Update (2:30 pm ET): Police in Northern California said five people have been found dead in their vehicles in Paradise, California after the Camp Fire burned through nearly the entire town. They couldn't immediately be identified because of the burns. The Butte County Sheriff's Office said on Friday that autopsies will be conducted, according to the Associated Press.
That fire has since expanded to nearly 110 square miles (285 square kilometers).
One year after the deadliest and costliest wildfire season in California's history, three wildfires have broken out in Northern California. On Friday, the most aggressive of the three fires destroyed most of the town of Paradise, a community with 27,000 residents, forcing residents to frantically flee for their lives. According to USA Today, as strong winds fanned the flames, they also hindered aircrafts' ability to drop flame retardant on the fire.
In a 24 hour period, the Camp fire surged through the town of Paradise, located in the Sierra foothills, torching some 31 square miles, or 20,000 acres. Panicking residents dropped everything, with some abandoning cars to flee on foot as the fire blocked off escape routs. The state issued a mandatory evacuation order as the smoke from the flames darkened the skyline.
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California is the Sodom and Gomorrah of our time.
ReplyDeletemake sure you are saved.... time is short
Even though I think California is a crazy State I wish this on no one.
ReplyDelete@ November 11, 2018 at 4:21 AM
ReplyDeleteYou reprehensible, horrible, poor excuse for a human being.
People are DYING, loosing loved ones, loosing their lives work and belongings, their homes.
Today, someone woke up, and someone they loved was no longer in their life.
HOW. DARE. YOU.
How many of these people affected do you think were Christian, calling out to God to save them, calls for helps not heard? Yet horrible atracities, violence, and injustice continue in places all over the world, all places surprisingly DEVOID of campfires that ravaged out of control.
And it seems YOU, have a direct, divine connection with your deity... who gives you first had knowledge that he burned this place, INTENTIONALLY, because it is as you say "Sodom and Gomorrah" of our time. California, instead of say, North Korea, or war torn areas of Africa where there indiscriminate killing, rape and torture? Not Venesuala? How about the Rohingya in Myanmar?
Take our misguided agenda elsewhere. AMERICANS died. Stop glomming onto obvious tragedies to forward your OBVIOUSLY wrong and dunderheaded conclusions.
How about you actually DO something to help these people who are hurting? I think, that is what your Jesus would have done. Stop just standing on the sidelines, pointing and judging.