information is getting into they can look up? >> the most -- the most current information is coming off the county's facebook page. that is absolutely the most up to date. also, we are sending out advisories of roads and evacuations. you can text the zip code, 94558 to 888-777 and your zip code. that is coming straight out of our eoc where i'm sitting right now and you will get the most up-to-date information. >> that's very good info. i appreciate getting that. so you heard the supervisor say to text your zip code to 888777 and then also if you are on

facebook, on your phone -- because some of you will not have power at some point, so you might want to have that ready to go on your phone, load it up so you can refresh it and look for the -- is the facebook page just the county? is that all it is or something special i need to be looking up? supervisor, are you there? are you there? >> yes. >> okay. do i need to look up anything special on facebook, or am i just looking up the county? >> look up napa county, napa county, california. you'll see our county seal, and we have people monitoring and posting every minute, whenever we get new information we're posting it right there. we're working closely with incident commands of cal fire to get you the most up-to-date information. the most important thing regarding that information if you feel unsafe, leave. >> supervisor, just one more

quick question. as all of these evacuations are happening so quickly is there any fear that first responders may not be able to get to those doors and knock and give this mandatory evacuation as folks are sleeping? we've been advising people to call their friends, call their families. can you reiterate that, or what's your -- >> absolutely. certainly we're going to start facing power outage struggles here in a bit. we already have some areas that do have either flickering power or are out of power at this time. so the most important thing, contact your loved ones, contact your friends, and let them know what you know. avoid road closures. if you are concerned of someone's safety, go ahead, call it in and we'll add it to our list and get deputies out there to assist.

be safe. that's the most important thing. if you are feeling at all unsafe, go to one of our evacuation centers. we're ready to receive you. >> we appreciate you being on the phone with us, and we'll be checking in with you throughout the day. >> we do have one additional evacuation. i am just getting right now and that's the montecito community. the montecito community. that montecito area is being evacuated, and their evacuation center is the church 2590 first street in napa. >> yes, okay. montecito community being evacuated. we can't thank you enough for talking to us about this, and we'll be checking in with you throughout the morning. >> i think we're going to check in with mike. yes, bring it on over to me. let me say thatre strming live, have w been streaming liv all night.

as she mentioned if you lost power, you're watching us streaming live, if you're thinking about it, if you have to get out or lose power, please, follow us on our streaming -- on our app or go to our website and make sure all your mobile devices are plugged in right now and they're getting charged if they're not fully charged so if you do have to evacuate you'll have some means of communication with the family, with the outside world as you are communicating. get up on the latest by streaming us live. from what i understand no air support until sun rise. so let's take a look at what it looks like in san rafael. for those of you not affected by the fire, i'll say by not being evacua evacuated, you still have to worry about this. i want to keep pushing this because it's monday morning. we're all getting up, getting ready to go to school or go to the commute, and we're going to be outside and you're going to step into toxic air up in the north bay because of all of that smoke. we have moderate coast and

central bay, inland, east bay, it's getting poor. the winds are blowing from north to south. so that will continue to increase and, in fact, i think it will get worse before the sun comes up at about 7:12. once the sun comes up it will heat the atmosphere, heat the ground. the ground will heat the atmosphere and that will get the air to start to rise and that will start to filter out some of the smoke. not all of it but some of it. and, let me just use our studio as an example as you look at the radar right there, that is not much-needed rain. that is how thick the smoke is over santa rosa that is easily being picked up by live doppler 7 there up on mt. st. helena. in our studio we usually leave the vents open, and because the air is cool enough that it can cool down the studio. well, we've closed them and turned the air conditioner on and it still smells awful in the studio. we're still getting pushed by a

lot of smoke. stay inside if you can. it's the safest place. wear a mask if you can. you're not going to be able to escape the smoke completely in the north bay. look how thick it is. these are the visibilities in miles at napa at two miles an hour and petaluma at four miles. i know we've got -- tossing to reggie right now. >> mike, i didn't want to interrupt you. we have amy hollyfield live telling us about an evacuation at the hospital, amy? >> reporter: sorry to interrupt, guys, i want to push this information out as soon as possible at kaiser permanente they are evacuating the hospital because the fire is so close to us right here. this is at bicentennial way. remember the fire i showed you earlier right on highway 101, this hospital is very close to it. the city bus was brought in to evacuate this hospital. i looked at the driver, i said, i don't think this is going to be enough. he said, i know, you're right.

