Seguimento América do Norte - 2017
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More than 400 structures destroyed in 115,000-acre Ventura County wildfire
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fires-20171207-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fires-20171207-story.html
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An estimated 25 horses die in fires at San Luis Rey Downs
John CherwaIt was a scene of horror and panic at San Luis Rey Downs on Thursday as wind-fed fires engulfed parts of the thoroughbred training center near Bonsall in San Diego County, causing an unknown number of equine deaths. It will be well into the day before the exact damage and number of fatalities will...
http://www.latimes.com/sports/more/la-sp-fire-horses-20171208-story.html
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#BREAKING: At least 401 structures have been destroyed and 81 structures damaged with 15,000 structures threatened due to the #ThomasFire
#LilacFire: UPDATE over 80 structures have been destroyed. Over 1,000 firefighters battling flames.
#BREAKING: At least 401 structures have been destroyed and 81 structures damaged with 15,000 structures threatened due to the #ThomasFire
#LilacFire: UPDATE over 80 structures have been destroyed. Over 1,000 firefighters battling flames.
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Uma grande seca, muito baixa humidade e ventos de Santa Ana que este ano são os mais fortes de sempre... os fogos surgem ateados por gente sem escrúpulos. Já foram apanhados alguns. Mas a situação não está nada melhor. Hoje é a região de San Diego a mais afectada mas os fogos em LA continuam.
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California wildfires: Flames seen from space
Six large wildfires, and other smaller blazes, have erupted since Monday. About 500 buildings have been destroyed.
Satellite imagery taken on 5 December shows how the fires took hold - driven by extreme weather, including low humidity, high winds and parched ground.
About 5,700 firefighters have been battling the brushfires, officials said on Thursday, with many drafted in from neighbouring states to help.
Read more: Residents flee as fires spread
Thomas Fire
The Thomas fire in Ventura County to the north of Los Angeles remains the largest of the blazes and has spread as far as the Pacific coast.
It has consumed 180 square miles (466 sq km) since it broke out on Monday, and destroyed more than 430 buildings, fire officials said.
Creek Fire
Another blaze north of Los Angeles, the Creek fire, is 20% under control and covers some 15,323 acres.
Rye Fire
The Rye Fire threatened more than 5,000 homes and structures northwest of Los Angeles near Santa Clarita.
It consumed thousands of acres and triggered evacuations of homes and schools.
The fire authorities say it is now 25% under control.
The fires have been recorded over 48 hours
Skirball Fire
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In the wealthy Los Angeles enclave of Bel Air, firefighters were seen removing artwork from luxury homes on Wednesday as the Skirball Fire raged.
It has forced hundreds of residents in the wooded hills to evacuate and charred more than 475 acres.
Lilac Fire
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North of San Diego, another blaze called the Lilac Fire spread from 10 acres to 4,100 acres in just a few hours.
It destroyed 20 structures and prompted evacuations and road closures.
A Reuters news agency photographer described propane tanks under houses exploding and sounding like bombs.
Californian authorities have issued a purple alert - the highest level warning - amid what it called "extremely critical fire weather".
The powerful, desert-heated Santa Ana winds have been fanning the flames.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42278027
- 8 December 2017
Six large wildfires, and other smaller blazes, have erupted since Monday. About 500 buildings have been destroyed.
Satellite imagery taken on 5 December shows how the fires took hold - driven by extreme weather, including low humidity, high winds and parched ground.
About 5,700 firefighters have been battling the brushfires, officials said on Thursday, with many drafted in from neighbouring states to help.
Read more: Residents flee as fires spread
Thomas Fire
The Thomas fire in Ventura County to the north of Los Angeles remains the largest of the blazes and has spread as far as the Pacific coast.
It has consumed 180 square miles (466 sq km) since it broke out on Monday, and destroyed more than 430 buildings, fire officials said.
Creek Fire
Another blaze north of Los Angeles, the Creek fire, is 20% under control and covers some 15,323 acres.
Rye Fire
The Rye Fire threatened more than 5,000 homes and structures northwest of Los Angeles near Santa Clarita.
It consumed thousands of acres and triggered evacuations of homes and schools.
