 This is the state's emergency operation center at Cal OES headquarters now operating around the clock for Emergency operations in response to the wildfires burning up and down California. What's the latest on the wildfires? Where can you turn if you've been evacuated and what's the one place you should not go if you're in an area affected by the fires? We've got the answers coming up next I'm Brian may the state operations center once again today activated to its highest level providing support and Coordination to critical incidents throughout the state Let's run down the four largest wildfires in California right now I will start us in the south and once again to work our way north the Cranston fire in Riverside County Holding it just over 13,000 acres containment nearly doubled in the last 24 hours now up to nearly 60 percent 12 structures have been destroyed the Ferguson fire in Mariposa County Firefighters able to keep at the Ferguson fire from spreading much overnight as well 56,000 acres containment still at 30 percent still over 3,800 total personnel working that fire the Mendocino complex fire, which is actually two fires It's the river in the rush covering both Mendocino and Lake counties this fire combined doubled in size overnight now over 55,000 acres containment at just 10 percent and because it is so close to homes Still some 10,000 structures threatened And then finally the largest fire currently burning in the state the car fire in Shasta County now approaching 100,000 acres containment though overnight jumping from 5 percent to 20 percent the car fire already destroying close to 1,000 structures and this is what the air looked like today in Shasta County heavy smoke once again blanketing Hundreds of acres in and around Reading and Shasta County at a community meeting in Reading this afternoon The sheriff announcing they are hoping to open a local assistance center later this week Even before the fire is out, but more especially once it's out. We need to begin recovery efforts We will be establishing a local assistance center Referred to as a lack and that is for local state and federal authorities And along with nonprofit and volunteers to come together and offer disaster assistance programs streamlined recovery services and processes and a centralized location For services and that is going to be in conjunction and partnership with the city of Reading By the way, if you have been affected or displaced by the car fire and need resources be it food water clothing or essential items You can find most of those items at the local evacuation shelters Now some people have been showing up here at a staging area at the Reading Municipal Airport But they are not set up to distribute items there to get any resources You need to go to the evacuation shelters. Yes, that's the right place to go We're not a pod which stands for point of distribution The shelters are the connection between the survivors and the resource We are the distributors if you will of all the commodities that go to shelters or points of distribution They have cleaning kits comfort kits Shelter support kits a variety There are currently still evacuation orders in effect for the car, Mendocino, Ferguson and Cranston fires And local and state law enforcement officers want to send a very clear message to those areas Stay out Several people have been arrested for trespassing and burglary over the past few nights The California highway patrol has a heavy presence in the evacuated areas. They are assisting locally the police and sheriff Yeah, those areas uh, they're evacuated. They're closed off. We're trying to keep people out Once again, so we can get the law enforcement other allied agencies in there to do the work to get these neighborhoods back up on on their feet And one of the things that we're doing up there We're trying to keep these neighborhoods safe keep looters and people want to come in there and and pray on these people who have been through Uh a significant impact they've been through enough and we're trying to keep them from getting further hurt by people coming in to Remove articles from their houses that don't belong to them I was on the phone briefly a couple hours ago with Stephanie Bridget from the da's office Who wanted me to pass along a message that she is going to be prosecuting that to the full Extent as a felony And we are going to make them very public and so you need to know that Yeah, and reading police chief roger more that you heard from there one of the ones who lost his house in the car fire I want to take you now inside what's called the unified coordination group This is a twice daily meeting of the state's top emergency managers and key leadership during large emergencies And the idea is to bring everyone to the table and discuss and problem solve any key issues One of the challenges discussed daily in these meetings making sure they've got the right resources in the right places And resources meeting both personnel and equipment And that includes even going out of state to other states and to our federal partners To bring in additional assets as necessary and plug them in and look we have not we have not Ways to time on that. We have leveraged every state in the country And and we've got lots of out out of california assets here supporting us through this Yes, all these states are facing fire activity or most of them are but yet they're still finding ways to Send one two or three, you know engines and so those are constantly moving across the country We continue to ask for help and they continue to provide Opportunities to free up more resources. So we continue to talk to all of our partners around the country And we talk about bringing in resources from out of state take a look at just some of the states who have either already sent crews to california Or have crews en route states from as far away as maryland, new jersey south dakota and Missouri For the latest information on any of the current wildfires in california You can go to the incident page on the calfire website. That's fire.ca.gov And as we close i want to take you back to that community meeting in shasta county from earlier this afternoon A very touching moment when the sheriff of sas shasta county asked those in attendance To give a round of applause for all of the firefighters and emergency responders working their car fire i'm very proud of all the men and women that have been fighting to fighting this fire Both the firefighters on the line the support staff and command staff behind the scenes They're working 24 seven and please take an opportunity to give them thanks and if you would right now