sutter santa rosa hospital is reopening this hospital is santa rosa now... sutter happening and ( james ) the morning.through out with you check back we will camila. thanks ( james ) thanks camila. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( james ) and happening now... sutter santa rosa hospital is reopening this morning for the first time since being evacuated because of the north bay firestorm.( darya ) kron 4's hermela aregawi is live at the hospital this morning with the details. hermela. ( hermela )this morning.. the hospital just opened all its doors.. with full services.. inpatient as well as emergency care.on sunday night.. employees and patients had to evacuate when the fire surrounded the facility.i want to show you surveillance video from that night.it's in a time lapse.as you can see people running out of therethe hospital says it safely evacuated 77 patients within six hours.you can also see in the video fire completely surrounding the building.i spoke with a security guard that was working that night.he tells me everything happened s

sutter santa rosa family reunification number is 707 sutter santa rosa family reunification number is 707-543- 4511. you are also being encouraged to continue to report missing persons to the sonoma county hotline. that number is 707 that number is 707565 that number is 707- 565-3856. i will put those on our website. i'm pretty sure they are there. >>> we are following reports of power lines that were down around the same time the fire started. details of dispatch audio. that 2 investigate listened to four hours. other clues about how several fires for the -- started. >>> welcome back. more california national guard crews arrived at moffett field to help the firefighters in the north bay. these photos are of the 1/29 rescue wing and the 146th airlift team arriving just before midnight. the team is made up of 100 guardsmen and women in the los alamitos area near long beach. the team will provide support for shelters in napa and solano county. >>> the california national guard is helping firefighters on the front lines. charles schultz airport is serving as a hub for a blackhawk helicop

hospital sutter santa rosa releasing time laps video showing the wildfires approaching.ght sunday why they say they were specially prepared when to it emergency struck. >> we follow the top story this evening a fire in dublin, a brush fire 100 acres mandatory evacuation. we are back in a moment with the live report. >>>rxo our nbc bay area sky ra, live pictures now in the tri-valley. this is overhead in dublin. a fire down below. mandatoryg evacuations. 100 akers. let's bring in roz plater in dublin with the latest. roz. >> raj is started at 2:00 in the afternoon but picked up. let's show you the pictures from sky ranger. cf1 o evacuations. signal hill east of fallon to could gohill terrace to saddle creekteres aen a abilene driveq north to duffel way. "áju because grassy in a hilly area. if you are required to evacuate they have set aup shelter where i am at the wave center at the ever glen park. folks they're asking to evacuate they are asked to head this s(!9ñ meanwhile keeping the shelter in place for those folks in dublin ranch and also the communities. heavy smoke

thousands of people have been evacuated, including kaiser hospital and the santa rosa regional center. sutterospital has been evacuated as well. all schools in santa rosa have been closed for the day. highway 101 through santa rosa is shut down. chp telling people, if you are not needed in that area, don't go to the area. leave the roads open for all the evacuees. this is an overview of all the fires happening. that main one is the atlas peak road fire in napa. >> yeah, you can see, this is near youngville, another fire burning on your screen near santa roser, near hopper avenue, after it jumped highway 101. kaiser medical center on bicentennial way has been evacuated as laura said. sutter santa rosa regional hospital evacuated. another fire burning outside calistoga. that fire, as i said at the top, you saw it there, as the house was on fire near highway 128 on tubbs lane. >> a big concern are the winds blowing in that area. kari is tracking that. it could last through the day? >> the strongest through midday. a fire danger as the fire weather warning went up yesterday because of the strong

the nuns fire at 53 and the pocket fire at 45%. >> this morning the sutter hospital in santa rosa willg evacuated last week. >> amy hollyfield is there for us this morning. good morning, amy. >> reporter: hi, good morning, reggie. they are going to be opening in just a few minutes at 7:00 this morning, but they will be easing back into business, it's quite a process to reopen a hospital. no surgeries are scheduled for today but they're definitely ready for any emergency surgeries that need to take place today. they will be ready to treat anyone who needs help. here is some video of the evacuation that happened a week ago. you can see in this video from sutter hospital in santa rosa that fire was threatening the building so they evacuated 77 patients to other bay area hospitals. a spokeswoman tells me this morning most if not any of those will be moving back to the hospital today. most of them probably don't need to come back. >> the average length of stay for a patient is around five days. so since we are approaching here day nine, likely they've been discharged. of course, they would

