. >> valerie lynn evans. 75 years old from santa rosa. carmen berriz, 75 years old from apple valley california. she was vacationing with her family. >> reporter: as the crisis continues, the death toll climbs. most founded their homes and one victim was in a car. >> there have been ids in this case in a pile of ash and bones where there was a piece of metal left from a surgery with an id number on it and that helped us id the person. i am sorry to tell you that but that is what we are faced with in this fire as far as identifying people. >> a feel like mandatory and voluntary are almost the same thing at this time. >> reporter: sonoma is like many towns, in limbo. businesses are mindful of santa rosa's devastation to the west. >> if the wind picks up, it may hit the business. we've been here 32 years. >> reporter: throughout the valley of the moon, thank you messages for firefighters. this crew from the sierra national forest racing darkness to get brush cleared. >> we appreciate you guys. we are here to help them. >> reporter: and a cle

valerie lynn evans from santa rosa. carmen caldentey berrisz. >> was vacationing here. michael john dornbach and veronica elizabeth mccombs, all confirmed to have perished. >> ten of the 17. seven not given due to notification of kin. confirmed two other victims through families. christina hanson and linda tunis from santa rosa. >> investigating whether downed power lines sparked the fires along with other causes. pg&e has been fine before for lack of maintenance on trees near lines that caused deadly wildfires. >> dan noyes with more. >> first acknowledge all the pg&e workers who do a great job keeping the lights on but telling me that downed lines, high winds and overgrown trees were deadly combination. power lines on meyers drive in santa rosa were failing. you see what, what is going through your mind? >> panicked at first. >> took this video from safety of his home. >> terrifying. trying to remain calm. >> caught ryan on the roof of his house clearing dry leaves with girlfriend. very close call. >> starting to be fall. dry leaves around. could have hit one of the h

valerie lynn evans from santa rosa. carmen caldentey >> was vacationing here. john dornbach and veronica elizabeth mccombs, all confirmed to have perished. >> ten of the 17. seven not given due to notification of kin. confirmed two other victims through families. christina hanson and linda tunis from santa rosa. >> investigating whether downed power lines sparked the fires along with other causes. pg&e has been fine before for lack of maintenance on trees near lines that caused deadly wildfires. >> dan noyes with more. >> first acknowledge all the pg&e workers who do a great job keeping the lights on but telling me that downed lines, high winds and overgrown trees were deadly combination. power lines on meyers drive in santa rosa were failing. you see what, what is going through your mind? >> panicked at first. >> took this video from safety of his home. >> terrifying. trying to remain calm. >> caught ryan on the roof of his house clearing dry leaves with girlfriend. very close call. >> starting to be fall. dry leaves around. could have hit one of the house and

rosa, suiko grant, doll hal hal, leroy peter halbur -- donna mae halbur, leroy peter halbur, valerie lynn evans, carmen caldentey berriz, michael john dornbach and veronica elizabeth mccombs. we are told that most of the victims were found in their homes, one person was found by their car, at this point it's hard to say if there are any common conditions about how the victims died but the youngest person on the list is 57, the majority of the victims are elderly in their 70s and 80s, the sheriff explained how the victims were found. lets listen. >> they were found in targeting searches. people called and gave us enough information that we needed to go look for them. again, we had to be able to get into the spot. there were, in the last couple of days, there was enough evidence to go look at houses that we could not get near because the houses were too hot. that's how we handled that. these were done after we were september to a house to find someone. >> reporter: as far as the missing, there were 1100 people reported missing, 745 of those people were found safely. they are making great progress

lynne anderson powell, arthur tasman grant, suiko grant, donna mae halbur, leroy peter halbur, valerie lynn evans, carmen caldentey berriz, michael john dornbach of calistoga and veronica elizabeth mccombs of santa rosa, we are told that most of the victims were found in their homes, one was found by their car, at this point a sheriff said that it's hard to say if there are any common things about how the victims died but we are told that the majority of those on the li are elderly, the youngest person is 57, the sheriff did not have much else to say about the search but it's sad for first responders, coming up at 10:00, what officials are asking people to do if they have reported someone missing. >>> thank you. >>> here's a look at some of the numbers on the fires, the largest continues to be the atlas fire burning in napa and solano counties burning 43,000- acres, the containment on that wept up to 7%. that's good news but the containment on all of these is largely unchanged since yesterday with many of them only three or 4% contained. under 10% in most cases, all of the fires getting slightly

leroy peter hallber, 80 years old, valerie lynn evans, 75 years old from santa rosa, from apple valley, california, carmen caldente perez per rished in the flames. she was vacationing in the area with her family. michael john dornbach 57 from calistoga and a 67-year-old from santa rosa. all among the confirmed dead. because of the tragedy. abc 7 news has separately confirmed two other victims through their families. christina hanson and linda tuness both of santa rosa. a lot of victims as you can tell from santa rosa so devastated by the fire. the redwood and potter fires have burned more than 34,000 acres and are just 10% contained at this point. volunteers gathered at the high school to unload cases of water for the victims. lonnie rivera is in you kia with a closer look at conditions in mend oh sino county. >> reporter: in this leveled community, the only lively sound comes from tree-cutting crews. they're focused on chopping down unstable burned trees to prevent any other further destruction from a wildfire. >> the fire got here probably like 2:00 a.m. but we woke up at about 1:00

