California residents flee massive wildfire sparked by burning car
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The Park Fire in Butte County, California, near the city of Chico has seared 257 square miles (666 square kilometers) and was considered completely uncontained Friday.
Evacuations were ordered in Butte and Tehama counties. About 4,000 residents in unincorporated areas of Butte County and 400 residents of Chico were ordered to evacuate, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said late Thursday. Two minor injures were reported, more than 130 structures were destroyed and about 4,200 were threatened.
Residents who evacuated from the communities of Cohasset, Forest Ranch and Magalia were staying at the Red Cross shelter at the Neighborhood Church of Chico. Many residents with pets sleeping in their cars in the parking lot because animals weren't permitted inside the shelter.
Brian Bowles, 61, said he heard about the fire on the news shortly after waking up and rushed to pack up his car and get his dog Diamon ready to evacuate.
“Right about the time I go out the door, I got two city PD officers at the door telling me I needed to get out,” Bowles said outside Red Cross shelter at the Neighborhood Church of Chico, where he was staying in his car. He said the shelter doesn’t allow animals.
"I heard the neighbor across the street from me lost his house, and, I only live in an old doublewide mobile. Whether it's still standing or not, I got no idea," Bowles said.
A California man arrested Thursday was accused of sparking the state’s largest wildfire of the year by pushing a burning car into a gully.
The blaze was burning northwest of Paradise, the community devastated by the Camp Fire in 2018 that killed 85 people and destroyed thousands of homes.
As of Friday, there were 96 large active fires in the U.S. that have engulfed 2,274 square miles (5,890 square kilometers), most of them in Oregon, followed by California and Arizona, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
More than 1,500 square miles (4,000 square kilometers) have burned overall so far this summer in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. In Canada, more than 3,700 fires have charred more than 8,000 square miles (22,800 square kilometers) so far this year, according to the government’s latest National Wildland Fire Situation Report, issued Wednesday.
Fuels and fire behavior advisories are in place for southwest Oregon, the region east of the Cascades in Oregon and Washington, Nevada, southern Idaho, Utah and California.
コメント (21)
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It WASN'T started by a burning car. What, did the car just burst into flame? It was started by a SO who SET HIS MOM'S CAR ON FIRE. He then shoved the car into a heavily-forested ravine, but apparently blaming a certain type of dude is not allowed.
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this is a huge tragedy 😒
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If wildfires keep occurring in a certain area every year, why would you continue to live there?
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A purposefully set burning car!
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I do love that they all included their animals.
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12 dogs, wtf
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Every time humans harm our planet, I feel real pain
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They need to arrest the SOB and put his behind under the jail.
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12 dogs!
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When you've let your poor forestry practices and lazy housekeeping get so out of hand that it can be sparked off this easy? Criminal negligence.
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Was that an electric car? They do that.
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Doesn't the Mexican government or the cartel do this kind of thing when they want to divert themselves out of the spotlight
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This feels familiar..
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I’m American. Where do I go to join a commune; I can’t live in capitalism.
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ohhhh defiantly more insurers are gonna flee CA.
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Omg i use to live in chico
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I just care about my couple bags filled with music equipment and my son's first haircut hair maybe a couple cute outfits I think I'm actually going to pack this morning just in case I'm about 25 miles outside of the fires path
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Her girl friend 😅😅 with 12 dogs wow
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youtube is full of people shoving cars off cliffs and down hills, guess we know where he got the idea.
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The smartest man there is the guy that lives in the double wide mobile home he can easily replace that and go back to living I like these California liberal elitist who don't have insurance on their homes
