought. Similar to the rocky fire. Jerusalem fire. Many of the other smaller fires we have had throughout lake county over the last month or so. The fires are burning at explosive rates. Unfortunately, fire people are nowhere near in sight. We talked several months until we get to what is traditionally in the end of fire season. Is that a question of when the rain comes. When substantial rain to slow down the drought conditions. We have been experiencing. Daniel, how many people have been evacuate sewed far. How many more are you expecting tomorrow. Once day break comes . There are thousand of residents across lake and the counties evacuated from the fire. All the way from southern clear lake down to highway 29 corridor, lake county. Done to the top portion of calistoga. Not evacuated. Everything up to it is from cobb. Western side where the fire started. Burning down to the east. And going down to the southeast nooch into napa county. And, middletown, all, Hidden Valley lakelakes. All in between the areas. Under mandatory evacuation. What is tomorrow going to bring. We are hoping wind will die down a little bit. We continue to see cooler temperatures. Be able to really make progress to get ahead of fire. But as we have seen the fire after fire. Its taking days and days and days of hard, tireless work to try to slow down a fire like this. There may be more communities. Working with the Sheriffs Department to do as much, notice as we can to the residents. If this fire does change direction, or does grow in a different, toward a different community. Daniel, thank you for the time. Long night ahead for firefighters. And residents in that area. Daniel berland with cal fire. Well want to barareak down t list. Under mandatory evacuation order. Bottle rock. High valley road. Highway 175 in cobb. Highway 29. In calistoga. Highway, 29, and highway 53. In lower lake. Bucks canyon road to napa county line including the estates. Cobb, siegler, loch lomand and Hidden Valley lake. Evacuation centers are set up at the presbyterian church. Also the calistoga fairground right now. Bob ryder is one of the evacuees shot the video on his hope after he got out. He told abc 7 news. He his wife, three young boys and dogs fled for their lives from their home in hidden lake valley. The sound of the fire was that of a jet plane in flight. You could see fire advancing. It was incredible. We were evacuating cautiously. We were fleeing. You can see the video. They really had time to grab a couple of important items before loading up and leaving. E believed his home and photography business have been destroyed tonight. Theyre staying with friend now in clear lake. Four firefighters were injured. Taken to the burn unit at uc davis medical center. Abc 7 news reporter, there with the latest on the conditions tonight. Sergio. We are told the firefighters were air lifted here with Second Degree burns. Their identities not yet released. We do know they were part of an elite team of Fire Fighters that was, helicopter in to the initial attack of the valley fire. That they were injured. Has a lot of their fellow firefighters rattled. There have been crew members waiting on information. Fire catch. Tin and three members of his team called a crew were first to take on valley fire in lake county. But it overtook them. The firefighters are in recovery right now. Whenever something traumatic like this, something that is very devastating for them and their families. Mike lopez, Cal Fire Union president. He visited with four team members this evening. He said the cam tin main have suffered more serious injuries than the other three. Their family members have joined them at the hospital. They are part of a Helicopter Team stationed at bogg mountain near where the valley fire started. Theyre transported by the helicopter. Dropped by a spot. Then the helicopter goes back up with the bucket dropping the water. At some point, the fast moving fire overtook the four team members. They had to be extracted by their helicopter. Cal fire has begun their inquiry about the incident. We investigate. Try to figure out what happened in this situation. So we can prevent or create training better so it would never occur again. F four fire fight ears among the best in the state. Unusual for so many to be overrun like this. No doubt troubling for them and their fellow Fire Fighters. Sure theyre emotionally drained. Physically drain after being stuck in a situation, your life is on the line, doing your job. Unfortunately, fire season may go on a few months. In sacramento, abc 7 news. Stay with abc 7 news for the very latest on this wildfire. Well continue to bring you updates through out this newscast. Also, follow on twitter at abc 7 news, bay area. Incredible yoplait. The smooth and creamy yogurt your whole family loves. Yoplait original with no artificial sweeteners, no artificial flavors, and no high fructose corn syrup. 