11/23/2023 0 Comments Blue fire fresno countyThe California Army National Guard colonel in charge of rescuing Sierra National Forest visitors from the fast-moving Creek Fire told CNN on Tuesday airlifts are going extremely well.Ĭol. They suffered burns and smoke inhalation and were taken to a Fresno hospital, said Chris Barth of the Bureau of Land Management. Three firefighters were hurt, one critically, while battling the Dolan Fire in California’s central coast. “We have 150 million trees that died in the southern Sierra several years ago, and those are fueling the Creek Fire, which is the biggest and most concerning fire to us right now,” he said. The Creek Fire racing through the mountains of Central California is being fueled by dead trees and has grown to more than 143,000 acres and destroyed an estimated 60 homes. “We have fires burning in the north part of the state all the way down to the Mexican border, about 800 miles between the furthest distant fires, so we’re stretched across the landscape,” Porter said of his crews. According to Porter, many of the fires will continue to grow and remain “uncontrollable until we have a weather change.” We’ve had an additional, at least, two that have occurred just in the day today,” Porter told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.Ĭal Fire said earlier that more than 2.2 million acres have been scorched across the Golden State so far this year, a state record. We have now, as of this morning, 25 major fires. Three fire complexes – where two or more fires merge – have burned more acreage than the Creek fire, including last year’s August Complex, which charred 1 million acres.ĬNN’s Steve Almasy contributed to this report.More than two dozen large wildfires raging across California after an extreme heat wave have created a “dire situation,” Thom Porter, chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said Tuesday. Twenty-nine fire fighters were injured fighting the blaze, Cal Fire said The blaze destroyed 853 structures and damaged 64, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). The fire began September 4 and was finally declared contained just before Christmas. Gould said that at this point, “the case is considered closed, pending further leads.” In the end, lightning remains as the probable cause.” “Investigators spent countless hours hiking rugged terrain to determine the cause, interviewed numerous leads, and eliminated multiple potential causes. “We all want to know a definitive cause to what started the devastating Creek Fire last year,” Dean Gould, forest supervisor of the Sierra National Forest, said in a statement. He's seen firsthand how wildfires have worsened This California firefighter has been on the job 25 years. Pushed by heavy winds, the fire came out of the hills and destroyed multiple residences in central Doyle. The cost of recovery and rebuilding is estimated to exceed $500 million.įire consumes homes as the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, tears through Doyle, Calif., on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Despite some speculation, officials also said there were “no illegal marijuana grow sites nearby, so that also was excluded as a possible cause.”įresno County officials said the cost of fighting and extinguishing the fire was $193 million. Officials excluded many potential causes such as equipment use, escaped campfire, activities by children and burning debris. The undetermined status is “not uncommon given the complexities involved,” officials said in a news release. Lightning is the most probable cause of the wildfire, but authorities aren’t ruling out arson or “smoking activities,” fire investigators said in a news release. The Creek Fire, which burned more than 379,000 acres in the mountains of Fresno and Madera counties for months last year, destroyed more than 850 structures and spawned two firenados amid the state’s worst fire season on record. Despite an “exhaustive investigation,” the US Forest Service announced Friday the cause of the largest single fire in California’s recorded history is undetermined.
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