anne makovec is live at sutter santa rosa which is re-opening this morning. anne. >>> reporter: yeah. it is a wonderful and welcome sign of life returning to this area of santa rosa. the power is back on here at sutter hospital and it is re- opening at 7 a.m. with full service. but here's a look at another clip of some of the time lapse video from the hospital from one of their security cameras. newscast the fire advancing from the left, high winds blowing embers close to the building. sutter evacuated 77 patients within 6 hours. the hospital has since been thoroughly cleaned and inspected by two state health agencies and deemed ready to go. but in the meantime, a lot of the patients spent time here at santa rosa memorial hospital causing a sudden emergency in their emergency room last week an influx of transferred patients and fire victims. we heard from their staffers yesterday. >> we have seen around 400 respiratory cases of differing severity. you know, there's a baseline number that we normally see in this community but we think about 400 additional due t

sutter santa rosa regional hospital shared this video today. flames approaching last monday. 77 patients moved in a hurry. >> tough to watch. >>> another family come forward questioning whether senior living had evacuation pl in place. meladr broke it on thursday, and live with story onl abc7. >> another resident's family told us they did what they had to do to get everyone out. sentiment echoed by one employee who also says he believes they're lucky it worked out. describes wheeling 89-year-old mother from villa capris. >> when i looked at those people, visions of the titanic going down and people saying goodbye for the last time got in my head. >> why he stayed behind to rescue people. >> can't walk out on the get in >> people in hairs, some with dementia. 3 caregivers when they arrivat >> asked i they had evacuation plan because w wanted to help out. they said no, director. >> i wasn't taught it if they do. >> says he and other employees busy rescuing people from main building. >> we did wonderful job, al res, had to push or carry residents

. >>> newly released video shows the evacuation of sutter hospital in santa rosa. s a time lapse from monday of last week. hospital workers can be seen ushering patients to safety with the flames from the tubbs fire in the distance. sutter santa rosa will re-open at 7 a.m. with full service. nearby hospitals that were able to stay open were extremely busy in the early days of the wildfires. emergency rooms are flooded with injured people and burn victims. and as the fires are getting closer to containment, doctors are dealing with another medical issue. >> we have seen around 400 respiratory cases of differing severity. now, there's a baseline number that we normally see in this community but we think about 400 additional due to the poor air quality and direct smoke inhalation. >> some doctors say they actually expected to see more urgent cases but they credit police and firefighters for quickly getting people out of the flames' path. >>> during the chaos of the fire, three dozen babies were born at santa rosa memorial hospital. that's 3 times the normal rate. 14 we

sutter's santa rosa regional today.al shared this video flames approaching last monday. 77 patients moved in a hurry. >> tough to watch. >>> another family come forward questioning whether senior living had evacuation plan in place. melanie woodrow broke it on thursday, and she's live with story only on abc7. >> another resident's family told us they did what they had to do to get everyone out. sentiment echoed by one employee who also says he believes they're lucky it worked out. describes wheeling 89-year-old mother from villa capris. >> when i looked at those people, visions of the titanic going down and people saying goodbye for the last time got in my head. >> why he stayed behind to rescue people. >> can't walk out on the get in car and leave. >> people in wheelchairs, some with dementia. 3 caregivers when they arrived at 2:00 a.m. >> asked if they had evacuation plan because we wanted to help out. they said no, waiting for director. >> i wasn't taught it if they do. >> says he and other employees busy rescuing people from main building. >> we did wonderful job, all those residents,

. >>> new this morning we have learned kaiser permanente, santa rosa and sutter santa rosa hospitals have established family reunification phone lines. this is from monday as you saw patients were being evacuated from the hospital. now officials are trying to connect missing loved ones with their family members. there are phones numbers you can call. the kaiser permanente number is 855-599-0033. and the sutter santa rosa number is 707-543-4511. >> if you happen to miss as i tweeted them out @laura garcia nbc. >>> people across the bay area feeling the effects of the north bay wildfires, the smoke from the fire is so intense, everyone is talking about it, you walk outdoors and you smell it and taste it. creating dangerous breathing conditions for people. >> "today in the bay" kris sanchez is live in fremont this morning with what you can do to stay safe. kris, so many people are worried about that, people are developing problems because of this. >> right. well, from the beginning this smoke has been so thick and the wind has shifted in so many directions, there are so many folks who h

