that is similar to what we saw after the camp fire, the tubbs fire, and the coffey fire.ur kelsi thorud spoke with local fire survivors. >> some people it took five years to get their house rebuilt. >> reporter: pamela said she can't help but feel on high alert seeing the images coming out of southern california. >> i snap into a vigilance kind of like i've got to stay abreast of what the latest information is. >> reporter: just like the thousands of people coming home to nothing but ash down there, pamela and her family lost everything when the tubbs fire plowed through their santa rosa neighborhood back in 2017. >> it felt like when, you know, in wizard of oz and she looks out the window and it's a tornado. that's what it looked like when i looked out my window. >> reporter: pamela and her family escaped the flames in the nick of time, but their house along with the entire coffey park neighborhood, was destroyed. >> it looks like a war zone or like the moonscape. i mean it's just flat. there's nothing. >> it hit me more today than yesterday. >> reporter: steve rahm also

some of the destruction looks like what we saw after the camp, tubbs, or coffey fires. we talked with wildfire survivors about the very next steps. >> somebody i know it took five years to get their house rebuilt. >> reporter: pamela says she can't help but feel on high alert seeing the images coming out of southern california. >> i just snap into a vigilance kind of like i've got to stay abreast of what the latest information is. >> reporter: just like the thousands of people coming home to nothing but ash down there, pamela and her family lost everything when the tubbs fire plowed through their santa rosa neighborhood back in 2017. >> it felt like when, you know, in wizard of oz when she looks out the window and there's a tornado. that's what it looked like. >> reporter: pamela and her family escaped the flames in the nick of time, but their house along with their entire coffey park neighborhood was destroyed. >> it looks like the war zone or a moonscape. i mean it's flat. there's nothing. >> it hit me more today than yesterday. >> reporter: steve rahm also lost his h

. >> well, for many people living in santa rosa's coffey park. don't forget the devastating wildfires in southern california bringing up a lot of memories for them of their own losses. they expect triggers what they went through back in october of 2017 when a deadly wildfire ripped through the north bay community destroying hundreds of homes. kron four's will tran is in santa rosa with more on the experience that they're having will. >> by the time the tubbs fire was out to destroy approximately 5600 structures. coffey park is just right down the road and so many people fled to this coffee shop right behind me. congregated share their stories, made sure that their families and friends were okay absolutely this whole experience in la has been triggering. let's show you video of the tubbs fire. as daria mentioned, it broke out in october of 2017 and just like los angeles, strong winds just whipped through this place. i remember being here in the overnight hours just hours after it started and seeing the mass evacuations and the firefighters rushing

coffey park was among the hardest hit. the neighborhood reduced to rubble. since then, though, the community has rebuild. but for people who live in the area, the wildfires burning in southern california are bringing back some painful memories. the thomas fire killed. 22 people and destroyed nearly 5700 structures. coming up next, in sports, the warriors continue their road trip in toronto taking on the raptors. aaron wilson has the highlights. wilson has the highlights. coming up. (humming) behold! a glorious round table pepperoni pizz... huh? ah. huh. well, behold the pepperoni and grilled chicken...? what the? (clears throat) behold, the pepperoni, grilled chicken and bacon pizza from round table! three magnificent toppings grilled chicken, pepperoni, and sizzling bacon. try it at round table pizza! merlin! >> warriors with some notable returns tonight on the road in toronto, all 3 draymond green, steph curry and andrew wiggins available tonight at the try and get back above 500, you know, wiggins as back into the starting lineup after missing the last 2

coffey park was leveled. a different site today. this represents the resilience and unity of this community. annie, like many here, made it her mission to help other wildfire survivors. >> everybody in the neighborhood wants to pay it forward in some respect because they know how traumatic this is. >> and he began to volunteer for the nonprofit united policyholders, and now is a coordinator who's deployed to fire zones throughout the country without insurance can't recover, guiding many through the hardest moments of their lives, starting with what to do about your mortgage. >> we recommend that they call their mortgage company, and they ask them if they could please open an escrow account so that money from the dwelling portion of the insurance will be coming in. you'll sign it, you'll send it to your mortgage company. they will open up an escrow account for the amount that you owe on your mortgage, and they'll hold on to that and walk it through the rebuild process with you. that is their collateral on your home that's gone, leadi

