Sun, 07 Aug 22 10:32:26 +0000

Nearly 90 Homes Burned in McKinney Wildfires in California, Only 40% Contained

(CNN)The McKinney Fires in California destroyed nearly 90 homes, 1 more than the Klamath National fires. Only 40% contained in the week Forest expected to remain hot and dry over the weekend.

California's largest fire of the year, the wildfire erupted on July 29 in a forest near the California-Oregon border,thunderstorms wreaking havoc on winds. It has been fueled and spread rapidly

According to InciWeb, a U.S. fire information clearinghouse, as of Saturday evening, the fire had consumed more than 60,000 acres and destroyed 30 surrounding areas. % was trapped. More than 2,400 firefighters are involved in fighting the fire.

According to the initial damage assessment released by the Siskiyou County Emergency Management Authority , of the 274 structures examined so far, 87 were residential buildings and an additional 47 structures (garages). and commercial buildings) were destroyed. service. The

office said four additional structures suffered minor fire damage and damage assessments are more than 50% complete.

The Klamath River community remains under evacuation orders, it said.

CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam said weather conditions were unlikely to help quell the fires over the weekend.

"For the past 24 hours, the area around the McKinney Fires has been sunny and hot, with dry conditions near the incident. It will continue to be excessively hot until 2020. It will cool down slightly," he said.

"The combination of heat, low humidity, dry conditions and downhill winds is expected to further spread the fires over the weekend and early next week. Thunderstorms ruled out." No, but in today's fire area it may not include meaningful rainfall."

The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office It said it was working to get them back but many dangers remained in the evacuated zone.Four bodies were recovered from the burnt area earlier in the week, he said.

Search and rescue teams in California and southern Oregon contributed more than 1,000 volunteer hours to the operation,the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post

“At least 150 SAR members are stationed at our law enforcement command posts, planning and organizing routine operations, going downstream to assist in searches of buildings and homes, and large incidents. Everything else that gets caught up in ..every early morning."

House burnt down

Among the burned homes is Kayla, who fled the fire with her family on the day she was due to give birth to her third child. There was also Daly's house.

"I could see nothing but smoke and fire coming down the mountain," Daly told CNN earlier this week. Daly, her two young sons, her husband Levi, and her family roommate Dalton Her Shoot climbed into a small car with few of her belongings.

Daily later learned that the fire started just three miles from her home, where she had moved from Indiana four months earlier.

When she spoke to CNN, Daley said evacuation to her nearest hospital would take her two hours up her mountain to give birth at a hospital in Medford, Oregon. She was worried about the need.

On Friday, when Daly gave birth and her daughter was safely delivered by emergency caesarean section on Thursday, she shared news that local hospitals had begun accepting patients on a limited basis.
Her brother-in-law created a GoFundMe page to help the family who lost everything in the fire.

Daily's friend and roommate Shoot lost her mother to a fire in her house when she was six, she told CNN. "I feel the emptiness that I felt as a child," he said.

But he remained optimistic that he and his friends would recover.

Valerie Linfoot and her husband, both former forest firefighters, lost their home after more than 30 years.

"We fought fires, we watched houses burn, we were there where firefighters were doing their work, and I couldn't imagine it happening to myself. It's a week," Linfoot told CNN. "We are still overwhelmed to be victims of this terrible weather and fire convergence that we have seen so many others suffer."

The hardest thing for Linfoot is to think about the irreplaceable things left behind when the house burns down: wedding rings, the ashes of his mother and grandmother, and baby photos of his children.

Linfoots launched a GoFundMe page to help restore and rebuild. It's devastating,'" she said. None of us are rich. We are hardworking, resilient people, but most of the people there were middle class, regular workers, or retirees.