Northern California Wildfires: Resources
We've assembled a list of information, including helpful links, to keep you and your family safe during as wildfires continue to spread.
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We've assembled a list of information, including helpful links, to keep you and your family safe during as wildfires continue to spread.
Communities in wildfire-prone Northern California have an array of emergency systems designed to alert residents of danger: text messages, phone calls, emails and tweets. But after days of raging blazes left at least 23 dead, authorities said those methods will be assessed after some residents complained those warnings never got through.
The death toll from the devastating wine country fires climbed to 14 Thursday in Sonoma County with another 463 people listed as missing, authorities said.
Jessica Tunis screamed at her mother to run out of the burning house but Linda Tunis said she was trapped, there was fire everywhere, and the last thing she said to her daughter was that she was going die before the call dropped.
The panic and terror is obvious in the video. The two men were driving away from their home but were blocked by a gate.
A Napa man whose family was rescued by a California Highway Patrol helicopter met the officers who risked their own lives to save his.
It's a fire that just won't quit that's already killed 13 people throughout the county and burned hundreds of homes.
It's one of the only houses still standing on Douglas Way amid a charred wasteland. And the husband and wife living there are perhaps the only two left on this now blackened block.
Schools have canceled classes for the rest of the week, and a new evacuation center has just opened up at Solano City College.
As strong winds returned to California wine country on Wednesday, wildfires exploded in size and number, prompting authorities to issue new evacuation orders.
The fires surrounding the Sacramento Valley have blanketed the area in a thick cloud of haze.
A wildfire tearing through California's wine country continues to expand unabated, prompting authorities to order more evacuations.
With an estimated 20,000 people being evacuated because of the fires burning in the Wine Country and Northern California, many are asking how they can help.
Wind-driven flames have charred thousands of acres and destroyed thousands of homes in Northern California. Several people have also been killed.
Nearly 200 people were reported missing, though authorities say many are believed to be safe just unable to communicate with friends and family because of downed communication lines in the fire areas.
