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As of 1 AM today a fire started in Santa Rosa,CA that is now burning unchecked throughout the northern part of the city and moving south. Mass evacuations underway.
Many homes burned, Kaiser Hospital on fire, major businesses burning or burned down, Historic buildings as well as hotels either on fire or burned down.
According to my brother in law it started due to high winds,heat and very low humidity @13%. Unfortunately there are not enough fire resources to fight these fires. They are streaming resources in all the way from San Francisco. There were/are 50 different fires burning in Santa Rosa at this point according to the news.
Not only Sonoma County but Napa County and Lake County are on fire as well.
According to my brother in law it started due to high winds,heat and very low humidity @13%. Unfortunately there are not enough fire resources to fight these fires. They are streaming resources in all the way from San Francisco. There were/are 50 different fires burning in Santa Rosa at this point according to the news.
Not only Sonoma County but Napa County and Lake County are on fire as well.
50 different fires? Are wind and high heat enough to start a fire? Did plant growth spontaneously combust? IDK if that's a dumb question, but please bring me up to speed. If that's all it takes, humanity is screwed, and we might as well throw CA away. Please tell me there's more to this story.
50 different fires? Are wind and high heat enough to start a fire? Did plant growth spontaneously combust? IDK if that's a dumb question, but please bring me up to speed. If that's all it takes, humanity is screwed, and we might as well throw CA away. Please tell me there's more to this story.
At this point more accurate information is coming out. 15 different fires. Unknown as yet as to what the start was other than what I described.
50 different fires? Are wind and high heat enough to start a fire? Did plant growth spontaneously combust? IDK if that's a dumb question, but please bring me up to speed. If that's all it takes, humanity is screwed, and we might as well throw CA away. Please tell me there's more to this story.
Spontaneous fires can happen if there's high heat, extreme dryness, no humidity and a lot of static electricity. To pursue that line of thought you'd need to know if it was staticy there.
Once when I was visiting Tucson, AZ in early February for 2 weeks for the annual gem and mineral show there was so much static electricity everywhere in the region you could get sparks off just about anything you touched including getting shocks from touching still water. It wasn't particularly hot at that time of year but it was very dry and there were dozens of little spontaneous fires starting up in some of the most unusual places both indoors and outdoors.
50 different fires? Are wind and high heat enough to start a fire? Did plant growth spontaneously combust? IDK if that's a dumb question, but please bring me up to speed. If that's all it takes, humanity is screwed, and we might as well throw CA away. Please tell me there's more to this story.
When conditions are right, fires happen.
October 8, 1871
The Great Chicago Fire guts the city, killing hundreds. Of course, you've heard of that. But you probably haven't heard that the very same night the Peshtigo Fire a couple hundred miles to the north burned over a million acres and killed thousands - the deadliest fire in American history. And across the lake in Michigan, again on the same date, the Great Michigan Fire and the Port Huron Fire together killed hundreds more.
Our family was just there and stayed in Santa Rosa for 3 days - 3 lovely days. We just loved where we stayed, went to dinner in Healdsburg and went to a couple of vineyards which were just lovely.
My thoughts and prayers to all those impacted in this wonderful area.
50 different fires? Are wind and high heat enough to start a fire? Did plant growth spontaneously combust? IDK if that's a dumb question, but please bring me up to speed. If that's all it takes, humanity is screwed, and we might as well throw CA away. Please tell me there's more to this story.
If the California were in the fiscal shape it was 50 years ago and public safety services were intact, they would put out the fires. Any fool knows that there are wildfires in the West in the summer and fall but they seem totally unprepared.
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IDK if that's a dumb question, but please bring me up to speed. If that's all it takes, humanity is screwed, and we might as well throw CA away. Please tell me there's more to this story.
It wasn't particularly hot at that time of year but it was very dry and there were dozens of little spontaneous fires starting up in some of the most unusual places both indoors and outdoors.
I am so sad