The fire authorities say it is now 25% under control.
The fires have been recorded over 48 hours
Skirball Fire
In the wealthy Los Angeles enclave of Bel Air, firefighters were seen removing artwork from luxury homes on Wednesday as the Skirball Fire raged.
It has forced hundreds of residents in the wooded hills to evacuate and charred more than 475 acres.
Lilac Fire
North of San Diego, another blaze called the Lilac Fire spread from 10 acres to 4,100 acres in just a few hours.
It destroyed 20 structures and prompted evacuations and road closures.
A Reuters news agency photographer described propane tanks under houses exploding and sounding like bombs.
Californian authorities have issued a purple alert - the highest level warning - amid what it called "extremely critical fire weather".
The powerful, desert-heated Santa Ana winds have been fanning the flames.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42278027
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Firefighters begin to turn the tide on Southern California wildfires
Melissa Etehad, Ruben Vives and Sarah ParviniContact Reporters
Firefighters hoped to make more progress Saturday against wildfires burning from Ojai to Oceanside, destroying more than 500 structures and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee from their homes.
As Santa Ana winds finally died down Friday, crews were able to begin containment of some of the biggest fires. But red flag fire warnings remain in effect, and forecasters say the Santa Anas will return to San Diego County late Saturday evening.
On Saturday, Gov. Jerry Brown plans to survey the devastation Saturday in Ventura, the hardest hit by this week’s firestorms.
Firefighters had a successful day battling flames on the southern edge of the Thomas fire, working toward the coast as well as parts of Ojai thanks to favorable wind patterns, a weakening of the winds and fire crews improving fire lines they had established, according to Bill Murphy, a spokesman for Cal Fire.
By Saturday morning, the Thomas fire had burned 143,000 acres. Containment efforts were hampered overnight by wind and topography, fire officials said, but the blaze was 15% contained. As a result, Murphy said, evacuations for most of the city of Ventura and Santa Paula were lifted.
Firefighters continued to encounter difficulty on the east side of the fire above Fillmore. Crews used helicopters to drop water on that portion to try to contain the fire. Firefighters also made progress on Highway 33 and the 101 Freeway on the west side of the blaze.
Officials said they expect the fire to spread to the west Saturday toward Santa Barbara County, Sespe Wilderness and the Sespe Condor Sanctuary if there is no change in the weather.
“But you have to understand, when the winds are down, the movement of the fire is very slow,” said Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Kevin Donoghue. “So right now, we’re benefiting from lower winds than what was expected.”
In Los Angeles County, firefighters were making progress on blazes in Sylmar, Santa Clarita and Bel-Air. The Creek Fire was now 80% contained, and the Rye Fire was 65% contained.
Even as the tide began to turn, residents were beginning to come to terms with the devastation and loss from the fires.
On Friday afternoon, Jacklyn Mann, 29, sifted through the charred metal and debris that was once her house. Her brother Ben Mann, 26, and her father, Roger Mann, 60, scoured the debris.
The family is one of the first residents on their block in Ventura to return to the neighborhood. All down the windy street, houses like the Mann family’s had been destroyed by the Thomas fire.
The Manns came back with one goal in mind: to salvage any household items they could find that held sentimental value.
“I found another one!” Jacklyn shouted to her dad.
In her hand was a dusty ceramic pinch pot that her other brother, Dixon Mann, had made years ago in elementary school.
“Oh, cool. Sweet,” Roger responded.
Lined on the side of their property were small items the family had dug up that day.
Among them was Ben Mann’s swimming medals from when he was a child.
The family decided to spend the day digging through the rubble after they had earlier found a Christmas ornament that belonged to Jacklyn.
It had been hanging on their Christmas tree, which they had decorated on Monday before the fires destroyed their house.
“We didn’t want to wait,” Jacklyn said.
“It’s weird to see what survived the flames.”
In northern San Diego County, the Lilac fire had 4,100 acres burned and 105 structures destroyed along the Highway 76 corridor that stretches west from the 15 Freeway through Bonsall and Fallbrook. But officials cautioned that dry, swirling Santa Ana winds are expected to return Saturday and Sunday and could kick up embers that might start new fires.
