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People closure in the area. Reporter now search teams have also been using drones to take video of the burn out areas. Theyre doing that to gather evidence and also to possibly find victims. Now i just got off the telephone with sheriff Gregory Ahern from the Alameda County sheriffs department. He has been out here all day today. He tells me that teams are now at a location where they may have just discovered the remains of five more people and waiting to get some confirmation. In fact he is calling me now ill pick it up and get that back to you in a minute reporting live in santa rosa, jodi h...

Merging now into one, 44,000 acres, crews have it only 5 contained at this time. We are looking live now in santa rosa. As we mentioned we are awaiting the briefing from the sheriff. We will break into coverage when i begins to talk. He has yet to address the podium we he steps ford we will cut in. Lets begin with rabbit handa near oakville with the latest. Robert clarify. You are in napa county which we thought it was primarily just the atlas fire. It is the nuns fire approaching where you are. Reporter thats right. We are at what cuesed to be called the nuns fire now the Central District fir...

To attack them and not have to go into those steep stretches and fight them up on terms that are much more dangerous. Reporting live, im joe vazquez, kpix5. Thank you, joe. Firefighters are gaining ground on almost every other front. The massive atlas fire is now 68 contained. The tubbs fire is 70 surrounded. In spite of that flareup the nuns fire is 50 contained. It may still merge with the aggressive oakmont fire close by. The pocket fire is at 40 containment and the Redwood Valley fire is 50 contained. Also today more people allowed back home. Evacuations were lifted for parts of Sonoma Cou...

Still in full force in parts of the north bay. Tonight choppers dropping water targeting rutherford, the hills above this winery. As the fire comes down and progresses down towards the rutherford area above the winery we are working to slow the spread of that fire. Reporter this morning, a tragic loss in the fire fight. A water tender driver working the area of the napa hills lost control of his truck wg rolling it over down the side of the hill where he died. Our hearts go out to obviously the family and the friends that are impacted by this as it has an impact on all of us. Reporter one more...

Helicopters move in with yet another water drop. This is an area dotted by some of the most famous wineries in the world including the Robert Mondavi winery. The flames are miles away at this point. Cal fire believes it is making progress. Officials say the plans to let the flames continue to march down toward the valley and meet the containment lines theyve diligently dug. There are a lot of fingers and canyons in there. So if its too steep or the vegetation is too continuance and its too dangerous to put too deep and its too dangerous to put people in there, well use aircraft and use the lin...