List of identified affected company due to the fire

As of 1 p.m. Tuesday, wildfires had damaged or destroyed at least 23 commercial business in Napa and Sonoma counties.

• Signorello Estate (4500 Silverado Trail, Napa): Destroyed. The winery and its vines, first planted in 1980, produced less than 6,000 cases per year.
• Hilton Sonoma Wine Country (3555 Round Barn Blvd., Santa Rosa): Destroyed. The 250-room hotel featured 18,000 square feet of indoor or outdoor venue space.
• Fountaingrove Inn & Round Barn (101 Fountaingrove Parkway., Santa Rosa): “Unable to conduct business in any capacity,” according to general manager Justin Hayman. The boutique hotel’s wood-and-stone exterior was home to 124 rooms and suites.
• Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars (6150 Silverado Trail, Napa): The fire’s impact on the winery was described as “minimal” on Stag’s Leap’s Facebook page. Stag’s Leap’s Cabernet Sauvignon won the 1976 Judgment of Paris, portrayed in the 2008 movie “Bottle Shock.”
• William Hill Estate Winery (1761 Atlas Peak Road, Napa): Entrance sign and surrounding area burned, all other infrastructure unharmed. The 41-year-old winery sits at the foot of Atlas Peak.
• Paradise Ridge Winery (4545 Thomas Lake Harris Drive, Santa Rosa): Destroyed. Pictures on the winery’s Facebook page showed charred wood and rubble where buildings previously stood.
• Stornetta Dairy (4310 Fremont Drive, Sonoma): Several buildings burned down. The 101-year-old business changed its named to Clover Sonoma earlier this year.
• Nicholson Ranch (4200 Napa Road, Sonoma): Some fire damage but all wine remains secure, a post on the winery’s Facebook page said. Nicholson Ranch produces 5,000 to 6,000 cases of pinot noir, chardonnay, syrah and merlot per year.
• Sweet T’s Restaurant & Bar (2097 Stagecoach Road #100, Santa Rosa): Destroyed, per The Press-Democrat. The soul food eatery served barbecue plates and entrees such as shrimp gumbo and fried catfish.
• Darioush (4240 Silverado Trail, Napa): Some damage to the vineyards and surrounding landscape, though the winery remains intact, according to The Mercury News.
• Willi’s Wine Bar (4404 Old Redwood Highway, Santa Rosa): Closed until future notice, according to its Facebook page, and multiple media outlets have reported it burned to the ground. A San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area Top 100 Restaurant for four consecutive years, the wine bar’s ownership group holds five other eateries in Santa Rosa or Healdsburg.
• White Rock Vineyards (1115 Loma Vista Drive, Napa): Winery destroyed, state of vineyard is undetermined. The winery has been owned by the Vandendriessche family since 1870.
• Journey’s End Mobile Home Park (3575 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa): At least 100 of the senior park’s 160 manufactured homes burned to varying degrees.
• Oakmont of Villa Capri (1397 Fountaingrove Parkway, Santa Rosa): Destroyed. Residents and staff were settled to a senior care facility in Albany.
• Cricklewood Restaurant (4618 Old Redwood Highway, Santa Rosa): Destroyed. The 42-year-old steakhouse’s owners said they were “shell shocked, heartbroken and beyond (s)ad” in a Facebook post Monday evening.
• Kmart (3771 Cleveland Ave., Santa Rosa): Masonry walls and horizontal roof supports are all that remains. The 114,000-square foot building was completely engulfed in flames on Sunday night.
• McDonald’s (879 Hopper Ave., Santa Rosa), Applebee’s (885 Hopper Ave., Santa Rosa) and Arby’s (919 Hopper Ave., Santa Rosa): The three neighboring chain restaurants were all destroyed in the fire, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
• Trader Joe’s (3225 Cleveland Ave., Santa Rosa and 3654 Bel Aire Plaza, Napa): Both grocery stores sustained fire damage and will remain closed for the time being, according to a media release.
• Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (Santa Rosa): Classrooms and east end of the complex are destroyed, but main building has minimal damage. All performances are canceled through Sunday.
• URJ Camp Newman (4088 Porter Creek Road, Santa Rosa): Majority of buildings have been destroyed. The Jewish sleepaway camp celebrated its 70th anniversary earlier this year.

