{"id":52202,"date":"2020-08-23T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/changes-in-weather-prompt-more-fire-fears-in-california\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T06:28:00","slug":"changes-in-weather-prompt-more-fire-fears-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/changes-in-weather-prompt-more-fire-fears-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"#Changes in weather prompt more fire fears in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Changes in weather prompt more fire fears in California<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 An unwelcome change in the weather, with higher winds, temperatures and lightning that threatens to spark new wildfires was coming Sunday to parched Northern California, where firefighters have for nearly a week battled three huge \u201ccomplexes\u201d of fires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced tens of thousands to flee.<\/p>\n

Firefighters made slow but hopeful progress in battling the blazes on Saturday, aided by good weather but hampered by smoky skies that grounded water-dropping aircraft for some of the day. Reinforcements arrived to bolster overwhelmed crews, and evacuation orders were lifted in some areas.<\/p>\n

But the changing weather brought fears of new fires overnight and warnings from state and local officials for residents in threatened areas to prepare to flee at any moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a feeling of pure optimism, but a feeling of resolve, a feeling of we have resources backing us up,\u201d Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore said.<\/p>\n

Since Aug. 15, state fire officials said more than 12,000 lightning strikes across the state have ignited more than 500 wildfires. Of those, about two dozen major fires were attracting most of the state\u2019s resources. Most of the damage was caused by three clusters of fire \u201ccomplexes\u201d that were ravaging forest and rural areas in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. They have burned 1,120 square miles<\/p>\n

Among the casualties were ancient redwood trees at California\u2019s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, plus the park\u2019s headquarters and campgrounds. Smoke from the fires made the region\u2019s air quality dangerous, forcing people to stay inside.<\/p>\n

Overall, the fires have killed five people, torched nearly 700 homes and other structures and forced tens of thousands from their houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cTuesday night when I went to bed I had a beautiful home on a beautiful ranch,\u201d said 81-year-old Hank Hanson of Vacaville. \u201cBy Wednesday night, I have nothing but a bunch of ashes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The changing weather brought good news<\/a> for some communities, including Boulder Creek, an old logging community of about 5,000 people in the Santa Cruz mountains. Fire officials said they expected the blaze to reach the community, but they took advantage of recent good weather to try to \u201cherd\u201d flames around the town.<\/p>\n

The storms predicted for Sunday were expected to aid those efforts by changing the direction of the wind.<\/p>\n

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Firefighter Jeremy Damon of the Nevada Yuba Placer Fire Dept. monitors a controlled burn in the backyard of a home in front of the advancing CZU August Lightning Complex Fire<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAs bad as that weather prediction is overall for certain parts of this fire, it actually is going to help us move it away from those certain communities,\u201d said Chief Mark Brunton, a battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the state\u2019s firefighting agency.<\/p>\n

Responding to the emergency, President Donald Trump issued on Saturday a major disaster declaration to provide federal assistance. Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement that the declaration will also help people in counties affected by the fires with crisis counseling, housing and other social<\/a> services.<\/p>\n

Fire officials, meanwhile, struggled to get enough resources to fight the two largest clusters of fires around the San Francisco Bay area that had grown to become the second-largest and third-largest fires in state history by size.<\/p>\n

The fire burning in California\u2019s wine country, north of the San Francisco Bay, had only 1,400 firefighters assigned to battle the blaze. By comparison, the state had 5,000 firefighters assigned to the Mendocino Complex in 2018, which still holds the record as the largest fire in state history \u2014 for now.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our resources remain stretched to capacity that we have not seen in recent history,\u201d said Shana Jones, the chief for CalFire\u2019s Sonoma-Lake-Napa unit.<\/p>\n

Underscoring the danger the fires pose for firefighters, the Sonoma County sheriff\u2019s office released dramatic video of the helicopter rescue Friday night of two firefighters trapp<\/a>ed on a ridgeline at Point Reyes National Seashore. They were hoisted to safety as flames advanced.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad it not been for that helicopter, those firefighters would certainly have perished,\u201d Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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