we're going to work on getting more buses here asap. you can see two people already onboard. we talked to some people in the waiting room, and i said what were you told? they said they told us if we have a car here to please use it and get out of here. people without cars will be bringing in buses. i asked a police officer what about bed-ridden people, people in the icu. he said we're working on it. so that's the latest here at kaiser permanente evacuating. it's going to be a tremendous effort. we're going to sit here and watch how this unfolds, help if we can get information to you as we can. very smoky here. i don't see fire but a lot of smoke here. reggie, back to you. >> amy hollyfield telling us about the kaiser permanente hospital now evacuating. we thank you for that new information. jessica, you're monitoring what people are showing us on social media. that is so scary there, reggie. i want to show you these pictures we're just getting from people. this is redwood valley fire from one of our viewers on the hill

girls. you can see the entire skyline is orange. it is not black as folks wake up and see this fire from their windows, and then this is a video we got. this person was evacuated earlier about 1:45. old redwood highway south of mark west springs road. that's my old house. play it for you one more time. that entire side there of the highway in flames. and look at those sparks just crossing the highway. we've seen that throughout the morning, this fire really jumping a lot of the highways up in the north bay. this is another video. it says this is real, written across it, and it surely is. those ashes, those embers crossing the road, and this says everyone stay safe. this is getting worse. everyone that's close get ready to evacuate. this is from one of our viewers, gsp 370z. thank you for showing us your videos as you evacuate safely. we don't want you to take these if you have photos and videos as

you make an evacuation from your home, we do want to see it. use the #abc7now. this is east towards napa. unbelievable. you can see the fire over the ridge line there and an orange sky people are waking up to this morning. this is the view from sonoma county and calistoga. impressive facebook, twitter photos, instagram photos that people are sending in right now, reggie. >> calistoga one of the first fires we are covering when there were two and now we have at least five fires. we are hearing from other fires. tiffany, are they still accepting people there? we've heard of at least one shelter now full.

>> reporter: organizers said they have more than two dozen people checked in, that doesn't include those sleeping the night in their cars in this parking lot. i would put the number well over 200 if not over 300 including everyone in their cars. the wind has dropped a little bit. we are getting ash here. if you look at this windshield here you can see a streak. this is not dirt. this car was clean just a couple hours ago and now we are getting light ash here and the evacuees do continue to pour in. we had another area of napa added to the evacuation list. john campbell lives in sonoma. john, what did you wake up to overnight? >> i woke up to an orange glow out the window, jumped out of bed, saw the pasture was on fire -- we have two acres and

most of it was ablaze up to a fence by the house. i put on a pair of shorts and shoes, grabbed the dog and jumped into the truck. as i went out the front door i realized the fire was surrounding us basically and across the road, there's a main highway there, napa road, and fled honking the horn as i passed the neighbors hoping to rouse them. i couldn't stop. it was very smoky and very hot. >> reporter: how high were the flames? describe the inferno you were driving through. >> i keep our pasture mowed so it was very low but it was flaming. the flames weren't huge. to the side of the house where there are trees and so forth, we

have a pump house. we had to go. >> reporter: talking seconds. grabbed athena. >> grabbed athena. i got here after the fair grounds. i had no shirt. there was a nice gentleman who gave me a shirt, and i, in turn, gave another couple a leash because they had two dogs and only one leash. trying to help everyone out. >> reporter: what woke you, just that glow you noticed? >> i have no idea. i have no idea. she didn't alert me or anything. i'm just thankful i woke up. >> reporter: knowing the situation you left, do you think you'll have a home to go home to? >> it doesn't look likely. my wife is out of town. i've spoken to her already.

my sister is in west sonoma county and there's fire near their place as well. oh, it's okay, honey. don't come because the roads are blocked. >> reporter: what was that conversation like with your wife when you made it safely out of the fire danger zone and called her? >> i called her immediately. i called 911, first of all, and got a busy signal and i called her and she answered. i'm freaked out, you know, obviously. and she was thankful we had escaped. worried about the cat. i don't know where the cat is at this point. hopefully he'll find his way out. >> absolutely. we are glad you are here safely, that athena is here safely. >> a big adventure for her. >> reporter: you have a shirt now and hopefully you'll have a home to go back to. >> i hope so. and hopefully everyone else will be okay, too.

