Sonoma County To Re-Assess Properties In Areas Burned By Wildfires
The Sonoma County Assessor's Office will be sending teams of appraisers to burned areas of the county starting Monday to inspect fire-damaged properties.
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The Sonoma County Assessor's Office will be sending teams of appraisers to burned areas of the county starting Monday to inspect fire-damaged properties.
California's insurance commissioner says property damage losses from a series of destructive wildfires earlier this month now exceed $3.3 billion.
Firefighters fully contained the Nuns Fire in the North Bay, according to Cal Fire officials.
A big piece of Silicon Valley history was lost to the fires in the North Bay.
Cal Fire officials said the Tubbs Fire and the Nuns Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties are 99 percent contained as of Monday morning.
Police said two people arrested Saturday on suspicion of looting a property in Santa Rosa have allegedly been uncooperative and one allegedly gave police stolen information to identify himself.
Sonoma County officials said Saturday it will likely take years to fully recover from devastating wildfires as Rep. Nancy Pelosi and five other members of Congress viewed the burn areas.
Thirteen schools are scheduled to reopen Friday and 11 more on Monday after fires in Sonoma County forced their closure for three weeks.
Firefighters will shift to patrol status for the next few days to monitor the vegetation fire that burned 391 acres.
Metallica has joined with Dave Matthews and Oakland rapper G-Eazy to form the "Band Together Bay Area" coalition to raise relief money for victims of the wildfires.
The fire burned about one-fourth of an acre of brush, shrubs and trees, according to fire officials.
All evacuation orders for the Bear Fire in unincorporated Santa Cruz County have been lifted Monday morning, according to Cal Fire officials.
The estimate of homes and structures destroyed was boosted from 6,900 late last week to 8,400 as officials neared completion of their damage assessment.
State and federal officials are warning victims of the wildfires in the North Bay to be cautious of scams and fraudulent phone calls as they begin to recover from the fires.
On Sunday, a small group of Santa Rosa residents gathered at the Sonoma Fairgrounds to bid a very fond farewell to departing firefighers.
Progress is moving forward on a steady path to containment of the North Bay wildfires, with recent rain helping the efforts.
Most wine tasting rooms have reopened in Napa and Sonoma counties following the wildfires this month in the two counties.
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.
The Bear Fire in unincorporated Santa Cruz County has burned 320 acres and is 40 percent contained as of Friday morning.
"ICE attacked the Sheriff's Office in the midst of the largest natural disaster this county has even experienced," Sheriff Rob Giordano said.
California's insurance commissioner says preliminary estimates of losses from the state's recent siege of wildfires exceed $1 billion and that the figure is expected to rise.
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.
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office lifted some evacuation orders Thursday for the Bear Fire in unincorporated Santa Cruz County.
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.
