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California governor: Hundreds of wildfires blazing statewide
Associated Press ^ | August 19th, 2020 | By HAVEN DALEY and JANIE HAR

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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To: Signalman

BLM Members? Antifa? Just nuts? I think a Percent will discovered to be arson.


41 posted on 08/19/2020 2:50:18 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: RedStateRocker

Is the French Laundry still there? Or did it burn down a few years ago?


42 posted on 08/19/2020 2:53:20 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: Mariner

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.


43 posted on 08/19/2020 2:54:19 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Bwahahahah

Try 57000 lightning strikes resulting in 350 fires. Just on one day.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/weather/by-the-numbers-thousands-of-lightning-strikes-hit-california/2346950/


44 posted on 08/19/2020 2:56:32 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: RedStateRocker

Oops, 7000 lightning strikes in our area in on day. 53,000 over 3.5 days for the state.


45 posted on 08/19/2020 2:57:34 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: shanover

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.


46 posted on 08/19/2020 2:59:37 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: GMMC0987
I hope all the folks that need to use their electric cars to evacuate remembered to charge them before their “green” power was shut off.

There have been rolling blackouts for days...... which will now be worse because the CA power companies shut off the electricity to prevent fires...

47 posted on 08/19/2020 3:00:01 PM PDT by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$, A$PCA, or PETA.)
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To: Thud

I am in Modesto.


48 posted on 08/19/2020 3:01:57 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Yep!....here you all go again....


49 posted on 08/19/2020 3:02:22 PM PDT by caww ( Trump - the most pro-life president in History !)
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To: Mariner

Yep!....here you all go again....


50 posted on 08/19/2020 3:02:23 PM PDT by caww ( Trump - the most pro-life president in History !)
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To: Steely Tom

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.


51 posted on 08/19/2020 3:03:09 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: Mariner
God is not an arsonist and His actions are always correct in and through nature. Lightning strikes are causing these fires.

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.

52 posted on 08/19/2020 3:03:25 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: TexasM1A

LOL. Did that when we were still in Florida. Charlie, Jean and Francis.


53 posted on 08/19/2020 3:04:23 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: avital2
Nah....don't blame nature...it's California's shoddy and negligent officials who have it in for Californians.
54 posted on 08/19/2020 3:04:59 PM PDT by caww ( Trump - the most pro-life president in History !)
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To: Intar

Look at the good side of the fires. It will kill out many of the Pine Bark beetles that are killing the trees.


55 posted on 08/19/2020 3:11:02 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Mat_Helm

In which sinless State do you live?


56 posted on 08/19/2020 3:13:12 PM PDT by FightforFreedomCA
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To: Steely Tom

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.


57 posted on 08/19/2020 3:13:21 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: TexasM1A

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.


58 posted on 08/19/2020 3:16:47 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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To: caww
it's California's shoddy and negligent officials who have it in for Californians.

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!

59 posted on 08/19/2020 3:16:49 PM PDT by Intar
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To: Mariner

Is it keeping people from Califonicating surrounding States?


60 posted on 08/19/2020 3:17:03 PM PDT by TexasTransplant ( I am going back to work... permission or not)
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