>> i would recommend anyone to get the hell out of here. >> good advice. they're taking no chances. leading an order to get out now as wildfire flames expand toward their town. >> this is a serious critical catastrophic event. >> and state emergency officials issuing a warning of just how dire the situation is with little or no containment, the wildfire threat continues to grow. good evening. >> we'll begin with the latest details on the north bay wildfires. >> 21 deaths are being blamed on the fires across the north bay and officials fear that number will grow as more burned out areas get checked for victims. >> sonoma county says 380 people are missing. he also emphasize that's problems with getting telephone service and other telecommunications to work is

hampering efforts. >> and the fires are threatening more shlgs and homes. evacuate oergss have expanded. more people are hurrying to get away from the flames. >> and an evacuation is underway for the entire city of calistoga. officials telling people to get out now. huge lines of people waiting to get out. >> reporter: definitely. this place is like a ghost town. we're here along the main street here in calistoga. you can see the cafe. normally busy, open. closed right now. they were planning a hoe down barbecue. you can see a big banner at the he believed of the street. that's the only thing you can see. it is canceled and we caught one one woman frantically trying to reach her family.

>> i'm panicking. that was supposed to be our meeting spot and they won't let me pass. they're all i've got. they're all i've got. and i've got to go and find a place, there is no cell service here locally to call out. i can text but i can't call out. and they can't call me so i have no way of getting ahold of them. >> that was stephanie, desperately trying to reach her family. she used our phone and fortunately, she was able to reach them. her son has asthma and they're going to oregon. the firefighters have been going door to door. you can see the people evacuating. we found people packing their items and leaving. this process is about safety. they want to make sure everyone is out so they know, in the event the smoke and flames heads

this way. i can tell you in the last hour, smoke coming from the north part where the tubbs fire is. now we are south of it and moving into the blue skies. the skies for the last hour or so have been pretty blue. we've noticed smoke billowing and moving in our direction. of course, the story is changing by the minute. back to you. >> thank you. we want to let you know that google is keeping track of the areas under evacuation orders. you see the largest evacuation zones are near napa due to the atlas fire, of course, and north of santa rosa. further north, part of highway wound 28 is included in the evacuation area. calistoga is highlighted there i know what a stretch of porter

creek road. >> happening now, take a look at this line of cars. an evacuation order for the hot springs. this is the bumper to bumper line of cars on arnold drive. it includes arnold drive to pet loom a avenue and east to napa. people in this area are advised to pack personal belongings, medications, chargers and anything else they think is necessary. this is advisory, not mandatory but people are being wise to get out while they can. live in that area. >> reporter: this situation really has intensified in just

the past 30 minutes or so. because down the road where you saw me during the 4:00 newscast, there was that beautiful lake where we saw the choppers dipping in to get water and drop on the fire, which you can see behind me is burning extremely strong. we were told by cal fire that the winds have severely picked up and are now moving north and down south into the heart of the city. you can see various types of aircraft. we're also seeing large tankers in addition to the smaller choppers picking up water from nearby lakes and thankfully there are several of them. we can tell you one homeowner that i spoke with, we spoke with him about how it is to see all of this happening in his town. a town that he has lived in for 20 years. >> it is devastating.

all my years, i've never experienced anything like this. going to work, seeing what happened in santa rosa. on my way to work from home, i found this fire starting and i had to go in. trying to work on this. >> smoke intensified. but the choppers and planes are circling. they've been doing this for about the past 15 minutes. it is very erie. on the ground here, there is a mandatory evacuation. it is like a ghost town. seeing the planes flying overhead, such beauty, the grape vines, the wineries. we will stay on the scene here in geyserville. i think we'll check out the major streets which is where most of the people seem to have

congregated. reporting live in that geyserville, dion lynn. >> that's the way wine country is supposed to look but sadly not the way it has the last several days. >> this is a cal fire news gompbs to get underway in santa rosa. we can see the sheriff there as well as other cal fire and local officials. >> we're going to crop drop in let you hear what is being said. they're very close to updating the news media on what has been happening. a lot of developments as the flames continue to spread. the number of dead confirmed to be a little bit higher. we hope to get the updated information on those figures and where the firefighting efforts stand. >> they will start shortly. we're just going to get you some

new numbers from the fires. the largest is napa county, 42,000 acres. the tubbs fire has ballooned to 28,000 acres. >> and the partrick fire has nearly doubled in size. now nearly 9,500 acres. with the highest contanment just 3%. so a very long way to go. >> now back to the news conference being held by cal fire. >> we're waiting for they will to start. let's wait for a moment to see if he begins to speak. >> as they're testing, they're asking people to register themselves as safe. safe at well.org. >> the briefing for the central

complex which includes the pocket fire and the tubbs fire. the that you recall of this meeting is to hear from some officials, both on the incident and at the state level who have been working in close cooperation to bring this to a conclusion. first we'll have a quick update from our incident commander, our joint incident commander. we'll have some representatives from chp cal fire, the national guard. with that i would like to start off with the incident commander, brett. >> good evening. with me, the santa rosa fire

department. as of today, the sonoma county sheriff's department. it is a great relationship to come together and face this tragedy in a united front as many of our tasks go together. as quick update, as of right now, on the tubbs fire, we're at 2 27,10% containment. evacuations in and around the north part of santa rosa. last night, up around calistoga. activity on the fire today has been pretty quiet. the northeast corner of the fire is where the activity has been and where we had some runs with the southwest winds. that's been held in check and our crews are actively up there working to hold that fire in and around red hill mountain.

