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KRON KRON 4 News Weekend August 24, 2014

From what im looking at here it does not appear you can live or work out of some of these buildings. Thank you so much for your report. Well continue to return to mike for the latest. Youre getting an ariel view. So youre seeing some of the is situation here where some of those buildings where masonry and brick have fallen to the ground. Its just been a situation that is going to require a closer look. Heres a look at some video of showing the jolting this morning at 3 21 when the struck. Getting back to after shocks we have reports of some after shocks that have hit in the area since the 3 20 earth quake. Weve had an after shock at 5 00 this morning and another one at 5 45 this morning. We want to fo to charles clifrd. Reporter the they detected it at 3 20. They are calling this the south napa earthquake. The largest since 1989. That was a magnitude 6. 9 give and take kwaik. Theres been museum rows after shocks. The strongest a 2. 5 around 5 00 this morning. These earth quakes may be happening along the west napa fault. They are determining where it hit. Even though this was a strong one it was a typical one for the bay area. The earth quake was a strike slip that produces where the earths crust moves side to side which is typical for the bay area and the moegs is along a fault that is typical for the bay area. In that sense its a typical kind of earth quake. The magnitude is larger than what weve seen for a long time. Reporter they say theres a 50 chance for a strong after shock at 5. 0. Go to a look at the road closingers. Weve heard reports of two small after shocks. A 2. 5 and another one at 3. 6 at 547 this was a depth of 11 can i lom meters. They are classifying this as an average earth quake. As we update some of the road cloeshers. I think after shocks will be up in the north area. Road way damage reported. We have cracks in the road. Elevated ten to 12 inches off the fre way. The chp has coned off these areas. They ask that you avoid the entire area. No damage in ren or santa rose. Most of this is in napa and sonoma. One thing i am following a mud and rock slide at howll mountain. Ill have more on that in a minute. Speaking of transportation issues. We look at this live look. Downtown napa with many buildings have sustained damage there. We checked with the airport, San Francisco oakland international. Run ways were inspected which was standard operating procedure. No reports of any problems there. Operations are continuing at both of those airports without disruption. Always check ahead. Officially we have no disruption of service. Lets go back to live to jackie who has been following a Mobile Home Park fire. Whats the latest . Reporter good morning. The napa valley Mobile Home Park four of those mobile homes completely destroyed after the earth quake. Firefighters telling me they believe it was a gas leek that started the fire. Four mobile homes completely destroyed. Six to eight of those homes moderate to Severe Damage. The reel problem is water. Because of the violent nature of this earth quake it broke water mains across napa including right in front of this Mobile Home Park. All they they could do is stand and watch. The good news nobody was hurt from the fire. Everybody was able to get out. I spoke with the captain of the Napa Fire Department and described the scene of out frus race rauting it was for them. The hardest part was having to deal with the lack of water for the incident and you have structures immediately threatened next to the ones that were burning knew that youre going to lose more. There wasnt a lot of help to save that particular unit was very difficult. How much damage . I cant begin to estimate the dollar damage not knowing what the current value of the units in the park. I kound couldnt how many structures . We have four shucktures to the grounds. Six to eight with varying degrees of damage. At this time we have no report of injuries and none of the occupants are reported missing. Reporter Napa Fire Department as you can hear from the interview completely frustrated by the fact they were without water to fight the fire. The good news nobody was hurt in that fire. Right now theyre waiting for someone to show up with water. Right now the fires are out. Water running down the streets because so many broken mains out here. Obviously the short term were hearing some not rate injuries around napa. You sigh ambulances and fire truck. S. We are jackie,ed the to be so heartbreaks to see the resi watching the homes burn and firefighters not able to do anything about it. Reporter they understand what the firefighters were working under. The good news if you see the damage done at that Mobile Home Park you realize how lucky they are. No one injured. At 3 20 in the p morning. The people in this possibly home park are old elderly. Jackie reporting from mobile home bark in napa which has been the scene of destruction there. Four mobile homes completely destroyed. Another four to eight sustaining damage. A the social media response on the earth wake has been huge. A loot of feedback on twitter this morning. A look at some of the tweets we gobbing got since early this morning. People still tweeting their experience. Still awake woke me more than an hour ago. Affeldt it in vallejo. Relieving the earth quake alert responding to theitis i. C. E. Bucket challenge. A rude awakening for a lot of folks ps asking you to send your tweets to us. If you see damage around your home. Sent it to breaking news at kron. Com. We are take tag live look at downtown napa where several buildings sustained a rot of lot of want to turn to a viewer right now. Wanda good morning. Tell us what you felt at 3 20 this morning . All of a sudden there was a gentle shaking and it didnt bother me. There was no jolt. It lasted for quite a while. And i said okay were having an earthquake. I called my brother and see if his family was