Posted on 10/09/2017 11:49:48 AM PDT by Freedom56v2
NAPA (CBS SF) — Wind-whipped wildfires roared to life Sunday night and early Monday across Wine Country, burning building, forcing evacuations and injuring several people.
The Atlas Peak fire was the largest of several wildfires, quickly growing to more than 200 acres near Napa. Meanwhile, the fire near Calistoga had burned several building and sent several people to the hospital to be treated for burns.
Cal Fire said firefighters were battling several blazes in Sonoma County. The largest was in the area of Porter Creek Road and Petrified Forest Road near Calistoga where mandatory evacuations were ordered for residents along Porter Creek, Petrified Forest, Franz Valley and Mountain Home Ranch Rd.
Early Monday morning, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department said fires had erupted at Mark West Springs and Riebli roads in Santa Rosa, at Shiloh and Conde roads in Windsor and at Highway 116 and Fredericks Road in Sebastopol.
The fires had stretched Sonoma and Napa counties firefighting resources to the breaking point. A call for mutual aid was issued to other Bay Area fire departments.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
He like so many other CHP’s and the CHP pilots are humble guys and gals.
Thanks, my old FRiend!
From Grampa Dave - Donation Match?!?! Great! Thank you
Two places to donate money to help the fire victims and all of your money will go to that effort!
The family that owns Hall’s Winery has started a matching fund drive to help the people in the fire areas needing financial aid. Every $ donated will be matched and will go to help those in need and not line some rich liberal so called charity’s pockets!
Many of the evacuees left their homes at night with minimal clothing and basically what money they might have had at home. Many will have no homes to return to and maybe no jobs to return to.
This fundraiser being hosted by a great family will help many in need now and later. They will match every $ donated up to $100,000! In less than 24 hours, they have raised: $38,849 raised of $100,000!
https://www.facebook.com/donate/492164871148956/";;>
Below is the address for the Salvation Army in Napa, Ca.. 100% of what you donate will help pay for what the Salvation Army has done and will do!
Salvation Army, 590 Franklin St, Napa, CA 94559
Not hyperbole thiz time. Schools are closed through the bay area. It’s rare to have people die in urban/suburban fires. 25 dead and 250 plus missing. I used to live there. It’s only 3% contained with no rain until end of next week.
Puddles of boiling wine. So bizarre.
Continued thoughts and prayers out to our Freepers and everyone else on the West Coast.
On the Phoenix radio news a fire official from California said it was going to be weeks before they will have the fires contained and under control. I hope he’s wrong. Weeks!!!
You don’t happen to remember who it was or what program you heard it on...would be nice to get a news report posted on it.
Thanks.
AM 550 KFYI
Thanks!
What time was show?...maybe there is audio
Here is a “feel better” story...and fundraiser with 100% going to those in need. Seems like a nice guy!
Former A’s player Jonny Gomes stands next to the military truck he’ll be using to help with relief efforts in Wine Country this weekend. Photo: Courtesy Jonny Gomes And C& Equipment
Gomes, 36, is shipping his 2 1/2-ton M35 military truck to his hometown and he told The Chronicle that he’ll be driving it around to help move burned out vehicles and clear roadways in the wake of the Wine Country fires. He’s also planning to help keep a watch out for looters in evacuated neighborhoods.
“It’s pretty simple,” Gomes said by phone from his home in Arizona. “I’ve never had anything hit so close to home. We donate to cancer research, to support the troops, all sorts of causes, but when 1,000 people in your life are affected by one thing, it really hits you. I’ve got buddies who left their houses at 4 a.m. and realized that what they had in their pockets and in their car was 100 percent all they had left, and their homes were vaporized. It’s crazy, man, just brutal.”
Gomes’ older brother, Joey, was evacuated from his Santa Rosa home in the early hours Monday and he and his family have not been allowed to return. “Their place might be there, and it might not be,” Jonny Gomes said.
Gomes, who attended Casa Grande High School and Santa Rosa Junior College, has started a GoFundMe.com page to raise funds to help victims of the fires in the affected counties at www.gofundme.com/707Relief.
“There’s no overhead and the money will 100 percent be going to people in need,” Gomes said. “And I’ll be there to see how I can help. I’ve heard there are 5,000 cars that need to get hauled out and there aren’t enough tow trucks because so many of them burned.
Here is a “feel better” story...and fundraiser with 100% going to those in need. Seems like a nice guy!
