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hardluck

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14. Feds Are helping

Reply to questionseverything (Reply #12)

Thu Oct 12, 2017, 06:52 PM

Oct 2017

https://twitter.com/r5_fire_news?lang=en

From the USFS, "Approx 3,800 federal firefighters & incident support specialists are at work on over a dozen state & local wildfires in California."

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Whole towns evacuated as Northern California firestorm grows; at least 23 people dead, 285 missing [View all] DonViejo Oct 2017 OP

My friend's sister is a judge from Santa Rosa -- her house burned to the ground. byronius Oct 2017 #1

Just horrible Marthe48 Oct 2017 #4

My daughters house burnt too marlakay Oct 2017 #24

and if these fires merge..... dhill926 Oct 2017 #2

A few small ones are popping up to the east. DK504 Oct 2017 #3

The tankers are here Downtown Hound Oct 2017 #7

but are the feds there helping? questionseverything Oct 2017 #12

Last I heard there are 8,00 firefighters from all over battling the fire Downtown Hound Oct 2017 #13

Feds Are helping hardluck Oct 2017 #14

ty for info questionseverything Oct 2017 #21

Luckily, there aren't big fires in other states right now More_Cowbell Oct 2017 #17

ty for info questionseverything Oct 2017 #22

The winds and the thickness of the smoke have made fighting the fires from overhead LeftyMom Oct 2017 #10

My husband and daughters say the air quality in San Francisco is horrible. deurbano Oct 2017 #5

It's a little better today Retrograde Oct 2017 #11

I'm near Oakland and the air was very bad yesterday... Rollo Oct 2017 #15

They said on TV today that the air quality is worse than Beijing during their bad days. NBachers Oct 2017 #26

And still not a word from President Moron. Initech Oct 2017 #6

He is horrible bdamomma Oct 2017 #19

Personally I would leave California until next year Not Ruth Oct 2017 #8

But but football players are taking a knee during the anthem! Lokilooney Oct 2017 #9

what the heck is fueling the fires? is california covered with invasive 'cheatgrass'? or brush? Sunlei Oct 2017 #16

Five years of drought making things dry, and a lot of rain last season making things grow More_Cowbell Oct 2017 #18

That States changed a lot in 250 years. Sunlei Oct 2017 #20

The state always burns hardluck Oct 2017 #23

That area has a ton of dry oaks marlakay Oct 2017 #25

May I put in a word of support for our animal friends? spiderpig Oct 2017 #27

Wow. That seems like an unusually high number of deaths and missing people. xor Oct 2017 #28

Not really. Firestorms are like Tsunamis in rural canyon areas. haele Oct 2017 #29