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Leroy N. Soetoro
Sep 22, 2022, 1:15:19 PM9/22/22
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Dozens of buildings burned and a major interstate was closed as gusty
winds fanned a large wildfire in California’s Sierra Nevada and ignited
another blaze nearby, authorities said Tuesday.
The Mosquito Fire tore through 51 buildings, destroying 46 of them, in the
small community of Michigan Bluff, west of South Lake Tahoe, Placer County
Sheriff’s Lt. Josh Barnhart said in a statement.
The sheriff’s office issued new evacuation orders for the region Tuesday,
bringing the number of people who have fled the fire to more than 11,000,
according to NBC affiliate KCRA of Sacramento.
There have been no reports of injuries or deaths in the fire, which
ignited Sept. 6 in a record heat wave that left a region already parched
by a historic drought primed for dangerous fire weather.
Several people have died in California wildfires in recent weeks,
including two in a blaze that sparked southeast of Los Angeles and two
more near the Oregon border.
The Mosquito Fire had swelled to nearly 50,000 acres by Tuesday afternoon,
and it was 18% contained, according to the California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
Dramatic aerial video from KCRA showed air tankers dumping payloads of
brightly colored retardant over giant smoke columns as the fire appeared
to make a run toward the community of Foresthill, said Daniel Swain, a
climate scientist and wildfire expert at UCLA.
Swain said large pyrocumulonimbus clouds — which can generate thunder,
lightning and tornado-force winds — appeared to be building on the fire's
flanks in the breezy, record-dry conditions.
Roughly 20 miles west, a second blaze erupted Tuesday near the community
of Dutch Flat, just off Interstate 80, the Placer County Sheriff's Office
said.
Several roads in the area were under mandatory evacuation orders. The
fire, which the sheriff's office described as a vegetation fire, was at 25
acres with no containment Tuesday afternoon.
The causes of both blazes remained under investigation, Cal Fire said.
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Dozens of buildings burned and a major interstate was closed as gusty
winds fanned a large wildfire in California’s Sierra Nevada and ignited
another blaze nearby, authorities said Tuesday.
The Mosquito Fire tore through 51 buildings, destroying 46 of them, in the
small community of Michigan Bluff, west of South Lake Tahoe, Placer County
Sheriff’s Lt. Josh Barnhart said in a statement.
The sheriff’s office issued new evacuation orders for the region Tuesday,
bringing the number of people who have fled the fire to more than 11,000,
according to NBC affiliate KCRA of Sacramento.
There have been no reports of injuries or deaths in the fire, which
ignited Sept. 6 in a record heat wave that left a region already parched
by a historic drought primed for dangerous fire weather.
Several people have died in California wildfires in recent weeks,
including two in a blaze that sparked southeast of Los Angeles and two
more near the Oregon border.
The Mosquito Fire had swelled to nearly 50,000 acres by Tuesday afternoon,
and it was 18% contained, according to the California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
Dramatic aerial video from KCRA showed air tankers dumping payloads of
brightly colored retardant over giant smoke columns as the fire appeared
to make a run toward the community of Foresthill, said Daniel Swain, a
climate scientist and wildfire expert at UCLA.
Swain said large pyrocumulonimbus clouds — which can generate thunder,
lightning and tornado-force winds — appeared to be building on the fire's
flanks in the breezy, record-dry conditions.
Roughly 20 miles west, a second blaze erupted Tuesday near the community
of Dutch Flat, just off Interstate 80, the Placer County Sheriff's Office
said.
Several roads in the area were under mandatory evacuation orders. The
fire, which the sheriff's office described as a vegetation fire, was at 25
acres with no containment Tuesday afternoon.
The causes of both blazes remained under investigation, Cal Fire said.
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recover with no after effects.
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Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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