by Jose Roca
10/12/2017
Northern California is going through a very hard situation since flames are being spread throughout the whole state as winds keep getting stronger and stronger and flames getting bigger and bigger, the cause of this whole wildfire is unclear, since the fires keep starting late at night at about the same time, as residents get caught with their guard down as they are headed to bed.
Some people think it might have been because of a lighting, however the Department of Forestry and Life Protection decided to say the following: “All this fires have started in highly populated areas, also 95% of the amount of fires are caused by people, leaving the possibility of it being a lighting pretty low.
By now CNN has stated that there are 23 people dead and hundreds are missing as these wildfires create chaos, burning down about 160 thousand acres in Northern California, leading whole towns to evacuate out of their homes and having to leave everything behind, just to be burned by the flames.
10/13/2017
Unfortunately the death toll has risen to 31 people, more than 2.800 residences in Santa Rosa have been destroyed by wildfire, these wildfires have burned about 191.000 acres throughout California.
The winds keep getting higher, and it’s estimated that the Wildfires will get even worse this friday night through Saturday, mixed with the low humidity this could spread the flames in a drastical way, leading to even worse damage.
How do we stop the wildfires?
By now about 8.000 firefighters are trying to contain the blazes, officials said on thursday. They are using almost 820 firetrucks (at least 170 are from out of state), 73 helicopters and about 20 planes.
All we are able to do by now, is to hope for the best and put our faith in the firefighters, and hope they are able to contain these huge blazes that have been destroying people’s homes.
If you want to volunteer to help, you can donate the victims of the California’s wildfires by letting the Crisis Response Center know that you want to participate
The Crisis Response Center are also allowing people to start a fundraiser or donate to an ongoing fundraiser They also serve as a resource to view information about the wildfires, including local news and updates, as well as pictures that other Facebook users in the area are posting of the devastation. (according to abcnews.go.com)
Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times/TNS.
10/17/2017
The 11,000 firefighters are starting to win the battle against the enormous blazes, making some of the citizens being to return to their homes, however some of them have no home to return to, They lost it all except for just a pile of burned down wood that’s left from what once used to be their precious home.
Fifteen major wildfires are still being spread throughout California, burning over 217.000 acres and destroying more than 5.700 structures.
In Sonoma County there’s about 3 billion dollars in damages, since entire subdivisions and neighborhoods have been burned down leaving just a pile of ash, debris and scorched earth-tweeted state sen. Mike McGuire, who represents the North Bay.
In the other hand, these wildfires left a lot of ash and debris, which are really toxic since a lot of plastic, and chemicals were burned down in order to create them.
Just to make it worse the death toll has also risen to 41 people and a lot of people are still reported missing.
The good news is that the two largest fires are about 60% contained and rain later this week will help to disintegrate the flames.
Let’s hope California is able to overcome this tragedy, and that people are kind enough to donate some money, in order for the people who lost their homes the get a new one.
(credits to http://www.cnn.com and http://abcnews.go.com).
Editor’s note: as of press time, most of the fires have been contained and October’s fatality count remains at 41 people.