Reinforcements arriving to help in deadly California fires
Source: AP
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Firefighters and aircraft from 10 states began arriving in California Friday to help weary crews battling some of the largest blazes in state history as weekend weather threatened to renew the advance of flames that have killed six people and incinerated hundreds of homes.
Some 560 wildfires were burning throughout the state but many were small and remote. The bulk of damage was from three clusters of blazes that were ravaging forest and rural areas in the wine country and San Francisco Bay Area.
Those complexes, consisting of dozens of fires, exploded in size Friday. Together, they had scorched 991 square miles (2,566 square kilometers) and destroyed more than 500 homes and other buildings, fire officials said.
At least 100,000 people were under evacuation orders.
Hank Hanson, 81, looks at artificial flowers that remained standing as the LNU Lightning Complex fires destroyed his Vacaville, Calif., home on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Hanson, who built the house thirty years ago, does not think he will rebuild. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Snake River to make the climb to fight a fire on top of the ridge about 20 years ago. Temperature was in the 90's. Those had to be some badassed dudes to even have a chance to make it up there with their equipment, much less work their asses off fighting the fire.