The following Santa Rosa businesses were evacuated, but did not sustain fire damage:

• Silverado Resort and Spa (1600 Atlas Peak Road): All reservations are canceled with refunds through Sunday.
• Charles M. Schultz Museum and Research Center (2301 Hardies Lane): The museum will remain closed through the weekend.
• Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center (401 Bicentennial Way): Nearly 130 patients were moved to Kaiser’s San Rafael center.
• Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital (30 Mark West Springs Road): More than 80 or so patients were evacuated.

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article178130926.html#storylink=cpy

How California need to adapt and survive future fire damage

California needs to get better about fuel management. At their core, though, wildfires are a people problem. Fires in the state typically have raged either in the wilderness or in cities. Which is why we have wildland firefighters, who are lightly outfitted, as well as urban firefighters, who wear much heavier protections to enter burning buildings.

They’re also trained in radically different ways. “Structural city firefighters are really focused on saving people, and they understand a lot of the chemistry and physics of burning buildings,” says Kolden. Wildland firefighters, on the other hand, know how fire behaves in forests.

But now that wildfires are moving into populated areas, both groups are being marshaled to fight blazes where they’re not accustomed to fighting. The issue now is whether to train firefighters to handle both scenarios, or better assign resources to make sure each group fights where they're most comfortable. Kolden believes that the latter is the safer option.

INTRODUCTION OF TUBBS FIRE

The Tubbs Fire was the second most destructive wildfire in California history, burning parts of Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties in Northern California during October 2017, and affecting the city of Santa Rosa the most. It is now second most destructive wildfire after the Camp Fire of 2018. It was one of more than a dozen large fires that broke out in early October and were simultaneously burning in eight Northern California counties in what was called the "Northern California firestorm."By the time of its containment on October 31, the fire was estimated to have burned 36,810 acres (149 km2), and at least 22 people had been killed in Sonoma County by the fire.

The fire incinerated more than 5,643 structures, including more than 2,800 homes in the city of Santa Rosa. In that city, the damage from the Tubbs Fire was estimated at $1.2 billion (2017 USD), with five percent of the city's housing stock destroyed. The Tubbs Fire also incurred an additional $100 million in fire suppression costs.

The Tubbs Fire started near Tubbs Lane, named after Alfred Tubbs, the owner of a winery in that area in 1882. The Tubbs mansion had burned down in the Hanly Fire in 1964.

October 8:-

The Tubbs Fire started near Tubbs Lane in Calistoga around 9:43 p.m. on Sunday, October 8. Although the cause of the fire remains under investigation, Sonoma County emergency dispatchers sent fire crews to at least 10 reports of downed power lines and exploding transformers as the North Bay fires, including the Tubbs fire, began. At a weather station in north Santa Rosa, the peak wind gusts at 9:29 p.m. hit 30 mph; an hour later, they were 41 mph.

Pushed by strong winds from the northeast, the front of the fire moved more than twelve miles in its first three hours. The Mark West Springs area, north of Santa Rosa in unincorporated Sonoma County, was directly in the path of the fire. One exception to the destruction in that area was that all of the more than 1,000 animals at the renowned Safari West Wildlife Preserve were unharmed by the fire, saved by owner Peter Lang, who, at age 76, single-handedly fought back the flames for more than 10 hours using only garden hoses.

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. Instead, Nixle SMS and email alerts were broadcast — the first of these text messages going out at 10:51 p.m., and used a system called SoCo Alerts to notify people via cellphone; both are limited to those who sign up for these services. Officials also used a reverse 911 system that called landlines in certain areas. At 11:58 p.m., firefighters called for an evacuation order encompassing the area between the city of Calistoga and Santa Rosa.

October 9:-

The Puerto Vallarta restaurant burns on October 9, 2017

Smoldering remains of the Journey's End Mobile Home Park on October 9, 2017

Remains of a house on Cross Creek Road in Fountaingrove on November 1, 2017

Staircase leading to the west wing buildings of the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel on November 17, 2017

Overlook view of the damage to the Fountaingrove Inn (foreground) and Journey's End

The historic Fountaingrove Round Barn before and after the fire

By 1 a.m. on Monday, the fire, spreading quickly to the south and west, had reached Santa Rosa city limits. The front entered the city from the north, moving into the Fountaingrove area, then moving down ravines between Mark West Springs Road and Fountaingrove Parkway. At about 1:30 a.m., Sonoma County officials began to evacuate neighborhoods in and around Santa Rosa. In all, tens of thousands of people were evacuated with very little notice.

By about 2 a.m., the fire, carried by near hurricane-level winds, had spread further to the west, crossing Highway 101. By 4:30 a.m., the winds had reached their peak speed of more than 60 miles per hour.

