http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents
The huge fires around Napa and Sonoma, and there’s 6 or 7 of them, are at most 3% contained. Some of these fires are merging into even greater fires. These began Sunday night.
I don’t think we have ever seen anything like it. The inferno hit them in the middle of the night and when they stumbled outside they thought that North Korea must have hit them with a nuke because everything they could see was on fire. A lot of the missing people are going to turn out to have been incinerated in their homes, unable to flee.
Sounds like you are in the area...Hope you and yours are safe.
It is unfathomable rapidity of the fires’ path and the damage done in their wake. I too am fearful of the numbers when this is said and done. :(
Thoughts and prayers for the people in California wine country!
Actually I’m in SoCal near the Canyon 2 Fire- a lot of neighborhoods near me were evacuated but we were lucky in OC and lost very few houses. Spooky but so far not deadly.
Our local news has been carrying first person reports from the huge NorCal fires- some of our local reporters have family there- and what I’ve posted comes from what I’ve been hearing in those reports.
These NorCal fires are about the worst that California has ever had. I’ve had several big fires get very close- usually you get some warning ahead of time, enough that you know the fire is coming- you can pack something and get out before the flames hit. But these poor people in NorCal didn’t have a chance. They woke up to find themselves in an inferno. I fear that a lot of older people weren’t able to escape.