Fast-moving California wildfire claims 'significant' number of buildings Tens of thousands of people were ordered to flee a fast-moving wildfire that exploded in size Thursday, threatening several Northern California communities and forcing panicked residents to race to help neighbours who had to drive through walls of flames Commentsview comments in forum You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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And, once again, we have a wildfire tearing up an area where controlled burns have been more or less prohibited for the past thirty years.
+70,000 acres burnt as I write this.
Evacuation warnings are going out for the city of Chico. California State University at Chico is evacuating and sending students home.
It's that bad.
I'm leaving in about 15 minutes to go help. Just got asked in the office for volunteers.
It's that bad.
Stay safe!
I'm leaving in about 15 minutes to go help. Just got asked in the office for volunteers.
It's that bad.
Damn. Stay safe Bartman.
I'm leaving in about 15 minutes to go help. Just got asked in the office for volunteers.
It's that bad.
Be careful dude, but you, of all CKA members appear to have qualifications for being safe in a hostile environment, while still getting something done, Best wishes.
The overall death toll from the outbreak of fires in both Northern and Southern California reached at least 31 on Sunday evening and appeared likely to rise as fierce winds fanned the raging flames.
The Butte County Sheriff's Department in the northern part of the state said late Sunday that 228 people are unaccounted for, but officials held out hope that many were safe but had no cellphones or other way to contact loved ones.
All told, more than 8,000 firefighters � at least 39 of whom have now lost their own homes to the fires � battled three large blazes burning across nearly 1,040 square kilometres of the state.
The worst of the fires was in northern California, where flames reduced the town of Paradise, population 27,000, to a smoking ruin days ago and continued to scorch surrounding communities.
The number of people killed in that fire alone � at least 29 � matches the deadliest single fire on record in California, a 1933 blaze in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, though a series of wildfires in Northern California wine country last fall killed 44 people and destroyed more than 5,000 homes.
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