santa rosa. we have new time laps video to show you. released today by sutter santa rosa regional hospital. if you can make it out people scurry away from the hospital with hot spots scattered all around. you can see embers blowing everywhere, sparking new fires. now in the midst of all this, sutter and nearby kaiser permanente made the decision to evacuate hundreds of patients. an erie scene as they evacuate the patients. in total 77 people evacuated in the early hours of that fire. today we were there sutter santa rosa reopened. we spoke with the hospital krae are ceo about how important it is for everyone to get back to work. >> they're here for the community, the patients and they are ready to serve. and they're glad to be back on the job. and it's been a very, very difficult week. and they're happy. >> many of the doctors and rns lost their homes yet continue to work. the hospital has a well water system which came in handy. more than 500,000 gallons from that well was used to battle the wildfires. >>> well it was 26 years ago this woke that fire leveled the entire neighborhood in the

. >>> santa rosa starting to show a few signs of returning to normal. one major development is this morning's re-opening of sutter santa rosa regional hospital. it evacuated all patients during the height of the firestorm. this newly released time lapse video shows how quickly the flames approached the hospital. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield is there live with stories of heroism and bravery from the terrifying night. amy? >> reporter: hi, kristen. see this building? this is a facility, or was, for patients' families to stay. a place for them to say while their loved ones were in the hospital. it burned down. this is in the parking lot of the hospital. so it gives you an idea of how close this came to the hospital. fire did reach the roof. it damaged it. this hospital re-opened today. the staff did pause, though, to remember the intense evacuation. in this video from the hospital surveillance camera, you can see the building was surrounded by fire. some staff members suddenly found themselves trying to put out the fire. >> we had several fires within 10 to 20 feet of our oxygen tanks that fuel the facility, a

santa rosa and hopper avenue. this actually jumped, highway 101. kaiser medical center has been evacuated. we also know sutterosa regional hospital has been evacuated. another fire outside of calistoga, that fire near 128 and tubbs lane, that fire, 20,000 acres that is burning. zero containment as they continue to try to move everyone in its path to safety. we are hearing of a fire farther south near highway 37 near sears point. highway 37 is closed in both directions. >> we have seen remarkable pictures come into the news room. take a look at this. a patient bed from that kaiser hospital in santa rosa wheeled out of the hospital where they are taking all the patients about 100 in total, to safety. they have transformed veterans memorial center into a makeshift hospital where we saw them bring out patients in their bed, attached to ivs, some taken in gurneys by ambulance, others taken in personal vehicles by hospital personnel. there was fear that the kaiser hospital, itself, in santa rosa was in the direct line of this fire. >> we want to go live near the hospital. that's where we find that mobile home destr

patients being evacuated from subtle hospital in santa rosa in the early hours of the wine country wildfires last week. anne makovec reports from sutterosa which will re- open in about half-hour. >> reporter: the lights are back on at sutter hospital. it's all very a welcome sight to normal life in santa rosa. you just saw some of the time lapse video let me show you some more from another security camera at sutter hospital. you can see the fire advancing from the left. so high winds blowing embers close to the building. 77 patients were evacuated within six hours. the hospital is thoroughly cleaned and inspected by two state health agencies and deemed ready to go but in the meantime, a lot of patients here from sutter ended up at santa rosa memorial hospital. that caused an emergency in their emergency room with an influx of transfers and victims. we heard from some of their staffers yesterday. >> we have seen around 40 respiratory cases of differing severity. there is a baseline number that -- that we normally see in this community, but we think about 400 additional due to the poor air quality and direct smoke inhalation. >> reporte

santa rosa. time lapse video was released by sutter santa rosa regional hospital. the embers are blowing everywhere sparking new fires. hospital staff worked quickly to evacuate the patients. 77 people moved in the early hours of that fire. >>> we needed smiles and entertainment tonight and got it. the oracle in oakland was rocking. opening night for the warriors ended with a buzzer beater and had the fire victims in mind throughout the evening. colin resch joins us courtside from the arena. colin? >> reporter: kevin durant you mention the buzzer beater hit the game-winning shot but it was a split second too late. houston gets a one-point win. i'll cover account highlights and reaction from steve kerr later in the newscast. first, yes, i want to start with what happened pre-game for the second time in three years, the championship ring ceremony is the first order of business. kevin durant finally gets jewelry after a decade plus, the in the league. steph curry led the fans at oracle in a five-second countdown to the banner unveiling. the champs giving the entire ar

