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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Jul 30, 2018, 10:09 AM Jul 2018

Death toll rises as tinder-dry conditions fuel deadly California fires

Source: Agence France-Presse

30 JUL 2018

The death toll in California's wildfires rose to seven as shaken survivors recounted the horror of watching fast moving flames whip through neighborhoods and devour their homes.

An army of firefighters from across the country struggled in California Monday to control 17 large-scale blazes that have reduced expensive homes to smoldering piles of rubble, and turned tens of thousands of acres into ashen wastelands.

"I've been a lifelong resident of this community, and I've never seen a fire with such destruction here in this area ever before," said Shasta County Supervisor Leonard Moty commenting on the Carr fire, one of the largest.

Alyce Macken said she had only minutes to flee her home in the town of Redding with her husband Ted as the flames swept closer.

Read more: https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/death-toll-rises-tinder-dry-conditions-fuel-deadly-california-fires-doc-1807nb3

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Death toll rises as tinder-dry conditions fuel deadly California fires (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2018 OP

Thought it was heavy fog CountAllVotes Jul 2018 #1

In The Foothills Too The River Jul 2018 #2

i am in sonora ca, i have had to wear a particle mask for several weeks now when i go out side AllaN01Bear Jul 2018 #3

Yikes, 14 foot Python loose AnotherDreamWeaver Jul 2018 #4

CountAllVotes

(20,878 posts)

1. Thought it was heavy fog

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2018, 10:34 AM

Jul 2018

Here on the coast of California. It is not fog, it is heavy smoke from the fires.

They are saying not to go outside on the news as the air quality is horrible, worse than Bejing!

Stay safe fellow Californians!

& recommend!!

The River

(2,615 posts)

2. In The Foothills Too

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2018, 12:32 PM

Jul 2018

Sun came up red this morning from high level smoke.

AllaN01Bear

(18,430 posts)

3. i am in sonora ca, i have had to wear a particle mask for several weeks now when i go out side

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2018, 12:59 PM

Jul 2018

was in san fransisco yesterday for 3 hours , and there was smoke from the fergusen fire there too. it was amongst the buildngs as a haze.

AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,852 posts)

4. Yikes, 14 foot Python loose

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2018, 03:10 PM

Jul 2018

From article:
One evacuee who had been forced to move four times warned that a 14-foot long albino python that she owned was lost at her latest stop in south Redding.

"Eres is a beautiful, friendly snake," said Sandra Dodge-Streich, the owner of Redding Reptiles, on Facebook.

"She is part of our store family and Reptile Exhibit. Please don't be afraid of her -- she is lost and scared!"

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