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California wildfires

11/1/2017

 
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By Sebastian Haas and Everett Smith
The Northern California wildfires, which began the night of Sunday, October 8th, burned roughly 170,000 acres, and thousands were evacuated and relocated away from the fires. The fires destroyed at least 8,400 homes and resulted in damage that could reach billions of dollars.

The death toll from the fires has reached over 40  (according to the San Francisco Chronicle) and the number of missing people is still more than 200. Our firefighters took several weeks to contain and extinguish the fires. Because of the number of fires and strong winds, firefighters had trouble stopping the deadly flames.
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Schools throughout the East Bay and North Bay were closed due to smoky air quality. Oakland’s air quality was the second worst in the nation.

​But what caused these devastating fires? It was a deadly combination of brittle-dry weather and high winds that caused so many fires to start all at once on the very same night. They caught thousands off-guard, and many Northern California families found themselves piling into their cars and fleeing the doomed area.

Needless to say, many of the towns and locations tormented by the fires are going to face years of economic struggles and problems. But all around, people are going out of their way to help the affected evacuees.

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