sutter santa rosa had to evacuate 88 patients because it was in the fire's direct path. the reopening is scheduled for 7:00 this morning. >>> investigative unit has been looking into what may have sparked the north bay wildfires. pg&e is acknowledging the utility had at least eight equipment incidents in the past eight days. our investigative unit says it is significant because cal fire is investigating the possibility that downed fire lines started one or more of the fires. we have discovered state regulators have been concerned about the strength and reliability of pg&e's power poles for some time. >>> happening today, leaders debate a new gun control measure requiring firearms to be stored in locked containers. former council member and current assemblyman proposed guns will placed in locked boxes at home or when owners leave them in unattended cars. san francisco and oakland are among the bay area cities that already have similar laws. >>> 4:07. happening today, the golden state warriors officially start their quest for back to back nba championships when they open t

another fire burning near the santa rosa in the area of hopper avenue after it jumped highway 101. we are getting word that tom is saying the sutter santa rosa regional hospital has been evacuated as well as we just left tom at the kaiser medical center. we saw people getting to buses. you can smell the smoke and it is making your eyes water. so this is a trying situation for a lot of hospitals in the area as they evacuate hundreds of patients who are in medical need right now. so they want to make sure they can get them to the safest place they can. they don't know exactly where they are taking them or haven't told us. >> these are some of the evacuation centers that people in that area have been told to go. there is a couple in napa county and sonoma county. cross walk community church on first street. napa county fair grounds is another evacuation site. other evacuation centers finley community center. we are told that is nearly at capacity. santa rosa veterans memorial hall building is also open, as well. we spoke to a napa county supervisor moments ago who told us they may open a third evacuation center if needed. a lot of co

hospitals had to be evacuated, 130 patients moved out of kaiser permanente santa rosa medical center which is directly behind me here. sutter santa rosa regional hospital also evacuated 80 of its patients and adding to the chaos we're told more than 100 people injured in the fires. now kpix5 reporter wilson walker got out here to the fire lines just about midnight. here's what he saw in those early morning hours. ounded by flames on both sides. kpix five's wilson walker shows us what it was like. say they're >> reporter: so i've been trying to explain to you guys what the roadways are like if you're trying to make your way around napa and sonoma county. well, this is it. this is what driving around is like right now. truth be told, i think everyone up here has sort of been making it up as they go along sort of poking around trying to figure out where it's safe, where it's not safe, where someone might be telling you to go and sometimes you frankly have no choice but to stand around and watch the fire do what it's going to do, hope it moves along and then you can try to get moving down the highway. so incredibly dangerous dr

kaiser permanente evacuated one hundred and thirty patients from his santa rosa medical center by bus an ambulance monday morning and sutter santa rosa regional hospital evacuated all of its patients all schools in the county were closed today and so were several roads not the county fire chief barry behrman spoke during a press conference. we're king very closely with our law enforcement partners who were able to work on the evacuations to get folks out of the area where the fire was it was a difficult job and there are definitely numerous structures that were consumed during the beginning phase of this fire and still at this point due to the multiple fires and limited resources continue to be a challenge for us and start prioritizing the different fires in this unit where aircraft can be used based on visibility on but that is a top priority for this department in this county is to get their resources in here to assist us because as of right now with these conditions we can't get in front of this fire and do anything about the four progress at this time the fires remain uncontained then may continue to spread due to got

santa rosa, not even hospitals were safe. patients, many on gurneys, wheeled to safety. at sutter santa rosa regional, nicole veum was in the middle of giving birth, when word came to evacuate all 77 patients. the exodus seen in newly released security video. >> you just have a lot of faith. the firemen are going to come. and they could not. they were overwhelmed. >> reporter: kelsey claybrook helped knock down flames advancing on a huge tank of highly flammable oxygen. >> we were afraid that if it hit the tank, the building would go, our guys inside would go and that would be a real "oh, no" moment. >> reporter: dr. scott witt raced from home on his motorcycle, helping evacuate eight babies in intensive care. >> we don't have to think that often about moving everybody at once. >> reporter: the staff worked even as many of their own homes, including dr. witt's, burned to the ground. >> we believe over 30 physicians at this facility lost their homes, as well as over 40 staff members. >> reporter: tonight, nicole, husband ben and new son adrian, all doing fine. >> so, let's get to c

