. major breaking news this morning. an overwhelmingly destructive wildfire has ripped through the community of middletown. you're taking a look at video from overnight. homes, buildings, cars, trees, all going up in flames. this fire broke out yesterday afternoon and quickly spread. hundreds of people have been ordered to leave the area, and at first light we're going to find out how bad the damage there is. thanks for joining us. i wan to give you the latest information on this out of control wilefire. the so-called valley fire has burned 40,000 acres in less than 24 hours. it is zero percent contained

this morning as it relentlessly destroys everything in its path. evacuations have been ordered in parts of lake and napa counties. four firefighters were hurt fighting the flames. they were air lifted to a sacramento hospital. all are expected to survive. now let's show you where this is happening. the fire is burning in and around the town of middletown. it's about 20 miles south of clear lake. joining us on the phone this morning is emily smith with cal fire. good morning. what is the latest that you can bring us on how much acreage this fire has burned? >> good morning. the latest is 40,000 acres at zero percent contained. it's a very dynamic fire that's burning with lot of intensity. >> we have been reporting on fires for many, many years now and i can't remember a fire that has moved this fast this quickly in a matter of hours it's gone to some 40,000 acres. >> correct. it's very extreme fire behavior

that resources and firefighters have seen from the air and ground. >> tell us about the situation in middletown. what can you tell us about that community? >> the community of middletown was evacuated last night over the evening hours. we closed down highway 29 from tubs lane all the way to highway 29 and 53 in lower lake. we have resources in the area and with first light we're going to start getting the numbers for accountability on structures as well as lives. >> any idea on the number of people evacuated from middletown? >> i don't have a concrete number for you. i do know there's roughly 5,000 people without power. >> the video that we are looking at is so destructive and this fire spread so quickly through that community, i know you haven't had a chance to assess it, but looking at this

footage, it tells you how powerful this fire is. >> the valley incident was very powerful. it burned with a lot of intensity. we had weather conditions that dictated the fire behavior as well as very dry vegetation. our fire fight from air and ground focus yesterday was on life safety and getting people out of the area. >> what can you tell us about the evacuation centers that have been set up? >> we have two evacuation centers set up. one in napa county at the napa county fair grounds, and the second one is in the presbyterian church in kellseyville. >> and are they filled? >> we do know there are a large number the the kellseyville area. we are working with red cross to possibly open up additional evacuation centers. >> can you tell us anything on the condition of the four firefighters who were hurt. >> the four firefighters that

were injured on initial attack yesterday are in stable condition. >> that is emily smith from cal fearful thanks for your latest information. i wan to give you the latest from the fire line. avery harper is in lake county. >>reporter: good morning. i am at the napa county fair grounds at one of the evacuation centers where people would have been -- who have been evacuated are here. i am joined by sandy timmons who is running the evacuation center. can you tell me what kind of services you're providing for the people who have come out of here out of complete need? >> we've tried to set up a safe and secure place where they can begin to rest and recover from this ordeal. it's quite traumatic for all of them. we have cots, blankets, supplies. the community has been very generous to bring in extra supplies that we're allowed to accept such as water and that type of thing. we have partners that are going to come in today to help with

the animals. we have quite a few dogs, cats, chickens, quite a few things in here as well as large animals. the people in the shelter seem to be doing okay this morning. we've got breck coming from the -- breakfast from the school district, which is wonderful, and most of our supplies are fine. >>reporter: and can you tell me how many people are here and about what time they started streaming in last night? >> well, i got here about quarter to 8:00, something like that, and we already had 25 people at that time. they streamed in all night long. we were setting up cots and as far as the total number, i don't have an exact figure but i'm guessing around 200 right now, but we'll take a good count this morning when we do breakfast. >>reporter: and how many people can you accommodate? i know a lot of people have been sleeping with their cars, people with pets have been

outside. how many people can you accommodate here? >> we're opening another building. i haven't measured the building but it's twice as large as what we've got here, so i would say probably at least another 200. now, the people that slept in their cars did not because they have their pets. we allowed them to take a caught and we took blankets out to them, food for dogs was donated, water. we had an animal service come by. we've had a veterinarian come by and check some of the animals, and everybody seems to be secure right now. it was hectic last night but now we're getting into a routine. >>reporter: and i know people have been speaking about losing -- they believe they've lost everything in this fire. are there any sort of counseling services or any sort of psychological help available for these people? >> yes. we have mental health coming today. we have health service on the

premises right now and more coming today. and then at some point we will have what we call client case workers who work with the clients who have lost all of their belongings and they will provide what services we can give them and/or referrals. >>reporter: if people want to help, how can they help. >> the best help you can do is to donate money to the red cross and you can make it in the name of the valley fire if you want to, but it's best if you just put it to the disaster service fund. >>reporter: thank you so much. and we will be here all morning. we will be talking to some people. i know there are some middletown residents who are here who fear that they've lost everything, so we'll be here to bring you their stories coming up soon. >> thank you. that's avery harper reporting live from the red cross rescue center, the evacuation center. the major concern of course

is the weather. yesterday dry conditions, possibly the fire was caused by a lightning strike. a lot of wind there. what are we looking at today? >> exactly what you described there, and at least two of those elements have been taken out of it, at least this morning because what you see here on radar. you see rain. a lot of that is happening. maybe it's not striking the ground but it's moisturing up the atmosphere. it may be a problem with firefighters with fog to contend with. i was looking at some of the conditions that were knocking out of knoxville creek in that general area, and about 24 hours ago it was much dryer, then the winds kicked up, gusts in the 30 to 40 miles per hour range. those conditions have subsided now. here is a look just kind of in motion of that same kind of sub tropical moisture we talked about yesterday that did come across the bay area. it's all the overcast we had to contend with. that weather is to the north

and it's holding together there. current conditions from that knoxville station, temperatures at 62, humidity at 35%. that's low but it is better than it was, and our winds have subsided a little bit. the forecast today calls for slight shower possible, partly cloudy, that's okay at 79. smoke, mostly cloudy tonights at 56, but tomorrow may see a slight chance of a thunder shower and that's not so good. well, we first told you about the valley fire through a mobile push alert and you can stay up to date with the latest with the kron 4 mobile news app. it's free. and keep it here on kron 4 weekend. as we continue to follow the breaking news. coming up after the break, we have new pictures to show you coming boo the kron 4 newsroom. we'll be right back.

. we continue to follow breaking news out of lake county as the valley fire continues to rage out of control this morning. you're taking a look at video from last night, and just look at that horrific scene as houses, cars, trees, all bursting into flames. that fire has burned 40,000 acres and it just started yesterday afternoon. hundreds of people in the area have been evacuated. we don't know the extents of the damage, but as you can see in this video, several homes have been destroyed. most of the damage taking place in the community of middletown about 20 miles south of clear lake and parts of highway 29 are closed this morning. we continue to follow this story all morning long. we'll have an update for you live from the scene coming up in about 15 minutes. we're also continuing to get photos of the valley fire from kron 4 viewers. you can see that hillside on fire. and again firefighters have no containment on this blaze this morning, and after the break we're going to have the latest

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. we continue to follow breaking news. a devastating wildfire burning in lake county this morning. overnight that fire spread to 40,000 acres. it just started yesterday afternoon. unknown number of homes destroyed. we don't know the extent of the damage. we'll find out later this morning at first light. we've also just learned that 9,000 people are without power in that area this morning, according to pg and e. mandatory evacuations are in place for bottle rock road, high valley road, highway 175 in cob and highway 29 at tubs lane, all the way to highway 53

in lower lake. also the communities of cobb, segler. people don't know what to expect when they return home. we'll continue to keep you updated on the latest information on the road closures, the evacuations. take a look at this new photo. look at that smoke. this was taken on saturday evening, a huge plume of smoke. it almost doesn't look real. a resident said it looked like a scene from a disaster movie, and right now its a major disaster in middletown. all of them evacuated and wondering what they're going to go back to when they go home.

