Posted on 07/28/2024 8:13:05 AM PDT by Libloather
CHICO, Calif. — The Park Fire burning in Northern California near Chico has now become one of the largest wildfires in state history as flames continue to grow, causing additional evacuations to now spread across four counties and taking aim at a community that is still reeling from a deadly wildfire just six years ago.
But some good news emerged for firefighters with the weather forecast as the weekend began without the triple-digit heat and Fire Weather Warnings of the past few days.
CAL Fire now estimates the Park Fire has burned more than 350,000 acres as of midday Saturday, which ranks the fire as No. 7 on California’s list of most acreage burned by a fire. At least 134 homes and structures have been damaged or destroyed and another 4,200 are threatened, fire officials said. Over 50 community zones are now under evacuation warnings across 4 counties, spanning more than 4,400 people.
“Extreme fire behavior has occurred due to the slope and winds aligning, causing significant growth,” CAL Fire officials wrote in their Saturday morning update. “Damage inspection teams are working to identify structures that have been damaged or destroyed.”
So far, there are no reports of any deaths, but two people have been treated for minor injuries.
Vanessa Starling, who lives near the heavily damaged town of Cohasset, told FOX 2 Bay Area they could hear the sound as they evacuated their home.
“It was pretty crazy, there is one spot that had a little fire tornado going on. We could hear it, just this roaring sound, you can hear the fire roaring as we were leaving,” Starling said, worried about her family home. “We have property that’s been in our family since 1905.”
Late Friday night, the entire town of Paradise, California was placed under an evacuation...
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It gets managed one way or another.
Either by man or naturally....
There's no such thing as "natural" management.
The idea of management implies the application of prospective knowledge.
Caused by a human who pushed a burnind car off the road; not “climate change”.
I’ll bet all those environmentalist that opposed clearing dead trees and brush for years were the first ones to volunteer put their lives on the line and help put out this massive fire.
The Western Eco-Nuts refuse to acknowledge that clearing the dead fall and thinning the under growth as our Indians did slows these fires down.
I don’t think so. Butte County is a conservative county. He’s a three striker and he’s going away permanently
No, Death Valley does. Geez.
Read the post “one of the” Geez.
YUP
HE will be safer in jail
LARGER THAN THE FOOTPRINT OF LOS ANGELES according to some reports...
OVER 500 sq miles—as of yesterday afternoon.
TORCHED MOMMY’S CAR
But abandoned the idea after finding out it has one of the hottest climate in CA.
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Oh?
How about Death Valley and the surrounding populated areas?
Of course. Thank you, Uncle Gavin.
Park Fire is California’s largest ever blaze caused by arson, say officials. What are the penalties?
The 'extraordinary' growth of California's largest fire raises alarms. It could burn for months
Death valley does not have larger livable cities. Redding is one of the hottest towns in CA.
I said : How about Death Valley and the surrounding populated areas?
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Trona, CA, Ridgecrest, CA, Panamint City, CA, and people DO live in Death Valley, Inyokern, CA, Death Valley Junction, CA,
Never heard of them. Must be small towns. I wanted a city with many facilities such as couple of hospitals, shopping malls, good restaurants etc. Just because people live there, does not mean they are good places to live.
Just because people live there, does not mean they are good places to live.
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And, if people live in Redding, it IS a good place to live?
Was he a homeless person too? I’m sorry, a houseless person. How insensitive of me.
The government let a lot of these criminals out of jail to save money. It did not work out well in the long run.
Yes, Redding has hospitals, shopping centers, nice restaurants, and nice new homes for sale.
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