coffey park was level like a mega ton bomb just landed at this location 8 years ago, forcing so many people to flee. i actually got a chance to talk to a woman who was there in the overnight hours. she had to scramble with her family as well. by the time it was over, the tubbs fire cost 1.2 billion dollars it killed. 22 people cost 100 million dollars just to fight leaving behind all kinds of memories. >> like, oh, my help them. took because he feels it easy. to have to get up running with your kids. it's not easy. to leave everything behind. when you left that morning, i left it was 3 o'clock in the morning. i left. i was calling because when i knew that this time the fires kind of started towards that way. >> she didn't answer. i was crying. i was desperate. and she's okay. she's fine thing could actually the head the night before. she had left to mexico and she didn't say anything. i didn't know nobody knew. and i remember i screamed at her and i said, don't you ever really like that again? i was like everything gone. you have nothing just like what it was like, your car, your eve

coffey park was level like a mega ton bomb just landed at this location 8 years ago, forcing so many people to flee. i actually got a chance to talk to a woman who was there in the overnight hours. she had to scramble with her family as well. by the time it was over, the tubbs fire cost 1.2 billion dollars it killed. 22 people cost 100 million dollars just to fight leaving behind all kinds of memories. >> like, oh, my help them. took because he feels it easy. to have to get up running with your kids. it's not easy. to leave everything behind. when you left that morning, i left it was 3 o'clock in the morning. i left. i was calling because when i knew that this time the fires kind of started towards that way. >> she didn't answer. i was crying. i was desperate. and she's okay. she's fine thing could actually the head the night before. she had left to mexico when she didn't say anything i didn't know nobody knew and i remember i screamed at her and i said, don't you ever leave like that again? i was like everything is gone. you have nothing just like what it was like, your car, your ev

coffey park was level like a mega ton bomb just landed at this location 8 years ago, forcing so many people to flee. i actually got a chance to talk to a woman who was there in the overnight hours. she had to scramble with her family as well. by the time it was over, the tubbs fire cost 1.2 billion dollars it killed. 22 people cost 100 million dollars just to fight leaving behind all kinds of memories. >> like, oh, my help them. took because he feels it easy. to have to get up running with your kids. it's not easy. to leave everything behind. when you left that morning, i left it was 3 o'clock in the morning. i left. i was calling because when i knew that this time the fires kind of started towards that way. >> she didn't answer. i was crying. i was desperate. and she's okay. she's fine thing could actually the head the night before. she had left to mexico and she didn't say anything. i didn't know nobody knew. and i remember i screamed at her and i said, don't you ever leave like that again? i was like everything gone. you have nothing just like what it was like, your car, your ever

coffey park was level like a mega ton bomb just landed at this location 8 years ago, forcing so many people to flee. i actually got a chance to talk to a woman who was there in the overnight hours. she had to scramble with her family as well. by the time it was over, the tubbs fire cost 1.2 billion dollars killed. 22 people cost 100 million dollars just to fight leaving behind all kinds of memories. >> like, oh, my help them. took because he feels it easy. to have get up running with your kids. it's not easy. to leave everything behind. when you left that morning, i left it was 3 o'clock in the morning. i left. i was calling because when i knew that this time the fires kind of started towards that way. >> she didn't answer. i was crying. i was desperate. and she's okay. she's fine thing could actually the head the night before. she had left to mexico and she didn't say anything. i didn't know nobody knew. and i remember i screamed at her and i said, don't you ever really like that again? i was like everything gone. you have nothing just like what it was like, your car, your everythin

for many people living in santa rosa's coffey park, the devastating wildfires in southern california are bringing up memories of their own loss. it was october of 2017 when a deadly wildfire ripped through the north bay community destroying hundreds of homes and properties. kron four's will tran continues. our team coverage now from santa rosa. he has more on the experience of these people after they lived through a wildfire. if anyone. >> can feel the sympathy, the pain of la victims, its people in santa rosa coffey park neighborhood. that's exactly my location. 7 years ago, it looked just like this 8 years ago, actually in 2017, it looked just like this. and then the fires broke out and it wiped out this community. look at the homes. what do you notice? all of them? the same age because they were rebuilt pretty much the same time they look brand new, even the road is brand-new are relatively new because it had to be rebuilt. coffey park was level like a mega ton bomb just landed at this location 8 years ago, forcing so many people to flee. i actually got a chance to talk to a woman

