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Calif. Authorities Raise Wildfire Death Toll To 80, Lower Number Of Missing Persons
"Pleasure, what a name': Trump confused over fire-hit town Paradise"
November 19, 20182:40 AM ET
Emily Sullivan
Emily Sullivan
Jacob Saylors, 11, walks through the burned remains of his home in Paradise, Calif., Sunday. His family
lost a home in the same spot to a fire 10 years prior.
Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
Authorities in California have added an additional fatality to the official death toll of the Camp Fire, bringing its total number of deaths to at least 77.
The number of those unaccounted for decreased to 993 — about 300 fewer than Saturday's count, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said on Sunday.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/19/669125749/calif-authorities-raise-wildfire-death-toll-to-80-lower-number-of-missing-person
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California fire: What started as a tiny brush fire became the state’s deadliest wildfire. Here’s how
By Paige St. John , Anna M. Phillips , Joseph Serna , Sonali Kohli and Laura Newberry Nov 18, 2018 | 4:00 AM | PULGA, Calif.
IMAGE: A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) 1 / 32
Before there was a spark, there was the wind.
On the morning of Nov. 8, as the sun rose over the isolated mountains in the Sierra Nevada, gale-force winds tore through the canyon. A fire outpost on the Feather River recorded blasts of 52 mph — a bad omen in a national forest that hadn’t had a satisfying rain since May.
From his station bunk at the head of Jarbo Gap, Capt. Matt McKenzie of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection woke to the sound of pine needles pelting the roof.
At 6:15 a.m., a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. high-voltage line near the Poe Dam generating station six miles away malfunctioned. A report of fire came at 6:29.
Fifteen minutes later, McKenzie stood at the dam looking helplessly across the river canyon at a 10-acre fire on the rock slope above. He had no way to reach it. Its unpaved access route, Camp Creek Road, clung to the mountain so precariously that rock slides threatened to erase it.
The last time he put a heavy wildland engine on the crumbling grade, it took an hour to creep a mile, mirrors folded in, a man walking beside each wheel to watch for collapse. It would be a death sentence to send a crew out there in a fire.
California’s professional wildfire strike forces make a regular practice of killing small grass fires — stomping thousands into anonymity each year. But this one was being lashed by a canyon vortex locals call the Jarbo wind.
McKenzie understood the immense capability of this little fire. It was the disaster he had trained for.
“This has got potential for a major incident,” he radioed. “Still working on access.”
He called for an evacuation of the nearby community of Pulga and ordered a slew of engines, water tankers, bulldozers and strike teams.
The wind was faster. Already, it lofted a blizzard of embers toward nearby towns. McKenzie appealed for “early up” of the helicopters and air tankers that could attack the fire from above. He was told he’d have to wait.
These are the victims of the California wildfires .. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-california-fire-victims-2018-htmlstory.html
Cal Fire planes don’t fly before light or if the wind is too fierce, and both the time and weather conspired with the growing fire on Camp Creek Road. People were trapped and dying in the mountain enclave of Concow and homes were burning at the top of the ridge in Paradise before a fleet of helicopters and tankers could lift off.
Capt. Matt McKenzie of Cal Fire Engine 2161 in a burned wooded area near Station 36 along Highway 70 in Jarbo Gap, Calif. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
By sunset, the fire had swept 19 miles over an entire mountain, surprising, trapping, terrifying and killing — the most destructive and deadliest in California history. Concow and the city of Paradise are largely gone, adjoining mountain towns devastated.
Much more - http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-camp-fire-tictoc-20181118-story.html
"Pleasure, what a name': Trump confused over fire-hit town Paradise"
November 19, 20182:40 AM ET
Emily Sullivan
Emily Sullivan
Jacob Saylors, 11, walks through the burned remains of his home in Paradise, Calif., Sunday. His family
lost a home in the same spot to a fire 10 years prior.
Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
Authorities in California have added an additional fatality to the official death toll of the Camp Fire, bringing its total number of deaths to at least 77.
The number of those unaccounted for decreased to 993 — about 300 fewer than Saturday's count, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said on Sunday.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/19/669125749/calif-authorities-raise-wildfire-death-toll-to-80-lower-number-of-missing-person
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California fire: What started as a tiny brush fire became the state’s deadliest wildfire. Here’s how
By Paige St. John , Anna M. Phillips , Joseph Serna , Sonali Kohli and Laura Newberry Nov 18, 2018 | 4:00 AM | PULGA, Calif.
IMAGE: A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) 1 / 32
Before there was a spark, there was the wind.
On the morning of Nov. 8, as the sun rose over the isolated mountains in the Sierra Nevada, gale-force winds tore through the canyon. A fire outpost on the Feather River recorded blasts of 52 mph — a bad omen in a national forest that hadn’t had a satisfying rain since May.
From his station bunk at the head of Jarbo Gap, Capt. Matt McKenzie of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection woke to the sound of pine needles pelting the roof.
At 6:15 a.m., a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. high-voltage line near the Poe Dam generating station six miles away malfunctioned. A report of fire came at 6:29.
Fifteen minutes later, McKenzie stood at the dam looking helplessly across the river canyon at a 10-acre fire on the rock slope above. He had no way to reach it. Its unpaved access route, Camp Creek Road, clung to the mountain so precariously that rock slides threatened to erase it.
The last time he put a heavy wildland engine on the crumbling grade, it took an hour to creep a mile, mirrors folded in, a man walking beside each wheel to watch for collapse. It would be a death sentence to send a crew out there in a fire.
California’s professional wildfire strike forces make a regular practice of killing small grass fires — stomping thousands into anonymity each year. But this one was being lashed by a canyon vortex locals call the Jarbo wind.
McKenzie understood the immense capability of this little fire. It was the disaster he had trained for.
“This has got potential for a major incident,” he radioed. “Still working on access.”
He called for an evacuation of the nearby community of Pulga and ordered a slew of engines, water tankers, bulldozers and strike teams.
The wind was faster. Already, it lofted a blizzard of embers toward nearby towns. McKenzie appealed for “early up” of the helicopters and air tankers that could attack the fire from above. He was told he’d have to wait.
These are the victims of the California wildfires .. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-california-fire-victims-2018-htmlstory.html
Cal Fire planes don’t fly before light or if the wind is too fierce, and both the time and weather conspired with the growing fire on Camp Creek Road. People were trapped and dying in the mountain enclave of Concow and homes were burning at the top of the ridge in Paradise before a fleet of helicopters and tankers could lift off.
Capt. Matt McKenzie of Cal Fire Engine 2161 in a burned wooded area near Station 36 along Highway 70 in Jarbo Gap, Calif. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
By sunset, the fire had swept 19 miles over an entire mountain, surprising, trapping, terrifying and killing — the most destructive and deadliest in California history. Concow and the city of Paradise are largely gone, adjoining mountain towns devastated.
Much more - http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-camp-fire-tictoc-20181118-story.html
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