hotel kaiser permanente evacuated one hundred thirty patients from a santa rosa medical center by bus and ambulance monday morning and sutter santa rosa regional hospital evacuated all of its patients all schools in the county were closed today and so were several roads not a county fire chief barry bierman spoke during a press conference. working very closely with our law enforcement partners who were able to work on the evacuations to get folks out of the area where the fire was it was a difficult job and there are definitely numerous structures that were consumed during the beginning phase of this fire and still at this point due to the multiple fires and limited resources continue to be a challenge for us to start prioritizing the different fires in this unit and where aircraft can be used based on visibility but that is a top priority for this department in this county is to get the air resources in here to assist us because as of right now with these conditions we can't get in front of this fire into anything about the forward progress. at this time as i said there are at least seventeen wildfires a blazing through no

sutter santa rosa family reunification is 707-543-4511. you are also being encouraged to continue to report missing persons to the sonoma county hotline. that number is 707-565-3856. the sonoma county department of health person told us yesterday that number is a catchall. you can get a lot of information there and on the county government website as well. >>> we are following reports of power lines that were down around the same time the fires started. we have details of dispatch audio that 2 investigates listened to four hours. arthur clues on those tapes about how several fires started? >>> it's going to be mostly slow and some of these areas. some areas have not bilden like highway 24. that was good heading over to the caldecott. >>> the wind is picking up for some out of the north and northwest. i am seeing gusts up to 36 above the caldecott and mount diablo has gusts up to 46 out of the north or northeast. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ throughout history, the one meal when we come together, break bread, share our day and connect as a family. [ bloop, clic

sutter regional hospital in santa rosa is open for business. they had to scrub the walls and floors and restock all supplies because of smoke damage, but today they are ready to serve the people of santa rosa. >> at least here we are bouncing back. >> to give you an idea of how badly this community needs the hospital, it opened at 7:00 this morning and the first patient was here waiting at the er at 6:59. abc seven news. >> cal fire reports crews are making significant progress on other nearby fires. the redwood valley fire in mendocino is about 60% contained. it blackened 36,000 acres and blamed for eight deaths. the sheriff said all mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted and even so, potter valley remains under evacuation warning. >> crews are close to containing the sulfur fire. cat fire reports it is 92% contained and burned 2200 acres. warnings remain in place. the fires in lake and mendocino destroyed a total of 436 homes. >> it's warm out there again today, but what about the wind? >> certainly something everybody is asking about.

they plan to reopen as soon as possible. >> this is baby raley set to be delivered at sutter santa rosal hospital the night the fires broke out, but when mom's contractions started, the hospital was being evacuated. so mom was taken to santa rosa memorial where raley was born making her birth very memorable. >> it will always be a reminder what was going on and what the community was going through at the same time. i'm sure we'll remember the fires for the rest of our lives because of that. >> no doubt. the family said they feel very fortunate. their home is behind the sonoma county fairgrounds, so it was untouched by the fires and not in an evacuation zone. >> welcome to the world, baby raley. >> cute little kid, glad she and the family are safe. we'll have to support napa by visiting the next couple months because they want to get back to business as quickly as humanly possible. >>> warm day throughout the bay area today, 70s and 80s now approaching 7:00, close to 80 degrees in livermore, san jose, not much temperature spread today, currently concord 83, santa rosa 81 degrees. overnig

the sutter hospital here in santa rosa actually has waterha building. this hospital is new, it's only three years old and this water system was included in the design with an emergency like this in mind. they evacuated 77 patients and moved them to other bay area facilities and they are going to be reopening at 7:00 this morning. full services will be available including emergency care. another sign of recovery here in sonoma county. reporting live in santa rosa, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> now your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. >> let's take a look at what's going on. as far as our winds, and they are very conducive to getting these fires more and more contained, we're calm just about everywhere, especially in napa. we have about a 5 mile per hour wind up at the airport in santa rosa and it's blowing right down 101 towards petaluma and rohnert park, but notice the visibility, 4 at half-moon bay, that's more because of low clouds that's not because of fog, we have a little bit of fog around novato but eerybody else doing really well. look at

