WILDFIRES BURN OUT OF CONTROL ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; 17 ARE DEAD

October 11, 2017 in News by RBN Staff

 

via: BLACKLISTED NEWS | SOURCE: NY TIMES

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The fires ravaging California’s wine country since Sunday night — part of an outbreak of blazes stretching almost the entire length of the state — continued to burn out of control on Wednesday, as the toll rose to at least 17 people confirmed dead, hundreds hospitalized, and thousands of buildings destroyed or damaged. But state and local officials warned that with several hundred people still missing and unaccounted for, and some areas still out of reach of emergency crews, those figures are almost certain to rise.

The two biggest and most destructive fires had consumed more than 70,000 acres in Napa and Sonoma Counties by Wednesday morning, up from 52,000 on Tuesday afternoon, according to Cal Fire, the state’s firefighting agency. In all, six fires had burned more than 91,000 acres in the two counties, and Cal Fire rated all but the smallest of them as 3 percent contained, or less.

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