many centers are hope this morning. those centers set up at the kellseyville presbyterian church and the fair grounds and another evacuation center will open up at kelseyville high school in about 45 minutes. again, i want to give you a rundown on the roads that are closed this morning because of the fire. highway 29 at bottle rock and red hills road are closed, as well as highway 175 in kelseyville and highway 29 also closed. so you can get a sense of the major devastation going on. we'll continue to keep you updated on that. of course our focus is on the weather. >> and they are getting some help with that. when we were talking to you about this time yesterday, the conditions were dew points were in the teens, now they're in the 40s, and obviously with

precipitation happening, it is moistening up the atmosphere. let's put the radar up there for realtime coverage. you see a mass of rain happening. it's maybe not a lot of help but there's a general idea of what we're dealing with now. the only other issue is during the day we might start to get the winds kicking up because that was what we had yesterday afternoon. we had the dry conditions couple with the fact of getting the winds. so those are the conditions we're dealing with now. a little moist at the surface. it's fairly quiet in the wake of everything, because what you see there is what we had generally speaking over the bay overnight or late last night. that's moved up to them. and checking livermore real quick, there was a cell that was covering up more of the town earlier. it's kind of falling apart, but at least earlier there were a

couple little sprinkles in parts of the east bay. temperatures now are holding mostly in the 60s as you can see. the shield of cloud cover like this not that much of a surprise. 50s along the peninsula, mid 60s up to the north bay. let's go with the future cast to see what goes on here. the forecast is calling for clearing this afternoon. it appears to take it a while and won't be complete for everybody, so we'll keep some cloud cover in there this afternoon, probably not quite the shield of clouds, just did not wan to give up yesterday. we'll probably look for more sun. it might be a bummer for the beach as you saw the clouds hang around the beach locations longer. future cast, remember, with all the protection of the clouds, our numbers don't move as much, but in the sacramento valley they're going to pop, and up towards the north, nots as much movement, but at least the precipitation that's happening is keeping temperatures down. going to tonight, much better coverage, we're cooling off a

little bit because we're getting a clear patch before a new system comes in here which may bring a couple sprinkles to the greater bay area. alameda at 72. berkley at 71. further east the numbers pop. it's upper 80s territory in some locations. brentwood at 86. seven-day forecast, look at how numbers sway. not only are they substantially cooler but maybe sprinkles thrown in here for monday and maybe perhaps into thursday as successive systems. we'll have 70s around the bay area itself and for the coast, maybe down to a cool mid 60s. >> thank you. still ahead, much more on the breaking news out of lake county where firefighters continue to try to contain this blaze that has burned at least 40,000 acres. after the break we'll hear from a man as he watched the community of middletown go up

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♪ . we continue to follow breaking news this sunday morning, a wildfire torching nearly 40,000 acres in lake county. the majority of the damage coming to the community of middletown. that's about 20 miles south of clear lake, a community of about 1300 people. the fire is burning close to where the rocky fire torched almost 70,000 acres and destroyed 100 buildings, including 43 homes earlier this summer. we don't know how much damage the valley fire has done this morning, but coming up in about five minutes we'll get an update from the fire from avery harper who is reporting live. she'll have a live update coming up in a bit. new pictures continue to come into the kron 4 newsroom. these photos show the smoke

rising outs of lake county. if you have a picture or if you're in a place where you can safely take pictures, we'd love to see them. we'll continue to keep you updated by rolling along the bottom of the screen the latest information on road closures, evacuations as well as the location of evacuation centers. now we wan to show you the fire from above. take a look at this video. it shows you how quickly that blaze spread. this is from saturday night. you can see the flames burning near a building, and then a short time later that building is fullly engulfed. that scene is played out over and over again as this fire continues to rage out of control. in fact we spoke to a man who watched the city of middletown go up in smoke. >> within -- the fire has been burning like 7, 8 hours and it's burned so many acres all the way down -- it's taken so many people's homes. i've never seen anything like

this. it's like a disaster movie. >> except it's all too real. still ahead, we have much more breaking news out of lake county where firefighters continue to work very hard to contain that blaze that has now burned at least 40,000 acres. after the break, we're going to talk to someone from the red cross to get an update on the evacuation process. we'll be right back. it's intelligent enough to warn of danger from virtually anywhere. it's been smashed, dropped and driven. it's perceptive enough to detect other vehicles on the road. it's been shaken, rattled and pummeled.

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on this out-of-control wildfire. it's called the valley fire. it's burned 40,000 acres in less than 24 hours. right now it is zero percent contained. evacuations have been ordered in parts of lake and napa counties. four firefighters have been injured. they're all expected to survive. joining us this morning on the phone is kathleen mcclay with the red cross. another evacuation center is scheduled to open at 9:00? >> that's right. we are expecting to open at the kellseyville high school and that's in kellseyville. >> about how many people have been evacuated? >> well, i can't speak to the number of people evacuated. i can tell you lat last night by -- that last night by midnight we had registered about 200 people at the shelter

at the fair grounds, and at the presbyterian church in kellseyville, there are about 181 people registered. >> so right now close to 400 people are taking use of the red cross services that you're providing. are you hearing any stories about what the evacuees are telling you? >> you know, i haven't been up there myself but i'm just watching the news and hearing the really scary accounts of people, but i can't speak to that. >> can you tell us some of the services being provided by the red cross to the the evacuees? >> shelter and food, helping them with basic necessitates, if they had to leave their home without sufficient clothing for the day, we'll work with them on that and if they need to

replace prescription medication and that kind of thing, we'll get them in gear with that, and also working closely with county services as well. >> just looking at the video just how quickly this fire spread lieu the community of middletown, it just gives you a sense that these people were running for their lives. they didn't have a chance to grab much. >> absolutely, and that's one of the things we're trying to help them with. >> and you do a good job as always. thank you for join us this morning. i wan to show you now exactly where this fire is happening. it's burning in and around the community of middletown. we mentioned that's a community of about 1300 people about 20 miles south of clear lake. i wan to give you the latest from the evacuation centers, and avery harper is at the napa county fair grounds this morning, one of the evacuation centers. >>reporter: i am here at the fair grounds. at least 200 people have come

after being told they had to evacuate, had to leave their homes. i'm here with one of those people who says that he left his home. you just moved there about a year and a half ago. tell me what happened yesterday. what did you see yesterday afternoon before you evacuated? >> you know, time was just kind of lapsed. i got a phone call. i had no clue about a fire or anything, so i looked outside, hung up the phone and started packing up what i could, knocked on some neighbors' doors, had everything ready to go and i just kept on piling stuff on and when it got so bad that i just had to pretty much move towards middletown and my mother-in-law lives in middletown, so i got there, got her packed up. my nephew was with her. it must have been 6:30, 7:00.

the fire was all around middletown. i shipped her out, stayed there until approximately 8:30 or so and the fire was right in the back yard. it jumped 175 in middletown headed towards the twin pines casino. at that time it was time to come here. >>reporter: and so when you were driving, did you see, were there flames on the road, were there flames where you lived? >> when i left, i thought i was safe until i left, and as i'm coming down to middletown, approximately one mile out of the community of cobb, the fire was on the north side of the road, structures fires flames next to the road there, very scary. very scary. i had no clue that it would come as far as middletown.

it was less than an hour and a half it was 7 miles into the town of middletown. >>reporter: and what did it sound like? you spoke about hearing the flames and hearing things coming. >> when you hear that, you know there are propane tanks, you know it's houses going up. from middletown you could see just plumes of smoke of structure fires. i mean it was pretty much never been in a war and i never want to be in something like that again. it was horrendous. it was just terrible. >>reporter: and do you know anything about your home? >> it's all speculation. i mean i was on top of the mountain. it started, would be west of me and it came around the back side, jumped 175 over in hoburg, which is on the other

side of cobb, it wrapped around the community of cobb, and there were no firefighters. the firefighters jumped on the fire as soon as it happened, and it was the sheriff and cdf telling us to get out now, and it's just .... >>reporter: and what does it mean there's an evacuation center that you can come to? >> i'm one of the lucky ones. i have a boat that i can sleep underneath a deck. there are people on cots outside. it rained at 4:30 this morning. the people were outside in the elements. it's not cold. that's one good thing. so there's lots of people here. i've ran into lots of my neighbors. unfortunately some of them have firefighters as family and

their homes are completely gone, you know, and i won't know what i've got until i get back up there. we'll just keep our fingers crossed and pray that it's all good. >>reporter: we're keeping our fingers crossed for you. an emotional account of what's going on during the after math of this fire. we'll be here all morning. back to you marty. >> that's avery harper reporting in an interview with mike, and our hearts go out to him. he mentioned that it rained overnight at 4:30 this morning. that is going to be a big help. >> a little bit. i don't see a whole lot going on. i would be a little concerned too about the winds, if they start to pick up a little bit. here's what we do have. you can see it on the radar.

