CTH: Terrible news from the region just north of Sacramento California where the devastating ‘Camp Fire’ impacted the town of Paradise. Late Wednesday evening search and recovery workers located another eight sets of human remains bringing the total death toll from this single fire event to 56. The death toll is anticipated to climb.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and FEMA Director Brock Long visited the devastated area today to thank firefighters and rescue workers. The search for bodies is gruesome as some human remains are found inside burned structures and others outside.
CALIFORNIA – 9 p.m. ET: As of Wednesday night, eight more human remains have been found, bringing the death toll to 56. Six of them were found inside structures and two were found outside. Statewide, the death toll is 59 (including three from the Woolsey Fire).
There have been more than 10,000 structures destroyed by the Camp Fire, including homes. The total amount of evacuated residents remains at 52,000 people.
The Camp Fire containment remains at 35 percent. Some 138,000 acres have been scorched.
Authorities searching through the blackened aftermath of California’s deadliest wildfire Wednesday released the names of some 130 people who are unaccounted, including many in their 80s and 90s, and dozens more could still be unaccounted for. more
May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God rest in peace.
Elect totalitarian monsters, get totalitarian monster results.
This is what happens when government is divorced from reality.
izlamo delenda est …
Perspective on the tragedy in California:
https://youtu.be/ajPpP3vbD5c
If you’re going to build your home in an area where water needs to be trucked in…why not get a pool (even a crappy above ground version), water pump and hose…. just sayin’
“If you’re going to build your home in an area where water needs to be trucked in”
SHOULD KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE YOU START TYPING BULL SHIT!!!!
I live in a similar area to Paradise. I don’t worry about Pg&E or natural causes but I do worry about arson. It is such an easy crime to pull off and there are a lot of shady characters out there.
If we have a fire here it’s over. Our “escape route” set up by Cal Fire is a death trap through dead trees on a narrow road. How many people have to die in their cars before people are allowed to save their home?. How many people died escaping while their houses could have been saved? That stat will never be released.
I choose to live and die here My choice. I don’t ask or want big gov’t to “save” me.
https://hinckley.govoffice2.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={FD8DC19D-5036-4403-8C87061FFE2E781A}
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Hey, Gov. Moonbeam, must of had plenty of Climate Change back then, eh?
If you have ever seen a wind driven wild fire, you would know that a pool, a pump and a fire hose will do precisely nothing except maybe get you killed.
When George W. Bush was President California suffered a devastating fire. President Bush visited California to see the damage. President Bush suggested California buy into the Clean Forest Initiative that worked so well in Oregon for limiting forest fire damage. The left automatically ridiculed Bush and mercilessly laughed off his suggestion. It’s hard to feel sorry for California’s forest fire victims today.
https://hinckley.govoffice2.com/index.asp?SEC=FD8DC19D-5036-4403-8C87-061FFE2E781A
Alright, try this link
Here’s a jpeg of one of the many PG&E lakes above Paradise. It illustrates part of the problem perfectly. Bark Beetles are killing pine trees at an alarming rate. Other states have this problem too. But California seems to be the only one not removing the dead fuel. And Bark Beetles are not caused by Global Warming.
http://www.city-data.com/picfilesc/picc48526.php
FYI for those who follow American Digest: The author, Gerard Van der Leun, an American patriot named after another American patriot, was burned out of his home in Paradise, CA with little more than the clothes on his back, and he needs our assistance.
Here’s how you can help him:
https://www.paypal.me/campfirerecovery
Are affordable, easily built, in-ground emergency shelters feasible? Something like smaller versions of 1950s bomb shelters? Oh, never mind. We’re talking California here. By the time local approval was granted, you’d already be dead and broke. Never mind.
Love the connection of the fire and the melting point of aluminum. Never mind that there was a rubber compound that burns hotter than wood/brush surrounding the wheel.
Even if you didn’t catch fire, there’d be no air to breathe.
