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Three more deaths have now been confirmed – an elderly woman and her two great-grandchildren – after the firefighters reached the family home where they had taken refuge.
According to Melody Bledsoe, 70, firefighters tried to protect her. great-grandchildren Emily, age 5, and James, age 4, with blankets that she had soaked in water
"I talked to them until the fire hit them. , "he said." I was trying to reach them, I was trying to go to the fire. "
A US Army National Guard Specialist speaks to a driver at a checkpoint while the fire from Carr burns near Redding, California, Saturday
Photo: AP
Fire has forced the evacuation of over 38,000 people in the vicinity of Redding, California, where is located One of the main fronts of fire.
Redding is about 250 kilometers north of the Californian capital, Sacramento
This year's bushfire season was physically smaller than that of the # 1 39 last year, it was marked by unusual intensity.
At one point, the Carr Fire created a "rotating updraft" that looks like a tornado. Such an event is similar to a meteorological event As a mesocyclone, a whirlwind of air forms inside a storm and attracts air.
In the case of an updraft, the violent wind pulls coals and other fire debris into the whirlpool.
Glenn McGillivray According to the Canadian Institute for Disaster Reduction, rotating updrafts are responsible for the rapid spread of uncontrolled bush fires.
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<p> "[The vortex] fires fiery embers in the atmosphere, winds then blow on these embers McGillivray says </p>
<p> "It's also the way forest fires blow up rivers, highways and firewalls." </p>
<p> About 20 fires burn in California, from variable sizes and degrees of containme </p>
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They are part of a larger expanse of fires – nearly 90 – burning between Oregon, in the western United States, Texas, to the south.
The ribbon fire in Riverside County is 82 hectares The Crestline fire in Shasta County (20 hectares) and the Roxie fire in Lbaden County (67 hectares) are both confined to 95%.
The most important fires, however, are uncontrollable.
Three fires from the Ranch in Mendocino County, which is 5358 hecatres, the River Fire, in Mendocino and Lake County, which is 4462 hectares, and the Whaleback Fire, which is 3630 hectares in Lbaden County – about five percent
The Carr fire in Shasta County, with an area of approximately 36,095 hectares, is also confined to 5%.
Ken Pimlott, Director of the Department of Forests and Fire Protection The Carr fire was "far from done". Pimlott confirmed that 3,500 firefighters and 17 helicopters had been deployed along the firing lines
but that an unusually warm weather not only intensified the fire but also made its behavior unpredictable, as a change of wind could radically change the trajectory of fire.
Although the warmest weather of last week has cooled a fraction, the current forecast for California is still low. US President Donald Trump said Saturday that the fire was a national emergency after a call from California Governor Jerry Brown; the statement allows the state to access federal funding for disaster relief efforts.
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