for the pocket incident, currently, approximately 5,000 acres, it has been active this afternoon. zero percent containment. the activity is on the south end of the fire today. as some of you might have seen, these fires pushed to the north. we had a wind shift that was predicted. now they're moving south. the area of geyserville are all under evacuations. i would like to talk briefly about some of the fires down in sonoma county, the south portion, that are currently being managed by the south branch. we are currently in transition discussions to pull all the fires in sonoma county into branch two under this command. all fires in napa county would

fall under the south branch, branch three. it makes a lot of sense for long term recovery that one incident management team is managing that particular county. as these fires progress, that gives us a lot more room to expand. that's all i have. thank you. >> thank you. >> to highlight the fact we will take questions is that answers at the conclusion of everyone's comments. so if you can hold your questions and comments, i would appreciate it. thank you. with more of a global perspective is cal fire director ken. >> thank you. good afternoon. i don't need to tell you the conditions we've been under the last several days. behind us here is the adobe fire. that's an example of one of the 22 fires burning in california as we speak. in the last two days, over

170,000 acres have burned in these 22 large fires that we're engaged in. very conservative estimates are 3,500 structures lost across all of these fires. very conservative number. that number will go up. also tragically 21 individuals have died as a result of these fires. the majority right near sonoma county. our priority on all of these fires is to ensure life safety and protection of property. this complex here in sonoma county is our top priority. these fires are getting the priority for resources in the state and we have leaned very far forward to get resources, not only from california but from across the country. we reached out earlier this week

and we have resources coming from multiple neighboring states. and the forest service has reached out across the country to provide additional fire engines and hand crews from as far as the midwest and the south. we're bringing resources. the resource team from sacramento just spent the last three hours talking about what the challenges are, how can we work toward communicating what can we do to ensure that we get everything you need here. we are in this fight for the long haul. it will continue to get worse before it gets better. you know the weather conditions. we're going to see these conditions continue for the next several days minimum. we're planning for that and staffing for that. it will be a long haul.

we're engaging federal partners and resources and we are accessing our local government partners with a thousand fire departments across california, from san diego to the oregon border. hundreds of them have firefighters and resources and many other things we're depending on. so we're here to provide the tools and resources necessary. thank you. >> thank you. for a more localized information, we have the sheriff for sonoma county. >> i have a few updates on what's going. on let me start with this. an enormous event. the sheriff is working on evacuations, seeing security and finding the missing people. that's where our focus has been. life is what it is about.

so evacuations are still going on. we have 300 law enforcement officers working right now in this county and they're from all over the state. a lot of resources poured in to do that. we were able to work on the missing person list some more so i have a new set of numbers for you. 600 total reports of missing persons. we had a lot of duplicate reports and we're down to, in essence, we had three pieces of paper and three phone calls on one person. we were able to cut that down. so we're at a total of 600 reports. 3 final of those people have been located safely. so they're not hurt. they're just communication breakdowns between families. a lot of those we trying to track people down. we're working they will like individual cases. there are still 285 on our missing list that we're looking for. what we're doing now is working

that, those missing people back to the point, if we can't find them, we're trying to get to their house and trying to find out if they're still there. doing the recovery part of the job. i want to add a couple more things. we talked about nixel voice alerts going out to land lines. they'll go out in english and spanish. and i want to clear up a bad rumor. there's a rumor that people are checking immigration stat us in shelters. that's not true. they are asking names to identify people coming in. immigration will never check that. this is an important piece of the puzzle. so this is about saving lives. if you're in an evacuation area, please leave.

>> thank you. next up, we have the state director for emergency services. >> first, let me express our heart felt sincere he condolences. this has been a tremendous event and the magazine any toot, the magnitude is extensive and we'll be working with you now and throughout the process. the responsibility is really to coordinate the overall efforts from the state and the federal government and the county impacted by there event. we are coordinating fire and law enforcement, emergency medical, emergency management from throughout california in support of all the efforts here.

in addition, you'll hear from the highway patrol. some of the efforts that are being coordinated with them to provide additional resources. beyond the resource coordination and providing the, all the different assets, the one thing that happened earlier is the governor did proclaim a state of emergency for this area which opened up additional resources and cleared the way of any regulatory impediments or issues that opened up funding streams to support sonoma county and the response operations. in addition the governor did make a request of the president for a major disaster declaration which was granlth yesterday. that will be significant in that it will provide federal resources into help clean up the

community and help citizens in their recovery process as the time goes on. in the coming days, we'll work close when i the local authorities to establish some information and assistance centers that the community can come to and be able to get more information on those various programs. in the meantime we will continue to support whatever the needs are of the county, and the communities. particularly in the shelter operations with food and water and cots and other kinds of relief materials that are necessary, and any other gap that's are required by the county to be able to meet the immediate needs of the response operations throughout the coming days. so oes will be here for the long run. we're here with all these

