The efforts of thousands of firefighters continue to extinguish the largest fire of the year in California

Nearly 4,900 firefighters, 33 helicopters, 400 vehicles and several Canadairs were deployed as California’s fire service continued its superhuman effort to extinguish the largest wildfire of the year in the western US state, which has already burned through a larger area from the city of Los Angeles. The “Park Fire,” as it has been called, has been raging since Wednesday in northern California, a rural area three hours’ drive northeast of San Francisco. It has now burned nearly 1,500 square kilometers, according to the California Forestry and Fire Service CalFire, making it one of the largest wildfires in state history. No casualties have been reported so far and firefighters benefited from a slight drop in temperatures over the weekend, which allowed them to make some progress: the fire was “12%” contained. However, more than 26,000 people were still under evacuation orders as of Monday afternoon, according to […]
Source: News Beast

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