State of California Department of Forestry and Fire ProtectionCalifornia Polytechnic. On Monday, the Santa Barbara Office of Emergency Management airlifted some of them out. Tetra Tech is providing environmental and debris management activities associated with complex, wildfire-related operations in Ventura County, California. The unending inferno has burned for 12 days and ravaged 252,500 acres, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) officials said. Fire Captain PIO CAL FIRE/San Diego County Fire. Over the weekend, tens of thousands of residents in the wealthy enclaves of Montecito and Santa Barbara were notified they should be ready to evacuate. More than 8,526 firefighters have put their lives on their line to stop it, running up a cost of roughly $124 million. So far, the overpowering Thomas fire has claimed two lives, caused more than 100,000 people to flee their homes and destroyed 1,313 structures. In total 9,133 fires burned 1,248,606 acres. A smoke-filled sky filters sunlight to orange around a surfer as the Thomas Fire continues to grow and threaten communities from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara on Tuesday, December 12, in. Cal Fire reported that it was the same size - 272,000 acres - as the night before. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection announced this morning that 60 percent of the fire is contained, up from 55 percent Tuesday and 50 percent on Monday. The fire only needs to consume a couple thousand more acres to dethrone the 2003 Cedar fire that maintains the top spot on the list. California Thomas fire leaves behind barren ‘moonscape’ as it threatens Montecito, Carpinteria Reinvigorated by Santa Ana gusts and canyons of bone-dry vegetation, the Thomas fire surged. The monster Thomas fire north of Los Angeles is leaving its place in the state's record books as it is now officially the second largest fire in California history.įor the past 16 days, the fire that has been turning mountainsides to ash has grown. The Thomas Fire has destroyed 775 single-family homes and damaged over 200 others, according to Cal Fire.
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