The toll from Northern California’s ranging wildfires continued to grow Tuesday evening as officials said the fires destroyed up to 2,000 structures and killed at least 17 people.
The devastating losses establish firestorms among the most destructive in California history. The estimated losses of homes, businesses and other buildings jumped from 1,500 to 2,000, and officials fear the death toll will also continue to rise.
Sonoma County alone has received about 200 reports of missing people since Sunday night, and sheriff’s officials have located 45 of those people, said county spokeswoman Maggie Fleming.
The majority of the fatalities are from Sonoma County, where huge swaths of the city of Santa Rosa were leveled by the Tubbs fire. Eleven people have died in Sonoma County as of 7 p.m. Tuesday, officials said. Two people have died in Napa County, three in Mendocino County and one in Yuba County, Cal Fire officials said...
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An example of typical SF bay reporting was in yesterday's SFGATE article stating that..
"the fires occured in a year of record-setting heat and persistant drought"
This last winter CA had almost non-stop rain from Oct-April, rivers and dams at or above flood stage and major damage to Oroville dam at flood stage causing 10,000 to evacuate.
Planting of crops delayed because soil too wet and some vineyards under water thru end of June.
Calling this year a "persistant drought" year shows just how clueless the bay area and it's readership are about climate change.
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