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Exodor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:48 pm
Latest guess for clearing is Friday when rain is supposed to arrive.

Exodor wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:16 am Hopefully the rain puts out more fires than the lightning starts.

Once the air quality improves to be “moderate” or “good” the state Department of Health’s air quality program staff suggests:

Windows should be opened for at least 15 minutes.
Clean hard surfaces with plain soap and water, dust with a dry or damp microfiber cloth and try and use a vacuum with a HEPA filter. Vacuuming without one can send dust into the air.

GRAND COUNTY, Colo. — The East Troublesome Fire, burning in Grand County, burned aggressively overnight and into Thursday and surpassed 125,000 acres. Wednesday afternoon that fire was just about 24,000 acres.

"We never expected 6,000 acres per hour to come upon our community," said Grand County Sheriff Brett Schroetlin.

A fast-moving, wind-whipped wildfire left two firefighters critically injured and forced about 60,000 residents of a Southern California suburb to evacuate on Monday, while huge swaths of the Golden State went without power in an effort to prevent more flames, officials said.

The firefighters, ages 26 and 31, were injured while battling the Silverado Fire, which had charred at least 4,000 acres in and around the community of Irvine, southeast of Los Angeles, the Orange County Fire Authority said.

The firefighters — two of about 500 trying to contain the out-of-control blaze — suffered second- and third-degree burns across 65 percent and 50 percent of their bodies, the authority said. Both were intubated.
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Close to 60,000 people, living in 20,000 homes, are in range of the fire and were ordered to evacuate. Firefighters are dealing with steady winds of between 20 mph and 30 mph, gusting up to 65 mph, authorities said.

The University of California, Irvine, shut down all campus activities shortly before 11 a.m. PT.

9-year-old SF Giants fanatic loses baseball cards in Creek Fire; San Jose man gives her 25,000-card collection
The Creek Fire took the Osterbergs’ home and Reese’s baseball card collection, including her prized Buster Posey card, but Cal Fire stepped in to help

Scuzz wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:18 pm People point to global warming or climate change as the big problem with fires but when you look at the areas threatened by most fires they are areas that have people that in years past wouldn't have. The hills around LA have been tinder boxes for my whole lifetime but houses weren't built on them or up to the edges 50 years ago. Now they are.

Sure there are droughts but California is a land of droughts, always has been. But now people and buildings are endangered by the fires when in the past there would have been nothing there but scrub brush and pines, or oaks.