California fire: Government Gavin News declares a state of emergency as counties fight several wildfires

09/07/2020 USA


The state of emergency applies to Fresno, Madeira and Mariposa counties where creek fires are burning and San Bernardino and San Diego counties where Do El Dorado fires and valley fires are raging, the state emergency services office said in a statement on Sunday night. .

The three fires burned thousands of acres of land, destroyed homes and displaced thousands of residents, the OES said in a statement.

Dangerous flames due to high temperatures and dry conditions resulted in large-scale airlift operations that rescued dozens of people on Saturday night. They were celebrating a holiday weekend at Mammoth Pool Reservoir when a wall of creek fire flares blocked roads in Madeira County, trapping them.

Chinook and Blackhawk helicopters, C.P.L. More than 200 people were airlifted from the campsite by. David Hole of the California National Guard said during a press conference Sunday.

The rescue operation began late Saturday and was completed by 1:30 a.m. Sunday, he said. As the weather worsened, rescue workers decided to load as many people as possible into the camp on the second run.

The California National Guard shows dozens have been evacuated from the Mammoth Pool Reservoir.

“In that second round – when it was more important to get everyone out – it was important that they would bring everyone in, secure what they could and then everyone else took a seat on the floor.” “We don’t like to operate this way, but the seriousness of the situation has made it life-threatening, so the pilots and command made a smart decision by telling them to get on the helicopter and load it into the elevator as much as possible.”

Hall Hall said two people were seriously injured and 19 were injured with minor injuries.

The fire has burned thousands of acres of land

Creek fires have burned 45,500 acres in the Sierra Nevada mountains and 0% of the contest remains in place until early Monday morning, according to the Cal Fire website. The fire started Friday night, northeast of Shower Lake, and an investigation into its cause is ongoing.
Hundreds of people were rescued from the creek fire by people trapped in the wall.
The Valley Fire in San Diego County, southeast of the Alpine, burned 9,850 acres, Cal Cal San Diego said. Do a tweet Late Sunday night. Eleven constructions have been destroyed in the fire and evacuation has been ordered in the area.
In San Bernardino County, the El Dorado Fire – which started during Ling in which a pyrotechnic device was used – has burned 7,050 acres and is at 5% content.

There are also several complex electricity fires across the state, with more than 850,000 burning acres between SCU, CZU and LNU power complex fires.

Records have been broken across the state

This forest fire is the worst in the history of California in terms of burned acres. Cal Fire Captain, broke the statewide record of landslides on Sunday by burning 2,094,955 acres. Richard Cordova told CNN.

“This is crazy. We haven’t even entered the October and November fire seasons and we’ve broken all-time records,” Cordova said.

“It worries us because we need to get these firefighters off these lines and give them a break from fighting this wildfire,” he added.

The thermometer in the Woodland Hills of California breaks the 121 degree Fahrenheit record.
The National Fire Probability Outlook for September and October, released last week by the National Intelligence Fire Center (NIFC), predicts a dramatic increase in fire activity in the west based on weather patterns. Wind-filled and burning fuels in California also dried up severely, along with several multi-day heat and lightning occasions, the report said.
At least 10 heat records have been cut this week, according to a warning from the National Weather Service.

The warning said it was the hottest event in more than half a century, with seven other records being broken on Sunday in various parts of the state in the 1950s.

In Los Angeles County, where at least two fires are still burning, temperatures in the Woodland Hills hit a record 121 degrees on Sunday. The National Weather Service Los Angeles also recorded the highest temperature of 117 degrees in the Paso Rubles, the highest recorded in San Louis Obispo County.

CNN’s Jade Timm-Garcia, Suzanne Culinane, Alta Spell, Artemis Mostagian and Paul Paul Workman contributed to the report.

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