Saturday, September 04, 2021

FIRE UPDATES

by Bob Walsh

The Dixie Fire, burning in NorCal, has now burned up about 900,000 acres in seven weeks.  It has destroyed 3,000 structures, mostly homes, and threatens another 56,000 structures, mostly homes.  The weather conditions have favored the fire fighters in the last couple of days but the fire is still expanding, though not as quickly as it once was.

The Caldor fire has been burning about half that time, but has burned about 220,000 acres with only 37% containment as of Saturday.  It has destroyed 700 structures, almost all of them homes.  It has led to the evacuation of 5,500 homes including the entire city of South Lake Tahoe.  The ash is already effecting the ecology of the lake.  The fire still threatens over 30,000 homes but favorable weather conditions Friday gave the firefighters a bit  of an edge.  

Gavin Newsom, the God-Emperor of California, is mostly blaming Donald Trump and climate change for the fire and not his and his predecessors shitty forest management practices.  With luck that lump of ambulatory pond scum will be history by the end of this month.  I am not going to bet on it, but I am hopeful.

As a modest side note many of the registrars of voters in CA are taking extraordinary steps to ensure that the fire fighters get to vote in the recall election in ten days.

1 comment:

Trey said...

I'm on a FB page from Lake Tahoe. The Hotel Casinos have given refuge to residents and firefighters. It is a sad mess.