okay. And he said he didnt feel it. I didnt get any other calls. So i must have been the only one to felt it. Have you been through a earthquake before . Oh yes. I was in San Francisco for. There was no comparison. The one in 89 i was standing outside one of the state buildings. Thank you so much for sharing your experience early this morning. Were glad that youre safe. I pray for all the families in napa. Thank you very much Public Public were working on getting on the phone a sheriff to fill us in. You can see the damage at a local safe way. Safe way in American Canyon. Sustaining apparently minor damage. Bottles falling to the floor. No one damaged. A lot of folks are waking up a lot of folks were oneonone woen up this morning. Now as were seeing daylight this is giving officials a better chance to see if there was damage, any more damage to road ways and buildings. I definitely checked the house this morning. Look for cracks. Fortunately i didnt have anything. There was no damage in my home pm did you check yours . No i did not i did not check it i rushed out of the house to get here. I want to bring up a good tip. Check your water heaters. Check your gas, make sure your water heaters is strapped to the structure. We want to turn now to someone opt the phone. We understand from sorry i lost Sonoma County Sheriffs Office. Good morning. Good morning. Can you tell us what you are dealing with in terms of responding to calls. This morning we notice increase into our 911 dispatch center with people concerned about the quake and wanted advice on what to do. We want to encourage people to use 911 for emergency not just information. We have Power Outages. We have call after call of alarm systems. When the power goi goes out it sets off alarms. What else are you dealing with this morning . We have one water main break. We still have Power Outages all over the sonoma valley. Deputies responding to that as necessary. As daylight comes were asking people to check their homes. Check outside. Check for damage. Sonoma race way. The indy car racing is scheduled toe go ahead. They dont have any damage out there. Can you define to our viewers what you consider to be an emergency. Something coming down in their home . Give us per ram meters of when they should call . When they feel like theres some medical or fire emergency by all means. If theyre concerned maybe someone near their home. All the same reasons you would call 911 in the first place. When theyre tree trying to dispatch dis deputies give people they reassurance. Take a take a deep breath, reach out to a mead ya out let such as yours and call family make sure everyone is safe. If any one is injured or smell gasz call. Im sure you get these calls quite a bit and theyre immediate is to call 911. That is common. If they havent been true one they want some reassurance. And we understand that. What is a number people can call for none emergency . A nonemergency to report something in their area. They can call the Sheriffs Office at 7075652650. And thats nonemergency line. They can be connected up to dispatch if they need to. And we can dispatch on someone on a loir priority call. Or if its a tree fallingen or something. In this case is it all hands on deck . Fortunately we all come out of the wood work when things like this. We cant predict anything like this. We all Work Together and do the best we can for the citizens out there. Certainly out thoughts and are out to the folks in napa county. Can you give us any i know youre not an earthquake expert. Advice. A lot of folks jolted out of bed. I was staying in bed because i was so shocked. I saw other people tweeting saying i jufrned out of bed and standing underneath the door. As waiting for after shocks the next several days. What advice do you have for p if another one comes through. I lived in the bay area during the loam ma create. As long as theyre in the area where its safe. Where things wont fall on them. Everything strapped to the wall. If they dont have an earthquake supply box, take care ofr now. If you have one that is old revisit that and refresh the contents of that. Make sure you have a first aid kit. Stuff for your pets. Cell phone chargers. And a way to stay connected whether a Battery Powered roo or some other device to get information. Thank you for those tips. It bring greater awareness now. We keep talking about it and people say theyll put it off until tomorrow and tomorrow has arrived. So heres once again a life look from our helicopter with abc 7 news. Some of the dmaj damage. This looks like a home in a residential area. Hard to make how what were look at. Earlier we were looking at pictures like these from a safe way in American Canyon. Where you can see soda knocked off the shelves. Wine bottles. Also knocked off. See some of the resulting damage on the floor. This i believe is the Mobile Home Park area. Maybe six to eight moderate to Severe Damage. They dont have access to water. You thats been the problem. We want to turn now to berry martin from napa police department. Youve been dealing with a lot of damage downtown napa. Good morning im the citys pio not specifically the police department. Downtown area has suffered damage to the unreinforced masonry buildings. There are not that many of those left. But those that are still present have been mostly damaged by this strong quake. I understand theres been quite a move in downtown napa to go ahead and retro fit a lot of the buildings in the downtown area. The city actually passed an ordinary innocence to require upgrade and ret troe fit these properer tis. And many of them have been retro fitted. And some of these are still standing. Some that were not are severely damaged. Where what is the historical signature fans to some of these buildings. The goodman library. A beautiful Stone Building right in the heart of our downtown. Its been severely damaged by this quake. Alt i blooe it did receive. Another building home to a collective tasting