 good morning everybody thanks for joining us we're here at the state emergency operations center which is just outside Sacramento California and we are going to give an update on the wildfires statewide including the resources and some of the things that are going on for helping these communities in the process of dealing with the wildfires that are currently burning behind me are four of our state officials in public safety the first speaking this morning is going to be director Mark Gillaraducci he's the director here at the governor's office of emergency services he'll be followed by the director Ken Pimlott of Cal Fire and then Warren Stanley who's the commissioner of the California Highway Patrol and then David Baldwin who's the adjutant general of the California National Guard as soon as they're done giving their remarks we'll take a few questions we're not going to be able to do a whole lot of questions this morning because there's some things that they need to get to right afterwards but we'll do our best we also have Bob Fenton from FEMA here as well who will not be speaking but could answer questions if there's any specifics for FEMA so with that we'll start with director Gillaraducci all right good morning everyone I'm Mark Gillaraducci director here at the governor's office of emergency services well I'm start by saying that literally the last 48 hours here in California have been extremely challenging starting with the tragic shooting in Thousand Oaks and requirement and to support the communities in Ventura County followed by the fire that that broke out up in Butte County the camp fire which has been an extremely challenging fire and has resulted in significant and catastrophic loss for for that community the communities of Paradise specifically just outside of Chico and then a number of fires that broke out over the evening down in Southern California to again in Ventura County and both of them relatively significant the magnitude of the destruction that we are seeing is really again unbelievable and heartbreaking in our our hearts throughout the everybody who has has been infected by this and impacted we know that there have been injuries and we know that there have been loss of life and we are still accounting for that and working with our local authorities who will as they get better handle on the number of fatalities and people impacted will start to share that information as it gets confirmed the leaders you see behind me here represent just part of our entire state's response system that is involved with responding to these events statewide obviously California is a very large state and we've got all hands on deck being able to effectively respond to all of these emergencies as they evolve and new new ones it's important to note that that weather wise we are literally in a statewide red flag weather warning fire weather conditions are extreme and we are seeing it from literally border-to-border which is making our job obviously much harder and everything here at the State Operations Center from the state perspective in support of our local governments is being coordinated here at the State Operations Center so we have representatives from all the state agencies located here and right now they they're really trying to get assessments on the amount of damage the amount of loss what resources are required and being able to continue to fill open orders for all different kinds of assets and and supplies currently we have roughly about 105,000 people evacuated in Southern California at the two fires the Hill fire and the Woolsey fire and roughly about 52,000 evacuated in Northern California predominantly around the campfire roughly 100 1,860 mutual aid firefighters from fire departments up and down California these are local government fire agencies that participate in the mutual aid system that are responding to these fires throughout California that's nearly 500 mutual aid fire engines and and as I say 1,860 firefighters we also have hundreds of law enforcement officers from agencies up and down the state that are supporting law enforcement mutual aid providing security assisting with evacuations and and any other kind of assessment that's required search and rescue operations etc and we currently are requesting additional firefighting assistance from our neighboring states through the emergency management assistance compact we have reached out to Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Washington for seeing how much how many resources that we can get to come in we are not just responding to what's in front of us but we are also contemplating what the next 24 and 48 hours are going to look like we know that the winds will die down but then we are going to be picking up another wind event that will be starting late Sunday and going into early next week so we really need to be thinking about this from a strategic standpoint this morning acting governor Newsom did sign a new proclamation for states of emergency for Ventura and Los Angeles County that's in addition to the state of emergency that he became proclaimed yesterday for the for Butte County and the campfire today's proclamation takes into account the Hill and the Wolsey fire and that will ensure that additional resources and any regulatory impediments any state public safety assets are applied effectively and of course yesterday as was noted he did make a request up through the White House for direct federal assistance direct federal assistance is not a major disaster declaration is it is it is just what it says it's being able to get direct federal assets to support our firefighting and search and rescue operations and then in addition we were able to secure yet another federal fire management assistance grant last night that's three that we were able to obtain over the last 24 hours to support the various fires in Southern California so our priorities will continue to be to support firefighting and lifesaving operations supporting Cal fire and the other local government fire agencies that are directly responsible for suppressing the fire providing whatever resources needed for lifesaving operations our second priority will continue to be evacuations and supporting sheltering operations for these these great number of people that have been evacuated the third is support support our local government in identifying victims and and identifying missing persons and the fourth we really be to start working on our damage assessment so we can get a better idea about seeking additional assistance where necessary you know particularly when we're seeing the amount of loss that we're seeing in in the campfire up in paradise so with that let me turn it over to our next speaker director Cal director Ken Pamlot of Cal fire or go overall or fire our fighting operations thank you director killer duchy good morning as the director mentioned red flag conditions critical fire weather across all of California now the wind may change in different places throughout and be more intense and reduce at times we are basically looking at a very significant dangerous weather pattern through the rest of this weekend and into early next week throughout all of California so when this first fire when the campfire started yesterday morning just over 24 hours ago at 633 in the morning it was immediately met with over 40 mile an hour winds that fire from the second it started was off to the races quickly grew within minutes to 200,000 acres and was well off to burning at dangerous rates of spread these are the kinds of conditions that we're seeing across California we've