California wild fires
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The fire is odd for a number of reasons, someone has suggested green pine trees don't burn in forest fires. I know for a fact that they do. Just like torches when the temperature is right and the wind in stiff.
Anything will burn if the temperature is right. Aluminum will burn if you fire an Exocet missile at it.
Somewhere in the States in a convenience store between the liquor and small arms ammunition.
2 bears badly burned in California wildfire back in the wild
Associated Press
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Published:
February 18, 2018
Updated:
February 18, 2018 4:11 PM EST
This January 2018 file photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a bear, injured in a wildfire, resting with its badly burned paws wrapped in fish skin - tilapia - and covered in corn husks during treatment at the University of California, Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in Davis, Calif. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
GOLETA, Calif. — Officials tracking two bears that were badly burned in the largest wildfire in California history say the animals are settling back into their home in the wild after receiving unusual treatment for their injured paws.
Recent photos and GPS tracking data show the female bears appear to be in good health as they move through Los Padres National Forest northwest of Los Angeles, news station KABC-TV reported Friday.
The adult bears were released into the forest last month after getting care for third-degree burns they suffered in December’s Thomas fire. A mountain lion cub also was treated for singed paws.
One bear was pregnant, but officials said last week that they weren’t sure if the baby was born yet.
Veterinarians treating the animals had stitched fish skins to their burned paws, then wrapped them with bandages of rice paper and corn husks. Officials decided on the treatment after reading about trials on human burn victims in Brazil that placed treated skins from tilapia, a ubiquitous species of fish, on the injuries to soothe pain and promote healing.
In this January 2018 file, photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, veterinarian Dr. Laura Peyton, chief of integrated medicine at the University of California, Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, works on the badly burned paw of a bear, injured in a wildfires, in Davis, Calif. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
Doctors routinely graft skin from humans and pigs to burns, but fish skins have the advantage of being more readily available.
One of the bears initially would lie down continuously to spare her burned paws, said Jamie Peyton, chief of the integrative medicine service at the University of California, Davis’ veterinarian school. After the fish-skin treatment, the bear stood up and was walking around with its companion, Peyton said last month.
This January 2018 file photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows the badly burned paw of a bear, injured in a wildfire, wrapped in fish skin – tilapia – during treatment at the University of California, Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in Davis, Calif. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
The results argue for more trials of the fish skins for burns, the vets said.
The mountain lion was too young when injured to be able to survive in the wild, and officials planned to turn him over to a care facility for lifelong confinement, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said in January.
2 bears badly burned in Thomas Fire enjoying life back in the Los Padres National Forest | abc7.com
2 bears badly burned in California wildfire back in the wild | Toronto Sun
Associated Press
More from Associated Press
Published:
February 18, 2018
Updated:
February 18, 2018 4:11 PM EST
This January 2018 file photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a bear, injured in a wildfire, resting with its badly burned paws wrapped in fish skin - tilapia - and covered in corn husks during treatment at the University of California, Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in Davis, Calif. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
GOLETA, Calif. — Officials tracking two bears that were badly burned in the largest wildfire in California history say the animals are settling back into their home in the wild after receiving unusual treatment for their injured paws.
Recent photos and GPS tracking data show the female bears appear to be in good health as they move through Los Padres National Forest northwest of Los Angeles, news station KABC-TV reported Friday.
The adult bears were released into the forest last month after getting care for third-degree burns they suffered in December’s Thomas fire. A mountain lion cub also was treated for singed paws.
One bear was pregnant, but officials said last week that they weren’t sure if the baby was born yet.
Veterinarians treating the animals had stitched fish skins to their burned paws, then wrapped them with bandages of rice paper and corn husks. Officials decided on the treatment after reading about trials on human burn victims in Brazil that placed treated skins from tilapia, a ubiquitous species of fish, on the injuries to soothe pain and promote healing.
In this January 2018 file, photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, veterinarian Dr. Laura Peyton, chief of integrated medicine at the University of California, Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, works on the badly burned paw of a bear, injured in a wildfires, in Davis, Calif. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
Doctors routinely graft skin from humans and pigs to burns, but fish skins have the advantage of being more readily available.