this is quite extraordinary. >> reporter: does this surpass anything you've experienced in terms of fire in this area? >> yeah, yeah. i've never been involved in anything like this. the big trinity fire years ago in sonoma, trinity road, we could see it from our house but it was miles away. we were in no danger. maybe ten years back someone was dragging something behind their pickup truck like a mower or something and it started a fire in the hill behind us. one of the bombers came over and dumped fire retardant and put it out. that was the closest we've come. >> reporter: john, thank you so much. we are so glad, again, we've had stories of people not with minutes to leave their homes but simply seconds, john leaving without a shirt, again, some of the stories of generosity.

just incredible stories of survival and escape here. no one has been treated for burns at this particular evacuation center. that could change as the morning continues. reggie and jessica, back to you. >> tiffany wilson live for us from napa. that was difficult to listen to. they've been through fire on and it's been difficult as for people in napa and sonoma counties. to hear him say this is the worst he's seen. this is a real disaster we're facing in the north bay right now. it's 4:15 in the morning and what we can tell you there are five fires that are burning but that number could add up. it's still dark outside. we can't see the full extent of what's happening and can't tell you anything about containment of the fires. it's just too early. >> we heard the napa county supervisor moments ago saying if you have a loved one to call them and that's the concern, of course, because people are still sleeping. it is the middle of the night. it's dark. it's hard to see how much of the area is being impacted.

you can see the flames but which homes are maybe nearby those areas and so that's their concern right now is just getting people out. you heard her say we are in crisis mode right now and that's, of course, napa and sonoma counties. we have five fires raging, as you said, and these are moving erratically because of the winds. >> the winds have been a difficult thing all night long. we heard tiffany or amy say the winds were slowing down a little bit. what we'll start to see is a real buildup of traffic as people leave the south bay. there are a number of roads, alexis, closed because of these fires. >> some of those road closures, we have significant ones to get to this morning and, again, at 4:16 in the morning you don't have anyone. if we can flip over i'll show you santa rosa 101 and state

route 12 and we just have gridlock. definitely plan on delays. you have to have some patience here. here is a look at a caltrans camera. folks trying to get on 101 just south of where we have a full closure of 101 right around the mark west road area where we had amy hollyfield not too long ago this morning and she was showing us some incredible flames right off the interstate. so we have a full closure at mark west springs i believe from time to time they are opening that up and letting a few vehicles through. as far as chp is concerned this is a full, hard closure for both directions of the roadway. the northbound side closed by centennial. there's a ton of law

enforcement. the surface streets are closed as well and will be closed the rest of the day. chp recommending you take state route 12 through sonoma and head to the petaluma area via 116 and then south on 101. so hopefully you can avoid the gridlock we saw on our 101 camera. also a quick check of things in sears point at 121. this is the area of another one of those very large fires. it sounds like a lot of folks are going the wrong way trying to get out of the detours and around the road closures. we did just hear from novato fire department this will likely be closed the entire day. around sears point, that is a sig alert now. that is not a good option for you. i wanted to show you that camera shot. look at all this smoke and that terrible air quality. we're still seeing light volume here. i live in oakland. we had some really windy conditions when i woke up around 39, 40 miles an hour. there's a lot of debris on the

roadways. this is the same conditions that we have in the north bay, too. just be on the lookout for tree limbs, power outages, stoplights that are dark, so you really need to take your time and be careful. i'll toss it back to you. >> s,t i alexis just mentioned, you have to have patience to get out of there which is not the instinct people have. they're panicked. they want to get out of their homes. they're seeing the orange glow from their windows and want to get out of there but the streets are gridlocked or are starting to fill up. >> we got a message there's another hospital that is being evacuated so that is in addition to the kaiser hospital also in santa rosa. so two hospitals so far being evacuated as a precaution. they want to get their staff and patients out of there as soon as possible. obviously that will take some time. they're trying to get ahead of this. >> so many people being evacuated and affected. we want to get to an interview,

our reporter tiffany wilson is on the ground and spoke to a woman named peggy who says she woke up to the sound of someone simply honking outside of her apartment. take a listen. >> i just saw flames all up on the hill behind my house so, of course, i panicked, and i'm still shaking. they were screaming fire, fire, fire, get out, get out. i called my neighbors. we're all together and we just got in our cars and left. i have my cat in the car over there and that's about it. i did grab my travel bag and my laptop. >> reporter: how are you feeling? we hear about the fire danger all the time but to see it out your back window. >> we evacuated a couple hours ago. let's go back because our neighborhood was still open. i looked out my bedroom window and the flames weren't there. i was saying my prayer, thank

