[UPDATE 7:25 p.m 6700 Acres, 30% Contained] Valley Fire: Over 100 Square Miles and Only 15% Containment [The Latest Maps]

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One of the over 500 homes that have burned so far during the Valley Fire. [Photo by @EPN564. Follow on Twitter for more images.]

Cooler weather and over 2,300 fire personnel have kept the Valley Fire in Lake County from the explosive growth of the first few days. Today the fire has “merely” expanded another 6000 acres since yesterday morning–burning over 100 square miles. Crews have clawed out a containment line around 15% of the inferno. Cal Fire says that 585 homes are known to have been “destroyed and hundreds of other structures are know to be destroyed as well.” (For evacuation and road closure information, go here.)

In the sidebar to the right, are the latest tweets about the #ValleyFire.

Here are three different maps of the fire:


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One of the saddest stories of the fire has been that of a disabled woman burned to death when she was not evacuated prior to the flames incinerating her home.

Below the woman’s caretaker relates the nightmare of how the woman died in her home during Valley Fire.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205241691185088&set=a.1961313715774.2101192.1330768108&type=1

UPDATE 7:51 a.m.: Tweet from Senator Mike McGuire.

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H
8 years ago

Oh my gosh. That story above about Barbara, that is so unfortunate. This fire is just so devastating. RIP, Barbara.

BB2
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BB2
8 years ago
Reply to  H

Beyond unfortunate… Criminal!

nines
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8 years ago
Reply to  BB2

Ever since you linked me to it last night I have been scouring my miserable memory banks for where it was that I met Barbara. I’m thinking just now that it was at one of the holiday dinners put on by the couple who used to own Anthony’s in Lakeport… and would’ve been maybe eight years ago. I can see her face and hear her voice. The haircut and smile are utterly familiar to me.

I just can’t get the exact full memory back.

And a big part of the problem is that most of the people who would have thought of her immediately and made sure she was safe are either dead themselves or moved away or out of state every summer or too senile to know what’s happening.

Still, I agree, too busy to evacuate a disabled person IS criminal.

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
8 years ago

May Barbara rest in peace.

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