![]() īy about 2 am, the fire, carried by near hurricane-level winds, had spread further to the west, crossing Highway 101. In all, tens of thousands of people were evacuated with very little notice. At about 1:30 am, Sonoma County officials began to evacuate neighborhoods in and around Santa Rosa. The advancing flames entered the city from the north, moving into the Fountaingrove area, then moving down ravines between Mark West Springs Road and Fountaingrove Parkway. on Monday, the fire, spreading quickly to the south and west, had reached the Santa Rosa city limits. October 9 The Puerto Vallarta restaurant burns on OctoSmoldering remains of the Journey's End Mobile Home Park on OctoRemains of a house on Cross Creek Road in Fountaingrove on NovemStaircase leading to the west wing buildings of the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel on NovemOverlook view of the damage to the Fountaingrove Inn (foreground) and Journey's End The historic Fountaingrove Round Barn before and after the fireīy 1 a.m. At 11:58 pm, firefighters called for an evacuation order encompassing the area between the cities of Calistoga and Santa Rosa. Officials also used a reverse 911 system that called landlines in certain areas. Instead, location based SMS and email alerts were broadcast – the first of these text messages going out at 10:51 pm, using a system called SoCo Alerts to notify people via cellphone both are limited to those who sign up for these services. Sonoma County officials could have sent out an emergency alert to every cellphone in the region on Sunday night as the fire grew, but chose not to, saying such a widespread alarm would have hampered emergency efforts. ![]() Notably, over a thousand animals at the Safari West Wildlife Preserve remained unharmed, saved by owner Peter Lang, who, aged 76, single-handedly fought back the flames for more than 10 hours, using only garden hoses. The Mark West Springs area, north of Santa Rosa in unincorporated Sonoma County, was directly in the path of the fire. Pushed by strong winds from the northeast, the front of the fire moved more than twelve miles in its first three hours. hit 30 mph an hour later, they were 41 mph. ![]() In northern Santa Rosa, the peak wind gusts at 9:29 p.m. As it and other North Bay fires began to spread, Sonoma County emergency dispatchers sent fire crews to at least 10 reports of downed power lines and exploding transformers. The Tubbs Fire started near Tubbs Lane in Calistoga, around 9:43 p.m. Timeline Tubbs Fire, October 10, 2017, MODIS Terra 721 satellite image, Tubbs Fire, October 9, 2017, MODIS Terra visible satellite image Tubbs Fire, October 10, 2017, MODIS Terra visible satellite image October 8 However, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) later agreed to settle victims' claims as part of a general $13.5 billion bankruptcy plan involving liabilities from other wildfires, and also issued payments to Sonoma County and the city of Santa Rosa as part of a separate settlement with local governments. Īfter an investigation lasting over a year, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ( Cal Fire) determined that the Tubbs Fire was "caused by a private electrical system adjacent to a residential structure" and that there had been no violations of the state's Public Resources Code. The Tubbs Fire also incurred an additional $100 million in fire suppression costs. Santa Rosa's economic loss from the Tubbs Fire was estimated at $1.2 billion (2017 USD), with five percent of the city's housing stock destroyed. It destroyed more than 5,643 structures, half of which were homes in Santa Rosa. The fire started near Tubbs Lane in the rural northern part of Calistoga, in Napa County. By the time of its containment on October 31, the fire was estimated to have burned 36,810 acres (149 km 2) at least 22 people were believed to have been killed in Sonoma County by the fire. The Tubbs Fire was one of more than a dozen large fires that broke out in early October 2017, which were simultaneously burning in eight Northern California counties, in what was called the "Northern California firestorm". Its destructiveness was surpassed only a year later by the Camp Fire of 2018. At the time, the Tubbs Fire was the most destructive wildfire in California history, burning parts of Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties, inflicting its greatest losses in the city of Santa Rosa. The Tubbs Fire was a wildfire in Northern California during October 2017.
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