resources and we'll continue to stay engaged in the coming weeks. thank you. >> thank you. next up, we have an update from the national guard. >> good evening. the california national guard is supporting napa, sonoma counties with broad spectrum capabilities, ranging from manpower to assists to security and transportation to aviation resources and then very sophisticated high end surveillance platforms we're using to assist cal fire with fire mapping and fema and cal fire with mapping damage structures and destroyed structures for recovery. in addition to the forces we have now, the governor ordered today that we bring up an additional 2,500 soldiers and air men to support law enforcement, emergency managers, fire services in the area. we are in coordination with our

neighboring states and bringing assets from nevada and roefrl if necessary. in addition to our support for consequence management, the california national guard has some firefighting capability that's available. we've ordered up 13 firefighting helicopters, two medical evacuation helicopters. in addition we have type two hand crews that are available if needed. >> thank you. we have acting chp commissioner warren stanley. >> thank you. as far as our support of this fire, we have 73 personnel in this area between the two fires that are helping out with traffic control, general law enforcement and also to prevent

looting. just about an hour ago, we made a plan that we are moving in the 100 additional officers into the area to help out with evacuations if needed. so they will be joining up very shortly to brief the sheriff on that. we'll have the personnel in place in case we need them. additionally on the first night of the fire, two of our helicopter units, one here in the area from the napa area and one from redding, they rescued 44 people from the fire. 44 people and five dogs and one cat that they were able to rescue when people brought their pets with them. so we're very happy that we were able to provide that support. in the coming days, we'll see as needed. i want to say one thing in the areas around the fire, and then we all know that we can see highway 101 is open.

i would ask, unless you absolutely need to be in the area, stay away from the area so we can keep the roadways open, to keep they will moving so our fire personnel, our law enforcement personnel, and those providing services to this emergency, they're able to get in and get out easily and get their equipment in and out. so thank you for your time. >> thank you. from the county of sonoma, we have the chair woman. >> thank you. my colleagues will be offering some information as well. so first of all, i want to say, i want to stress what the sheriff said. all people should show up regardless of whether you're a documented immigrant, to our evacuation sites. we are there to serve you. my heart goes out to every person affected by this disaster and i know that many emergency personnel and their loved ones

have lost their homes. yet they're still showing up to serve our community. our emergency personnel are working around the clock to provide information to the community. if you need places to find information, it includes the sonoma county shavl's office, so cal alert.com is another one. and also, the eoc hotline which is 707-565-3856. many of our evacuees had to flee their homes with little time to prepare. if you didn't bring your medications when you evacuated, the pharmacies are open to assist with filling prescriptions. for a list of pharmacies, it is available on our county website. we are offering mental health services at many of the centers for this difficult time as well as geriatric care.

we know that many of you are unable to find a loved one. the american red cross has a safe and well website that allows to you register when you're safe. if you're looking for someone, you can also again find the eoc hot line. to file a missing person report. if you're in a safe place and not in a mandatory evacuation area, please stay there. we want to keep our roads for emergency personnel open. and now i'll hand it over to supervisor rabbit and hopkins who have additional information. >> thank you very much. i appreciate everyone being here. the logistics are incredible. i just saw a strike force team, fribl oregon. i can't say enough to say thank you. as we go forward, we are in the process of setting up a local stance center. the staff by local, state and

federal agencies as well as nonprofit and voluntary organizations. it provides a one stop facility where you can access all available recovery programs and services. and this can include replacing documents. social security cards, assistance with insurance and streamline permitting as well as many other services. we hope to have that up very soon and we'll put that in convenient locations for all those who have been evacuated. and i'll turn it over to supervisor hopkins. >> i am honored to serve with stellar representatives coming together. we have local, state and federal agencies, elected officials and staff working together around the clock to protect lives and properties. with that said, when you're facing a disaster of this magnitude that is unprecedented, we will need all the help that we can get.

so i'll asking you to open your hearts and your homes and most importantly, your wallets. we have set up an agreement with the credit union. i would encourage to you give until it hurts. there are a lot of people hurting right now. if you are lucky enough to have a home, please consider donating to those less fortunate. >> thank you to everybody who is working so closely hand in hand to mitigate this situation. we have a large contingent of agencies and government organizations. instead of doing the two-step shuffle, if you have a specific question for a specific individual which you may, or you have a deadline to meet, please go ahead and do that. i want to end with all specific information. this can be found online.online.

that information is kept up to date. that concludes this press briefing. thank you very much. >> there you go. from the sonoma county fair grounds. a number of fire officials, cal fire, holding a news briefing to update the media on where we stand at this moment. we're going to cut away now with continuing fire coverage with world news tonight and david muir. >> if we have the time i want to mention one more thing. with 350 people accounted for, 380, they're emphasizing. if you are okay, please register yourself on the american red cross safe and well.org site. that way you're checked off. >> with cell service down, it is so difficult for people to community and that would be a huge help. >> and 285 now missing. so more people have been accounted for. that will do it for us now.

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