there's rain happening and that does help moisen up the atmosphere. that's a good thing. it's the same type of system that moved through the bay area from yesterday. here's what it looks like on storm tracker 4. as you'll notice again, spots of moderate showers, but amounts pretty modest. last number we have, the temperature kind of popped at 80. what is good news is dew point values at 47. that's the absolute measurement of moisture in the air. that number gets higher, that's good. winds picked up gusting at 21. not so good. temperatures you can see in the far east bay in the 60s. here's a break down for you in your planning forecast. we're at 57 at the coast, 67 inland. by noon trying to see clearing. 66 at the beaches, 83 inland,

80 by the late afternoon, but the beaches kind of cool today at about 68. marty. >> thank you. i wan to remind you to keep it here on kron 4 news weekend to follow the major breaking news, this fire in lake county. and coming up, we'll find out how governor brown is responding to the valley fire and help that's on the way.

. and we continue to follow breaking news out of lake county as the valley fire rages out of control this morning. you're looking at video from last night, and just look at those horrific scenes as house, cars, trees all bursting into flames. that fire has burned 40,000 acres since it started yesterday. most of the damage is in middletown, about 20 miles south of clear lake, a community of about 1300 people. parts of highway 29 are closed

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road, highway 175 in cobb and highway 29 at tubbs lane all the way to highway 53 in lower lake. evacuations also in place on bu the, ts canyon road to the napa county line. which includes middletown and hid envalley lakes. people who have been evacuated don't know what to expect when they return home later on today, and we'll continue to keep you updated by rolling along the bottom of the screen the latest information on the road closures, the evacuations and the location of the evacuation centers. many of those evacuation centers are open this morning. at kellseyville church and the gary grounds, also the lake county office of emergency services announcing that another center will be opening in just a few minutes at the kellseyville high school. everyone from the church will be moved to the high school.

here are the roads that are closed this morning because of fire. highway 29 at bottle rock and red hills road are closed, as well as highway 175. that's in kellseyville. highway 53 in lower lake, all the way to highway 29 also closed. we continue to get new photos into the kron 4 newsroom. this was taken from hidden veil ee lake. i want to remind you that avery harper is live at an evacuation center this morning and we'll have a live update from her in about ten minutes at the top of the hour. we've been talking all morning long about the weather and the impact it may play on the fire and how it may spread. give us an update on that. >> what we're looking at is a couple splotches that's appearing on radar. it's not guaranteeing that it's striking the ground but we'll take it. it will moisten up the atmosphere, so that's good

news. however, what we had yesterday, problematic was it was much dryer yesterday and we had heavier winds. the gusts got up to 40 miles per hour in some spots, so if we get the winds, that's the only thing that's may be problematic in today's forecast. splotches like this will continue to become more and more rare as we go through the day. we're going to stay cloudy today and tonight. temperatures not going to do too much, but the only thing to worry about are winds. right now we're dealing with 80 degrees, dew point at 47. our dew points were actually a couple degrees lower, so we moisten up the atmosphere from last hour. there's our wind gusts at about 21 at last check. we'll follow the conditions all morning. slight chance of shower in our forecast today. partly cloudy. 79. then tonight smoke, mostly cloudy conditions, but tomorrow a slight chance of a thunder shower before things open up

and that's dry lightning we've got to watch out for. to the east bay we're in the 60s. in the peninsula in the 50s. let's go to the future cast to see the clearing situation. this afternoon to the bay area having trouble along the beaches. sorry about that. it's going to be hard to get your rays. there will be some breaks in some of the clouds, even tonight. future cast for the temperatures, we get the daytime heating and kind of slow going for the bay because of the cloud cover. then we go to this evening. greens come back a little better coverage as we go forward. then we'll take a look at these temperatures for the peninsula for you. 60s. that's due partially because of the fact that clouds are going to hover along the coastal areas. ocean beach at 65. meanwhile, the bay shoreline in

the 70s. redwood city may pop off at 82. we're watching two disturbances for tuesday. we'll be back for more coverage of the valley fire after the break.

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. we are following breaking news out of lake county as the valley fire continues to rage out of control this morning. you're taking a look at just the horrific footage from last night in this community of middletown. houses, cars, trees, all of them bursting into flames. the fire has burned as of now 40,000 acres. hundreds of people have been evacuated, and as of now officials don't know the extent of the damage but you can see in that video that several homes have been destroyed. most of the damage we mentioned confined to the community of middletown, a community of about 1300 people 20 miles south of clear lake. parts of highway 29 are closed this morning and will continue to follow this story all morning long.

avery harper is at an evacuation center and we'll have a live report coming from her in less than five minutes. i wan to remind you that you can stay up to date with the kron 4 mobile app. it's free to download. here's a photo from the fire yesterday. you can see that huge plume of smoke. if you have any pictures that you can take safely of the fire, we would love to see them. you can e-mail them to us at breaking news @kron 4.com. we'll be back with more coverage from lake county.

all of them are expected to survive. now let's show you exactly where this fire is burning. in and around the community of middletown. that's about 20-miles south of clear lake. it's a community of 1300 people but a lot of other people live in the immediate surrounding area. 'em emily, what's the latest on the fire? >> 40 acres. 0% contained. >> it's astonishing how quickly it's burned in a short amount of time. >> correct. yesterday the fire -- very dynamic. we have dry fuel as well as

extreme weather conditions yesterday. that increased the fire behavior. >> have any of the fire investigate force had a chance to go into a community such as middleton to see the extent of the dang yet this morning? >> we have people in place that will with doing damage assessment. >> but not as of yet. >> not as of yet. we're currently working on it. yesterday's events were to protect life safety and get people evacuated. we can focus on getting those numbers. >> how has the weather helped firefighters so far this morning? >> last night we did receive rain in the area of the incident. it helped a little bit but it definitely is -- we're not out of the woods. the weather conditions today are supposed to be warm and dry. >> tell us about the plan of attack for firefighters trying to start to contain this blaze.

>> today's plan is we'll have air yell resources as well as ground resources that are at scene and continue to respond to the incident. we're going to focus on putting in containment lines and the forward progress of the fire. are you calling for aid from other areas? >> we have over a thousand firefighters that are working on the incident, and we are calling for resources all throughout california. >> wobbles that governor brown has also pledged help from the state and there's also federal help as well. >> correct. we will be receiving aid from both of those resources and departments. >> how soon do you expect that? >> probably within the hour. things -- resources were ordered over the -- the next few hours. >> all right. thanks a lot for joining us this morning. to the give you the latest on

the evacuations. kron 4 is at the fairgrounds. one of the evacuation centers. avery? >> reporter: yeah. i'm here. they're just beginning to serve people breakfast. at least 200 people here have evacuated to come here for shelter and food and the basic necessities. i'm here with one of those people now. steph says you didn't know there was an evacuation yesterday. >> yeah. i live -- with my parents and nobody came to the door. there was no phone calls. i was sleeping and my cousin kelly kept calling and calling and calling and i got out of the bed so answer the phone. so i got up, i looked at the number. it was my cousin kelly. i walked outside and i seen one of the red cross airplanes and

so something wasn't right. just smoke started coming. the wind was real, real bad, and i tried calling my parents and they didn't answer. so i was sitting there not knowing what to do. and so what i did was i walked outside and i went down the street and a guy was hooking up his boat. i said how close is this fire? he says it's very, very close. we need to get out of here. i ran back to my parent's house. i got my dogs ready. i was like what can i take? >> how much were you able to take out? >> zero. it was way to close. way to too close. it started getting really dark. started to get frantic. i went and grabbed my dogs, put them in my car and took off. >> and how are you -- your passionates are here. how are they doing?

