Archive for the ‘Fires/Wildfires’ Category
An oil rig storage platform exploded into flames on Sunday night in Lake Pontchartrain with 7 reported injured and taken to hospital.
Monday, October 16th, 2017FEMA SitRep: California Wildfires (10/12/17)
Thursday, October 12th, 2017Current Situation 18 large fires burning (FMAGs issued for 10) across 150k acres of state and private land.
Impacts: • 24 confirmed fatalities (CalOES law enforcement) • Approximately 106k people under Mandatory Evacuations • 36,513 (+3,100) homes threatened; 94 (+44) damaged / 1,313 (+168) destroyed •
Within existing fire perimeters: Population 26,270, 2 mobile home parks, 12 schools, 10 emergency medical services, 10 fire stations, 5 NSS shelters, 13 nursing homes, 3 cell towers •
50k customers without power and 36k without gas
(FEMA Reg IX) State/Local Response: • Governor declared a state of emergency in Napa, Sonoma, Butte, Lake, Solano, Mendocino, Nevada, Orange, and Yuba counties • CA EOC at Partial Activation • 59 Red Cross and independent shelters open with 5,117 (+2.8k) occupants (ESF-6 as of 3:30 a.m. EDT) FEMA Response: • DR-4344-CA and 10 FMAGs approved • Region IX IMAT-1 & LNO deployed to CA EOC • Staging Area established at Travis AFB
California: The cluster of wildfires has killed 23 people and 285 more are still missing
Thursday, October 12th, 2017Northern California’s wildfires: Up to 2,000 structures detroyed and at least 17 people killed.
Wednesday, October 11th, 2017fires supercharged by powerful winds ripped through Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties Monday, killing at least 10, injuring dozens more, destroying more than 1,500 homes and businesses
Tuesday, October 10th, 2017U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announces that wildland fire suppression costs for the fiscal year have exceeded $2 billion, making 2017 the most expensive year on record.
Saturday, September 16th, 2017“…..At the peak of Western fire season, there were three times as many uncontained large fires on the landscape as compared to the five-year average, and almost three times as many personnel assigned to fires. More than 27,000 people supported firefighting activities during peak Western fire season. The Forest Service has been at Preparedness Level 5, the highest level, for 35 days as of September 14, 2017. Approximately 2.2 million acres of National Forest system lands have burned in that time…..”
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