California Wildfire Death Toll Reaches 31
- by Jerome Frank
- in World News
- — Nov 15, 2018
This is according to the data released by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also known as Cal Fire.
Thousands of homes are still at risk, and forecasters expect gusty Santa Ana winds that drove the flames to continue into Wednesday.
A man stands in the middle of the street at the Seminole Springs mobile home park in Malibu Lake after the Woolsey Fire roared through the community on November 10, 2018 in Malibu, California. Heartbreaking time across California. The wildfires have already claimed the lives of at least 31 people across the state. At least five firefighters have been injured battling the blaze.
SoCal Edison said the report was submitted out of an abundance of caution although there was no indication from fire officials that its equipment may have been involved. The fire quickly became the deadliest and largest wildfire in California history over the weekend, a record that has been broken every year for the last three years in a row. With more than 200 people still unaccounted for, families who are desperate for answers are posting pictures of their loved ones online and on message boards at shelters.
Over 10 days in October fires tear through parched southern California, destroying towns and killing at least 22 people, most around San Diego and San Bernardino and two across the border in Mexico.
Two people were found dead in Southern California, where flames tore through Malibu mansions and working-class Los Angeles suburbs.
"These are extreme conditions". Because of this, close to 150,000 people are still under mandatory evacuation orders from the state of California.
Molten aluminum flowed from a vehicle that burned in front of one of at least 20 homes destroyed just on Windermere Drive in the Point Dume area of Malibu, California, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018.
The size of the fire has also increased to more than 143 square miles (370 square kilometers) and was 20 percent contained Monday morning.
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Camille Grammer Meyer of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" also lost her Malibu home on Saturday night, her publicist, Howard Bragman, said in an email to The Associated Press.
"It all came down to luck and a whole lot of buckets of water", he told KTLA 5.
"The early moments of fires such as these are a critical time, when lives are lost, entire communities are wiped off the map and our members are injured or killed trying to stop these monstrous wildfires", Schaitberger said in a statement.
Local residents were despondent over the fire damage.
The couple and their 25-year-old son, Colin, used hoses, buckets of water and chain saws to battle flames and cut back brush as the fire kept coming to life. But it's what is inside the house. Much of what makes the city function is gone.
"We are in this for the long haul", Pimlott said.
California utility stocks plummeted for a second trading day on Monday.
PGE's declines Monday add to a 16% drop in PG&E's stock Friday as the Camp Fire began to spread at an alarming pace.