park. >> evacuate immediately. >> coffey park was leveled. a different site today. this represents the resilience and unity of this community. annie, like many here, made it her mission to help other wildfire survivors. >> everybody in the neighborhood wants to pay it forward in some respect because they know how traumatic this is. >> annie began to volunteer for the nonprofit united policyholders, and now is a coordinator who's deployed to fire zones throughout the country without insurance. can't recover, guiding many through the hardest moments of their lives, starting with what to do about your mortgage. >> we recommend that they call their mortgage company, and they ask them if they could please open an escrow account so that money from the dwelling portion of the insurance will be coming in. you'll sign it, you'll send it to your mortgage company. they will open up an escrow account for the amount that you owe on your mortgage, and they'll hold on to that and walk it through the rebuild process with you. that is their collateral on your

. >> coffey park neighborhood. that's exactly my location. 7 years ago, it looked just like this 8 years ago, actually in 2017, it looked just like this. and then the fires broke out and it wiped out this community. look at the homes. what you notice. all of them, the same age because they were rebuilt pretty much the same time they look brand new, even the road is brand-new are relatively new because it had to be rebuilt. coffey park was leveled like a mega ton bomb. >> just landed at this location 8 years ago, forcing so many people to flee. >> i actually got a chance to talk to a woman who was there in the overnight hours. she had to scramble with her family as well. by the time it was over, the tubbs fire cost 1.2 billion dollars it killed. 22 people cost 100 million dollars just to fight leaving behind all kinds of memories. >> like, oh, my help them. took because he feels it easy. to have get up running with your kids. it's not easy. to leave everything behind. when you left that morning, i left it was 3 o'cl

many of them in tie coffey park neighborhood. and the one thing that they have in common look at how relatively new they all look, i mean, is only about a year or 2 old looks like his brand-new pain because it pretty much is it had to be rebuilt. the tubbs fire went through here and by the time it was over, it cost 100 million dollars just to fight the fire. 1.2 billion dollars as far as damage to santa rosa. leaving behind so much heartbreak. 22 people died if in need body, could feel the pain of las angeles victims and want to hug them. its people in santa rosa. >> like, oh, my god, help them. to help them. because easy. to have to get up running with your kids. it's not easy. to leave everything behind. when you left that morning, i left it was 3 o'clock in the morning. i left. i was calling because when i knew that this time the fires kind of started towards that way. >> she didn't answer. i was crying. i was desperate. and she's okay. she's fine thing could actually the head the night before. she had left to mexico when she

. >> seven minutes from janet's home, over 1300 structures were destroyed in santa rosa's coffey park neighborhood. pamela van helsing said coming together as a neighborhood to rebuild was key. >> find others who are in the same situation and work together. that's what we did here. it helped immeasurably. >> they have a message for other survivors. >> give yourself grace to move slowly and carefully and thoughtfully through these next months and even years, because it's a marathon to recover from something like this. >> and for those supporting those in need, your words matter. >> please try to avoid saying, well, at least you're lucky that you got out or it's only things. those are hurtful things. just be there for them. >> in santa rosa luz pena, abc seven news. >> you can help people affected by the california wildfires donated red cross.org/abc to help the red cross respond and help people recover. >> they can use the help. well, more to come here. a bay area tribute to former president jimmy carter. as the nation says farewell today to see how a local habitat for humanity chapter

you don't have the complete moonscape that you saw in like coffey park. >> reporter: these crews will work throughout the night protecting homes still standing and also shutting off some of the gas mains feeding small fires because from a human perspective these crews know what residents are going through. >> it just makes a lot of the residents feel better when they don't see a big geyser of fire coming out. a lot of times it's not a big risk to catching other things on fire, but definitely gives a lot of people peace of mind when they don't have to worry about fire coming out. they've seen enough fire already, so trying to help that. >> reporter: for so many of us here in the bay area, scenes like this, burned out homes, are all too familiar and that was especially true for some of the fire crews we ran into today. we saw crews from oakland, hayward, fremont, obviously sonoma, santa rosa, marin. these firefighters are saying i remember the look on residents' faces as they were seeing their neighborhoods for the first time, so a really difficult day for everyone, especially at a time

