Outside the America’s Best Value Inn & Suites The garage of the Fountaingrove Firestation Whats left of the Fountaingrove Firestation #5 Whats left of someones once beautiful homeĬommon sites like this, car torched, house torched Whats left of the Hilton in Fountaingrove Part of Fountaingrove Village shopping centerīella Vista neighborhood almost total destruction Pulling into driveway in hills of Fountaingrove Hundreds of homes destroyed in Fountaingrove neighborhood Lone golfer reflected by glow of nearby flames What is left of Fountaingrove Golf Course Club House What is left of Fountaingrove Village (Sweet T’s Restaurant) Our photos below cover first hand the destruction in parts of Santa Rosa (Fountaingrove & Coffee Park area) from during the actual fire fighting on the front lines, to the immediate morning and next day aftermath to several weeks after the fires (when the smoke finally cleared out of the skies). If you know where to look on certain properties in the swath of that fire, you can still see the burn marks on Redwood Trees (some 50+ years later). Helena in the Napa Valley to the outskirts of Santa Rosa. In 1964 the Hanley Fire burned all the way from the slopes of Mt. This fire was not unprecedented – although it certainly was in terms of homes & businesses burned and the economic damage. Stags Leap District: Hagafen (minor damage) and Signorello Estate (winery and hospitality center completely burned down) and some buildings at Stags’ Leap Winery. Veeder: Wing Canyon (winery & home destroyed) Sky Vineyards (home destroyed, winery partially damaged), Mayacamas, Paras Vineyard and Pulido-Walker. A number of vintner’s homes were also destroyed in this part of Napa.Ĭalistoga: Helena View Johnston in Calistoga (perhaps the first Napa winery in the fires to be burnt to the ground – and the first call we received about fire damage around 1230am) and a building at Storybook Winery. Jarvis (not the cave) also sustained serious property damage. Some of these Napa wineries include:Ītlas Peak/Soda Canyon: Vin Roc and White Rock (both have caves fortunately which were mostly protected from the fire) and Patland Estate (home), Roy Estate and Sill Winery. At one point there were some 14 individual fires burning in the Napa and Sonoma regions.Ī number of Sonoma and Napa wineries were destroyed or sustained significant damage. Paradise Ridge Winery (also in Fountaingrove) was burned to the ground.Īnd by no means were the destroyed parts of Santa Rosa the only destruction – numerous fires caused considerable damage in other parts of Sonoma County including Glen Ellen, Kenwood and significant damage in neighboring Napa County including widespread damage to Atlas Peak, near Calistoga, Carneros, and Mt. One of Santa Rosa’s iconic and most visible historical buildings was 100% destroyed, the Fountaingrove Red Barn (hopefully the city will rebuild this ASAP). The Fountaingrove golf course country club building was in ruins. This fire also completely destroyed hundreds of homes in the Fountaingrove neighborhoods – cul-de-sac after cul-de-sac were obliterated. Two shopping centers severely damaged or completely destroyed included the 114,000 square foot K-Mart and Fountaingrove Village. Restaurants were destroyed including an Applebees, Arby’s, McDonalds and Cricklewood Restaurant, Mountain Mike’s Pizza, Puerto Vallarta Mexican Restaurant, Sweet T’s and Willi’s Wine Bar. A number of hotels were also destroyed including America’s Best Value Inn, Flamingo Inn and the Hilton Fountaingrove. The Tubbs Fire jumped the 101 freeway north of town in several places and destroyed significant parts of both neighborhoods and businesses around Cleveland and Piner Aves. “I am lost, but I know EXACTLY where I am” (standing among the ruins) In terms of total destruction, this was the worst natural disaster Sonoma County has ever experienced with approximately 6,800 structures destroyed in Sonoma County alone (includes 5636 structures) with a combined nearly 9,000 structures in total destroyed across the state in October 2017. In the evening of October 8th a fire that started north of Calistoga (near Bennett Lane) came all the way into the Santa Rosa city limits within a few hours (normally a 30 minute drive) including into residential and industrial parts of the city.
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