At least 65 of the houses lost were at the Rancho Monserate Country Club, a mobile home community near where the flames leapt to life late Thursday morning. The blaze took off on a fast-paced rampage that also killed 35 horses at the storied San Luis Rey Downs thoroughbred-training facility and injured two firefighters and four civilians, including a horse trainer burned over 50% of her body.
Among those coping with their losses was Jon Stecker, who stood alongside what had been his two-story, 2,700-square foot home on Olive Hill Road in Bonsall as the sun began to set Friday.
“It’s gnarly, huh?” he said.
He lost not just his home, but two other houses on the 1.2-acre property he’s owned since 1992. He’d been at work in San Diego when the fire hit, but said he knew his home was gone because his wife had told him she saw a solid wall of burning trees across the street as she fled.
Stecker, 53, pointed to what had been his deck, now just a pile where a tiny orange flame or two stubbornly flickered. “Want a tub?” he asked, motioning at a buried bathtub, which on Thursday morning had been in a second-floor bathroom.
He said he lost a horse and a pig in the fire, but his wife had been able to get their dogs out. They also lost three vehicles, now just metal shells.
Waiting for his insurance agent, he said he’s resigned to rebuilding.
“What can you do?” he said.
Several people were hurt in the San Diego fires.
Among those injured Thursday was Martine Bellocq, a trainer at San Luis Rey Downs, who suffered second- and third-degree burns over 50% of her body as she tried to rescue six horses, according to Alan Balch, executive director of the California Thoroughbred Trainers.
She was airlifted to UC San Diego Medical Center and placed in a medically induced coma, Balch said.
Bellocq was among several trainers, grooms and staff who tried to evacuate hundreds of thoroughbreds as the fire roared toward the sprawling, 200-acre, 500-stall training facility Thursday afternoon. In the rush to get horses to safety, many were simply allowed to run free once the flames began to sweep through the barns. Many of the 35 horses killed there perished in their stalls.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-wildfires-california-20171209-story.html
Melissa Etehad, Ruben Vives and Sarah ParviniContact Reporters
Firefighters hoped to make more progress Saturday against wildfires burning from Ojai to Oceanside, destroying more than 500 structures and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee from their homes.
As Santa Ana winds finally died down Friday, crews were able to begin containment of some of the biggest fires. But red flag fire warnings remain in effect, and forecasters say the Santa Anas will return to San Diego County late Saturday evening.
On Saturday, Gov. Jerry Brown plans to survey the devastation Saturday in Ventura, the hardest hit by this week’s firestorms.
Firefighters had a successful day battling flames on the southern edge of the Thomas fire, working toward the coast as well as parts of Ojai thanks to favorable wind patterns, a weakening of the winds and fire crews improving fire lines they had established, according to Bill Murphy, a spokesman for Cal Fire.
By Saturday morning, the Thomas fire had burned 143,000 acres. Containment efforts were hampered overnight by wind and topography, fire officials said, but the blaze was 15% contained. As a result, Murphy said, evacuations for most of the city of Ventura and Santa Paula were lifted.
Firefighters continued to encounter difficulty on the east side of the fire above Fillmore. Crews used helicopters to drop water on that portion to try to contain the fire. Firefighters also made progress on Highway 33 and the 101 Freeway on the west side of the blaze.
Officials said they expect the fire to spread to the west Saturday toward Santa Barbara County, Sespe Wilderness and the Sespe Condor Sanctuary if there is no change in the weather.
“But you have to understand, when the winds are down, the movement of the fire is very slow,” said Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Kevin Donoghue. “So right now, we’re benefiting from lower winds than what was expected.”
In Los Angeles County, firefighters were making progress on blazes in Sylmar, Santa Clarita and Bel-Air. The Creek Fire was now 80% contained, and the Rye Fire was 65% contained.
Even as the tide began to turn, residents were beginning to come to terms with the devastation and loss from the fires.
On Friday afternoon, Jacklyn Mann, 29, sifted through the charred metal and debris that was once her house. Her brother Ben Mann, 26, and her father, Roger Mann, 60, scoured the debris.