My uncle lived in Auburn, California, just off I-80. One state agency recommended that trees, brush and tall/dry grass be cleared 20 yards around any structure, while another forbade any such clearing. He cleared his.
In California, aesthetics is more important than safety. Building out of wood in a fire-prone area is insane. Not clearing around inhabited structures is also insane, and not clearing along evacuation routes should be criminal. WUWT had a depressing article about the narrowing of the principal evacuation route out of Paradise:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/15/2015-paradise-downtown-street-project-reducing-4-lanes-to-2-may-have-created-dangerous-evacuation-bottleneck-during-campfire/
Pine beetle caused grey-wood forests are prevalent throughout the West. The number of dead trees is so vast that it would be incredibly expensive to even just knock them down so they can rot, let alone try to harvest them. If the Forest Service had allowed killed trees to be harvested before they turned grey, while they had commercial value, and if they had allowed for clearing of diseased trees, as well as thinning of remaining healthy stands, we wouldn’t have millions of acres of standing deadwood just waiting for a spark or ember to light them up.
In Utah, they used to allow firewood harvesting of deadwood. That stopped decades ago, and besides, wood burning stoves have been discouraged or banned in the state.
Trump ought to declare all of northern California a national park and as such it comes under the aegis of the the federal land management agency. They they could start a prevention program that could stop a tragedy like this from occurring again. As a bonus it would give the new Governor Newsome a stroke that may just kill him.
I am so incredibly sad for all those that didn’t get out and their families. I thank God all my people were spared. They all lost everything too but they are still alive.
RottyLover
It could have been a lot worse. Not that it’s not bad now. The fire crews were convinced the fire was moving away from town. So they didn’t cancel school. If they would have canceled school there would have been a bunch of kids home alone while their parents were down the hill at work. As it was, they loaded all the kids up on buses and teachers cars and split, with a very short notice. There’s still a lot of unaccounted for.
The losses in Paradise are staggering — just beyond comprehension. Every day I look at the survey map of home and structures that were destroyed. Yesterday there were two new videos on YT (over a couple hours worth) in which someone was given a pass to criss-cross the town taping the damage so that residents and their families might know if their house or business was spared. Damn few homes are unscathed. Interestingly, the big cemetary there was unharmed — even the trees. And there were even a few small churches left untouched. Trying to pin down the rate of the fire, yesterday I was able to ask Van der Luen what time he skedaddled out of there and he said he wasn’t sure but it was probably around 8:30 or so — said he woke about 8:00a., smelled the smoke and saw the orange glow in the sky to the southeast and just bugged out with Olive. He was smart, because it wasn’t more than thirty minutes later that Pentz road (one of only two ways out) was closed because of downed wires and burning trees. All those terrified people had to go back up the hill and were met by all the traffic coming out of Pentz downhill plus all the people coming out of the side lanes off the other two cross-roads. On a map, Paradise looks like a giant “A” with a couple more cross roads, and that’s it. Every other road is a dead end lane or a “loop” that exits and reenters one of those horizontal or vertical roads.
Gov Brown is off is ever-lovin’ rocker to suggest climate change is the primary cause of towns like Paradise’s problem. There’s so much dried-out rubbish under and around those trees it’s not funny. Scary, dried out, jungle of tinder. And this fire was way past its warm up act by the time it hit Paradise.
Most of the still-missing are elderly older than 70+ and into their 90’s. I think about my own 91 yo mother and how helpless she would be to save herself. She just couldn’t. It’s very, very sad that someone should die alone like that, so frightened and in a fire with all the smoke and sounds of your home being consumed. Just horrific.
…meant to add that it was one of those main cross roads, Elliot I think, that had all the pictures of abandoned, burnt-out cars. I imagine that the fire was unimaginably fierce at that point and this is where it got up a whole head of steam to flatten the rest of Paradise. I can’t believe there are people who are speculating about a gov’t-run plan to burn down these towns using airplanes. The gov’t is involved but it’s because of its “green” agenda, stupidity and negligence.