SOME EVACUATION ORDERS LIFTED - Napa County 08/21/20 9:30 AM. LNU Lighting Complex Fire, Napa County (more info), Napa, Lake, Sonoma, Solano, and Yolo Counties, *Hennessey (merged fires) 293,602 acres, 26% contained, _________________________________________________________. Support News of the North Bay on Patreon! If you come across any downed power lines treat them as live and contact PG&E. The following areas were downgraded from Evacuation Order to Evacuation Warning: A portion of zones 1D5 downgraded from Evacuation Order to Evacuation Warning, Westside Road south of Sweetwater Springs Road, NOTE: McPeak Road north of Wasson Road remain evacuation order, NOTE: Mount Jackson resort Road to remain under evacuation order, A portion of zones 1B3 downgraded from Evacuation Order to Evacuation Warning, North and East of Lion Head Ranch Road at King Ridge Road, South West of 14900 Stewart Point Skaggs Springs Road, NOTE: Remainder of the zone still under Evacuation Order, NOTE: Lion Head Ranch Road under Evacuation order. Customers can locate their outage block on their most recent bill and can also look up outage blocks by address online. Walbridge Fire (merged with Stewarts): West of Healdsburg. "We're not going anywhere, we stay here". As of early Sunday, about 32,000 people in Sonoma County alone were under an evacuation order, according to sheriffs office spokeswoman Misti Wood, although those orders were downgraded to warnings in several areas, including Dry Creek Valley outside Healdsburg, and eastern Forestville. Sonoma County Fire Evacuation Map: https://sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=69a0e54e9e2b48c086d122027b21c961, Wednesday August 19th, 2020 :: 10:09 p.m. PDT. It will be staffed from 4pm until 7pm. North of Old Cazadero Road and Austin Creek (The actual Creek) and East Austin Creek through the recreation area. All other areas under evacuation order are still closed. NOTE: Residents living on Sweetwater Springs Road will have to report to the traffic control point at Armstrong Woods Road to make access. News of the North Bays content is free and open to everyone. Roads closed included Chiles Pope Valley Road, Sage Canyon Road and Highway 128. This is a family newspaper, please use a kind and respectful tone. If you are in the area please evacuate now! dead ends, extending west to the Russian River. Screen Shot of INTERACTIVE MAP -click on link above image, Download the pdf above the image, for a full view. First published on April 20, 2022 / 9:59 PM. Please utilize these routes so we can get all residents out safely and quickly in the future. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. So the family and their animals got back in the car, headed to a Motel 6 in Santa Rosa where they would spend more of their dwindling savings. If you are in Zone 1D5 be prepared to evacuate. These areas are referenced in grids 2E1, 2E2, 2E3 and 2E4 of the attached map. Get Morning Report and other email newsletters, SANTA ROSA, CA - AUGUST 23: Guerneville evacuee Rhonda Hall, center, comforts her daughter, Victoria Johnston, 15, as she talks about her gecko she left behind in Guerneville as Dr. Mark LaGrave, of Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa, looks on outside at the evacuation center at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Sunday, Aug., 23, 2020. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group), HEALDSBURG, CA - AUGUST 22: A thick smoky cloud moves over vineyards in Healdsburg, Calif., as the LNU Lightning Complex fire still burning regions of Napa and Sonoma County on Saturday, Aug., 22, 2020. The 15-10 fire, located near Berryessa Knoxville Road and Putah Creek Bridge, had burned 4,500 acres. Residents living on this section of the Sweetwater Springs Road will not be able to go home until it is safe. March 17, 2020. and the Town of Windsor of the maps. View the interactive evacuation map and search by address at https://arcg.is/0buuL1. 10,000 structures are threatened by the Tick Fire burning near Santa Clarita. Though the Walbridge Fire reportedly has made it into the north edge of Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, the old-growth trees in the main area of the park were undamaged Saturday. If we allow our town to get trashed, then we have a trashy town, said Keary Sorenson, who was wearing a tie-dye face mask. Cal Fire has dubbed five fires in Napa County and two in Sonoma County as the LNU Lightning Complex, a nod to their likely origins during a rare summer lightning storm that swept through the region on Sunday and Monday. Monte Rio triangle on Hwy 116 in early January 2022. The Sonoma County Sheriffs Office has placed the wide area between the Sonoma Coast, the Russian River and Sweetwater Springs and Fort Ross roads under mandatory evacuation orders, affecting thousands of residents. The forecast called for more dry lightning strikes Sunday evening and Monday, and firefighters and residents alike spent the weekend anxiously watching the skies, terrified that fire crews could lose the tentative progress theyve made beating the LNU Lightning Complex fires back from towns including Healdsburg, Guerneville and Vacaville. Marisa Kendall is a housing reporter for the Bay Area News Group who covers homelessness for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. The fires have been added to the group of lightning-caused wildfires in the North Bay called the LNU Lightning Complex fires. So the family drove all the way to Reno, Nevada before securing another room. The couple lives in Monte Rio, where Keary moved from Santa Cruz after losing everything in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. The fires impacting Sonoma County include the Walbridge Fire, west of Healdsburg and the Meyers Fire, north of Jenner. So they came to the fairgrounds shelter on Sunday, hoping for help. Crews have made progress on the other side of the Sonoma County line, however, and have lifted some evacuation orders in Yolo County, according to Cal Fire Chief Chris Waters. Hwy 116 remains closed east of Cazadero Highway. Evacuees could find shelter at the Ski Hi Complex. . Elderly persons, children and individuals with respiratory illnesses are particularly susceptible to elevated air pollution levels and should take extra precautions to avoid exposure. Four people . _______________________________________________, Wednesday August 19th, 2020 :: 7:38 p.m. PDT, Wednesday August 19th, 2020 :: 01:22 p.m. PDT, Evacuation Warning for the Walbridge Fire (Fire 13-4), Walbridge Fire (Fire 13-4) Evacuation WARNING Update, Incidents Overview Map > https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/. Residents are to leave now, Cal Fire officials said. Theres going to be a lot of traffic in the area so please drive safely; our priority is getting everyone home safely. