More than 60,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes from the threat of the fires, which have been propelled by erratic winds near the coast and hampered by resources stretched thin by dozens of blazes.
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As of Thursday night, numerous areas had already been evacuated, and the campus of UC Santa Cruz remained on evacuation warning, until“The scale of existing and anticipated evacuation orders is unprecedented and the need to safely house evacuees is critical,” county officials wrote, encouraging people with capacity to accommodate evacuees to share leads on social media networks.have been doing.
The details of the entries speak to the shared precariousness of the moment. A woman offering a spare room, food and a shower notes that her own home remains outside the evacuation warning zone — for now. A man offering a backyard to camp in notes that visitors can stay “at least tonight, likely more - unless we’re evacuated.”
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