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the main evacuation areas, we are hearing that kaiser and sutter hospitals in santa rosa are being evacuatedc and dire situation all around north bay wine country, the calistoga area and silverado resort has been evacuated. there are some live pictures with this orange glow spreading through the area. air quality is awful in the north bay and smoke has extended very some are -- very far south. horrible air quality in san mateo county, with more than 60 miles from that area, having smoked. if you are not evacuating, it's best you stay in your home with windows shut and there asked being -- they're king people to stay ed be ofonf the roadwa or are evacuated. it is an ever-changing situation with the fire jumping from different sides of the roadways. they have evolving closures. 101, parts of 12 have been shut down for periods and jaclyn will keep us posted on the traffic. in the meantime, we have devon seeley live in the newsroom with late-breaking details. >> reporter: you mentioned the smoke and just to give you a sense, we can smell the smoke in the newsroom and as i drove up, when i reache

he is the director of sutter santa rosa regional hospital's neonatal icu. when he got a call at 2 am saying both his house in santa rosa and his hospital were threatened by fire, he put his family in a car and told them to leave. he jumped on his motorcycle and headed to the hospital. he helped evacuate newborn babies by ambulance to another hospital six miles away. >> incredible. amazing. it makes me proud. they are worried about their own family but yet they stayed here. >> if my baby was in the hospital, i'm a little biased, but i will want them to be enhanced like scott's. >> the doctors home was destroyed in the fire but he and his family say they are happy they are safe. >>> the hospital is now calling doctor witt the james dean of neonatal. >>> that fire in the santa cruz mountains is still growing but it is moving at a slower rate this morning. it has burned 300 acres and is 15% contained.>> christien kafton is that the command center. you are there and in the last 24 hours the fire crews had to deal with more than flames then -- and weather. >> they

taken earlier, the journey zen mobile home park in santa rosa a few blocks from the hospital. 100 of 160 are gone with the people's belongings in them. sutter santa rosa regional hospital evacuated 80 patients and among all this 100 people have been injured in the fires, a lot of them, of course, needing medical treatment. we talked about some of the evacuees and i'm going to have my colleague len ramirez come in here. len has covered some of the evacuation centers. earlier you said the hilton hotel was destroyed and you talked to some people who got out of here barefoot. >> reporter: you wouldn't think it possible, but here we are so many hours later and the hilton is still on fire. a lot of santa rosa is still on fire with this thick haze of smoke still hanging over the city. it's really a tragedy for people. we're talking about personal loss of just about everything they own. i talked to any people today at one of the evacuation centers who ran out of their houses with just the clothes on their backs. by the time he reached a red cross evacuation center, derek schaffer was devastated. this is what his home and neighborhood look like toda

sutter santa rosa hospital not far from where i'm standing remains closed tonight and there is no estimatet is going to reopen. tonight, we are getting a better idea of how staggering the final damage tally may be. here are some numbers for you. we learned the total currently stands at 1.2 -- $1.2 billion in damage. the city of santa rosa alone an estimated 5% of the city's housing stock and one county service says add a thousand more homes to that number. it's been destroyed. let's go to mendicino county where a couple of hours ago they had an earthquake shake the area that has been ravaged by the redwood potter fire magnitude 4.0 quake. that struck just about two miles from redwood valley. it happened about 4:00. kpix 5 reporter emily turner was there about to report live when she felt the shaking. emily? >> allen, it was a really scary situation because we were there very focused on reporting on this fire and all of a sudden the earth is shaking and it was one of those situations where you didn't know what was going to happen. luckily at this point, there are no injuries reported and no

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again, we should also point out there are evacuations underway at nearby sutter santa rosa hospital as is not far away. there you go. all the power just went out. just all the power just shut out. we don't know if that was done on purpose or if that was done intentionally here, because the evacuations have been completed. give you a live look here. another patient being loaded into one of these ambulances here. but all the power just went out, although it looks like some of the backup generators or a backup generator kicked in, and now we have power coming back on to the hospital. >> alex, can you tell us -- you're talking about spot fires. that's what everybody is concerned about. i have to tell you, when i wok up this morning, there was ash falling in marin county. i can only imagine what it's like there. the air quality must be horrible. and are you seeing ash? >> reporter: oh, sure. yeah, we're seeing large pieces of ash, and the air is obviously quite smoky in this area. thick smoke, and big pieces of ash. and i'm hearing, in the distance, i continue to hear, we all continue to he