room. Sam key laundry very old Stone Building. Told it has Severe Damage. A sad loss of some of the historic inventory of the immunities that have been here since the late 1800s. Take us through the next steps deciding which buildings will be habitable tomorrow and throughout the future. The city staff. Fire and police assessing damage if a Building Official we had a similar process following the year 2000 earthquake which happened in september of 2000. Some similar damage to some of the unreinforced macery buildings. Many homes suffered damage. Chimneys falling and brick structures collapsing. The red tagging process will go on probably more than just today and into this coming week. Tell us about the plan that goes into effect in napa and surrounding areas when Something Like this occurs. In terms of Emergency Operations and other agencies have similar system standardized model for Emergency Operations. Train for it man wales and information that sets up the structure at this moment being over seen we have several dodzen people who have been transported to local hospital and we have about a dozen ambulances currently operating and another ten to supplement. So far thats all the information we have. Only the two serious were aware of. You know about the fire at the Mobile Home Park 1234i set up at the Napa High School gim for anyone that needs a place to go. Evacuation center operates as part of our emergency plan. At our Napa High School gym naz m. Thank for taking time out for filling in viewers information. A reminder to make those preparations youve been putting off. Lets go now to erika. Youve been tracking after shocks. What do you see so far. Only two fsh the first one was a 2. 5 magnitude and another one on tails at 3. 6 shake at 5 47. Theres been a dozen. Now we want to point out chance of a magnitude 5 after shock is a 50 chance. Also been monitoring a lot of the official twitter handles after some of the public at athcys in the other area. There are a number of gas leeks in the napa area. The chief is advicing not to turn off their gas unless they hear a hissing sound. Once they turn gas off the Utility Company will have to turn it back on. Napa high school and grace church on selano are established Evacuation Centers. Also monitoring some of the traffic issues sosuated with this. The big one a signature lar at westbound 80 at highway 37. Thats been clear preponderance of the evidence a lot of county roads still affected. Hes seen roads that are buckled. While theyre not officially closed he does warn you if youre in the area to watch. Not enough to close the roads but enough to damage your tires or car. We did check with the airport. Sfo and oakland. Right when the quake struck, they did inspect the run ways. Both reporting no problems and operations continued without destruction. We want to update you you certainly felt it in the bay area. Maybe fell back to sleep and just waking up. We are dealing with a 6. 0 magnitude earthquake that struck in the American Canyon area. North bay. Significant damage to several buildings in downtown napa. Weve had reports of major injuries but for the most part hospitals reporting minor injuries. A fire at a Mobile Home Park that destroyed some four mobile homes and damaged at least up to eight others. You see video there of that. The frustrating part of this was the firefighters on the seen not able to put out the blaze simply because the earthquake cracked the water main. Jackie . Jackie was at the mobile home bark park. Who are we going to . Mike live in downtown napa whos got more information for us. Reporter good morning we are losing mikes connection. We will turn to him when we get a live report. Gloets to grant. Reporter if youre joining us were following this story on air line. A quick recap. This quake a 6. 0 magnitude quake. Partially closed state highway 37. The shake map here. The biggest quake since 1989 and a lot of people taking to twitter at it happened. Here are some of the tweets. Stilg awake after the earth wake. Were hearing it was felt wides. Reporter if theres damage like you see here theres a serious issue. If a fridge feeling trying to have a little fun with it. We welcome you to join the conference. Also on twitter. Were following all the developments on kron 4. Com if you do have to leave your tv follow us on your mobile app. Thank you very much. Turn now to have ness sa. Can you el us a bit about the injuries that have been sustained because the earth quakereporter were see a large number of we are any major injuries. Is the it the lacerations or abraugs that you mentioned pmreporter we had a hip fracture. Dweelg young irpatients. Reporter all ages. Can you untils about the plan that goes into affect when an earth quake of this magnitude strikes. I would guess the Queen Valley Medical Center taking people for emergency care. Reporter we are the level three trauma center. We drill and train for this type of an event or a similar event throughout the year. Can you tell us a bit about tips that you would have for people who are watching wondering when do i go to the hospital. Do i call the hospital do i drive myself if im able to. How does this work for someone considering a trip to the hospital. Reporter obvious if you have a major injury dial 911. If you have an yur that you immediate immediate medical treatment such as laceration come to the hospital. Va necessary sa thank you very much. So far so good thank you. That lets go to justine. Reporter good morning were live. Well start with the video from napa. New video exactly how bad things are looking up there this morning. I want to show you illustrate this. You can see this building here. The top portion has just krm bld down on to the ground. Downtown napa. This picture here someones house the plastering walls cracked up you can see the bricks exposed there. Its going take a lot of work to clean up. One more picture. It looks like this

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