Posted on 11/10/2018 4:59:22 AM PST by C19fan
At least nine people have died and 35 are missing in a wildfire in Northern California, while in Southern California thousands of homes are under threat and all of Malibu has been evacuated as two other fires bear down. The Camp Fire in Northern California is now the most destructive in state history, after wiping out the town of Paradise. Not a single resident of Paradise can be seen anywhere in town after most of them fled the burning Northern California community that may be lost forever. Abandoned, charred vehicles cluttered the main thoroughfare, evidence of the panicked evacuation a day earlier. Most of its buildings are in ruin, entire neighborhoods are leveled and the business district has been wiped out. In a single day, this Sierra Nevada foothill town of 27,000 founded in the 1800s was largely incinerated by flames that moved so fast there was nothing firefighters could do. Authorities suspect it may have been started by a malfunction in power lines.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It might have been worse if this brave nurse and his fellow workers hadn’t worked to save patients at the doomed hospital.
“Toyota offers to give Camp Fire hero nurse a new truck!”
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/toyota-offers-to-give-camp-fire-hero-nurse-a-new-truck
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.