The deadly wildfire near California’s Big Sur coast is expected to widen even more after it has already grown more than five times its current size and has destroyed some 60 homes, threatened hundreds of others and spurred mass evacuations, authorities said on Saturday. This Fire, which started on July 22 has roared through nearly 32,000 acres (13,000 hectares) of drought-parched chaparral, grass and timber in the Los Padres National Forest.
Excerpt From Yahoo News:
The blaze is estimated to have a final size of 170,000 acres (265 square miles), according to California Interagency Incident Management Team 1, which is comprised of federal, state and local authorities. The cost of fighting the fire is now at about $6 million a day, it said on its Twitter feed. The estimated final size of the blaze is roughly equivalent to the size of Singapore. More than 5,000 personnel were fighting the blaze that has so far destroyed 57 homes and 11 outbuildings, with at least five other structures damaged, officials said on Friday evening. Some 2,000 other structures were threatened, officials added.
This is so terrible for the families that have lost homes..!What started this one ?
When it’s that dry it could be just about anything- a spark from a wheel of a train, a carelessly tossed cigarette butt; in MN there was a wildfire that was started by a golfer. Not only did he hit his ball but also a small rock that created a spark that set off the wildfire. One other possibility is it was deliberately set by a terrorist.