More than 13,500 firefighters have been put to work to try to contain a dozen rampaging California wildfires. The blazes have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee.
After an extensive review of fire damage, Gov. Gavin Newsom requested a presidential major disaster declaration for eight counties, Mark Ghilarducci, director of the California Office of Emergency Services, told a briefing near Sacramento.
The Caldor Fire has become the nation’s number one priority for firefighting resources, said Chief Thom Porter, director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The Caldor Fire has incinerated more than 166 square miles of El Dorado National Forest and continuing assessments showed 447 buildings destroyed. More than 17,000 structures were still under threat.
In Nevada, public schools in the Reno and Sparks area and parts of Lake Tahoe were closed Monday due to wildfire smoke, affecting 67,000 students. While Southern California has so far escaped large-scale wildfires this year, Los Angeles officials on Monday urged residents to be aware of what’s going on in the north because the region’s high fire season is typically late in the year when dry, gusty Santa Ana winds blast out of the interior and flow toward the coast.
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California firefighters battle a dozen large wildfiresMore than 13,500 firefighters were working Monday to contain a dozen large California wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee to safety. In Northern California, where most of the blazes are burning, there were no red flag warnings for critical conditions but the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said fire danger was expected to remain elevated through midweek. Containment increased to 40% at the Dixie Fire, which has burned more than 1,130 square miles (2,926 square kilometers) in the northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades.
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Caldor fire's latest estimates show nearly 450 buildings destroyed, Dixie Fire at 1,259As of Monday, over 13,500 firefighters were working to extinguish a dozen wildfires throughout California.
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Caldor fire burning east of Sacramento nears 100,000 acres, with winds expected to weakenThe raging wildfire, which ignited Aug. 14, has burned 98,149 acres and firefighters have yet to contain the flames, officials said.
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New round of winds fuel fury of Northern California wildfireCrews were digging in and burning out fire lines amid another round of high winds Saturday that contributed to the fury to a Northern California wildfire
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New round of winds fuel fury of Northern California wildfirePLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Crews were digging in and burning out fire lines amid another round of high winds that contributed to the fury to a Northern California wildfire. “We have a firefight ahead of us and the wind today is going to make it very challenging,' said Keith Wade, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, on Saturday.
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MLB roundup: Giants edge A's on Lamonte Wade Jr.'s 9th-inning HRPinch hitter LaMonte Wade Jr. smacked a two-run, go-ahead home run off Oakland Athletics closer Lou Trivino in the top of the ninth inning Saturday afternoon, sending the visiting San Francisco Giants to a 6-5 victory in the rivalry series.
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