“Every community neighborhood has been devastated,” the woman told CNN affiliate KCAL/KCBS. President Trump on Monday approved a request for a Major Disaster Declaration that will provide the state with federal resources.Ī Malibu resident who has lived through many wildfires said she has never seen one touch so many parts of the city at once.
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In some areas of the state, rescue efforts have turned into cleanup and recovery as residents return to what’s left of their gutted homes in neighborhoods littered with charred remains of cars, trees and buildings. Firefighters pulled her inside, but they, too, were trapped, she said – until a bulldozer came through and cleared a path to safety. She felt around until she reached a fire engine that was hot to the touch. Outside the vehicle, ash and hot embers stung her eyes and obscured her vision, she said. “If you’re going to die, die fighting,” she said, tearfully recalling his words. Then, she called her husband, who urged her to run, she said. Resident Nichole Jolly said she thought her life was over as flames surrounded her car, filling it with smoke. Harrowing stories of escapes and close calls are trickling out of the region. Meanwhile, firefighters made progress Monday in containing the Camp Fire, which razed the town of Paradise, where most of the dead have been found. The strongest Santa Ana winds in the south may bring gusts near hurricane force on Tuesday, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said.ĭangerous gusts fuel one California wildfire as another inferno leaves 42 people dead The increased death toll comes as first responders battle blazes on both ends of the state, and brings the statewide death toll to 44.įierce winds continue to threaten lives and homes in Southern California’s Woolsey Fire, which has killed two people so far. Story by Kasha Patel.An additional 13 sets of human remains were discovered Monday in Northern California, bringing the death toll from the Camp Fire to 42, making it the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history, the sheriff of Butte County said. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. For California’s Camp Fire and Woolsey Fire, NASA scientists and satellite analysts have been producing maps and damage assessments of the burned areas, including identifying areas that will be more susceptible to landslides in the upcoming winter. The vegetation was an abundant fuel source as California headed into the 2018 dry season, which was exceptionally dry and lasted into late October.Īs fires are becoming more numerous and frequent, NASA’s Disasters Program has been working with disaster managers to respond to the blazes.
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Soja also noted that California had a really wet winter in 2017, which helped build up grass and brush in rural and forested areas. “The weather will change as Earth warms, and we’re seeing that happen.” “Those fire conditions all fall under weather and climate,” said Soja. High temperatures, low relative humidity, high wind speed, and scarce precipitation have increased dryness and made live and dead vegetation in western forests easier to burn. In fact, it might be a taller spike in the overall trend.”
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“The 2018 fire year is going to fit right in to what's been going on the last decade or two.
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Of the total area burned in the West since 1950, 61 percent of it has occurred in the past two decades, according to Keith Weber, GIS Director at Idaho State University and principal investigator of the NASA project RECOVER. “We keep hearing that this is the ‘new normal.’ Hopefully it’s not true for long, but right now it is.”Ĭalifornia’s fire activity in 2018 is part of a longer trend of larger and more frequent fires in the western United States. “Every year, we keep hearing fires labeled as ‘the biggest’, ‘worst’, and ‘deadliest’,” said Amber Soja, a wildfire scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center. The image was acquired by Terra MODIS on November 25, 2018. The second image shows a wide view of Northern California, where burn scars from nine major 2018 fires are visible from space.