Posted on 08/19/2020 2:07:04 PM PDT by Mariner
VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Crews were battling wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area and thousands of people were under orders to evacuate Wednesday as hundreds of wildfires blazed across the state amid a blistering heat wave now in its second week.
Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed “this extraordinary weather we’re experiencing and all of these lightning strikes” for 367 known fires, including 23 major fires or groups of fires. He said the state has recorded nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours.
Police and firefighters went door-to-door before dawn Wednesday in a frantic scramble to warn residents to evacuate as fire encroached on Vacaville, a city of about 100,000 between San Francisco and Sacramento. At least 50 structures were destroyed, including some homes, and 50 damaged.
“This is an incredibly emotional and stressful time for most of us who’ve endured a number of wildfires over the last few years,” said Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick.
Ash and smoke filled the air over San Francisco, which is surrounded by wildfires burning in multiple counties to the north, east and south. The so-called LNU Lightning fire is made up of several fires burning in five counties north of San Francisco, including in Vacaville, and had consumed 72 square miles as of Wednesday morning (186 square kilometers).
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Falling ash.
Here we go again.
I hope all the folks that need to use their electric cars to evacuate remembered to charge them before their “green” power was shut off.
To the folks who live out there, are these because of storms?
Or is there more of a human element involved?
Arsonists.
Arsonists.
There was no local news about the evacuation of Vacaville.
You basically have to decode the nixles or go to the local IOS.
Friends and relatives in surrounding counties are not getting much warning re evacuations and nothing has really been set up receive thousands of suddenly homeless people of all ages and possible health issues.
We have friends/relatives all over N. California and thanks to texts/emails we are finding out what is happening in their areas.
Dry lightning strikes on Sunday and Monday
Prayers for all Freepers in the area.
Dry Lightning.
Way to go Cali!
Refuse to clear brush and other combustible fuels because you don’t want to disturb the natural ecology of the landscape. So your green warrior policies instead create the perfect storm to pollute the environment with tons of CO2 in the atmosphere while allowing the simultaneous destruction of natural habitats due to fire caused by natural and man made sources. Way to go, you useless vacuous, duplicitous, wannabe Marxist morons!
Mother Nature seems to have it in for Cali - especially NorCal.
Loyalton near Nevada border was lightening a couple days ago. Still blazing. Reno is very smokey today. 30,000>40,000 acres.
Kalifornicators still won’t clean up the underbrush, eh. Fools deserve it. Too bad it’s not Pelousy’s or Moonbeam’s houses going up.
I have a source in CA on this.
They are scared
Building homes in natural arid and semi-arid 'burn and regeneration' areas is a choice. You can do things to mitigate potential damage around your property but that involves altering the natural surroundings.
'You can beat back nature with a stick but she always returns'.
I think California had fires of many sizes for thousands of years.
So every decade or so there’s a massive fire that wipes out hundreds of thousands of acres. It’s nature’s way.
Californians love nature, so they should love nature’s cleansing and regrowth cycle.
Damn,
You guys stay safe.
Trump’s Fault! Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that Donald Trump has been spotted setting fires throughout the state.
You basically have to decode the nixles or go to the local IOS.
“’You can beat back nature with a stick but she always returns’. “
Similar in Florida — you are weeding and trimming all year long. ... she always returns.
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