. >> the other main hospital in the area, sutter santa rosa regional, also remains closed. officials say it will be a while before it is ready to reopen >>> some people who lost their homes in the fires turned out in big numbers today in santa rosa. it was an assistance center. they're trying to get their lives back on track, and the lines at the center on mendocino avenue were lock this weekend. a lot of people lost their driver's license, birth certificate, any proof of home insurance, lost it all in the fire. looking for any kind of help that they can find. >> my insurance company wouldn't forward us any money until they -- we had proof of what our house looks like, but we can't get up there to prove it. >> wow. catch-22. the center will be open every day from 9:00 in the morning until 7:00 p.m. >>> well, evacuation orders have been lift owed in parts of napa and the community there is rallying together, some people gathering at a winery. nbc bay area's cone an nolan no the story. hi, conan. >> reporter: keep in mind so much has been taken from the people who live in napa

santa rosa in the area of hopper avenue, after it jumped highway 101. now, we know that kaiser medical center on bicentennial way has been evacuated. we are getting word that sutterbeing evacuated. another major fire burning outside calistoga and that fire is near highway 128 and tubbs lane. a lot of fires going on as they quickly spread because of the strong winds. >> exactly. overnight, people have been evacuated. we know of four evacuation se s centers right now. one is crosswalk community church, napa county fairgrounds is another evacuation

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. >>> sutter santa rosa regional hospital just opened.wine country wildfires began early last week. we'll have traffic and weather in just a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ wow! nice outfit. when i grow up, i'm going to mars. we're working on that. some people know how far they want to go. a personalized financial strategy can help you get them there. see how access to j.p. morgan investment expertise can help you. chase. make more of what's yours. >>> good morning from the traffic center this morning. starting on the lower deck we have an accident and stalled vehicle causing some big delays. here's a live look at conditions as you get on to the deck if you are heading out of san francisco into oakland right now because of this accident, you're looking at a 23-minute drive time towards the macarthur maze. what we're dealing with is an accident in lanes and a stalled vehicle blocking lanes 7 miles per hour in some spots eastbound and the wreck is just before treasure island. elsewhere, if you are heading off the eastshore freeway towards the bay bridge, f

also, sutter hospital in santa rosa.have katie nielsen live at kaiser and you've experienced a very frantic situation at that hospital. people evacuating patients in their own private cars. what can you tell us? >> reporter: what we were seeing when we first got here was patients being evacuated with nurses rolling hospital beds out into a waiting ambulances. the most critical patients were evacuated first. now, you are seeing a number of buses at kaiser permanente off bicentennial and these are the less critical patients that are somewhat ambulatory that were here at the hospital and they are being evacuated now. we are told they are trying to take patients to other hospitals in the area. the problem is that sutter hospital has also been evacuated, as well. we are hearing some of these patients might be going to red cross shelters. right now, we will take a look back over here where you can actually see the orange glow from above the hospital if you look to the left side. you can see the top of the hospital and the glob

santa rosa's sutter hospital has re-opened. the new video that shows just how close those flames got to the building. (vicki) bur first... we meet the community who came together to fight off the flames ... and save a santa rosa community. the sonoma county sheriff's office is starting to allow people back into their homes in santa rosa... lifting evacuation orders in some areas. (grant) this is a map from the city of santa rosa... the areas in red remain under a mandatory evacuation. people living in the annadel heights and oakmont neighborhoods... can now return home. as well as a mendocino ave medical complex. police are asking that people use caution as they make their way home. (vicki) kron four's terisa estacio joins us live now from the fountaingrove neighborhood in santa rosa... with a look at the efforts there. terisa? (vicki) santa rosa's fountaingrove neighborhood was ravaged by the fire. this video shows some of the many homes there that burned to the ground.(grant) but kron4's maureen kelly found one street that is

they said they have identified key structures within santa rosa that they want to protect. sutter hospital is one of them and they want to make sure they are protected the shelters because there are so many people in those areas now and the spokesperson told us one of the biggest issues right now is the winds keeps changing directions. when we first got here it was blowing so hard we could barely see because all of the smoke was circling around us. as these winds continue to change direction, firefighters are being told that they do not know where to tell residents to evacuate next. someone was asking us this morning we had heard anything about her street. she is name and off the streets and i told her we did not have any information with mandatory evacuation still in place. i asked her how did you find out there was a fire? my husband woke up about the house next door was on fire because the sky was just orange and i said what are police officers and she said she was not able to get anything out except her children and her dog. >>> is now pushed into very densely populated city.

