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By Sunday, the thirteenth of September, the fire had reached 50,000 acres (202 km 2) and had destroyed much of Cobb, Middletown, Whispering Pines, and parts in the south end of Hidden Valley Lake. [4] The fire ultimately spread to 76,067 acres (308 km 2), killed four people and destroyed nearly 2,000 buildings, [1] [5] [6] [7] before it was ...
Gold: the California story. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21547-8. Rawls, James J. and Orsi, Richard J. (eds.) (1999). A golden state: mining and economic development in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series, 2). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
The Valley Fire was a wildfire that burned near the community of Forest Falls in San Bernardino National Forest, including the San Gorgonio Wilderness in California, United States. The fire was reported on July 6, one of a handful of brush fires that started in the area due to high temperatures and dry conditions. The Valley Fire burned 1,350 ...
Over 25 million people in California have been under red flag warnings or fire weather watches this week because of warm temperatures, low humidity, and wind gusts of over 80 mph near highly ...
The fire was declared 100% contained on Wednesday, with a final burned acreage of nearly 10,000 acres and a cost of $5.2 million in fire suppression work. (Sarah A. Miller/smiller@idahostatesman.com)
Photos taken by the Bureau of Land Management and an Idaho Statesman photographer show the scale of the Valley Fire.
The 2015 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the state of California. By the end of 2015 a total of 8,745 fires were recorded, burning 893,362 acres (3,615 km 2 ) across the state. [ 1 ]
The strong winds are allowing fire embers to travel with the smoke over a range of two and a half miles, as more than 14,000 people remain under evacuation orders, the fire department said.