One of the bears initially would lie down continuously to spare her burned paws, said Jamie Peyton, chief of the integrative medicine service at the University of California, Davis’ veterinarian school. After the fish-skin treatment, the bear stood up and was walking around with its companion, Peyton said last month.
This January 2018 file photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows the badly burned paw of a bear, injured in a wildfire, wrapped in fish skin – tilapia – during treatment at the University of California, Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in Davis, Calif. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
The results argue for more trials of the fish skins for burns, the vets said.
The mountain lion was too young when injured to be able to survive in the wild, and officials planned to turn him over to a care facility for lifelong confinement, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said in January.
2 bears badly burned in Thomas Fire enjoying life back in the Los Padres National Forest | abc7.com
2 bears badly burned in California wildfire back in the wild | Toronto Sun
California wine-country fire began near damaged PG&E tower
Reuters
Published:
October 24, 2019
Updated:
October 24, 2019 11:43 PM EDT
GEYSERVILLE — A wind-driven wildfire that forced some 2,000 people to flee homes in Northern California’s wine country on Thursday erupted near the base of a damaged high-voltage transmission tower owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Co, utility and fire officials said.
The company, a unit of bankrupt holding company PG&E Corp , acknowledged in an “electric safety incident” report to the California Public Utilities Commission that one of its power lines malfunctioned at about the time and location of the fire’s origin on Wednesday night.
It said a PG&E technician inspecting the site on Thursday found the area taped off by state fire department personnel who brought to his attention “what appeared to be a broken jumper on the same tower.”
PG&E had shut down some electric distribution wires in the area as a precaution against dangerously high winds at the time, but high-voltage transmission lines such as that in question were left on as they were deemed durable enough for the forecast conditions, the utility said in a public statement.
The transmission tower involved had been examined this year in PG&E’s wildfire safety inspection program, it added.
Neither PG&E nor the commission said whether the damaged tower or the malfunctioning transmission line attached to it were suspected of igniting the blaze, dubbed the Kincade fire, which has destroyed about a dozen homes and other structures.
The cause is being investigated, said the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, which listed the same place and time of origin for the fire as the tower incident reported by PG&E.
PG&E filed for bankruptcy protection last January, citing more than $30 billion in liability stemming from devastating wildfires in 2017 and 2018 found to have been sparked by its equipment.
The Kincade fire in Sonoma County was the worst of several blazes raging throughout California as PG&E and other utilities cut off electricity to nearly 200,000 homes and businesses in preventive blackouts to reduce wildfire risks from high winds.
Hundreds of miles to the south in the Canyon County community of Los Angeles County, a blaze called the Tick fire prompted evacuation of an estimated 40,000 residents. Flames consumed about 5,000 acres (2,000 hectares) and destroyed an unknown number of structures, according to the Los Angeles City News Service.
HISTORIC TOWN EVACUATED
By Thursday, the Sonoma County blaze had scorched about 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares), Cal Fire said. No injuries have been reported.
Ground crews fought the blaze at close range with hand tools and bulldozers, assisted by water-dropping helicopters and airplane tankers carrying payloads of fire-retardant slurry.
The Sonoma County sheriff’s office ordered the evacuation of Geyserville, a town of nearly 900 people, founded in the mid-19th century and named for nearby hot springs and geothermal attractions.
A building is engulfed in flames at a vineyard during the Kincade fire near Geyserville, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images
A Reuters photographer saw about a dozen homes in flames in the town on Thursday.
By midday, mandatory evacuation notices covered a total of roughly 2,000 people, the sheriff’s office said. An evacuation warning in the northern end of the nearby larger town of Healdsburg, urged residents to be ready to flee at a moment’s notice.
Both towns, about 75 miles (120 km) north of San Francisco, are hubs of upscale restaurants, wine-tasting rooms, inns, and shops surrounded by rolling hills dotted by vineyards.
Large parts of California were under red-flag alerts this week following forecasts of hot, dry winds blowing into populated areas from deserts to the east.
The number of homes and workplaces without power could climb to more than 500,000 under worst-case scenarios for precautionary outages this week, according to PG&E, Southern California Edison and other electricity providers.
More than 730,000 PG&E customers lost electricity in northern California this month, in a planned power shutdown of unprecedented scale, widely criticized as having been poorly managed and communicated to the public.
