Sunday afternoon, 174 people were still reported missing, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Supervisor Lynda Hopkins wrote of the losses on her Facebook page that “sadly we anticipate that this total will grow.” “It makes the magnitude of this really just cataclysmic.” “Behind every one of those numbers are people, families, that are really going to be struggling and have to deal with that,” said Supervisor David Rabbitt. Within the unincorporated county, an estimated ?3,819 structures - primarily homes - have been destroyed, representing a loss of more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary assessment from county officials.Ĭombined with numbers previously reported by the city of Santa Rosa, flames have destroyed more than 6,700 structures countywide, causing a total loss of more than $3 billion.
Sonoma County officials also shed new light on the staggering property losses estimated throughout the region from the wildfires. “It’s hard to talk about putting people back in their home and yet other people will never go back to their home,” said Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano at the press conference. The fires have killed at least 40 people in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino and Yuba counties. They are Carmen Colleen McReynolds, 82, of Santa Rosa Lee Chadwick Roger, 72, of Glen Ellen Daniel Martin Southard, 71, of Santa Rosa, and Sharon Rae Robinson, 79, of Santa Rosa. Sheriff’s officials identified an additional four of the 22 victims confirmed dead in Sonoma County. ?At the same time, the grim extent of the wildfires’ toll on human life and property loss has continued to grow as officials released more victims’ names and painted a clearer picture of the damage to the county’s unincorporated areas.
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That could aid the thousands of firefighters battling a series of devastating wildfires that have charred more than 106,000 acres in Sonoma County alone. Warm, dry conditions forecast today for Santa Rosa with highs in the upper 80s and low humidity are expected to give way to cool, wet weather toward the end of the week. The deadliest and most destructive fires in state history still have 17,700 households in Sonoma County without power, a PG&E spokesman said, but that was a substantial reduction from previous days. “Instead of just worrying about the five minutes in front of our faces … We’re able to take a step back, look five days out, maybe even five weeks out. “Today, finally, is a day where at least we here in the city of Santa Rosa, we feel like we can take a breath,” said Santa Rosa Mayor Chris Coursey at an afternoon press conference.
The most destructive fire, the Tubbs fire, is now 60 percent contained and firefighters reported gaining substantial ground on other regional blazes as well, including the Nuns fire which Saturday destroyed homes in Sonoma less than 2 miles from the historic Plaza. All evacuation orders for Healdsburg were lifted as well. The improved conditions in the fires that have killed at least 40 people - including 22 in Sonoma County - prompted authorities to lift evacuation orders for Calistoga and parts of the Larkfield-Wikiup neighborhood north of Santa Rosa.
Despite favorable weather and a surge in firefighting resources that led officials Sunday to claim the weeklong battle against several Sonoma County wildfires was “turning a corner,” the property toll from the fires more than doubled as a sobering new tally estimated they had destroyed some 6,700 structures and left more than $3 billion in losses.
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