Posted on 09/18/2014 11:05:47 AM PDT by Kartographer
Authorities issued new evacuation orders on Thursday for Northern California mountain communities after an out-of-control wildfire doubled in size overnight, scorching more than 100 square miles of drought-parched timber and brush.
A force of nearly 3,700 firefighters struggled to stop the forward march of the King Fire, the largest and most dangerous of 11 major wildfires raging across California, but had managed to cut containment lines around 5 percent of the flames as of Thursday morning, officials said.
Heat waves and wildfires, just another normal summer here in sunny Taxifornia. And heartfelt sympathy for all those impacted by the fires.
This fire could have been far worse, I’ve heard it said, if the main fueling source had been from treetops lighting other treetops ablaze. Luckily that has not been the case so far. Some of these kinds of fires tend to happen toward the middle to end of summer.
I’m actually surprised and relieved that we didn’t get more forest fires this summer, due to the drought, and due to all that old growth the EPA will not let groundskeepers clear out. Let’s not forget about the many fire trails that have been recently blocked from use to ‘lessen man’s impact on the environment’.
They’ve been sending smoke signals to us in Reno since Sunday afternoon. Lucky the first round didn’t show up until right at the end of the air races. Wind is supposed to shift today so that Carson City and south will get to enjoy the smoke. Wind isn’t helping the efforts to shut it down.
Local TV just showed a news conference where the Eldorado County LEOs and DA have made an arson arrest regarding the King Fire. Wayne Allen Huntsman was arrested for arson and is being held on $10 million bail. The fire is now over 70,000 acres.
WHAT! You mean the timber did just combust due to glow-bull climate discombobulation?
I live east of that fire in N Nevada.
We have had smoke problems since it started, depending on the wind.
This AM, the TV local channels in Reno were showing how bad it was.
All outdoor athletic activities in Washoe County were banned on Tues & Wed, probably today, also.
Last year, it was a month of the smoke from the Yosemite fire.
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