https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article221349345.html
https://www.kcra.com/article/town-of-pulga-evacuated-due-to-fire-butte-county-sheriffs-office-says-5000-acres/24838602
According to these articles Paradise, CA is on fire watch and evacuations have taken place.
You said butt.
https://www.kcra.com/article/butte-count-wildfire-burns-20000-acres-thousands-evacuated-from-paradise/24838602
Update 18k Acres have been burned and evacuations are underway.
Perhaps a single "California Wildfires" thread would be a good idea.
Paradise, CA has down been mostly destroyed, per an old college roommate of mine from there.
I'm essentially in the middle of four major fires where I'm at in Fresno. You can't even see the Sierras due to all the smoke, definitely sucks having allergies.
https://www.kcra.com/article/5-dead-in-butte-county-wildfire/24838602
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/11/09/camp-fire-chico-paradise-butte-evacuations-ordered/
Update 5 people are reported dead to the Butte county Fire.
We need to have a general wildfires thread. California alone would be able to pump up enough content year-round.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/11/09/camp-fire-chico-paradise-butte-evacuations-ordered/ (https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/11/09/camp-fire-chico-paradise-butte-evacuations-ordered/)
Update 9 people are reported dead by the fires.
https://kcbsradio.radio.com/blogs/kcbs-radio-morning-news/bay-area-air-quality-suffers-butte-county-camp-fire-wildfire-smoke
Some of Butte County's fire smoke has went as far San Francisco according to this report.
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/11/10/deadly-fire-leveled-paradise-california-in-less-than-a-day/
Update 23 people are reported dead in the Butte fire.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/camp-fire-111000-acres-burned-roughly-100-people-still-unaccounted-for-updates/103-613434881
There are reports of 100 people missing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw0khj5-RKw
Update AM Drive Hike has some shots of the Butte County Fire from I-5
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfires/camp-fire-death-toll-rises-to-29-matches-deadliest-in-california-history-updates/103-613434881
29 people reported dead in the Butte fire.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfires/camp-fire-growth-slows-as-winds-ease-up-monday/103-613682890
Now 228 people are reported Missing in Paradise, CA.
https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles/guard-troops-search-more-wildfire-victims-56-dead
Update 56 people are reported dead in Butte County fires.
Does anyone think that calling this the "Camp Fire" was not that good of an idea..? Campfire...
Quote from: index on November 15, 2018, 08:25:01 AM
Does anyone think that calling this the "Camp Fire" was not that good of an idea..? Campfire...
Cal Fire and Butte County decided on that name though. Not the outlets I looked at initially though. Headlines in the area outlets originally said Butte County Fire or Paradise, CA fire though.
Quote from: bing101 on November 15, 2018, 09:22:18 AM
Quote from: index on November 15, 2018, 08:25:01 AM
Does anyone think that calling this the "Camp Fire" was not that good of an idea..? Campfire...
Cal Fire and Butte County decided on that name though. Not the outlets I looked at initially though. Headlines in the area outlets originally said Butte County Fire or Paradise, CA fire though.
Isn't it just named after Camp Creek where it originated from?
I suppose the question then is why not call it the Camp Creek Fire? Or are they against two names.
Speaking of which, there was a fire earlier in the summer called the Carr Fire. I'm sure it was named for a road, but wasn't that fire actually caused by a "car?"
When I first started looking at this thread I thought Butte County was someplace in Montana, since Butte was there. It wasn't until the next day that I realized it was California.
Quote from: tdindy88 on November 15, 2018, 10:35:14 AM
I suppose the question then is why not call it the Camp Creek Fire? Or are they against two names.
Speaking of which, there was a fire earlier in the summer called the Carr Fire. I'm sure it was named for a road, but wasn't that fire actually caused by a "car?"
When I first started looking at this thread I thought Butte County was someplace in Montana, since Butte was there. It wasn't until the next day that I realized it was California.
Usually there is some sort of geographic feature the fires are named after. I live near where the Fergusson Fire was which was named after a slide zone on CA 140 along the Merced River. The Camp Fire has been brutal in terms of smoke, I'm a couple hundred miles south of it and I still have about only half mile visibility through the haze.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fire-ledeall-california-paradise-20181115-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fire-ledeall-california-paradise-20181115-story.html) Update 71 people reported dead and 1000 people reported missing according to Butte County Sheriff Department and Cal Fire.
https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/Camp-Fire-deadliest-natural-disaster-Loma-Prieta-13403354.php?utm_source=sfgate&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=breakingnow
Here is an update
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/20/669855868/california-camp-fire-death-toll-reaches-81-says-fire-authorities
Update 81 people dead in the Butte County fires
Quote from: bing101 on November 21, 2018, 11:20:43 AM
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/20/669855868/california-camp-fire-death-toll-reaches-81-says-fire-authorities
Update 81 people dead in the Butte County fires
Wonder how the heavy rains starting today are going to affect the fire containment effort. Supposedly much of the Central Valley is getting an .5-1 inches tonight, I would have to assume it would be more in the Sierra Foothills.
Heavy rains can lead to mudslides, since the loss of mature and rooted trees can destabilize the soil. Would complicate things further.
Fortunately, I had relatives on my Mom's side in Paradise and they moved out in the 1980s. Still, it's sad to know the town with a nice name is destroyed. This is like the wildfire in the Coffey Park section of Santa Rosa in Oct 2017. And conspiracy theorists (LOL) don't seem to understand basic science when it comes to the nature of wildfires, my father was a CalFire fighter and he studied their mechanisms in order to extinguish fires (building and wilderness).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms61lmo7iQA
Some recent news stories are covering that PG&E is admitting that a utility failure was the cause of the Camp Fire. I've seen the death toll either at 85 or 86, I'm not really sure which one is accurate. Paradise Depot was scheduled to reopen last month but I'm not sure if it did. The Depot wasn't open when I crossed paths with CA 191 last month:
https://surewhynotnow.blogspot.com/2019/03/california-state-route-191.html
BTW it's pretty ominous seeing how much this fire escalated through just the posts in this thread.
Google Earth (note: not Google Maps–I thought Maps did too, but they either reverted to older images, or I was mistaken) now has post-fire aerial imagery of Paradise and the surrounding area. It's pretty chilling to look at.