from santa rosa veronica mccombs, carol collins-swasey, lin anderson powell, valeri lynn evans, and arthur tasmas grant. this morning about 400 people remain unaccounted for in sonoma county. firefighters are getting a brief respite after an influx of resources arrived. >> these are photos from the sebastopol fire department and as you can see, you can actually see it there but we do have photos. there they are. firefighters getting a break at a fire camp at the napa county expo. the crew just spent 36 straight hours fighting the atlas fire. at the camp they are assigned individual shelters. >> we have portable showers and a mobile kitchen unit. feed them on site so we're trying to get as much rest and calories as we possibly can. >> crews will wake up by 7:00 a.m. and then eat breakfast and get their briefing before heading back to the fire lines by 8:00. >>> we do have a new warning from napa police and you'll want to listen up if your home was spared. they are already issuing precautions for people who do still have their homes standing. they say when you return you really will not want

valerie lynn evans, 75 years old from santa rosa. carmen caldenty. 75 years old as she was here vacationing in santa rosa with her family. michael john dorenbach from calistoga. appear veronica liz meth mccombs, 67 years old from santa rosa. our hearts and thoughts go with friends and family. currently we have 1,100 missing persons reports. 745 of them roughly have been located safe. so we are whittling that list down. again communication issues. we are getting through. we still have 400 outstanding. we are going to continue to do what i mentioned this morning, target severance. we are working the missing person's list. go to specific houses, looking for people as part of the recovery search. as the area cools and is safer to go in we will do broader severance. i want to reiterate the importance of calling 7075653856. to, one report people missing. but, two, please report them not missing when you find them because we are using resources to find them. keep us informed with how it's working out. the names i read will be posted on face

from santa rosa veronica elizabeth mccombs, carol collins-swasey, lin anderson powell, valeri lynn evans and arthur as it man grant and his wife suiko grant. about 400 people remain unaccounted for in sonoma county. >>> firefighters in the north bay are getting rest after an influx of resources has just arrived. >> take a look at the photos of the sebastopol fire department getting some rest. a u.s. forest service crew spent 36 straight hours fighting the atlas fire. 36 hours. they are assigned individual shelters in which they can rest and recuperate. >> we have tents here, portable showers, a mobile kitchen unit, feed them on site, try to get them as much rest and calories as we possibly can. >> crews will wake up by 7:00 a.m. and then eat breakfast and get their briefing before heading back to the fire lines by 8:00. among the firefighters on the front lines 3,800 california inmates. the state department of corrections and rehabilitation says those with low security risk are assigned to 43 fire camps across the state now all volunteers helping cut containment lines. >>> and this morni

valerie lynn evans. carmen berez, 75. 57-year-old michael. 67 veronica mccomb of santa rosa. all their family members have been notified and now their names have been made public. and we have the story of this person too earlier in the week. we should remind you. 28-year-old christina hanson died. her family letting you know they were working for her. she was in a wheelchair. it turns out she did fall victim to the fire. >> and also family members are confirming to kron 4 that 69- year-old linda died in the fire. she was at the journeys end mobile home park. and i am so sorry to say that they're just now sending in cadaver dogs to many of these neighborhoods in santa rosa, so we're unfortunately going to have terrible news as the kron 4 morning news continues today and through the weekend. we've been covering this more than any other station. if you have any other pictures, if you've lost family members and friends, we will share those with our viewers and i think it's a way to bring how horrible this is

also valerie lynn evans and carmen caldentey berriz. also 57 year old michael john dornbach and 67 year old veronica elizabeth mccombs. that's a list of names but we also have pictures. kron four is confirming that 28 year old christina hansen died when her apartment was burned. her family was looking for her and she has not able to get out. also the family of linda tunis reported q+wtthat their mother in the tubbs fire. >> yesterday and today will be the first full day that they can go in with cadaver dogs to look for more victims because the people, hundreds of people, are unaccounted for and friends and family are so concerned. they want them found or they want to know what happened to them. >> lets get you updated on the fires and the fire fighting efforts. this is the tubbs fire, it has impacted santa rosa and it's threatening calistoga, this is a large one, 35,000-acres in size, at this moment is 10% contained. we are expecting an update from napa and sonoma fire fighting officials in our 7:00 and 9:00 hours, hopefully the contai

valerie lynn everybody's of santa rosa. -- evans of santa rosa, and veronica elizabeth mccombs of santa rosa. the sheriff said identify something of these victims was very challenging, because in some cases, there wasn't much left of their remains. let's take a lesson. >> some of these remains are actually intact bodies, much easier to identify and get things from. some of them are merely ashes and bones, and we may never get truly confirmative identification on ashes. cremated, you can't get i.d. we were able to get identification in some of those cases by medical devices. a hip implant, for example, has serial number on it. so we actually did in that this case. two of the identifications were done by medical devices or implants. two were done through dental records. one was done through difficultinging tattoos. others were by fingerprints, so they were combined with information from family members. most of the victims were found in their homes. one was found by the car. the youngest person on the list was 57. most of those who died are elderly. the sheriff also reiterated this to us t