At least 25 dead from California fires

The toll of forest fires ravaging California was raised to 25 today, Reuters news agency reported. In addition, more than a hundred people are missing.

The largest number of casualties fell in the north of the state, in and around the city of Paradise, about three hundred kilometers northeast of San Francisco. Fourteen corpses were found here Saturday, after nine Friday. Some bodies are found in homes, others in or near their car. They tried to escape after the fire, called Camp Fire, which had quickly spread in the city.

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The fire of nature The campfire already overturns an area of ​​40 000 hectares and there are certainly 6 700 houses lost in the flames. According to locals, there is very little paradise left. Currently, only twenty percent of the fire is under control, which means it could still expand considerably.

The fire is considered the most destructive in the history of the state and is now the third deadliest according to California firefighters.

Malibu

The other two victims are south of the state. , at a natural fire near the town of Malibu in the Los Angeles area. The 13,000 inhabitants of Malibu were evacuated as a precaution, as were some residents of Thousand Oaks, the place where a man in a bar was shot dead last week.

Firefighters have not yet managed this fire. the Woolsey fire has been baptized and already covers nearly 30,000 hectares.

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How Trump

The American president wrote on Twitter that the cause of fasting In California, forest management is over. It threatens to stop federal budgets made available to the state. In previous California wildfires, Trump blamed environmental legislation of the state.

Donald J. Trump's realDonaldTrump These massive, deadly and expensive forest fires have no reason to be except that forest management is so poor . Billions of dollars are given every year, with so many lives lost, all because of mismanagement or forests. Remedy now or more payments from the Fed! November 10, 2018 @ 08:08

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According to Brian Rice, president of the California firefighters union, Trump's remark is wrong and he must apologize. to offer. A spokesman for California Governor Jerry Brown wrote to the Reuters news agency that they now want to focus primarily on the affected people and not on the contentless or uninformed tweets of the president.

Space

NASA shared an impressive satellite photo of California's Forest Fires:

One can see the state of California on a spatial photograph of the NASA, with smoke plumes from the three forest fires. Photo / JOSHUA STEVENS / OBSERVATORY OF THE EARTH OF NASA / AFP