State of California Department of Forestry and Fire ProtectionCalifornia Polytechnic. High fire risk is expected to last into January, adding to fears that 2017's deadly and destructive wildfire danger will extend into early next year. Fire Captain PIO CAL FIRE/San Diego County Fire. Fifteen fatalities were reported.Īctive Santa Ana winds continued to fuel the out-of-control brush fire, which prompted mandatory evacuations for hundreds of thousands of people in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. The inferno burned more than 273,000 acres and 2,800 buildings. A smoke-filled sky filters sunlight to orange around a surfer as the Thomas Fire continues to grow and threaten communities from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara on Tuesday, December 12, in. The October 2003 Cedar fire in San Diego County is the state's largest wildfire on record. Zora Thomas Published Topic Climate + Wildfires Share/Republish Sometime in the blur of September 2020, I stood on a ridgeline in the Plumas National Forest in Northern California. Cal Fire announced the latest numbers regarding the wildfires on Saturday. The monster Thomas fire north of Los Angeles is leaving its place in the states record books. The largest most destructive blaze, the Thomas Fire in Ventura County, has already burned more than 200 square miles. By Wednesday, containment was at 30 percent. A wildfire that spread across brushy open terrain was 90 contained Wednesday in a hilly area of Barona, southeast of Ramona, charring about 12.2 acres, according to Cal Fire San Diego. Thomas fire in California now the 2nd largest in states history. 4, and quickly grew larger and more destructive, destroying 930 structures and damaging another 193, according to Cal Fire. The blaze first broke out as a brush fire on Monday, Dec. The death is the second attributed to the fire, which as of Thursday morning had surpassed the 2007 Zaca fire to become the state's fourth-largest wildfire on record. "His bravery and years of committed service to the people of California will never be forgotten.” "Anne and I are saddened by Engineer Cory Iverson’s tragic death," Brown said in a statement. A firefighter and former Marine took down a would-be armed robber and it was all caught on camera at a Texas gas station.Ĭalifornia Governor Jerry Brown ordered Capitol flags be flown at half-staff in honor of Iverson.
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