FIRES GETTING BAD.....AGAIN......IN NORCAL

City Of Paradise Evacuated.....Again

by Bob Walsh

There are now a number of fires burning in wine country and other areas of northern California.  The city of Paradise, in Butte County, is being evacuated.  It was pretty much burned to the ground two years ago.  It previously had about 25,000 residents.  It is only about 1/10 of that right now though the rebuilding process has gotten under way.  

PG&E has turned off power to about 11,000 residents of the foothills and wine country and expect that they will shut off another 54,000.  These Public Safety Power Shutoffs are now taken when a combination of weather conditions make it more likely that PG&E equipment will start fires.  Once the lines are shut off they have to be individually visually inspected before the power can be turned back on.  It takes time.  

They are running 100+ temperatures in much of northern and central California and will be doing so much of this week.  The relative humidity is under 15% in many areas and there are areas of high winds.  All of this is combining to make the fire fighting situation dire.

There are teams from as far away as Israel and Australia operating in California right now.

Even areas like the North Bay and East Bay in the greater San Francisco Bay area are under red flag fire warnings.  

It is of course all Donald Trump's fault because he is a "climate denier."  Hell, he probably flew over in AF1 and dropped some flares to start some of the fires.