The 5,356 wildfires tracked in California from Jan. 1 through Aug. 16 is 60% greater than last year’s tally, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
, including the LNU Lightning Complex fire stretching north from Vacaville, which consumed 215,000 acres in four days and was 0% contained as of early Friday.reported the deaths of four civilians related to the LNU Lightning Complex fire and a pilot who was killed when his firefighting helicopter crashed in Fresno County on Wednesday, briefly sparking another brush fire.
The SCU Lightning Complex blaze charred 157,475 acres near Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Joaquin counties since Tuesday and was 5% contained Friday. The fires, some sparked by 11,000 lightning strikes this week, came as the state remained in the grip of a heat wave that registered 130 degrees in Death Valley on Sunday.used his slot during the Democratic National Convention Thursday to focus on climate change, and President Trump’s denial of what he has derided as a hoax, adding “climate change is real; if you are in denial about climate change come to California.
The LNU Lightning Complex fire north of San Francisco had spread to within miles of two state prisons this week, including one that imprisons terminally ill people in hospice care, the elderly and medically vulnerable, according toprompting inmate family members to call for more evacuations; a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told the Guardian officials were monitoring the Vacaville fires but that the two prisons were “not in immediate danger” and had no...
On its website, Cal Fire listed one death, but multiple media outlets reported at least five, including three residents of Napa County and one resident of Solano County, who were killed in the LNU Lightning Complex fire, according to. In total, 33 civilians and firefighters have been injured so far, while at least two people are reported to be missing, the
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