The family is one of the first residents on their block in Ventura to return to the neighborhood. All down the windy street, houses like the Mann family’s had been destroyed by the Thomas fire.
The Manns came back with one goal in mind: to salvage any household items they could find that held sentimental value.
“I found another one!” Jacklyn shouted to her dad.
In her hand was a dusty ceramic pinch pot that her other brother, Dixon Mann, had made years ago in elementary school.
“Oh, cool. Sweet,” Roger responded.
Lined on the side of their property were small items the family had dug up that day.
Among them was Ben Mann’s swimming medals from when he was a child.
The family decided to spend the day digging through the rubble after they had earlier found a Christmas ornament that belonged to Jacklyn.
It had been hanging on their Christmas tree, which they had decorated on Monday before the fires destroyed their house.
“We didn’t want to wait,” Jacklyn said.
“It’s weird to see what survived the flames.”
In northern San Diego County, the Lilac fire had 4,100 acres burned and 105 structures destroyed along the Highway 76 corridor that stretches west from the 15 Freeway through Bonsall and Fallbrook. But officials cautioned that dry, swirling Santa Ana winds are expected to return Saturday and Sunday and could kick up embers that might start new fires.
At least 65 of the houses lost were at the Rancho Monserate Country Club, a mobile home community near where the flames leapt to life late Thursday morning. The blaze took off on a fast-paced rampage that also killed 35 horses at the storied San Luis Rey Downs thoroughbred-training facility and injured two firefighters and four civilians, including a horse trainer burned over 50% of her body.
Among those coping with their losses was Jon Stecker, who stood alongside what had been his two-story, 2,700-square foot home on Olive Hill Road in Bonsall as the sun began to set Friday.
“It’s gnarly, huh?” he said.
He lost not just his home, but two other houses on the 1.2-acre property he’s owned since 1992. He’d been at work in San Diego when the fire hit, but said he knew his home was gone because his wife had told him she saw a solid wall of burning trees across the street as she fled.
Stecker, 53, pointed to what had been his deck, now just a pile where a tiny orange flame or two stubbornly flickered. “Want a tub?” he asked, motioning at a buried bathtub, which on Thursday morning had been in a second-floor bathroom.
He said he lost a horse and a pig in the fire, but his wife had been able to get their dogs out. They also lost three vehicles, now just metal shells.
Waiting for his insurance agent, he said he’s resigned to rebuilding.
“What can you do?” he said.
Several people were hurt in the San Diego fires.
Among those injured Thursday was Martine Bellocq, a trainer at San Luis Rey Downs, who suffered second- and third-degree burns over 50% of her body as she tried to rescue six horses, according to Alan Balch, executive director of the California Thoroughbred Trainers.
She was airlifted to UC San Diego Medical Center and placed in a medically induced coma, Balch said.
Bellocq was among several trainers, grooms and staff who tried to evacuate hundreds of thoroughbreds as the fire roared toward the sprawling, 200-acre, 500-stall training facility Thursday afternoon. In the rush to get horses to safety, many were simply allowed to run free once the flames began to sweep through the barns. Many of the 35 horses killed there perished in their stalls.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-wildfires-california-20171209-story.html
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At 230,000 acres, Thomas fire is now the fifth-largest wildfire in modern California history
Melissa Etehad, Ruben Vives, Harriet Ryan and Alene Tchekmedyian
Santa Barbara County was under siege from the Thomas fire Sunday as fire crews fought to keep the destructive blaze from the region’s picturesque beach communities. Authorities said the out-of-control blaze had scorched 230,000 acres by Sunday evening, making it the fifth largest wildfire in modern...
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-thomas-fire-santa-barbara-fire-20171210-story.html
Melissa Etehad, Ruben Vives, Harriet Ryan and Alene Tchekmedyian
Santa Barbara County was under siege from the Thomas fire Sunday as fire crews fought to keep the destructive blaze from the region’s picturesque beach communities. Authorities said the out-of-control blaze had scorched 230,000 acres by Sunday evening, making it the fifth largest wildfire in modern...
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-thomas-fire-santa-barbara-fire-20171210-story.html