Thursday, December 28, 2017

THOMAS FIRE MOSTLY UNDER CONTROL NOW

by Bob Walsh

The Thomas Fire in SoCal is now about 90% contained and they don't expect the outer lines to move significantly in the foreseeable future, though it may creep inward a bit. Right now it is sort of like a big, vicious donut. CalFire believes it will be fully extinguished a week or so after New Year. It has now burned right around 290,000 acres and destroyed more than 1,000 structures, many of them homes. Fortunately there have been only two deaths linked to the fire and the number of destroyed structures is fairly low considering the amount of acreage burned.

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