. >>> we have new video of the evacuation at sutter hospital in santa rosa. this is a time lapse. you can see hospital workers ushering patients to safety with flames from the tubbs fire raging in the distance. many of these patients were taken to santa rosa memorial hospital. the staff there has been dealing with all kinds of emergencies from fire victims to birth. burn victims. doctors and administrators talked about the early hours as their emergency room was flooded with injuries and burn victims. some of the staff dealing with emergencies of their own as the fires have been contained. doctors have been dealing with another medical issue. say they actually expected to see >> we've seen around 400 respiratory cases of differing severity. you know, there is a baseline number that we normally see in in community, but -- in this community, but we think about 400 additional due to the poor air quality and direct smoke inhalation. >> the doctors say they actually expected to see more urgent cases, but they credit police and firefighters for quickly getting people out of the path of

is one of the lucky ones and remember we talk about evacuations at kaiser and up the road at sutter santa rosais directly across the freeway from sutter and we moved the map to show you sutter and looks like that is fine but imagine her worry looking across the freeway and seeing flamesthat threatened sutter. >> and considering this is the deadliest fire in the state's history with so far the fires in northern california, 31 deaths right now. many of them 17 alone were from sonoma county. and the wind whipped up that fire and dropped embers and drastically different places throughout sonoma county. so we are focused on that. >> well, we went across the street from sutter hospital. >> and that's gone. >> across march quest springs road and they look like they are probably businesses but it's hard to tell from up above. but this is some of the properties off mar quest spring road before you get to old redwood highway that intersection on the right. >> we are going to continue look i mean, the moment you go down the street, you can see this is an entire cul-de-sac and there's not one home standin

almost 100 people were evacuated from sutter health in santa rosa. now...eing what hospital staff seeing what hospital staff had to deal with... as they moved patients out. surveillance cameras captured the flames that surrounded the hospital. a security guard and other employees grabbed fire extinguishers. ( darya ) dozens of evacuees arrived as patients were being cleared out. they were moved out as well. hospital officials say they are hopeful that the facility will open mid week. ( darya ) if you are looking for information on road conditions and evacuations. you can call the sonoma county information hotline at the number you see on your screen. you can also check to see i

. >> we just found out that sutter santa rosa regional hospital has been added to the evacuation list. sirens have been sounding since midnight with police going through neighborhoods getting people out. we want to go live and talk to yoli . i can see the ash raining down on you, are you okay and can you breed all right? >> i am okay and in and okay area. you can see this wind bellowing on the other side of highway 101. things have improved a bit by kaiser permanente. for now it is safe. we do know that it was evacuated. there are still some cars and emergency vehicles there. i am on bicentennial way. we have seen police officers going back and forth in this area. this is towards range avenue and bicentennial way.>> i live down the street, that's correct. i'm trying to pack up all my stuff. this is crazy. extracted somebody tell you to evacuate? >> no. but this is crazy. please pray for the residence in sonoma county. this is crazy. that building is kfc and trader joe's. it's no longer there. there is a high school down there. this is crazy. ambulances and emergency vehicles trying to

justine) when the fires started ragging one week agon, almost 100 people were evacuated from sutter health in santa rosa. and for the first time, we are seeing how hospital staff dealt with getting those patients out safely. kron 4's hermela aregawi spoke with the people who were the first line of defense for many victims. she joins us live from the hospital. hermela .. some of the patients were in surgery or in labor... how did the hospital do it? (hermela aregawi)the hospital has been closed for a week now..a spokesperson tells me the facility was built for disastersbut they haven't seen anything quite like this. surveillance cameras capture countless fires surrounding sutter hospital.employees sprung into action as victims looking for refuge arrived. kelsey claybrook/sutter security helped victimsit looked like a lot of people in communal vehicles. some of them half dressed.some of them with injuries. and we immediately started trying to separate between evacuees and medical patients. we had lot of pets. we had a lot of belongings at some point while im pulling people in from the outside. we received