. >> seven minutes from janet's home, over 1300 structures were destroyed in santa rosa's coffey parkghborhood. pamela van halsema said coming together as a neighborhood to rebuild was key. >> find others who are in the same situation and work together. that's what we did here. it helped immeasurably. >> they have a message for other survivors. >> give yourself grace to move slowly and carefully and thoughtfully through these next months and even years, because it's a marathon to recover from something like this. >> and for those supporting those in need, your words matter. >> please try to avoid saying, well, at least you're lucky that you got out or it's only things. those are hurtful things. just be there for them. >> in santa rosa luz pena abc seven news. >> and we're staying on top of all of the developments coming out of the wildfires in los angeles county. get updates as they happen on abc seven news.com and the abc seven bay area app as well. all right. coming up next, after repeated requests to update the oakland police pursuit policy, action is being taken tomorrow that coul

and i have to say the damage that we've seen in the pacific palisades area reminded me much of coffey park where it is literally just a moonscape of homes flattened for blocks and blocks and blocks. what struck me about the eaton fire near altadena is that reminded me more of paradise. a lot of old, established neighborhoods. you had lots of tall trees there. and it was a little bit more of a hopscotch pattern where you'd have one home that was okay and then all of the houses around it were not. and i know that so many people are asking, you know, why, why did this house make it and the rest of them didn't. it's hard to know. sometimes it's literally dumb luck that a burning ember didn't land in the exact wrong spot. but i can tell you that the firefighters here now are so committed to saving as many of these structures as they can, and that's because everyone for the most part has evacuated so. they're not having to worry about saving people's lives, they're able to focus on that structure protection. but you know, so many lessons learned in our northern california fires that we now

because this is such a large fire, and there's so many homes that were taken down as much as we saw in coffeyark, and certainly as we saw in paradise. now behind me, i want to show you something. this is a very large building, a condo, an apartment house, something like that, just off of sunset boulevard in in palisades here. and you see up to the upper left hand corner of that, you see a kind of an orange glow. might you might think that would be like some sort of embers or something burning. it's not. it's actually a very tall fire department hose ladder that is standing over that. and occasionally when flames pop up on this building, they put them down because they don't want this thing to flare up, because there's obviously a lot to burn there. and they don't want to get this thing going. now, right now there's no wind. so this is not a problem. but if the winds pick up the santa ana's, which they do expect, they don't want to have this as being one thing. i also want to show you something. you see some cars down here lower this one just past. and this is a service vehicle from a fire dep

. >> well, for many people living in santa rosa's coffey park, the devastating fires southern california, bringing up a lot of memories of their other triggered and feel about what happened in october of 2017 when the fire ripped through the north bay community, destroying homes and properties. kron four's will tran live for us up in santa rosa where a lot of folks there are, you know, reflecting back on that horrific experience. well. >> it is too close to home for them, james, because anybody in the bay area can possibly relate to the la victims, its people here in santa rosa, specifically copy park. so many people came to this coffee shop after the fire and they commiserated, they hugged. they were thankful for their lives. and unfortunately, there are those who could not join them because ultimately 22 people died from the fires in the tubs fires back in 2017. let's show you the video. raced through this community just like it did in los angeles. strong winds at that time and they had to evacuate in the overnight hours. and by the time it was over the tubbs fire cost 1.2 billion doll

remember several years ago i spoke with people who had lost their homes the day before in santa rosa's coffey and they were full of adrenaline. we're going to rebuild. we'll come back better. it's only possessions. at least we're okay. when you talk to those same people. a couple of weeks later, their mood had completely changed. can you tell me about how it's not always a straight line when it comes to recovering from something like this? >> absolutely. both. the experience of dealing with trauma is quite varied amongst people and also the way people cope. there's no one size fits all solution to coping with tragedies like this, and people have non-linear paths, meaning they might feel good one day and then not so good the next day or one hour not so great the next hour a little bit better. and so i think what you're getting at really speaks to the importance of continuous monitoring of our loved ones and being with them during these tragedies. >> so let's think about a little a little bit about what's happening here in the bay area. i'm sure i'm not alone in saying we spent a good deal of t