been talking about this year after year critical dryness of our vegetation winds that are blowing in excess of 40 or 50 miles an hour what we have this morning as as director killer duchy said we have fire departments from all over California we have Cal fire we have the California conservation crew hand crews we have our inmate fire crews and many others over 6,000 firefighters on the fire lines this morning across the state we've got six major fires burning but the three are critical the campfire in butte county and the two in Ventura county the hill fire and the Woolsey fire in particular the the Woolsey fire burned very rapidly overnight crossing highway 101 in Ventura county and is you know burning in a trajectory towards the Pacific coast and in this area fire history over the decades has shown under the san anna wind conditions that will be continuous throughout today there in that area will continue to drive that fire in that direction so again we are monitoring all this we're as director killer duchy said we have ordered up additional fire engines over 100 fire engines from outside of California bringing those additional resources in but we are long ways from being out of the fire fight right now we our focus is on life safety there are active rescues continuing to go on on all of these fires and in particular the campfire in butte county folks have talked about it yesterday fire conditions were critical we had hundreds of fire resources and law enforcement resources in the area but often folks talk about aircraft we have every available aircraft signed up and available and responding to us here throughout the state the challenge is high winds invisibility oftentimes hamper the ability to use those aircraft effectively but we are using them in every opportunity that we get they were flying all the fires yesterday and putting in containment lines or control lines wherever they can we will continue to put them into the fight but understand right now it's all hands on deck to rescue people and ensure getting people out of harm's way and we will continue to trigger evacuations wherever necessary to ensure we get people out of harm's way in particular butte county well practiced at organizing disasters we all know what has occurred over the years particularly in this community of paradise and the other mountain communities of fire has been in these areas before this is a community that has continued to prepare with fire safe councils they've been doing fuels treatments working very diligently but they also know the risk where they live and these were well practiced evacuations the process has been in place but understand how quickly that fires has been spreading as well as the ones in southern california again it just points right back to our message and what our message continues to be every day here in california every day is fire season somewhere in california every day we have the potential for these large damaging destructive and deadly wildland fires and so again we really put this back to the public fire agencies law enforcement public safety everyone is responding with every tool in the toolbox but we need the public to continue to listen to the message pay attention to evacuation information follow very closely all of the public safety social media ready for wildfire many others local counties law enforcement pay very close attention pay a close attention to your neighbors as folks saw in the news yesterday literally what happened in paradise was neighbor helping neighbor make sure your neighbor knows what's going on be prepared to evacuate with your neighbors so that everyone gets out we will continue to obviously prepare provide resources throughout the remainder of these conditions with that i'd like to turn it over to the commissioner of the higher patrol warren stanley thank you director pinlot and working with my partners back here from the other state agencies for these fires the three main fires that we've spoken about we have 125 personnel assigned to those fires most of those personnel assigned to the camp fire in butte county approximately 75 and they're assisting with traffic control and evacuation and other things that come up is as may be needed also down in southern california the fires in ventura county we have personnel there what we have done and so we can move our resources around more easily here all the chp offices here in sacramental county they put been put on tactical alert they are all on 12 hour shifts so we have the ability to move them around to different fires as they expand or as new fires come up in order to provide support we also have a number of air assets our helicopters for traffic monitoring also rescue if needed and as director pinlot said we're in it for the long haul we're at the very very beginning of this we appreciate the public support and and i would ask and i know my partners back here behind me would also ask that the areas where the fires are please stay out of those areas have a lot of equipment law enforcement officers fire department personnel coming in and out of there those areas moving a lot of equipment in and out to fight these fires and get them out as soon as possible so we can get the people's back people back into the neighborhood as soon as possible and with that i'd like to turn it over to david balvin the general of the california national guard thanks commissioner i'm major general dav balvin the adjutant general of california which means i command the california army national guard the air national guard and our state military reserve we currently have 185 personnel on duty predominantly providing support to the campfire that includes air crews that are flying both manned and unmanned aircraft for incident awareness we're bringing in satellite imagery experts to assist with damage assessments and fire mapping through space based systems we also have a hundred military police officers that are heading to buke county to assist the sheriff's department with evacuations and securing the evacuated areas the rest of the california national guard is on alert and prepared to deploy throughout the state if necessary i'll be followed by uh director giladucci okay thanks general balvin any questions we can answer it's still pretty hard to to assess we we know that there was a lot of movement of people trying to get out of uh out of the paradise area yesterday we know there are fatalities but we really can't put a number on it quite yet pretty early to tell anything else so the the sheriff's department in buke county was able to send information out make notifications and and a lot of that the fire moved so fast many notifications were made by deputies and other public safety personnel actually going from house to house to make notifications so it was sort of a combination of of different sort of methods for being able to make notifications do not know yet although i i think we can say with the surety we don't have any reports of public safety personnel that that have been first responders that is correct okay anything else all right thank you everyone we'll we'll move it back over to kelly and you'll identify next time we don't have another press conference scheduled for today however if things do change we will do another one here um you please pay attention to the local press conferences both in butte county and down in ventur in los angeles counties we'll also have an archive of this video for live streaming from the live stream available for people to review and then a a roll-up of the facts that came out of this press briefing so thank you everybody