The fire devastated the Coffey Park neighborhood, where an estimated 1,300 structures, mostly detached homes, were leveled. Meanwhile, east of the highway, the Fountaingrove Inn, the historic Fountaingrove Round Barn nearby, and a large Hilton hotel were destroyed; 116 of the 160 units at the Journey's End Mobile Home Park burned to the ground, while the remainder of the park was later red-tagged due to heavy damage. Other damage along several streets bordering Highway 101 included a Kmart store and numerous restaurants that burned to the ground.

By noon on Monday, two medical centers in Santa Rosa, Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Health, had been evacuated. Some Kaiser employees reportedly used their personal vehicles to evacuate some of the 130 patients at that hospital.

The destruction on Monday also included the complete loss of a senior living complex, Oakmont of Villa Capri; Hidden Valley Satellite, a primary school; and the Santa Rosa portion of Paradise Ridge Winery. The Cardinal Newman High School campus was badly damaged, as was one end of the Luther Burbank Center for the Performing Arts. Redwood Adventist Academy was also destroyed in the fire. Another large concentration of incinerated homes was in the Larkfield-Wikiup area, about a mile north of the city, where about 500 buildings were destroyed.

Of the 2,900 homes destroyed in Santa Rosa, over 200 of them belonged to doctors associated with the area hospitals, including Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Hospital's Santa Rosa Center, and Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. Additionally, the fire destroyed Santa Rosa Community Health's Vista Campus, the largest in its system, which served 24,000 people annually. 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company cut off natural gas to 31,000 customers in the Santa Rosa and Windsor areas as a precaution.

October 10:-

Wind direction turned clockwise from northeasterly to southerly (compare MODIS satellite images). At a town hall meeting on the evening of October 10 in Santa Rosa, Cal Fire representatives reported that there could be as many as 3,000 structures lost to the Tubbs and Atlas fires.

October 11:-

On Wednesday, October 11, the entire town of Calistoga was evacuated; about 2,000 people were asked to leave. The escape for some was along roads walled by flames. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office issued an advisory evacuation notice for residents in the Middletown area, to the north of Calistoga.

One active part of the fire was east of the town of Windsor, with the fire burning from Shiloh ridge to Chalk Hill Road and Knights Valley.

October 12:-

As of 7 a.m. on Thursday, the Tubbs Fire had burned 34,270 acres, and was 10 percent contained. In the city of Santa Rosa, officials said that the fire had destroyed an estimated 2,834 homes, along with about 400,000 square feet of commercial space.

As of Thursday morning, efforts continued to be focused on two areas:

Near the northwest corner of Napa County, firefighters were battling the fire around Mount St. Helena, but they started pulling back before noon; the fire had hopped Highway 29, which runs adjacent to the mountain north of the evacuated town of Calistoga. There was no fire activity in the town itself,[12] with the blaze spreading north and east of Calistoga through rugged terrain into Lake County, south of Middletown. By Thursday afternoon, only a few dozen people had refused to evacuate from Calistoga.

In northern Sonoma County, the fire was being monitored in the area to the east of Healdsburg and Windsor. Sonoma County ordered Rio Lindo Adventist Academy, a boarding school on the outskirts of Healdsburg near the edge of the Tubbs fire, to prepare to evacuate if necessary.

Among the losses reported on Thursday was the destruction of the Santa Rosa hillside home of late Peanuts creator Charles Schulz; his widow, Jean Schulz, escaped unhurt. By Thursday evening, 28,000 customers in the Santa Rosa and Windsor areas still had not had their gas service restored.

October 13-31:-

On Friday morning, October 13, the fire was 25 percent contained. It remained about two miles outside of Calistoga's city limits.

A fire erupted in the hills east of Oakmont late Friday night, prompting the mandatory evacuation of neighborhoods early Saturday morning from Calistoga Road to Adobe Canyon Road, along Highway 12. The zone included several schools and the Oakmont Village retirement neighborhood. Evacuations for the area were lifted by late the following Wednesday.

By Saturday morning, October 14, the fire was 44 percent contained. A "small army of firefighters and police" was positioned between where the fire was most active, north of Calistoga, and the city itself.

In the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa, firefighters and utility crews combed through the ruins left by the fire. Fire officials searched for dangerous hot spots that could re-ignite the blaze, and utility workers began cleaning up the demolished neighborhoods.

Map of the incident:-