Earlier on Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom, who called PG&E’s handling of that incident “unacceptable,” said the company appeared to have “significantly” improved its readiness for this week’s wildfire threat.
National Weather Service meteorologist Marc Chenard said severe winds were expected to intensify later in the day and into Friday.
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Reuters
Published:
October 24, 2019
Updated:
October 24, 2019 11:43 PM EDT
GEYSERVILLE — A wind-driven wildfire that forced some 2,000 people to flee homes in Northern California’s wine country on Thursday erupted near the base of a damaged high-voltage transmission tower owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Co, utility and fire officials said.
The company, a unit of bankrupt holding company PG&E Corp , acknowledged in an “electric safety incident” report to the California Public Utilities Commission that one of its power lines malfunctioned at about the time and location of the fire’s origin on Wednesday night.
It said a PG&E technician inspecting the site on Thursday found the area taped off by state fire department personnel who brought to his attention “what appeared to be a broken jumper on the same tower.”
PG&E had shut down some electric distribution wires in the area as a precaution against dangerously high winds at the time, but high-voltage transmission lines such as that in question were left on as they were deemed durable enough for the forecast conditions, the utility said in a public statement.
The transmission tower involved had been examined this year in PG&E’s wildfire safety inspection program, it added.
Neither PG&E nor the commission said whether the damaged tower or the malfunctioning transmission line attached to it were suspected of igniting the blaze, dubbed the Kincade fire, which has destroyed about a dozen homes and other structures.
The cause is being investigated, said the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, which listed the same place and time of origin for the fire as the tower incident reported by PG&E.
PG&E filed for bankruptcy protection last January, citing more than $30 billion in liability stemming from devastating wildfires in 2017 and 2018 found to have been sparked by its equipment.
The Kincade fire in Sonoma County was the worst of several blazes raging throughout California as PG&E and other utilities cut off electricity to nearly 200,000 homes and businesses in preventive blackouts to reduce wildfire risks from high winds.
Hundreds of miles to the south in the Canyon County community of Los Angeles County, a blaze called the Tick fire prompted evacuation of an estimated 40,000 residents. Flames consumed about 5,000 acres (2,000 hectares) and destroyed an unknown number of structures, according to the Los Angeles City News Service.
HISTORIC TOWN EVACUATED
By Thursday, the Sonoma County blaze had scorched about 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares), Cal Fire said. No injuries have been reported.
Ground crews fought the blaze at close range with hand tools and bulldozers, assisted by water-dropping helicopters and airplane tankers carrying payloads of fire-retardant slurry.
The Sonoma County sheriff’s office ordered the evacuation of Geyserville, a town of nearly 900 people, founded in the mid-19th century and named for nearby hot springs and geothermal attractions.
A building is engulfed in flames at a vineyard during the Kincade fire near Geyserville, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images
A Reuters photographer saw about a dozen homes in flames in the town on Thursday.
By midday, mandatory evacuation notices covered a total of roughly 2,000 people, the sheriff’s office said. An evacuation warning in the northern end of the nearby larger town of Healdsburg, urged residents to be ready to flee at a moment’s notice.
Both towns, about 75 miles (120 km) north of San Francisco, are hubs of upscale restaurants, wine-tasting rooms, inns, and shops surrounded by rolling hills dotted by vineyards.
Large parts of California were under red-flag alerts this week following forecasts of hot, dry winds blowing into populated areas from deserts to the east.
The number of homes and workplaces without power could climb to more than 500,000 under worst-case scenarios for precautionary outages this week, according to PG&E, Southern California Edison and other electricity providers.
More than 730,000 PG&E customers lost electricity in northern California this month, in a planned power shutdown of unprecedented scale, widely criticized as having been poorly managed and communicated to the public.
Earlier on Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom, who called PG&E’s handling of that incident “unacceptable,” said the company appeared to have “significantly” improved its readiness for this week’s wildfire threat.
National Weather Service meteorologist Marc Chenard said severe winds were expected to intensify later in the day and into Friday.
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Almost never. Of course normal people do regular maintenance on their infrastructure.
Not in the hinterland . We have transmission lines through forests and over mountains all through B.C. , and high winds as well . Yikes the B.C. Ferries shut down due to wind on Friday yet no power line caused fires .