Former A’s player Jonny Gomes stands next to the military truck he’ll be using to help with relief efforts in Wine Country this weekend. Photo: Courtesy Jonny Gomes And C& Equipment
Gomes, 36, is shipping his 2 1/2-ton M35 military truck to his hometown and he told The Chronicle that he’ll be driving it around to help move burned out vehicles and clear roadways in the wake of the Wine Country fires. He’s also planning to help keep a watch out for looters in evacuated neighborhoods.
“It’s pretty simple,” Gomes said by phone from his home in Arizona. “I’ve never had anything hit so close to home. We donate to cancer research, to support the troops, all sorts of causes, but when 1,000 people in your life are affected by one thing, it really hits you. I’ve got buddies who left their houses at 4 a.m. and realized that what they had in their pockets and in their car was 100 percent all they had left, and their homes were vaporized. It’s crazy, man, just brutal.”
Gomes’ older brother, Joey, was evacuated from his Santa Rosa home in the early hours Monday and he and his family have not been allowed to return. “Their place might be there, and it might not be,” Jonny Gomes said.
Gomes, who attended Casa Grande High School and Santa Rosa Junior College, has started a GoFundMe.com page to raise funds to help victims of the fires in the affected counties at www.gofundme.com/707Relief.
“There’s no overhead and the money will 100 percent be going to people in need,” Gomes said. “And I’ll be there to see how I can help. I’ve heard there are 5,000 cars that need to get hauled out and there aren’t enough tow trucks because so many of them burned.
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It was just a “top of the hour” quick headline news blurb. I was on the road listening to my van radio, I think it was around 8:00 am Arizona time.
I’ve read where folks have put sprinklers running on their roofs and have saved their homes in some fires. I’m guessing a lot of it has to be done long ago - having a defensible perimeter, keeping trees/bushes trimmed down, etc. I’m guessing in the typical neighborhood one doesn’t worry about that stuff so much as someone out in the country might.
Don’t mean to be discouraging, but when you have this much going on with huge wild fires, it can take a long time to get the fires contained and put out.
Here in Arizona:
Rodeo-Chedeski Fire: 469,000 acres burned. Fire started by arson (a volunteer forest fire fighter hoping to get some work!!) and a stranded hiker signal fire; fire started on June 18 2002, wasn’t put out until July 7 2002.
Wallow Fire: 522,000 acres burned. Fire started by two idiots who didn’t properly put out their camp fire. Fire started on May 29 2011 and wasn’t put out until July 8 2011.
Fortunately nobody died because of these huge fires.
I’ve been tracking tanker drops on https://www.flightradar24.com/38.46,-122.72/11
Wildfires are usually out in the hills and only consume isolated structures and communities, but this one has ravaged one major town so far and is threatening others. I have at least three friends there, they’re all OK so far.
Fires started almost simultaneously along a huge corridor and at least some of it is being investigated as arson. There was one fire that was started by downed power lines in high winds, but that doesn’t explain fires from Willits down to Santa Rosa and then east to Napa all starting at once.
I’m hearing 3500 structures gone so far, 25 dead and 250 missing. This is bad.
I was born in Marin (just to the south) and went to Santa Rosa many, many times and I liked the place. Praying for the best.
This thread apparently has dropped off the sidebar prominent news categories: It seems like it should stay there until the situation is under control.
At the rate this is going, these fires may (may) surpass Hurricane Maria’s US death toll (including PR).
Not good.
Said another prayer for all affected, at supper this evening...
This thread apparently has dropped off the sidebar prominent news categories: It seems like it should stay there until the situation is under control.
At the rate this is going, these fires may (may) surpass Hurricane Maria’s US death toll (including PR).
Not good.
Said another prayer for all affected, at supper this evening...
Thank you...Had sort of thought the same thing earlier...The thread is still in the Breaking News sidebar, but it is down several posts...
I have tried to notify mods...
Yes, I see it down below the Trump UK visit and other threads - not visible on my display(s) unless I open the breaking news page itself. Not to diminish other news, but...
I have asked...Not sure best way to communicate to them...
It was just a “top of the hour” quick headline news blurb. I was on the road listening to my van radio, I think it was around 8:00 am Arizona time.
Thank you!
No - we cannot move it up the sidebar
Local radio 960 AM in Phoenix at 7 pm said 30 confirmed dead, hundreds still missing. Brief comments about the adequacy of the advance warnings given to residents re: evacuating in time. At most the news reader spent about 30 seconds on the story.
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