Calif. fires still burning after weekend heatwave
(8 Sep 2020) Helicopters flew through dense smoke Tuesday to rescue scores more people from wildfires as wind-fanned flames kept chewing through bone-dry California after a scorching Labor Day weekend that saw a dramatic airlift of more than 200.
Rescue choppers pulled another 164 people from the Sierra National Forest through the morning and were working to rescue 17 others, said Gov. Gavin Newsom, who described pilots wearing night-vision goggles to find a place to land.
"It's where training meets the moment, but it always takes the courage, the conviction and the grit of real people doing real work," Newsom said.
California has already set a record with nearly 2.3 million acres (930,776 hectares) burned this year, and the worst part of the wildfire season is just beginning.
"As it relates to the issue of climate change, we are experiencing unprecedented confluence of issues this year," Newsom said in a briefing from Sacramento.
The previous acreage record was set just two years ago and included the deadliest wildfire in state history, which swept through the community of Paradise and killed 85 people.
Over the weekend, the company cut power to 172,000 customers to try to prevent more blazes.
More than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than two dozen fires around the state. Two of the three largest blazes in state history are burning in the San Francisco Bay Area.
One fire in particular gained attention over the weekend after reports emerged that a couple's plan to reveal their baby's gender went up not in blue or pink smoke but in flames when the device they used sparked a wildfire that burned thousands of acres and forced people to flee from a city east of Los Angeles.
The fire prompted evacuations in parts of Yucaipa, a city of 54,000, and the surrounding area. Water-dropping helicopters were brought in but the fire has proven stubborn and more than 500 firefighters on the scene only had minimal containment. No homes have burned and no injuries reported.
The fires burned as California sweltered under a dangerous heat wave over the weekend that spread triple-digit temperatures over much of the state.
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Rescue choppers pulled another 164 people from the Sierra National Forest through the morning and were working to rescue 17 others, said Gov. Gavin Newsom, who described pilots wearing night-vision goggles to find a place to land.
"It's where training meets the moment, but it always takes the courage, the conviction and the grit of real people doing real work," Newsom said.
California has already set a record with nearly 2.3 million acres (930,776 hectares) burned this year, and the worst part of the wildfire season is just beginning.
"As it relates to the issue of climate change, we are experiencing unprecedented confluence of issues this year," Newsom said in a briefing from Sacramento.
The previous acreage record was set just two years ago and included the deadliest wildfire in state history, which swept through the community of Paradise and killed 85 people.
Over the weekend, the company cut power to 172,000 customers to try to prevent more blazes.
More than 14,000 firefighters are battling more than two dozen fires around the state. Two of the three largest blazes in state history are burning in the San Francisco Bay Area.
One fire in particular gained attention over the weekend after reports emerged that a couple's plan to reveal their baby's gender went up not in blue or pink smoke but in flames when the device they used sparked a wildfire that burned thousands of acres and forced people to flee from a city east of Los Angeles.
The fire prompted evacuations in parts of Yucaipa, a city of 54,000, and the surrounding area. Water-dropping helicopters were brought in but the fire has proven stubborn and more than 500 firefighters on the scene only had minimal containment. No homes have burned and no injuries reported.
The fires burned as California sweltered under a dangerous heat wave over the weekend that spread triple-digit temperatures over much of the state.
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