>> >> not good at all. what you see is what we have. i mean, we absolutely lost everything. i mean, everything. i mean, i'm very grateful that i woke up. otherwise i would have been stuck up there with nobody coming to my door or anything like that whatsoever. >> and what's it like to be here? explain to our viewers what it's like to be in this community of people who've also -- might have lost a lot of their possessions too. >> it's hard. you know, it's -- we're kind of all in the same boat. it's sad because i mean, they lost hair houses, we lost ours. you know, it's -- very uncomfortable. very sad. kind of depressing as well. >> all right. well thank you so much, steve. >> thank you. >> again, another emotional account of what's going on in the aftermath of that valley fire. we will be here here this morning. there's a lot of pet at this

center and people who are gathering food for the petds and beds for the pets and so they're opening up another building for more people who are coming here. so we will be here to tell you all of those stories. back to you. >> all right. that's avery harper reporting live. your heart goes out to steve and so many other people like them. they don't know whether or not they have a house to go back to. one of the major --s is the weather. steve was talking about how hindi it was. gusts to 30 and 40 miles an hour many it was dry this time yesterday. it was stanley more dry than we have today. we're being raided by -- this is happening aloft. you hear about the laker shorts but the clouds that are going on we're getting some of that -- we get a hbt more moisting happening at the service. the biggest threat is going to be the winds. here's how it looks like on the

storm tracker 4. again, this blosh of precipitation happening. the radar season aloft. it can't tell you necessarily if it's sphericking the gun. but when we see something -- this tells us we're getting some moisture at the surface. sometimes though with this exchange it can drive. we're not going to get a whole lot of help from this. that's a market increase from just last hour and those winds by the way -- northerly. partly cloudy. temperatures around 80. mostly cloudy tonight. tomorrow we may have the chance -- a slight chance of a thunderstorm and then skies start to open up. marty? >> want to show you this photo from the fire from yesterday afternoon. sent to the kron 4 news room. that dark char cool colored smoke. if you have any pictures of fire that you can safely to us,

we would love to see them and put them on our arab and online. tuck e-mail them to us. we first told you an the fall violence peaked fire and you can stay up to date with the latest on kron4 mobile app. it's free and you can download it right now. we continue to follow this major break breaking news. coming up we have new pictures into the newsroom. we'll share them with you.

we continue to follow breaking news out of lake county as the valley fire continues to rage out of control. houses, cars, trees all bursting into flames theaism fire has burned 40,000 acres since it started yesterday afternoon. a very fast moving fire. hundred ever people have been evacuated. right now we don't know the full extent of the damage but as you can see in that video,

several homes have been destroyed. most of the damage right now that we know about is in the community of middletown about 20-miles south of clear lake. part of highway 29 are closed this morning. we'll continue to follow the story all morning long for you and give you the latest information. we're looking to get new pictures into the kron 4 newsroom. one of the latest. this morning, take a look at that. the flames behind it. you can see the skies covered in smoke. that fire continues to burn and coming up after the break we'll have the latest on road closures and evacuations in the area. [female announcer] through sunday, during sleep train's mattress price wars,

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extent of the damage until later it morning. we have just learned that 9,000 perming in the area are without power this morning. that's according to pg & e. valley high road. highway 175 in cobb and highway 29 at tub lane. all the way to highway 53 in lower lake. evacuations also in place on canyon road to the knapp that county liven and this includes -- the communities of cobb, middletown and hidden valley lakes. people who have been evacuated don't know what to expect when they return home. and we will continue to keep you up to date by rolling along the bottom of the screen the latest information for you on road closures, evacuations as well as location of evacuations center. take a look at this new photo this morning.

you can see this was taken from someone's tech in hidden valley on saturday and you can see the huge plume of smoke though. it almost doesn't real. it looks like a scene from a disaster movie. it's a major real disaster in the lake county community of middletown. evacuation sisters are open this morning. kelseyville church and fairgrounds -- an evacuation center now open as well. we're told that people from the church will be moved to the high school evenly. all told some 400 people evacuated at last county. here are the roads that are closed because of the valley fire. highway 9 at bottle rock. as well as highway 175 in kelseyville. highway 53 in lower lake all the way to highway 2. also closed this morning. so you can see it's having a

major impact on the roads. if you have business in that area, you might want to stay away. let firefighters do their job. turning now to the weather. we've been talking about the fact that it was great to see some green on the screen for the firefighters there. may or not may be a big help. >> too little too late. at least it's making conditions a little bit better. but just looking over the weather conditions that have transpired over the last 24 hours or so, this is a little better than what we had. wind picking up there. at least now we don't have that. we have rain happening. moisting up the atmosphere and thrfs reports tell us they got some sprinkles. here's the last shot. storm tracker 4. some rain happening at least aloft in this many pray. more details now l the current conditions at last check. a reporting station. we have 80. a dew point of 47.

to give you a contrast dew point is absolute measurement. it's a constant. that was in the teens. so this is much more moist air. wind gusts at the 2 #. that's not good. we did have 31 yesterday. slight shower still in the forecast but turning partly cloudy. a high where they are now. coupled with tomorrow unfortunately. there is that chance of a slight thunderstorm and that's not good. there mieg be some dry lightning. >> checking the greater bay area. >> which we're showing you on radar moved through the bay area but those wind and also to the -- futurecast 4 shows some gate -- than we saw yesterday. however it continues to-over along the beaches and the temperatures reflect that. not a good day to catch the

race and numbers will billion much reduced. the futurecast 4 with those numbers. the green is almost taken off but right at the coast they're going to hang on. warming up in the sacramento valley. then we go forward to tonight. here come the cooler 60s. and much of the peninsula and even the east bay shoreline just a little bit. checking out what the temperatures are for highs. assuming that -- presuming we'll get to the mid-and you upper 80s. the peninsula popping at 72. san francisco and daily city at 69. a little closer inspection to the south bay. you're in store for some -- moore tban hill at 88. tbl a little post-it-note for a power on monday and another one as thursday. temperatures stay in the 80s. the coast in the 60s. marty. >> want to give you some

perspective has to how the scene was in middletown. jackie was our first reporter at the scene. listen to his reaction on kron4 news. >> two dozen homes on fire as i speak. i've been in this business for 27 years but i've never seen a fire storm qietd like this. such a huge part of a community. >> so we cannot overemphasize the destructive nature. some 40,000 acres up to this point. still ahead for you. we'll have much more on the breaking news. firefighters continuing to try to contain or begin to contain this blaze. after break we're going to hear from a man as we watched the community of middletown go up in smoke.

a mnl of the damage happening in middletown. that's about 20-miles south of clear lake. the fire is burning close to where the rocky fire torched almost 70 aches and destroyed almost 100 buildings including 43 homes earlier this summer. we don't know how bad the damage is caused by the valley fire. coming up in about 5 minutes we're going to have an update from one of the evacuation centers from avery harper in a live report. new pictures continue to come in to the newsroom. a lot of fewviewers sharing their photos with us. this is from archer. the clouds here completely filled with smoke. if you have any photos or you're in a place where you can safely take pictures, we would love to see them. you can e-mail them to us at breaking news at kron4.com. we have a slide show from photos from our view tharys you can check out and just get a

sense of huh just how big the fire is. we'll continue to keep you up to date by rolling across the bottom the latest information i on road closures, evacuations and location of evacuation centers. the fire from above and how quickly its. this is from -- you can see the flames burning near a building. a short time later that behelding is fully engulfed in fire. it's played out over and over again t. continues to range out of control in fact we spoke to a man who watched the city of middletown go up in smoke. >> on top of the mountains this morning. and within -- the fire has been burning like #, 8 hours and it's burned so many acres all the way. it's taking so many people homes. it's like a stars maw violence peaked. >> unfortunate it's not a movie. this is real. as we mentioned four firefighters were hurt battling

this wild fire. last night on kron 4 new we got an update on their condition. >> four of the firefighters did suffer second-degree burns. they were all -- air lifted out of fire and transported to the uc davis. we continue to send good thoughts toward them. >> still ahead on kron4 news. working to contain that blaze that's burned 40,000 acres. avery harper has a life report coming up and talking to some of the red cross vrts how things are going add the evacuation center. we'll be right back. drive experience. piog four l