you, all you angels, my father and sister, thank you, thank you, thank you. and i started to get really nauseous, and i'm being personal but i fell on the floor with my cat crying, thank you, god, for saving my house. 15 minutes later got evacuated. >> and she's now staying at the evacuation center. the crosswalk community church, one of the major evacuation centers in napa now. we heard at least 100 people in that evacuation center. we heard the supervisor tell us they will open up a third location in napa county if need be if that particular center fills up. >> this is video from calistoga in napa county. it's horrible to watch this because these are people's lives -- >> people's homes. >> everything they've put into -- all the investment they've put into these homes and

now we don't know how many of these homes have burned down but obviously it's quite bad. the supervisor was telling us this is a lifesaving mission at this point. prior to us being able to tell you what percentage they've been able to knock this down. we don't know that. until we have light they're not going to be able to hit this the way they want to with the helicopters coming in and another resources that they h e have. >> until day break when they can see what to do, who to move out because of the winds so gusty now. we want to check in with amy hollyfield being evacuated. >> reporter: look at all of

these people they are having to get out of here. they have masks on everyone. they will try to protect them as they inhale the smoky air. the bus is full of patients they are getting out of this hospital. i talked to one woman who was frantically looking for her mother. she said she just got here from san jose to help because her sister lives here. she thinks her sister has lost her house to this fire. her sister brought her mother here to the hospital because she has a heart condition and wasn't feeling well because of the smoke and now the hospital is being evacuated. that is what people are dealing with running from place to place trying to find their loved ones and what to do. it is that close. it is so smoky here and so windy and you can also hear these loud booms, these pops every few seconds.

we hear tires popping, propane popping. that's why they are evacuating this kaiser permanente. it looks like it's going well. i haven't seen anyone looking terribly ill as they're being brought out of here. i don't see anyone looking terrible because of the evacuation and it's happening in a very orderly way. one patient told us, they told us we have to go. we're going. he was able to walk out. people in the waiting room were told if you have a car here, please take it and get out of here. we want to reserve the beds for patients if possible. that is the scene here. this has been going on for possibly 10, 20 minutes, and people are still coming. i did ask a police officer what

about people in icu, or people truly bedridden and cannot get up, he said we're working on that. here is a situation here in santa rosa as kaiser permanente is being evacuated. jess, reggie, back to you. >> before we leave you, do we know where some of the patients are being taken? >> reporter: i don't. i don't know that. my question was are you bringasg any more buses because i don't think this is going to be enough. i should have asked that. let me figure that out and get back to you. they're nervous about our presence here. >> i'm sure. >> reporter: and what to do about us. we said we're just here to get out the public information, we're here to do a public service and help people so they know what's going on here. their loved ones are safe. the hospital is safe. it is not on fire. they are just trying to stay a step ahead of this. >> that makes sense, being responsible to do that. amy hollyfield, live for us in santa rosa, the kaiser permanente facility they're currently evacuating in an orderly fashion and it's not as if the flames are at their

doorstep. they want to make sure they have the patients and staff safe well before there could be a problem. >> as you can imagine a lot of people at a hospital, a lot of staff as well as those patients and it's going to take time to evacuate them. as amy noticed, they probably need additional buses so it's good they're doing this ahead of time. i believe we do have someone else on the phone. >> mike clark is in santa rosa and, mike, you're trying to get out of santa rosa right now. what are you facing? >> yeah, we're facing gridlock. we left my house a block away 20 minutes ago. that's how far we've gotten, one block. we can look over where the sky is glowing red. we can hear explosions. it's a little frightening. but one good thing is the wind seems to have really died down here. so there's not as much smoke in the air, not as much wind. it's just complete gridlock. >> mike, from what you can see,

are people panicking because of the gridlock, just trying to get out? >> it's a little bit of both, it's a little bit of panic. my neighbor was screaming get out, get out, get out now. then i hear people in cars all around me. i think we're going to be all right but people are looking at maps, people are covering their faces with towels. the smoke is bad. it's kind of eerie. i've covered these things for so many years, and now to live it is just pretty amazing. >> from your experience covering breaking news, can you tell us what those explosions might be? do you think those are just power lines exploding near you? >> you know, if those. it could be power lines. it could be propane tanks. there are a lot of people with backyard barbecues and trailers, camping trailers that have propane tanks.

it could be a number of things, but i'm guessing power transformers and propane tanks. >> mike clark, we appreciate it. >> we actually moved about six inches just now. >> well, that's progress. mike clark in the gridlock right now as he's trying to get out of santa rosa and get to safety. mike, we wish you luck and appreciate you calling

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