Fire started at just before 6:30AM, and has been driven by fierce winds in excess of 50mph. Now over 17,000 acres.
This is some of the scenes from evacuation going on this morning as people try to evacuate the Camp Fire which has caused the entire town of Paradise CA to be evacuated. Much of the town is burning, and this includes Feather River Hospital. The fire is over 5000 acres now.
video by Jerre Bates who escaped and wrote on FB:
This is what we went through to get out of Paradise…..
Here is another video showing the same terror during evacuation:
Skyway below Neal Road, video by Mike Malloy.
Skyway just below Neal Road. Video by Sean McCreary
The plume is huge, covering the sky up to 30 miles away, as seen by radar:
Some ground photos:
The fire is so large that is shows up on satellite. Note the white dot in Northern California.
I’m told by friends that escaped that major buildings in Paradise are burning. The high school, churches, the hospital, and many many homes. This is a disaster of epic proportions.
The fire stated at just before 6:30AM, and has been driven by fierce winds in excess of 50mph.
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Twain Harte, east of Sonora, California, is a tree hugger bastion of insanity living for now in denial. At least in Chico there appear to be good roads out. The Rim Fire a few years ago burned much of northwestern Yosemite and national forest land.
Figuring I suppose it won’t happen to them, they don’t thin the forest around their property, and even support “environmentalist” groups filing injunctions to stop tree thinning in the surrounding forest lands.
I hope they wise up, or many may not escape a fast moving fire in the fuel rich area.
The east side of Chico is now under evacuation orders. I post this here as otherwise my comments do not post. Must be due to the attack against WUWT.
No individual forest fires or hurricanes can be attributed to global warming – whether one wants to or not.
But it becomes a moot point when you learn your family members were in the Thursday morning evacuation from Paradise – with their house left behind.
Praying for a reverse in wind direction – Stay safe.
crap! Anthony get Kenji and any other pets, most precious stuff, and get the hell out if havent already
Just curious, on the GOES west satellite imagery, there is also a bright white spot in southern CA, around the LA area. Is there another fire down in that area?
Linky to satellite imagery I was referring to (hope it works).
https://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/sw/flash-ir2f.html
I believe that’s the Salton “Sea”