3 Major California Wildfires Remain Largely Out of Control
Source: New York Times
By JACK HEALY, IAN LOVETT and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑASEPT. 14, 2015
CALISTOGA, Calif. Despite the efforts of 8,800 firefighters, three major blazes whipping through Californias tinder-dry forests and brush had consumed a combined 270,000 acres and remained largely out of control, state officials said on Monday, forcing thousands of people to flee and destroying up to 1,000 buildings.
At least one person has died in the fires, the governors office said on Monday.
By morning, 800 to 1,000 people fleeing one fires path had poured into the Napa County Fairgrounds here, sleeping in camping tents, on cots or in their cars. Evacuees who had fled the scorched Lake County communities of Middletown, Cobb, and Hidden Valley Lakes, northwest of Sacramento, told one another their stories of racing the flames and of the last times they had seen their homes.
We were surrounded on three sides, said William Slack, 59, a metalworker who goes by the name Jivano and had lived in Middletown, about 90 miles north of San Francisco, for three years. It was like a furnace. Ive never seen anything so big before.
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JDPriestly
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(20,875 posts)Up north thank god! Lets hope for lots of rain!!!
Should be in late it seems.
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(20,875 posts)Running the heat this a.m. and yes, rain is in the forecast for tomorrow! It has cooled off a lot and inland it is down about 20 degrees!
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(60,212 posts)Dunno how far south it went, but it's good news for the fires up here.
Now we need some in Central California.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)At least it is cool this evening. The rains elsewhere came in a some coll breezes. We aren't using our fans tonight. It is lovely. But we need rain.
I pulled up my tomatoes weeks ago (what I planted of them which was not much). My neighbors' tomatoes look just brown and dried up. It's so sad.