Thousands of people are under evacuation orders in Northern California as a wind-whipped wildfire rages near rural communities.
Homes and vehicle destroyed by the Mill Fire line Wakefield Avenue on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, in Weed, Calif. – A wind-swept wildfire in rural Northern California tore through a neighborhood and destroyed about 100 homes and other buildings, fire officials said Saturday after at least two people were injured and thousands were forced from their homes.
“There’s a lot at stake on that Mill Fire,” he said. “There’s a lot of communities, a lot of homes there.”Weather conditions improved overnight and firefighters were able to get 20% containment but another blaze, the Mountain Fire, that broke out Friday northwest of Weed grew substantially. No injuries or buildings had been reported lost in that fire. The causes for both fires were under investigation.
A firefighter picked her up and put her on a firetruck to get to safety but her dog, due to turn 11 next month, would not follow. The houses all around her were burned.Vogelsang said she slept on a bench in Weed on Friday night because she could not get a ride to the evacuation center. On Saturday morning, she was planning to go to a casino with the $20 she had left.“My dog was my everything,” she said. “I just feel like I lost everything that mattered.
Yvasha Hilliard said she was home in Lincoln Heights when she heard “a big boom" and ran outside to see her neighbor's house on fire.Hilliard said her home was among those that burned. “We lost everything," she said.
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