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Southern California is burning again. And there is heat again, which aggravates the situation.
A large forest fire quickly spread on Friday in Goleta near Santa Barbara, ten miles northwest of Los Angeles.
The fire and 2,200 people were evacuated, writes Reuters.
The Goleta River is one of dozens of recently ravaged fires in California and neighboring states by the hot, dry weather. It blows cold in hot, dry air, making it difficult to control the fires and the forest. 120 firefighters fight against fire
The fire of the fire, which is considered controlled only five percent, was given Saturday night to Governor Jerry Brown to announce the fire. state of emergency in the Santa Barbara area, writes ABC7.
In the San Diego region further south ravaged five fires
The hardest of them, the West Fire, was about to be under control. It had burned an area of 1.7 square kilometers since Friday. A number of houses have been destroyed.
The NBC San Diego reporter was able to count at least eight residential buildings destroyed in the city of Alpine.
The fire also destroyed power lines and caused a blackout.
Surrounded at night on Saturday, according to the rescue service.
The rescue service still does not know how the fires in the San Diego District began. But the reason for the spread is obvious. In addition to being snowy, the situation was aggravated by a strong heatwave
On Friday, several places set new heating records, including Ramona's 47 degrees.
On Saturday, temperatures are exceptionally high in southern California. Los Angeles, but then the heat is removed.
Neither heat waves nor forests and fires are unusual in southern California. But the fires that are raging now are exceptionally numerous to be so early in the season.
So far this year, already 11,700 square kilometers have burned, compared to 9700 which is the average for all the year in the last decade.
Until last fall, the state of the most devastating fires was marked by numerous deaths and 230,000 evacuees.
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