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Many forest fires are raging in the American West, favored by winds, high temperatures and parched vegetation. He hits Redding just north of San Francisco.
The so-called Carr fire west of the city of Redding California left a surreal landscape. (Photo: Bob Strong / Reuters)
Facing a forest fire that lasted a day in the state of California, US President Donald Trump declared the state of emergency. For the fight against the fire, federal funds are being released, as the White House announced in Washington this weekend. The US government wants to prevent a disaster in Shasta County in the north
Fires have killed at least five people so far. Two firefighters and three local residents were killed in Carr fire fires near the town of Redding, about 350 kilometers north of San Francisco, authorities said Saturday night (local time).
Nearly 40,000 people were in the area currently on the run. Several people were missing. Throughout California, more than 7,000 firefighters were on duty to fight forest fires. Winds, high temperatures and desiccated vegetation after years of drought helped spread the flames.
More than 3,400 firefighters were mobilized to fight Carr's fire alone. The flaming flames since Monday around Redding have been dramatically spread on Thursday. They destroyed more than 500 homes and threatened another 5,000 buildings in the wooded area north of the city of 90,000. Residents of entire neighborhoods and the nearby town of Shasta Lake City have been made safe.
According to Saturday's data, Carr's fire spread over an area of 36,000 hectares (360 square kilometers), or about half of the state of the Asian city of Singapore . He had doubled in size in one night. The flames are controlled at only five percent, said the CalFire State Fire Department with
Another fire, the Ferguson Fire about 500 kilometers southeast of Redding, was extended to 21,700 hectares and CalFire to 30 percent control. It was the fire that had most worried the authorities, before the Carr fire spread so fast.
The state of the US West Coast is constantly battling forest fires. In a series of bushfires in last October, more than 40 people died in northern California. At times, 100,000 people were fleeing fires and it is estimated that more than 9,000 buildings were destroyed.
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