A pair of wildfires
in Northern California, the River Fire and the Ranch Fire, burned more than 454
square miles, becoming the largest in
state history Monday evening. The so-called Mendocino Complex surpassed last December's Thomas
Fire, which burned more than 440 square miles in Ventura and Santa Barbara
counties, claiming more than 1,000 structures and one life. Combined, the
Mendocino Complex has burned an area nearly the size of Los Angeles. The
Mendocino Complex has destroyed at least 75 homes, 68 other structures and
threatens 11,300 buildings, Cal Fire said. A tenacious heat wave and relentless
winds are not helping the firefighting efforts. Even with almost 3500 assigned
personnel, it was 34 percent contained as August 7th.
For information
about prevention and education, http://www.preventwildfireca.org/
and https://www.fs.fed.us/fire/prev_ed/index.html
are good resources.
Also worth checking
out is https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2018/fire-tracker/.
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