27 minutes agoFires in California increase the number of victims
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Two children and their great - grandfather are among the five victims who lost their lives as a result of fires in northern California. Two firefighters, meanwhile, lost their lives Thursday, 17 people are missing, and tens of thousands of others have abandoned their homes. Flames in Shasta County, taken by strong winds and are changing [...]
Two children and their great - grandfather are among the five victims who lost their lives as a result of fires in northern California. Two firefighters, meanwhile, lost their lives Thursday, 17 people are missing, and tens of thousands of others have abandoned their homes.
Flames in Shasta County are being carried away by strong winds and turned into tornadoes of fire, plucking and scurrying trees and even turning cars. Firefighters are facing fires that have only been controlled by 5 percent. The flames have destroyed at least 500 structures and are threatening thousands of homes.
Fires began Monday after a car defect, lighting a fire that spread to 194 sq km of land, an area larger than the entire city of San Francisco.
More than 3400 firefighters have been deployed, but the local department has warned that hot and dry weather is forecast over the week and could make the situation even worse. About 37 thousand residents, meanwhile, have been forced to abandon the area.
Fire in Northern California is one of nearly 90 active U.S. sites. In Ferguson, the fire took the life of a fireman and caused most of the Josemite National Park to close, while in Riverside County, in the south, the fire dried up 46 square miles [46 sq km] of land.
Fires are common in California during dry and hot summers. However, experts say this has been the worst start of the fire season in the last 10 years, in part the fact that the drought of 2012-2017 has caused much of the vegetation to disappear.