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ripped through the town of middletown. you're taking a look at video overnightful all going up in flames. a horrific scene last night. it is spread very quickly. hundreds of people have been ordered to leave the area and at this point we just don't flow how bad the damage is. the full extent of the damage. thanks for joining us on kron 4 news weekends. the latest information on the out of control wild fire. it has burned some 40,000 acres. it is zero% contained this morning and it's not often that you hear zero containment. evacuations have been ordered in parts of blake and knapp that counties. four firefighters with were hurt last night. they were air lifted and all of them are expected to survive. join us this morning as clayton by phone -- when we talked it last -- a brand new evacuation

center. that has now opened; right? >> exactly. transitioning through the open overnight at the pres -- in addition toes high school shelterers that's open we also have a shelter available to folks over at the fairground. >> so there's shelters open. is that correct? >> moving over to the high school. >> okay. >> they're separating it at two. one of a at the high school and one at the fairgrounds >> . you estimated there was around 400 evacuatees. >> those are the numbers from overnight. it's not something we keep continue tally off.

we take account at different points during date. so, you know, it's hard to know as this fire changes and develops how many people were l be able to provide shelter for. how many people will actually need it. >> excue me. we have been hearing from some of the -- some of theme leaving literally with the clothe the on their backs. >> exactly. i've seen some of the same acts and one of the things that the red cross is able to do is help with those basic necessity. if they're forced to run out of their homes maybe no shoes on their feet. you know, we help them get back -- those kind of supplies. medical, precipitations things like that. that are just potential to daily live life. >> exactly and you do such a terrific job time after time. some of the other services

provided by the red cross. i understand that meals are poifded. down -- for people who are understandably distraught. >> absolutely. you know, we -- part of a team and like you say, these kinds of events can be incredibly traumatic. so we're there to help in that regard as well. and we've heard them help get help through county services as well. >> okay. kathleen, thank you so much for spending some time with us. thank you again for red -- middle town. that's about 20-miles south of clear lake. but again keep in mind there are people in a live in the

surrounding areas. while the population is only 1300 there are many more people impacted by the fire. want to give you the latest now on evacuations. kron 4 is reporting live at the napa county fairgrounds. avery? >> reporter: yeah. here's there's at least 200 people who evacuated and came here for sheller, food, water the basic necessities. there is a lot of people l working to make it all work these people and i'm standing with one of those. you've been here since last night. why was it so important to help these people out? >> as a human being it's pomato let us. >> to support and do. for anything, you know. >> you the fire and an evacuation center there. you rushed out of the house. you live just around the corner.

>> five minutes from hear. just came here. with the people, what they need, you know. to try to do. something, you know? >> reporter: what kind of things have been you been doing. >> yes just -- asking people to bring some pillows and blankets and -- this morning we put beds too. beds and try to feed them too. we have food there and trying to feed the kids you know. >> tell me what it's like to hear the stories. some of them have lost everything. what do you say to them to try to comfort them. >> people were crying and telling them i love my house. the only i think i can to pry and try to help what a pig pile of the festival.

only a driver can do. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. yeah. again, you know, we're hearing from, you know, emotionally people here who have lost everything or they're confused. a lot of people that don't know if they lost everything. there's reurms about certain neighbor than person burned down so people are con freezed. a lot of people are else emotionally about whether they losted all that theaf. back to you. >> all right. reporting live from the fairgrounds. one of the evacuation centers and one of the worst thing that's going on for the people there, i would imagine, is just not knowing. they are fearing the host, hoping for the best but they won't know until later tonight when they're allowed back in the area. >> things can be replaced but photo albums, thing loosic that. even grab some of those. can you grab those items? >> a matter of seconds >> we're watching the weather what's going on.

we do sea rain what's happening. that's warming up the store and all of that. we have seep dew point numbers climb. that's goods. it was stanley drier. we were worried about the return of some wind. we did some of those gusty winds at 20 to 30 miles an hour from yesterday. any time you get kind of contrast like this in weather, anything happening upstairs here's the latest on storm tracker 4. you get the journal idea. just a little swath of some light rain showers happening upstairs. right now warmed up to 83. we have a dew point at 46. that's 1 degree down. north winds at 7. gusting add 14. the winds are behaving themselves. hopefully that will continue throughout the morning hours. the forecast slight chance of a shower. parly cloudy. smoke and -- there's a chance by tomorrow that we might have

a -- their dry lightning. >>en to show you a pick from the. just an ominous scene there. for frightful. if you have any photos that you can take, safely, of the fire, we would love to see them. you can e-mail them to us as breakingnews@kron 4-rbgs.com. shows you just the impact of this devastating fire. keep it right here. we continue to find the breaking news. how governor brown is responding to the valley fire and help that's on the way. ♪

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county as the valley fire continues to rage out of control. take a look at this video from last night. all bursting into flames in the path of this fire. that's now worned some 40,000 acres. hundreds of people have been evacuated. we don't know the full tension but as you can see homes have been destroyed. most of the damage right now that we know about is in community of did middletown. that's about 20-miles south of clear lake. we continue to follow the story for you and give you live updates throughout the morning. >> new this morning, the governor's office says it is ready to help with the fire fight. we've learned that the officer of emergency as far ass has secured a grant from fema to help pay for the firefighterring events. they can con right after the break.

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sunday morning. this devastating wild fire that's burning out of control in lake county this morning. overnight the fire spread to 40,000 acres. it just started yesterday afternoon. an unknown number of homes have been destroyed and we won't know the full exit tent of the damage. let listen to one man and what he had to say as he watched parts of the community of mildtown burn down. >> this is my part parent's business. it's just inventory. some people lost their houses that --ics we're just lucky it's not our home. >> and we continue to get new pictures. a picture from clear lake earlier this morning. and there it is. you can just see how the smoke is obscured everything. believe it or not there's water there. that's the lake. that's clear lake and you can barely see the dock let alone the water. avery harper is reporting live

now from an evacuation center. we'll have an update there just a few minutes. in the meantime an update on weather and how it's affecting the fire in that region. we see a lot of green which is some good news. >> at least rain happening aloft. it hits the surface or gets down to the surface and mixes with the rain more moisture in the air. want to watch out for that today is what the concern is. yesterday's psms not good. we did have dry conditions too. a little bit more moist at the surface. a -- that's not quite in the cards. heres how it looks like. storm tracking 4 -- it's still happening a lot. yes, that's good news. when you have that energy exchange gong on, sometimes that can drive a little bit of a local wind. this is the latest we have for you. 83 t. that's the temperature.

dew point coming in at about 46. this now being the town of middleton. the closest reporting station we have. wind out of the north gusting at 14. we did see some of those winds kicking up there at 30 maybe 40 miles an hour for those gusts. that's problematic. partly cloudy. smoke and mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, may have a slight chance of a thunderstorm look touchdown catch look out for -- moisture coming in from the south. and that's what we had in our backyard and we're left with the clouds. this is shield of rain i was showing you. it's moving into the bay area. most of it is evaporating before striking the ground. the same tape we had yesterday. it's clearing didn't do a good job of that yesterday. that kept the temperatures down. we're thinking we'll get a better chance except at the

immediate coast. for the futurecast for temperature-wise they're on cue. the warm up in the sacramento valley. the afternoon clearing. then we go to the evening hours. here come the greens. getting some better progress both peninsula and up to many areas of the north bay. most of the peninsula. 72 san francisco. we get that clearing. north bay may make it to the -- closer inspection along thest bay shoreline. oakland at 78. 77 union city but when you hop in further inland this is where the temperatures start to really bounce. mid to upper 80s to be found here. probably no 90s but one or two stais stations may pop at that. we do see today the warmest day in the bunch. two systems to look out for. got one for tuesday and thursday as a slight chance of seeing a shower. the bay -- and the beaches into

