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| Deadly CA Wildfires Can Even Be Seen from Outer Space |
Officials expect the death toll to rise as crews begin to reach heavily burned areas. Hundreds in flame-ravaged Sonoma County remain missing, and higher winds coupled with low humidity and parched lands could hamper efforts to contain the fires or create new ones.
“It’s going to continue to get worse before it gets better,” Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott said at a news conference Wednesday.
What makes these fast-moving fires particularly dangerous, Pimlott said, is that they “aren’t just in the backwoods. . . . These fires are burning in and around developed communities.”
Nearly two dozen large fires have been raging in the northern part of the state, sending thousands of residents to evacuation centers and burning roughly 170,000 acres — a collective area larger than the city of Chicago. That size is likely to grow.
As of Wednesday afternoon, 285 people in the county remain unaccounted for, Giordano said. It’s unclear if those who are still missing have been harmed, or are simply unable to reach friends and families, as fires have disabled much of the communication system in the region.
Note EU-Digest: With these wildfires happening in CA on a regular basis, one should wonder why no precautions have been taken to stop these events from occurring, like safety (no trees ) fire defense zones. Once again, it seems to be the very poor US infrastructure, that like in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico is the main culprit, causing all this human misery. As the saying goes "Penny Wise and Pound foolish".
Read moreL ‘A serious, critical, catastrophic event’: At least 21 dead as California wildfires spread - The Washington Post
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