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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BLM Members? Antifa? Just nuts? I think a Percent will discovered to be arson.
Is the French Laundry still there? Or did it burn down a few years ago?
LMAO! The cycle continues like clockwork. I feel sad for many but no sympathy for those who let it go on and on and on.
Bwahahahah
Try 57000 lightning strikes resulting in 350 fires. Just on one day.
Oops, 7000 lightning strikes in our area in on day. 53,000 over 3.5 days for the state.
How are you supposed to stop 7000 lightning strikes in one day? I mean, yes of course our politicians are amongst the most corrupt and incompetent in the nation, but anyone who saw ever a few minutef of Sunday’s storm- in an area that is hot and dry would realize this is far beyond the hand or man.
There have been rolling blackouts for days...... which will now be worse because the CA power companies shut off the electricity to prevent fires...
I am in Modesto.
Yep!....here you all go again....
Yep!....here you all go again....
Well, also, we’ve been building homes in areas that burn ever 50 years or so.
Hell, there are plants around here that can’t even reproduce without wildfire.
People buy a few acres, build a house 20 miles from anywhere. Gravel road that most firetrucks couldn’t hope to get up, surrounded by plants that burn as part of the natural cycle of things, and then bitch to high heaven when no one will write them fire insurance or fight the fires in their area. Seen it for decades.
Soon the big earthquake will reset California. Keep voting for these Dems and all there evil transgender laws and abortion and homelessness and preventing Churchs from opening and reap what you sow Governor.
LOL. Did that when we were still in Florida. Charlie, Jean and Francis.
Look at the good side of the fires. It will kill out many of the Pine Bark beetles that are killing the trees.
In which sinless State do you live?
In the book TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST there is a description of a major fire that heated up the air so hot the people had to flee the towns and sleep on the beach. This was around 1839 or so.
Well, I am about to move up the coast from where I am ...up to Carpinteria, CA from Los Angeles.
The ever present homeless population chooses to live by the rivers that empty into the ocean. So the hillsides here in CA are on fire often.
That's exactly correct! Our politicians care more about illegal immigrants than their fellow citizens. We're just a bunch of sheeple to them and are expected to follow the law to the letter while illegals can literally get away with murder and let back into the streets the next day!
Is it keeping people from Califonicating surrounding States?
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