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and we are follow breaking news for you. out of lake county. as the valley fire continues to burn out of control. you're looking at video from last night and it is quite a scene to see. houses, cars trains -- trees all burning into flames. bursting into flames. it's burned 40,000 acres. some 60 square miles. hundreds have been evacuated went and don't know the full extent of the damage but as you can see in that video, several homings and other buildings have been destroyed. most of the damage right now is in the community of middletown. that's about 20-miles south of clear lake. parts of highway 29 closed this

morning. and, of course, we'll continue to follow this story all morning long. kron -- she'll have a live report in a matter of moments. now we want to show you the fire from above and how quickly this is spreading. this is from saturday evening. you can see those flames burning near a building and then a short time later that building is fully engulfed in flames. it's a scene that's plaid over over and over again as that valley fire continues to rage this morning. mandatory evacuations are in place. bottle rock road. high valley road. highway 175 in cobb and highway 29 at tubs lane. all the way to highway 53 in lower lake. evacuations also in place on bux can job road which includes the communities of cobb, ziegler khanon and hidden

valley lakes. people who have been evacuated they just don't know what to expect when they return home. presumably later today. we'll continue to keep you updated. by rolling along a bottom of your screen the latest information on road closures, evacuations, as well as the location of evacuation centers and we'll have that for you throughout the morning. now here are the roads that are closed this morning because of the fire. highway 29 at bottle rock and red hill road. highway 53. it's also closed because of the fire. >> evacuations centers are open this morning. they have been set up at kelseyville high school and the fairgrounds. evacuations center is now closed. it has been moved now to the high school. >> and here's a picture from the fire from yesterday afternoon. sent to kr oorks n4. you can see all of that smoke

on securing the sky. if enough pictures that you can send or take pictures we want to see them. you can e-mail them to us as breaking news. we have had dozens of photos. we have a slide show on kron4.com. you can get a -- understand how devastating it is.

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and major breaking news this morning. an overwhelmly scructive and fast moving wild fire ripping through the community of middletown. the governor of california has declared a state of emergency for lake county and that mobilizes state resources including the national guard. and you can see why in this video from overnight. homes, buildings, cars and trees all up in flames. this fire broke out just yesterday afternoon and it spread very quickly. hundred of people have been ordered to leave the area. and at first light we're just starting to find out how bad that damage is. thanks a lot for joining us. i'm marty gonzalez. want to get you the latest information on the fire that

continues to burn out of control. it's called the valley fire. it's burned 40,000 acres in less than 24 hours. that's the equivalent of 60 squares mile. it's 0% contain as it destroys everything in its path. evacuations have been ordered in parts of lake and napa counties. four firefighters were hurt fighting the blaze. they were air lifted fortunately all of them are expected to survive. want to show you exactly where this fire is burning in and around the command of middletown. it's 20 smiles south of clear lake. the community is 1300 people but have who live in and around middletown have been evacuated. a lot of folks are being affected by this fire. joining us on the phone is emily smith. tell us what impact the governor has in calling this is a state of the emergency. what does that mean for the

fire fighting effort? >> it -- not only funding but as well as additional resources. also help the county of lake. >> how so? >> by providing financial assistance and providing other amenities to the residents that were affected by this incident. >> does it include increase funding to bring in more firefighters from not only other parts of california but other parts of country? >> potentially this could assist with that. >> can you tell us a little bit more about what the plan is now to fight this fire. right now is 0% contained. >> the plans for today we have day break so we're able to see is to -- the forward progress of the incident. it's burning to the south of

cobb through the town of middletown as well as the county line. it's also burning to the north of cobb as well. so our plan is to get out in front of it and off to start we have contain m lines to up the contain. percentage. has been able to two there to assess -- to begin to assess the damage? >> we have crews in place and that's what they're working on this morning. that day break, of course, and we should have have some numbers this afternoon. our efforts yesterday were more on getting people out of area versus counting structures destroyed. we should have numbers for this afternoon. >> and have you heard any preliminary accounts of what iting loose like this morning? >> i have not. i'm away from the incident. but resources that are there, the fire was very scructive yesterday. >> emily smith. thank you for joining us this morning. want to giveout latest from the

fire line. avery harper is at -- is in -- at one of the evacuation center. she's talking to volunteers and people who are afraid of the fact that they may have lost everything in the fire. avery, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yeah. there's at least 200 people and still more people pouring in. i'm here with one person who came here last night. richard smear -- can you tell us an your evacuation yesterday? how did you find out you had to leave your home? >> i was doing crjpes. i'm a crjpe maker here and i live in -- right on the border of the lake and i got home, i had seen the smoke because we had very many fires this last couple months up there. so at my house i can see everything. and i said another fire and about 8:00 i not a knock at the door that we -- mandatory

evacuation. tried to get my cat in its cat cage and get it to safety as well with me. i start driving out of the estates and i turn around and came back. fell asleep until 2:30. got a call from my daughter said you got to get out of there. cat or not. and that's when i ended up at the shelter about 3:30 this morning. >> and what were you able to take with you? what were able to salvage. >> yeah. i really just grabbed by passport. the plans to my house. hi dad built it in and i. i don't have a fire package ready it take, which i should. i've been in my home 24 years and knowing it's a wilderness area. so basically i have my crjpe mobile and my forerunner that i toe it with. hopefully we'll with lack back

or early tomorrow. if the higher powers keep the fire away from my area all of the friend that i have. they've lost their homes and things. but as i've heard there's been no life lost. and that's what's important. my daughter's safe in santa barbara. >> do you know anything about your house? >> no, i don't. it's not reached the estates. i spoke with the -- at this point but it's out of control and the -- he was saying so fierce that they do have the road closed. interring pope valley. so it's still all up in the air. >> and can you tell me what it's like to be here? there's a sense of community here. people are reaching out to help and how has that affected you? >> last year about the same time we had a fire -- it was the -- right in pope it was

mildtown high school. so when we went there, i know quite a few people in that area. but the community comes together and it's amazing that the people that come and will bring food, clotteds, and just love. and it really brings community together. so human beings do have a good side. sometimes you wonder. >> great. well, thank you so much. we hope the best for you and your home. again. more elsely accounts coming forward from. talking to more people about their experience as they evacuate in the after math. >> and avery so -- for so many people the worst part is not knowing it. that is every -- is set up there. this morning, of course, weather, one of the big concerns would be the wind. also a little bit of moisture

that's going to help firefighters, i would think. >> heard some reports that we had some light sprinkles going on at night. there's still some happening aloft. on -- you heard him talking there about winds locally. when you're right at the fire don't forget. this kind of mask they can produce their open independent weather when you have a fire storm you have all the error rising because it's hot. air from odd area has to come in. this is what it looks like from storm tracker 4. up toward the north. that's holding together. let's get you on tap. again, local areas where the actually fire is. we'll drive the own brother but the outside area temps at 83. dew points at 46. yesterday at this time we had substantially drier air at work here. that may have aided in this production. not sure. but due dew points in the lower

teens. north at 7. gusting at 14. not driven by the fire but from the outside. partly cloudy highs of 83. smoke mostly cloudy for tonight. 56. but unfortunately before this is all said and done may have at chance of some light -- make some lightning early tomorrow morning and -- marty. >> thanks a lot. want to show you this picture that was is accept from a viewing yesterday. if you have any photos that you would it like to send of the fire you can safely take pictures. you're in an area where tbruk -- you can e-mail them to us. we also have a slide show on kro4nrk nuz.com. first told you through a mobile push alert. you can see stay with the

latest. it's freeway. don load right now. >> keep it right here as we continue to follow the breaking news and coming up after the break, we do have new photos into the news room that we can show to you. we'll have that coming up.

continuing to follow breaking news out of lake cfnt as the valley fire continues to burn out of control. this is video from last night. what a horrific scene it must have been. houses, cars, trees all of them bursting into flames. well, that fire is burned 40,000 acres since yesterday afternoon when it started. that's the equivalent of some 60 square miles. right now we don't know the full extent of the damage but as you can see in this video, several homes have been destroyed. at the very least most of the dam is in the community of middletown. that's about 20-miles south of clear lake. homes have been destroyed in the communities of cobb and

hidden valley lake. we'll continue to follow this story and have updates for you throughout the morning. we're continuing to get new pictures into the newsroom from viewers of the valley. people who are in the area of the valley fire. and this is one -- sent to us this morning. you can see that huge plume of black smoke there. that was taken on highway 101 in ukia. almost completely covered in smoke. let take you live to an overseen look from sky 7. you can see that. a lot of smoke obscuring the area. we can't really get a good look at the area. just because of all of the smoke. coming up after the break the latest on road closures and evacuations for you. all of that coming up as our coverage continues.