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Helping wit d ining with disast efforts. Can you till us about road closures, what drivers can expect. This is horrifying where you see a wall of fire that is seemingly off in the distance. Trying to get away. Then all the roads are closed. Yeah, very traumatic san for everybody involved up here. As far as road closures. Biggest one impacted. Highway 29 itself. Lead from calistoga. Towards the community of lower lake. As of right now. That road is mainly open between, middletown, and calistoga. Primarily for the purpose of helping people evacuate to the south. From the middletown area. All communities impacted here. South toward calistoga. Evacuating the town and community. As far as highway 29, leading north toward lower lake. There are intermitent times when chp officers. And groups, caravans of cars out of the area. Intermitent. No one should plan on trying to travel on the highway 29 tonight. Lieutenant. Give us an idea how many people, how many vehicles we are talking about trying to get out of this area . Wish i could tell you. I did respond from marin to napa valley. There were thousand of cars. And tourists and residents and homeowners alike. All being asked to leave. It is chaotic situation. The roads themselves arent conducive to massive evacuation at any time. So thats created probably one of the biggest difficulties tonight. Next thing i was going to ask you, lieutenant. Whats the visibility look. We are looking at some of the shots viewers have tweeted to us. Its tough to see. Yeah. There is a variety of reasons having such a problem here. Obviously. Darkness has fall in upon us. Most of the Power Outages here in town. Most of the light if any actually is being produced by the fire itself. Even where i am located at our field command post here in middletown. We are running off the generator. And we are going to be in the dark. Lieutenant. Thank you for your time. I know this is going to bea long, busy night. We really appreciate you spending a few minutes to updapt update us and audience. Word that flames destroyed one school, Middletown Christian school. Small private school serves students kindergarten through high school. All of these photos, videos. Continue to come in tonight. And drew, i think none of us saw this cupping. Fin this coming. Cooler weather finally. Yesterday, cool out there. Wind whipping so much near the fire. Why it expanded rapidly. Right now, relative humidity. Bone dry. 16 . Wind right now out of westnorthwest. Continuing to gust between 15 and 20 miles per hour. Take it to the next 24 hours in the vicinity of the fire, the winds are going to be kay yoting yoting chaotic. Peak gusts. 20 miles an hour. Likely that the fire is going to spread overnight tonight. Unfortunately. Live doppler seven day. So you right now. We have moisture overhead. Some tropical moisture, moving in from the south. Unfortunately the surface is so dry. That this moisture is evaporating. Called verga. And a lot is not reaching the ground. Live look outside from the explo exploretorium. Low clouds and fog. Soon of changes over the past 24 hours. Not so hot. Finally. Despite limited sunshine. Antioch. 21 degree. Oakland much better today. And muggy. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s. 73 in concord. Calling it 67, san jose. San ramon and napa. Along with satellites showing you the setup. This is what was hurricane linda. The leftover. So to speak. Moving in from the south. Increased cloud cover. Moisture overhead. Tomorrow start with cloudy sky. Peaks of sunshine by the afternoon. Overnight. Lows. Humid out there. Fall into the mid 50s. Low 60s across the bay area. 57, San Francisco t 60, san jose. 66, napa. Odot code. See the radars take on the bengals. And 70 degrees. And, well like lly see afterno sunshine. 71 degrees. Across the bay area. Highs for sunday. Start off with overcast skies. It will feel cool once again. Sunshine. South bay. North bay. 84, concord. The accuweather sevenday forecast. Tomorrow. Cloud. Sunshine. Tuesday. Breezy, pleasant. Below normal. Wednesday. Slight chance by thursday. The wind are going to still be a factor overnight tonight. And lik introducing starbucksĀ® smallbatch cold brew coffee. In stores now. Great change comes from doing the right thing. Like the radical idea that health isnt an industry. Its a cause. So we do things differently. We combine care and coverage. And believe prevention is the most powerful of cures. So forgive us for not going with the flow. We just think the flow should go with us. Which makes us rebels with one cause. Your health. Lots of people are tweeting photos from the fire now. Take a look. See the smoke in the pictures. Viewers in our community are helping tell stories with photos, videos many taken right after or during their evacuation. 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