It Ain't Paradise any longer
The most destructive fire in California's history has now claimed at least 9 lives.However, at least 35 people are also missing.
Almost the entire town of Paradise California has been engulfed in flames.
The fire broke out rapidy, perhaps from electrical problems, and spread even more rapidly due
to the combination of 50 mph winds and very dry conditions.
From Weather.com
In response to:
9 Dead in Wildfire That Destroyed Northern California Town and Is Now the Most Destructive Fire in California History
By Pam Wright 3 hours ago weather.com
The town of Paradise was destroyed by the fire and nine people have lost their lives. The Camp Fire is now the most destructive fire in California history. Authorities confirmed several injuries and at least 6,700 structures destroyed in Butte County.
Nine people have died as a result of the Camp Fire, a fast-moving Northern California wildfire that has become the state's most destructive on record, officials said Friday night.
Butte County Sheriff Korey Honea said three people were found outside homes and four people inside vehicles. He said another victim was found outside near a vehicle.
All the victims were found in Paradise, a town of 27,000 that was evacuated as a result of the fire.
Authorities say they conducted numerous rescues Friday as they fought the flames, including using helicopters to rescue five people in the nearby community of Magalia.
An estimated 6,453 homes and 260 commercial structures have already been destroyed by the fire, according to CalFire. Another 15,000 remained threatened in the area.
An estimated 80 to 90 percent of Paradise was wiped out by flames Thursday night, the town mayor told the Sacremento Bee.
The sheriff says they have taken 35 reports of missing people.
Three firefighters have been injured, CalFire said Friday.
The Camp Fire, which started early Thursday morning, had grown in size to 156 square miles by Saturday morning and was 20 percent contained.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said in a one-paragraph summary filed Thursday with state utility regulators that it had experienced a problem on an electrical transmission line near the Camp Fire site 15 minutes before the blaze broke out, the Associated Press reported. The company said it later observed damage to a transmission tower on the line near the town of Paradise.
Capt. Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said crews basically gave up attacking the flames and instead helped people get out alive.
“There was really no firefight involved,” he said.
By Friday morning, the fire was encroaching on the nearby city of Chico, prompting new evacuations.
Capt. Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said flames from the blaze had reached the eastern side of Chico, a city of more than 90,000 residents.
The small communities of Stirling City and Inskip, north of Paradise, were also evacuated on Friday.
Officials told the Associated Press that some Paradise residents who attempted to escape the fire in their vehicles Thursday were forced to flee on foot – some holding pets and even babies in their grasp – as the flames drew closer. With few options out of Paradise, roads quickly became gridlocked, and abandoned cars left in the middle of the road only made problems worse.
"It is pure chaos up here," CHP public information officer Ryan Lambert told the Los Angeles Times.
Other towns evacuated included Centerville and Butte Creek, northwest of Paradise. Evacuations were also ordered in the nearby hamlets of Pulga and Concow.
"It’s bad," Honea told the Chico Enterprise-Record. "We’re trying to get as many people out as quickly as possible and save as many lives as we can."...
9 Dead in Wildfire That Destroyed Northern California Town and Is Now the Most Destructive Fire in California History
By Pam Wright 3 hours ago weather.com
The town of Paradise was destroyed by the fire and nine people have lost their lives. The Camp Fire is now the most destructive fire in California history. Authorities confirmed several injuries and at least 6,700 structures destroyed in Butte County.
Nine people have died as a result of the Camp Fire, a fast-moving Northern California wildfire that has become the state's most destructive on record, officials said Friday night.
Butte County Sheriff Korey Honea said three people were found outside homes and four people inside vehicles. He said another victim was found outside near a vehicle.
All the victims were found in Paradise, a town of 27,000 that was evacuated as a result of the fire.
Authorities say they conducted numerous rescues Friday as they fought the flames, including using helicopters to rescue five people in the nearby community of Magalia.
An estimated 6,453 homes and 260 commercial structures have already been destroyed by the fire, according to CalFire. Another 15,000 remained threatened in the area.
An estimated 80 to 90 percent of Paradise was wiped out by flames Thursday night, the town mayor told the Sacremento Bee.
The sheriff says they have taken 35 reports of missing people.
Three firefighters have been injured, CalFire said Friday.
The Camp Fire, which started early Thursday morning, had grown in size to 156 square miles by Saturday morning and was 20 percent contained.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said in a one-paragraph summary filed Thursday with state utility regulators that it had experienced a problem on an electrical transmission line near the Camp Fire site 15 minutes before the blaze broke out, the Associated Press reported. The company said it later observed damage to a transmission tower on the line near the town of Paradise.
Capt. Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said crews basically gave up attacking the flames and instead helped people get out alive.
“There was really no firefight involved,” he said.
By Friday morning, the fire was encroaching on the nearby city of Chico, prompting new evacuations.
Capt. Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said flames from the blaze had reached the eastern side of Chico, a city of more than 90,000 residents.
The small communities of Stirling City and Inskip, north of Paradise, were also evacuated on Friday.
Officials told the Associated Press that some Paradise residents who attempted to escape the fire in their vehicles Thursday were forced to flee on foot – some holding pets and even babies in their grasp – as the flames drew closer. With few options out of Paradise, roads quickly became gridlocked, and abandoned cars left in the middle of the road only made problems worse.
"It is pure chaos up here," CHP public information officer Ryan Lambert told the Los Angeles Times.
Other towns evacuated included Centerville and Butte Creek, northwest of Paradise. Evacuations were also ordered in the nearby hamlets of Pulga and Concow.
"It’s bad," Honea told the Chico Enterprise-Record. "We’re trying to get as many people out as quickly as possible and save as many lives as we can."...
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Comments (57)
If the population continues to increase and global warming continues upward,
leading to hotter & drier climates, it's likely to get worse over time.
Yea , blame it all on Trump if you all like , but take this from it , he is not responsible for vegetation control in these area's , locals need to eyeball their local government
Your ignorance is showing.
"While President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that the spate of deadly wildfires across the state are due to "gross mismanagement of the forests," a USA TODAY Network review shows many of the worst fires in California have burned largely on federal land.
The largest blaze in state history, the 410,200-acre Ranch Fire, this past summer burned on large swaths of land managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in Mendocino and nearby counties north of San Francisco.
In fact, six of California's 16 most destructive wildfires in the past 25 years — in terms of structures destroyed — occurred on federal lands, according to Cal Fire records.
In Shasta County, last summer's 229,650-acre Carr Fire started on National Park Service lands before spreading to private property and eventually into the city of Redding."
I don't expect Trump to improve ANYTHING even if he was given 20 years.
we don't know What Lies Beneath.
K - thank you for that update. The numbers are certainly not good.
e - The solution is complex. We have enormous forests there. Wildfires are part of nature and have been for eons. We should not have people living in or so close to the woods. Perhaps underground bunkers should be built to allow those people caught in such a fire to escape being burned to death. That's somewhat similar to what some animals do.
Perhaps in order to meet construction code, homes in that area should be required to include an underground shelter capable of withstanding such a fire. It might create new business.
Denying this will only increase fires...raking is not the solution...
At least at this point, the "camp" fires were actually started by an electrical fire.
That's the only information I heard.