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a devastating wild fire continues to burn. that fire spread to 40,000 acres. right now we don't know the number of homes and other buildings destroyed. and we won't know the full extent of the damage until later today or this afternoon. we have also learned that 9,000 people have without power this morning in that area. that's according to pg & e. mandatory evacuations are in place for the following areas. bottle rock road, high valley road. highway 175 in cobb and highway 29 at tub lane am the way to highway 53 in lower lake. evacuations also in place on bux canyon road to the -- this includes -- as well as the communities of cobb, middletown and hidden valley lakes. people who have been evacuated, they just simply don't know what to expect when they return home. and that is likely to be a

horrific site for some them. you're going to keep you up to date the latest information on road closure, evacuations, as wells the location of evacuation center. take a look at another new picture sent in. oh, look at that. it was taken by alexi archer. filling the sky. look at that orange tint to the sky as well. you can also see that glimpse of the wildfire. just gives you a real goodceps of what firefighters are dealing with. evacuation centers are hope. they've been open -- and the fairgrounds. here are the roads that are closed this morning because of the valley fire. highway 175 in kelseyville. highway 53 in lower lake all the way to highway 29. also closed. want to remind if you don't have any business in that area please stay out and let the

firefighters have their roads clear l to fight this huge fire. >> we've been talking about the -- continues to have this day. fortunately some green on the screen which means some precip, sot moisture here. may not be hitting the ground. >> it may help out the firefighters a little bit. moistening up the atmosphere. we have some new numbers for you. we'll go through them in just a bit. we heard a report from some the folks there on site. they got some light showers or overnight a little bit. there's not a whole lot upstream unfortunatelily. all of this. this is the last radar shot that we have. a little rain shower to moderate shower happening as we speak and the general area. we did say some new numbers. notice a big temperature redestruction. coming out close to middletown.

dew points at 48. that doesn't necessarily mean that the reporting site thrftion a shower but somebody could have had a shower and some the air and more moist air has moved into the area. slight chance of a shower. partly cloudy in the general forecast. almost did 85. and there still is the caveat of a thundershower into tomorrow. now futurecast 4 does show the cloud cover again today. clearing out into the afternoon. we said that yesterday. didn't do it too well. around the coast though. uferltd in the beaches. lots of cloud cover hanging there. keeping temperatures reduced. there's the pop. we see in the sacramento

valley. but the bay very temperate and mild. and into tonight there's a progress of the 60s covering almost all of north bay and into the peninsula. dropping off a little bit too there too. daily city. half-moon bay at 59. and the east bay kind of a hodgepodge. closer inspection i get along the coast. along the bay shoreline 70. san bruno at 72. redwood city up to about 82. and we do have a reduction in these temperatures xaird to what we've been through already. maybe another shot of a chance of a shower tomorrow and thursday as well. not big rain makers but two new disucialses to look out for and temperatures kept down. this is a different week than what we've been through. 80s. 70s for the bay and up every 70s at the coast. >> how devastating this scene

was last night. kron -- listen to his reaction to what he was seeing on the news at 11:00. >> i've already seen at least two dozen homes on fire as i speak. i've been in this business for 27 years and i've never seen a fire storm quite like this. affected such a huge part of a community. >> that's jackie's report. gives you an idea of just how devastating that fire s. looking from sent in from a viewer. it's a video of cal fire heading. look add all of the smoke they're dealing with. some flames burning on the side of the road as well. really gives you a sense of what firefighters are dealing with last night. much more of that breaking news out of lake county where firefighters continue to dry and start to contain it blaze.

that's now burned 60 square miles after the break. hear from a man as he watched the community of middletown go up in flames.

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who knows how many other people living in the area surrounding middletown. so a lot of folks being affected by this fire. it's burning close to where rocky fire torched 72,000 aches and 43 homes earlier this summer. right know we don't know the exact amount of damage at the valley. a couple of minutes we'll get an update on the evacuations from kron4 reporting from one of the evacuation centers. new photos coming in to the

kron newsroom. this picture was taken from lake port last night. the sky almost completely filled with smoke in this photo. now if you have any pictures or you're in a place where you can safely take pictures please send them to us. breaking news -- we have a slide show of all the photos that viewers have been sending in to give you a sense of the devastation of this fire. we'll continue to keep you up to date by rolling along the bottom of your screen. the latest information that we have on road closures, evacuations and as well the location of evacuation centers. now we want to show you the fire from above and just how quickly it spread. this is saturday nefng. this is from our helicopter partnership. you can see the flames burning near a building and a short time later that building is fully engulfed. it's played out over own over again t. burn out of control. we spoke to a man who watched the community go up in smoke

last night. >> on top of the mountains this morning and 7, 8 hours. it's wurned so many acres. taken so many people. it's like a disaster moving. it's what it's like. it's not a movie. ore on the breaking news. where firefighters working to try and start to contain a blaze. that's burned some 60 square miles now. we'll be talking with jackie sissle.

we just don't have a full extent of the damage. want to get you the latest information on this fire that is burning out of control this morning. it's called valley fire. it's burned some 40,000 acres in less than 24 hours. as of this morning, it's 0% contained. evacuations have been ordered. four firefighters were hurt fighting the flames yesterday. they were air lifted to a sacramento hospital. they're all expected to survive. kron4 was our first reporter on the san yesterday. he's the one that shot all thaft dramatic video that you've been watching this morning. he's on the phone. i understand that you've been covering fires for some 27

years. you say you've never seen anything like that. >> absolutely, marty. it was an incredible scene. in the town of middletown last night. shooting for some 20-some years. but this fire was reminiscence of the fire i saw up there. dozen of hopes being burned to the ground and unfortunately firefighters were helpless. many of the firefighter hs to stand by and watch building after building after building burn to the ground. and this is right in the downtown area of middletown basically right off the main street. it was an incredible scene out there. one that i don't forget for a very long time. it all started on the way up. you can see the cloa gloa from miles away. as i went up 29 just an endless

line of calls. it was quite a scene. >> as you were heading up there, there's a lot of conversation this morning about the weather situation. we've heard from other people who have said that it was windy up there. was it windy -- >> yeah. middletown is at the top of the hill. when you getup to the top of the hill you're on a plateau. it was gusting. it was extremely strong. and that wind is exactly what fans this fire. you can see the video. the embers were everywhere. ember from one side of 29 to the other. the grass up there, the fuel, if you will, was extremely dry. it would -- just didn't have a chance. once it hit one house it would spread to the next house. i actually shot video of one house. it was just starting to kind of -- the fire was just starting to hit the front of the house literally 10 minutes later the house had burned to the ground.

