Schools Reopening In Hard-Hit Santa Rosa After Wildfires
Thirteen schools are scheduled to reopen Friday and 11 more on Monday after fires in Sonoma County forced their closure for three weeks.
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Thirteen schools are scheduled to reopen Friday and 11 more on Monday after fires in Sonoma County forced their closure for three weeks.
A 73-year-old Redwood Valley man has been arrested for shooting at a Cal Fire crew who were battling a wildfire bearing down on his property.
Homeowners who've lost everything in the wine country wildfires now face some tough decisions, whether to rebuild and whether to let the government take control of the cleanup.
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Tuesday afternoon unanimously adopted emergency ordinances geared toward providing immediate and emergency housing for residents displaced by the wildfires in the county this month.
With Napa County residents trying to return to a sense of normalcy in the wake of the Wine Country wildfires, on Monday students went back to class as all Napa public schools reopened.
Nine-year-old Loren Smith and his family lost everything, including his treasured collection of baseball cards and other memorabilia, when wildfires ripped through Santa Rosa.
As the Tubbs Fire raged through Santa Rosa, demolishing whole blocks on a path of fiery destruction, one community was spared devastation thanks to the bravery and quick thinking of a few residents.
On Sunday, a small group of Santa Rosa residents gathered at the Sonoma Fairgrounds to bid a very fond farewell to departing firefighers.
Residents throughout California's picturesque wine country returned to neighborhoods this weekend where fields of debris and ash stood in place of backyards filled with children, swing sets and weekend barbecues.
Bernie Stock and his neighbors were on a quest Saturday to find a woman who appeared out of the smoke and flames of the deadly Wine Country wildfires and helped save their homes.
Residents are returning Friday morning to the neighborhoods in the city that were most damaged by the Tubbs Fire.
As the flames closed in on Jane Gardiner's Redwood Valley home early the morning of Oct. 9th, she called her step-son to tell him she was waiting for the fire department to rescue her.
Some had just celebrated marriages of half a century or longer. They spent their time volunteering and playing with grandchildren. A few had lived through both world wars.
When the Tubbs Fire exploded outside Calistoga, it raced over a nearby ridge and into the Franz Valley. Within minutes, it was bearing down on Mayacamas Ranch.
Firefighters continued to increase containment of the fires burning in Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties Thursday as officials raised the number of structures destroyed to nearly 7,000.
As the effort to rebuild from the wildfires in wine country begins, authorities have issued a warning about toxic materials in ash and debris.
The first lawsuit in the wine country wildfires was filed by a Santa Rosa couple who blames PG&E for the fire that turned their home to ash.
Almost a week after the deadly Tubbs Fire ravaged the Santa Rosa neighborhood of Coffey Park, KPIX 5 got an exclusive view of the devastation from Skydrone 5.
Firefighters continued to gain the upper hand on the deadliest outbreak of wildfires in California history Wednesday with containment numbers soaring higher and more help was on the way.
Laurens Mesaros didn't have much time to think about how she was going to save her beloved miniature horse Stardust when the flames of the deadly Tubbs fire was bearing down on her property.
State regulators are investigating the evacuations of two assisted living homes for seniors that were damaged when a wind-driven wildfire swept through California wine country.
It was a battle waged on the northern edge of Sonoma's wine country, fought along a wooded canyon bordered by wineries and the county's sprawling juvenile justice center.
A Santa Rosa couple who lost their home in the Tubbs Fire sued PG&E Co., claiming the fire was caused by alleged negligence by the utility in maintaining electric lines and pruning trees and vegetation.
Sonoma and Napa health officials are expressing concerns that all the ash from burned homes and cars have created a dangerous toxic mess that first responders and the communities will be dealing with for many years to come.
Thousands of weary firefighters made progress early Tuesday, taming a series of wildfires that have brought historic levels of death and destruction to Northern California's picturesque wine country.
