Breibart CA:
California fire authorities listed 39 active fires burning across the state with the worst devastation in the Wine Country where 9 major fires have burnt over 103,000 acres causing at least 19 deaths and 670 residents missing.
Fire and safety authorities have found 110 of the 240-people reported missing people from Tuesday. But as rescuers have been able to get to more remote areas and gain information from friends and families, the total number of missing has spiked to 670.
Government officials believe many of the missing will eventually be found, but the confirmed Wine Country death toll of 19 is expected to continue to rise. Two more deaths due to fires were reported in nearby Yuba County. READ MORE
I haven’t read yet how these fires started. Anybody know?
May God bless and protect those missing and those brave souls fighting the fires and accept into his kingdom those that have already died. Terrible thing in country of such incredible beauty.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-13/nothing-more-ash-and-bone-norcal-wildfires-now-deadliest-states-history
Just read this today,mind Boggling.
Governor Moonbeam’s Katrina…
Did I just not watch every Lefty blog and newspaper cheer 59 killed and 500+ injured in Las Vegas?
I want to not be a bad person here. Kind of.
It’s been a devastating fire season in the west this year. Hard to believe that entire neighborhoods have been wiped out down there. And wineries, too! We’ve visited many of them over the years.
Dear God, please watch over and heal them.
They think wind blown trees hit power lines starting the fire.
California has become a state I have absolutely no feelings for. Que Sera Sera.
“670 Missing in Raisin Country Firestorms”
(Fixed that for ya)
🙂
It’s easy to make fun of California, but as we all know there are millions of hard working, conservative, residents of California that are victims of their state government. Many of them are directly affected by these fires. A family of 4 that are friends of mine are missing, live in Santa Rosa. I’m praying they they are safe, and just not able to communicate easily.
Vietvet
Your comment is not to far off the mark. Local news coverage is as concerned with the grape harvest that was destroyed as it is with the victims. some stations are giving it about equal coverage. They lost about 15% of the harvest.
joe
Last I heard most of the cell phone towers were still down. People are reporting they had to evacuate so fast they didn’t have time to grab their cell phones. These comments about why they didn’t leave earlier and that they had plenty of time are misinformed at best. I hope your friends didn’t live out in a rural area.
They are not in the heart of town, a vulnerable area. Last I heard was a couple days ago, his mom asked for prayers as her son was driving for his life with his wife and 2 kids. I hope they are all safe, and together. I doubt if I’ll hear much until things settle down there.
joe,
That had to of sucked. Cozy in bed one minute, driving through a firestorm next. I hope they got out. The Tubbs, which they are now calling the Central LNU Complex, is reportedly 25% contained but forecasting big winds starting tonight.
@Bad_Brad (at 1:06 pm): I know. I make jokes about these things, but my heart goes out to those who have lost their homes and (in this case) their livelihoods. Not to mention the families of those who lost their lives.
2017 has been a bad year for Texas, Florida, California, Nevada, and a lot of other places, and it’s not even over yet.
🙁
I can’t imagine. I would make a point of finding out more of how they are doing but even if they are safe they probably don’t have time to reach out to someone eight hundred miles away. And you have family fighting these fires, it’s hard to imagine a harder job.
I can’t imagine trying to escape from a firestorm. The closest I got to dangerous fire was when my little brother (he was only three at the time) poked me in the back with a lit sparkler.
People find it hard to know the terror of a fire. Years ago, I watched with the rest of the neighborhood as the firemen tried valiantly to put out a house fire. They did not succeed and I remember the horror wondering if the people escaped in time. We found out later that they did, but the memory is seared in my mind.
God, please be with all involved in this tragedy, including family and friends from afar, especially joe6pak.
Gee. 39 fires now. Well I’m glad I’ve been proven wrong when I said 22 fires must have been arson. 17 more just proves it was all power lines being knocked over into trees.
Whew! Hate being the conspiracy nut.
From a nephew in Santa Rosa, who has two friends who barely made it out alive, 101 is still open, but no commerce east of 101. CA 12 to Sonoma and Napa east via Kenwood “looks like a war zone.”
I feel horribly for the victims and pray for God to have mercy on them. That said, Sonoma County voted 68% Hillary 20% Trump. I could never live near that many ignorant people.
TERRORISTS START FIRES
Media cover: “We don’t know what started them.”
When we catch the terrorist who did it, media says, “Motive not possible to know!”
@Cliche, Yanno, I have kinda been keeping an eye out for that.
So far, nada, nothing, zero. If anybody sees any, interested.
I’m a little proud of that. The opportunity was there for a turn about on the nasty women who rejoiced at the death of country music fans.
I checked, Santa Rosa is kinda red pill, a lot of Raygun Dems there.
Been to a LOT of woods fires, nothing even closely approaching this conflagration.
It’s scary, damn scary, bless the men who run into it not away, like most sane people.
I remember the Oakland Hills firestorm of the early 70’s with all those oily Eucalyptus trees went up like the bombs at Port Chicago back in the 40’s.
I’m waiting for the media to say the fires were started to kill liberals
The forecast for the weekend is more wind. Exactly what is not needed.
I drove a long way on I-5, between LA and northern California this week.
There were convoys of firetrucks and national guard heading north.
Say what you want to about California, most of its justified, but these are real people living there. More than a few of us on this board know folks who live in the affected areas. Some of us know people who are not accounted for.
Its a horrific situation.