there was nothing left. not even studs. >> we're watching your view and it's just surreal. it look like a movie. but television all too real. what's going through your mind last night as you're capturing these images on video? >> well, paramount is safety. you want to be safe. make sure that you're taking care of yourself and make sure if you don't see anything, you let the official know. >> as those houses went down. there was gas meets that were burn off and a -- e run rupting out. 40 to 50 feet in the air. sounded lick a jet engine. these are scary situations. i was very near a gas station and also an norms fire could reach places like that. i have to tell you, i felt real

sympathy for the firefighters up there. they wanted to do what they could. unfortunately there was no water pressure. no way to put out the fires. at one point i went down on a street. stewart and barnes. i believe. there was an apartment complex that probably had 200 units or so. and systematically one by one those apartments just went up in flames. there was sleutdly nothing the fists could do and stay biand watch this. 45 minutes later that entire imleks was gone. >> well, it's not only a frustrationings situation -- the -- and jackie through your video and you did going way up and beyond the call of duty. thank you so much. we're so happy that you're safe. reporting live on a fire that he's never seen anything like in the 27 years that he's been

in the news business. a couple of evacuation centers open right now. avery harper has been reporting live from the napa county fairgrounds. that's one of the centers. avery? >> reporter: yes. hundreds of evacuatees are here. shelter, food and water. and i'm here with somebody who's actually from middletown and he say he's sure he lost everything. can you -- tell me about what happened yesterday. >> yesterday about 2:00 i got a phone call from a friend, and he asked me to look out my back window to see if i could see a fire. i looked out and i couldn't see a fire. i could just see smoke billowing. and about 15, 20 laters i got up to check and i could see flames come up over the crisp

the of mountain and about 10 minutes later the management came around told us we might is have to evacuate. so back f pack a few things. >> and you -- your apartment was loaghted right tweeze those schools. >> right. >> it was high school and a grade school. i live one block from the high school and right across the street from the grade school. and they both went down farce i know. >> and were you able to take anything with you. whatter you able to grab. >> a pair of pants. a physical l xf of shirts and. stuff like that. >> and what does it mean that you're able to be here and talk about the community that has sort of starting to arrive in this evacuation center. >> everybody seems to be holding up pretty well. you know?

not very much we can do about it anyway. it was just a bad situation for everyone. you know, we don't know actually how bad the -- it's burned down but we know that most of it is gone. >> well, thank you so much for your time. now here there are manier more story. people who are -- they don't know if they're lost everything. we'll be here throughout the morningful we'll be talking to people here obtain whether they know thinking. >> thank you for this live report. our goes out -- sitting there with the clothes on their back and not knowing what they're going to be going going home to. >> we continue to follow this major breaking news story. this scructive fire and coming off of a the break. forced to evacuate their.

and the breaking news we continue to follow this morning. hundred of people evacuated in lake county because of that huge valley fire that's burned now more than 60 square miles on the phone we have art. he's have hidden valley. he was evacuated last night. art, give us your situation. how did you learn about the evacuation last night? >> well, we were -- we live above hidden valley lake. about a mile east and we had a perfect view of the whole fire from the start. just a little plume of smoke all the way to coming over the ridge. as it was getting closer it started coming down the corridor. a little bit away from us but it jumped the highway and started working back to hidden valley lake. so what we did was i checked and about -- i got -- got awful

our stuff together and we were ready and then i went out and checked to make sure it wasn't coming from behind us. there was a house at the end of the property. so when i saw that, i knew it was time to go and as i was getting my wife and the cats in the car, the sheriff came by and told us it was time to leaf. we left. and from then on it was hectic getting up highway 29 to clear lake. took us a while but we made it. >> i understand that there were hundreds if not thousands of cars last night trying to get out of area. >> they let us use both sides of two-lane road which was really good but we had to move over to get around on the the shoulder. they even did that and at clear lake -- lower lake i mean. they were -- they had people there directing traffic. so it wasn't just signal lights. we were able to get through there. the gas stations, everything.

people were just everywhere. the everywhere. just didn't know where to go. such a surprised fire. everybody had to get out of there in such a hurry. it was crazy. >> as you got to watch it coming up your hill and becoming more and more alarmed you're starting to grab things. were you able to get out of there with some of your belongings? >> right. well since the rocky fire the association has come out with different memos on to what to take and what to get first, you know, instead of panicking. make sure you have a list of everything you need. computers, papers, the pets. the food. everything d clothes. everything that you need right away. sometimes you'll panic and trying to take paintings when you don't have room. we just checking it off and got everything in our vehicles and we were ready you know. it was really good to have that foresight of what we should take. we had the rocky fire so close. the jerusalem fire was closer.

they've done a lot of preparation there just in case it happened again. >> art of prevention. >> that's right. we got the lake part and at a taco bell. she had her volleyball clothes on. she played in a match. and she had nothing -- they were going to santa rosa. also she had were volleyball clothes. it was really -- stories like that probably all over. >> yeah. there are. we've been listening to them. your heart goes out to them. what's your situation now? where did you stend spend the night and do you know when you're going to be allowed to gok baa to your home? >> no. during the jerusalem fire we knew to check with cal fire on their website. they would do a really good job updating. so that's what we're going to be doing but we're down in -- they're -- my sister-in-law and

mother-in-law. we stayed with them. we had to back drive like 50- miles because we had to go there -- there was no way to do it. >> you are safe this morning and the big question is -- >> we are. >> go ahead. >> we got our animals and we got each other. you know, we're just glad we got out of there. hopefully the home is still -- will still be there. now it's just a wait. >> a lot to be thankful for. thank you for telling your story. evacuated his home in a hurry yesterday from hidden valley. state right here on kron4. the fire in lake county. coming up an update for you on all of the evacuations. folks like art who had to leave in a hurry. alsos road closures in lake county. we'll have it all for you coming up. trs bod sar

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lrlt. we want to continue to get new -- continue to get new pictures. taking a look at that photo taken by alexi archer. you see that car on the highway as well. and we continue to have for your photos. if you can take them safely, please send them to us. we continue to roll across the bottom of our screen the latest information on road closure, evacuations and the location of evacuation centers. now we want to get an update on the weather forecast. especially in the fire zone because it is very important to the firefighters. >> right. and we are seeing the

atmosphere. a little bit more moist than it was yesterday. winds not as active. all good signs. unfortunately not much in the way of rain is going on. did have some reports on some folks on ground telling us they got some scattered showers a little bit and on radar that happening aloft or above us. we check in in the storm tracker 4 and again a couple little splotches to make note of in middletown however there's not much upstream. we're looking at the current number. 48 that's actually up from earlier this morning. we like dew points like that. about 24 hours ago dew points were in the teens. that's very dry air and winds were up there. the 20, 30 miles an hour. 40 miles an hour gust and some spottings going on as you heard. at least we have winds gusts at 18. a little better than that.

the forecast is not very eventful. 85 for a high. already been there. smoke and mostly cloudy. tomorrow there's that chance tomorrow morning of a slight shower. a thunder shower. just a look at the greater bay area. our temperatures 60s. 50s down to the peninsula and off to the east bay. 70 for the warmer spots. what happens? well, they're telling us again we'll see some clearing. don't expect much happening at the coast. the marine layer will cover. and that will keep temperatures down throughout the day today. we'll keep the green kind of lined up here as we go forward with futurecast 4 for the warm up. most of the bay area will be fairly cool compared to what we were in last week and that trend is here to stay. going forward to tonight. here's the cooldown getting a lot of 60s across most of the

geography. oakland 76. heading further to the east, there you have the numbers into the upper 80s. marty? >> all right. thank you so much. and want to let you know we're going to continue to bring you coverage of this breaking news. firefighters continuing to start to work on containing this blaze that's burned at least 40,000 acres. we'll have an update for you after the break.

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we're follow breaking news out of lake county as the valley fire continues to burn out of control. this is video from last night. houses, cars, trees, apartment complexes all bursting into flames am terrible scene. that fire has personned 40,000 acres. a couple hundred people have been evacuated. we don't know the full extent but as you can see several homes at least have been destroyed. most of the damage is in the town of middletown about 20-

miles south of clear lake. parts of highway 29 is closed today. and here's a picture of the fire sent yesterday afternoon. or actually here's the video of -- if you have any photos you want to send to us, you can take care of that. by sending them to kron4.com. mabd toir evacuations in place for the following areas. bottle rock road, high valley road, highway 175 in cobb and highway 29. all the way to highway 53. this is a very fluid situation. it is ongoing. if you want to stay up to date, join us on kron4 ticket also the mobile app. a full report for you tonight on kron4 news at 8:00. we'll continue to keep this story covered for you. we'll see you against next

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. (applause) well god bless you. it's always a joy to come into your homes and if you're ever in our area, please stop by and be a part of one of our services. i promise you we'll make you feel right at home. but thanks so much for tuning in and thank you again for coming out today. i like to start with something funny. i heard about this old country farmer. he was taking his nephew camping for the first time. his nephew had 5 degrees, he was one of the smartest men alive. they set their tent up and quickly fell asleep. in the middle of the night, the farmer woke his nephew