Welcome inside the state's Emergency Operations Center at Cal OES
headquarters outside Sacramento inside this room many of the state's top
emergency managers and leaders from dozens of agencies have been working
around the clock to coordinate response and recovery operations for more than a
dozen wildfires currently burning across California. We've got the very latest
coming up next
I'm Bryan May the state's operation center Cal OES headquarters today the
third day in a row that this room has been activated around the clock dozens
of local state and federal agencies working together to help those affected
by the wildfires and at the same time fire officials coordinating the massive
and ever-changing effort to get resources where and when they're needed
California's mutual aid system now requesting and getting help from all
across the country we already have crews on incidents from outside states
including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming and in
route to for California now Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico
and Oregon here as well there are 17 major wildfires currently burning in
California here's the numbers on just the top four of those and these numbers
are changing all the time we will start south and work our way north across the
state the Cranston Fire that's in Riverside County sitting at 100 or
13,000 acres 29% contained the Ferguson fire in Mariposa County this is the one
that's been blanketing Yosemite Valley for a week now 53,000 plus acres also
29% contained the Mendocino complex fire this is actually two separate fires it's
the river and ranch fires two fires being coordinated as the Mendocino
complex this fire has exploded the number you see there 24,000 acres plus
but it is doubled today it grew almost 15,000 acres overnight containment at
10% and evacuations all across the area the entire city of Lakeport evacuated
late this afternoon and then the largest and deadliest fire in the state the Carr
fire in Shasta County it grew another 5,000 acres overnight now approaching
90,000 acres containment still at just five percent. Earlier this afternoon
local and state officials held their daily press conference updating
residents with the latest on the firefighting efforts for the Carr and for
a change their message was one of increasing hope
we're feeling a lot more optimistic today as we are starting to gain some
ground rather than being in the defensive mode on this fire all the time
we're starting to make some good progress out there I think you can see
that as we move around the fire we're going to continue to work hard to get
direct line on this thing I think by tonight
you'll start seeing containment percentages increase that was this
afternoon last night local and state leaders held
a community meeting in Redding and as you can imagine one of the first
questions that they got from the audience what's the timeframe for us to
be allowed to go back home.
Safety is first and foremost oftentimes the
infrastructure, roads and the utility power lines have been damaged we have to
get those back up or the utility companies do when we come to the
decision with our fire co-operators to repopulate an area we do so in a
controlled process and it's done in stages usually a section of a community
will be repopulated so that we're just not dropping the green flag and
everybody's rushing in at the same time
some 38,000 people have been evacuated in Shasta County since the car fire
began in officials saying at that press conference this afternoon they are
hopeful to begin repopulation soon now in the meantime here are the shelter
locations in Shasta County and there are again a lot of people in these locations
Shasta College in Redding is full they're redirecting their evacuees to
the crosspoint Community College in Redding they have about 150 spots
available at Simpson University on College Drive in Redding they've got
also about 60 spots available Grace Baptist Church in writing now the
capacity of two hundred and just opened foothills high school three hundred
spots available if you are a resident of Shasta County you are urged to register
your cell phone to get emergency alerts and in Shasta County the notification
system is known as Code Red the Sheriff's Department the local police
and fire departments all feed into Code Red that website is
shascom911.com
that's shascom911.com
again I want to show you a live look
inside the state's Emergency Operations Center at Cal OES headquarters in
Sacramento this room has been staffed 24/7 for the past three days
and while the fires are managed from the incident command posts on location it is
the overall coordination of state resources and logistics that takes place
here in this room
You want to focus top priority is getting the fires out you
know saving lives and and and keeping people out of harm's way and getting the
fires out this is challenge because as I mentioned earlier the weather conditions
make it such that you know it's ever-changing and of course we we don't
have just one fire we've got 17 major fires going throughout the state and and
and so resource management and coordination is very very important and
we're constantly here in this center moving the chess pieces around to ensure
that we've got adequate amount of resources in the right place at the
right time
For more information on any of the large wildfires burning across
the state you can go to the Cal Fire incident page that is fire.ca.gov there
are links there for each of the major fires including the latest information
and the latest maps for all of us at Cal OES and all of our local state and
federal partners I'm Bryan May thanks for watching
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