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In the states of California, Oregon and Washington, millions of people are fleeing their homes. A red-orange haze enveloped the city from fire and smoke.
Wildfires continue on the west coast of the United States, affecting three states: California, Oregon and Washington. The houses of thousands of people were burned. According to media reports, 23 people were killed, including a one-year-old boy.
The fires may be the worst in Oregon history in terms of fatalities and damage, with ten percent of the state evacuated. The smoke shrouding northern California made the sky red. Correspondent.net says the details.
The day gave way to a bloody haze
In the western United States, in the states of Oregon, California and Washington, there are more than 100 large fires. From the areas engulfed in flames, 500 thousand people are evacuated. The fire threatens houses, the fire has already destroyed more than four thousand buildings.
For the past few days, every half hour, a fire has been burning an area of 341 hectares. 23 people died and there are still four months to go before the end of the US fire season, which began in mid-August.
In August, California set a temperature record when the air warmed to 49 degrees Celsius or higher. At the same time, one of the highest temperatures on the planet in the last century, and possibly all of the time, 54.4 degrees Celsius, was recorded in California Death Valley National Park.
A total of 900 wildfires have been recorded in California since August 15, caused by lightning. Heat log gauges “help” the elements capture more and more territory. The final cause of other fires has yet to be announced.
By fire area, the 2020 season was the largest in recent California history. Since early 2020, wildfires have devastated California’s record 12,000 square kilometers (one million hectares). Oregon is likely to suffer the same fate.
Oregon authorities have ordered the evacuation of more than half a million people, more than 10 percent of the state’s population whose homes have been threatened by unprecedented wildfires.
In a week, thousands of square kilometers of territory were burned there, hundreds of houses were destroyed, at least seven people died. State police are investigating arson.
Authorities require that social distancing measures be observed in temporary evacuation camps due to the coronavirus pandemic, so no more than 50 people can sleep in a room. In total, the state has organized 19 shelters of this type.
In eastern Washington state, in the city of Malden, most houses caught fire. Police were forced to run through the streets and yell at neighbors to hastily leave their homes as fire approached the city.
As a result of the mighty fires, the California sky was covered in a reddish orange haze, which has been going on for several days.
In some places, due to this unusual phenomenon, even during the day it is so dark that the lights have to be turned on, and in San Francisco cars continue to move with the headlights on.
The media is comparing photographs of cities in these states to the apocalypse, and social media users have found similarities to the images of Blade Runner 2049 directed by Denis Villeneuve, which was released in 2017.
SF today fits very well with the music of Blade Runner 2049 # apocalypse2020 #San Francisco pic.twitter.com/UhRl6qe8RB
– Terry 🌱 (@terrythethunder) September 10, 2020
Some have compared the unusual light to a solar eclipse, others to the Apocalypse. Someone decided that darkness has become a metaphor for life in an era of global warming, pandemic, and social unrest.
“It seems like it’s the end of the world. It was unsettling that it was still dark. It will be very strange to dine in the dark. But you have to go about your day, anyway,” a local told the San Francisco Chronicle. resident Katherine Gislin.
Due to smoke particles, only yellow-orange-red light reaches the surface of the earth, causing the sky to turn orange, explained the county’s air quality control authority. This situation will continue for several more days.
“The fire is coming. Being so dark and so close – this is the first time. It is impossible to breathe, we do not go out, we close all the windows,” says a resident of the Californian city of Mountain View.
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