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group), CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device. Continue to follow the instructions of first responders in the area and make sure to listen for hi-lo sirens if fire conditions change. Residents are encouraged to participate in these exercises to practice for real emergency scenarios, they could just be life saving said District 1 Supervisor Susan Gorin, Board of Supervisors. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group), HEALDSBURG, CA - AUGUST 21:Part of the Milky Way is seen in the night sky as the LNU Lightning Complex fire continues burning vegetation in the ridges near Chemise Road in Healdsburg, Calif., on Friday, Aug., 21, 2020. The utility remained on standby if it was ordered to impose potential rotating outages, said spokeswoman Deanna Contreras. LIVE: 13-4 Fire Update. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group). Guerneville is under evacuation order as the LNU Lightning Complex fire continues burning regions of Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Lake and Yolo counties. Rio County tweeted an update to the evacuation order at 4:35 p.m. "If your house is east of Truman you are clear to enter your home." The fire charred around 17 acres. The Sonoma County Sheriffs Office is lifting the evacuation orders and warnings in the following areas: Zone WI-A (Town of Windsor) all orders lifted, Open Zone 1 map to determine your exact area, Map Grid 1D1 downgraded to Evacuation Warning, Map Grid 1D2 downgraded to Evacuation Warning. The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office is downgrading an Evacuation Order to an Evacuation Warning for the Walbridge Fire area. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group), SANTA ROSA, CA - AUGUST 23: Paul Dunaway, Director of Sonoma County Human Services' Adult and Aging Division, shows the 6-feet social distance required between camping beds at an evacuation center at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Sunday, Aug., 23, 2020. Download the pdf above the image, for a full view. "No, there's hundreds of people there, actually." The LNU Lightning Complex has burned at least 219,067 acres and . The burn area is under a Public Health Order due to health hazards created by the fire. New Evacuation Orders, Temp Evacuation Sites. All other areas under evacuation order are still closed. Its also hard not to think about what was left behind: When Hall and her kids evacuated, they took their two dogs and two cats but werent able to take their beloved crested gecko, Rocket. Hennessey Fire (Merged Fires - Gamble, Green, Aetna, Markley, Spanish, Morgan, Round): Hennessey Ridge Road in Napa County, Califonia. Weather conditions overnight were more favorable, yet there were nearly 300 lightning strikes across California. from Martinelli Rd. PDT, Fire 13-4 Evacuation Warning Order Update. You may also visit https://arcg.is/0buuL1, type in your address and see what the status is of your zone. A little after noon Tuesday, Napa County announced an additional order 390 homes in the Berryessa Estates neighborhood. El rea que debe evacuarse de inmediato es al sur de Stewarts Point-Skaggs Springs Road, al norte de Austin Creek, al oeste de la interseccin de Mill Creek Road en Puccioni Road y al este de Cedars. Multiple wildfires inside and outside of the Bay Area are creating an unhealthy breathing environment, Jack Broadbent, executive officer of the Air District, said in a statement. Marisa Kendall is a housing reporter for the Bay Area News Group who covers homelessness for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Copyright 2023, All Rights Reserved. to the intersection of River Rd at Trenton Rd. Residents should remain in their cars and are asked to wear a face covering. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group), GUERNEVILLE, CA - AUGUST 22: Keary Sorenson, of Monte Rio, of Monte Rio, takes photos of the signs he and his wife Sally put on a corner in downtown Guerneville, Calif., which is under evacuation order as the LNU Lightning Complex fire continues burring Solano and Napa counties on Saturday, Aug., 22, 2020. 0% contained. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group), HEALDSBURG, CA - AUGUST 23: CalFire and other fire department firefighters monitor the Walbridge Fire on the ridges near Chemise Road in Healdsburg, Calif., as LNU Lightning Complex fire continues burning regions of Napa and Solano counties on Sunday, Aug., 23, 2020. If at any time you feel unsafe, please call 9-1-1. UPDATED: Please read and follow our commenting policy: MARY CALLAHAN, WILL SCHMITT, NASHELLY CHAVEZ, LORI A. CARTER, PHIL BARBER. Theres no one home to feed him crickets and mist him with water, and she worries what will become of him. Within a few hours, they had to move again without getting a refund on their room. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group), SANTA ROSA, CA - AUGUST 23: A fire evacuee walks past camping beds at an evacuation center at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Sunday, Aug., 23, 2020. Air conditioning units and car vent systems should be set to re-circulate to prevent outside air from moving inside. MORE INFO HERE: https://socoemergency.org/recover/walbridge-meyers-fire-recovery/local-assistance-center/. Monte Rio Fire Chief Steve . All other areas under evacuation order are still closed. The fire is burning in the town and massive electrical outages are being reported. There may be smoke in the respective areas as firefighters continue firefighting operations. Incidents Overview > https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents. The Sorensons own their cleaning services company, "if we allow our town to get trash, then we have a trashy town," Her husband said as they try to prevent the trash going into the river. You can also call 1(800)743-5000. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.