This is terrible.

"state of emergency" areas at 6:00 PM.

be absent, because of Trump and how he feels about California, the one state, that barely voted for him.

Color coded people. Californians are blue. Puerto Ricans are brown. 45 cares only about white people who voted for him. He is too dumb to read anything, so he goes by the color of their skin or the color of their votes. He forgets that we are all Americans. He forgets that we are all people, too.

The before pics were of a nice middle class neighborhood. The after pic showed no structures. The whole area swept and scorched by fire. Terrible devastation.

Of the five fires in the areas all are still 0% contained. The only thing saving the rest of the city at this point is that mid afternooon the wind shifted & the tanker planes finally showed up.

paid California in full for any of their Firefighting cost so far this year. BTW,worst time of year for any type of fire for the Wine Country or for that part,Inland Region. All the Grape Vines are drying down as well as all the Softwood Trees in the area. Talk about a Can of Gas ready to go.

Last year brought a lot of rain, a lot of vegetation leading to a lot of fuel for fire. And so it goes..

The Santa Ana Wind, I figure.

Hope people do get evacuated on time.

Thankfully, they are back in their house tonight. Many, many homes destroyed

The kids are away at college, so just the two of them and two cats. They hope their house and car is there when they come back!

Her house was completely destroyed in the fire near La Cresta. I didn't know her but I'm sad for my sister & her family.

Several off ramps were blocked with cones and law enforcement. Several business structures destroyed on West side of 101. Looked like the fire jumped a 6 lane freeway. A friend called at 5am to let me know what was happening. Sutter and Kaiser hospitals were being evacuated this morning.

More info here: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7507357-181/large-swath-of-santa-rosa?ref=TSM&artslide=0

Jerry Brown is more than capable of doing what needs to be done.

I'm less than 20 miles from Napa and the smoke infiltrated my house.

Thank Dawg for goats! I'm not saying this to be flip, but our town brings in herds of goats every summer to chow down on the dry vegetation in the canyon where I live. People love them, and they do the job much more efficiently than humans with machines.

I grieve for my beloved wine country - one of the most beautiful places on earth.