Faced with drought conditions and record-high temperatures, California has hit many grim fire milestones in the last few years.
In 2020, California saw the most destructive fire season on record. But 2021 is shaping up to be another one for the record books, with the conditions producing fire behavior never seen before.
The Dixie fire is now the second-largest in state history and still burning out of control.
The 190,000-acre Caldor fire is much smaller but now threatens more than 33,000 homes in the Lake Tahoe Basin, an area many residents believed was fairly well protected from fires.
Two fires make history
Chief Thom Porter, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said that before this year, no fire was known to have burned from one side of the Sierra to the other.
The Caldor and Dixie fires have now achieved that feat.
“Two times in our history and they’re both happening this month,” Porter said. “So we need to be really cognizant that there is fire activity happening in California that we have never seen before.”
The Caldor fire has also changed the view of fire risk in Lake Tahoe.
“Historically, we’ve used terms such as ‘anomaly,’ ‘unprecedented’ or ‘extreme’ to describe the wildfires that we have seen burn throughout the state over the past 10 to 20 years,” Cal Fire spokesman Chris Anthony said Monday evening. “These terms are no longer appropriate given the clear trends associated with drought, earth changes and unresilient forest stands. Unfortunately, these factors contribute to the resistance to control that we are seeing with the Caldor fire.”
Official #Caldorfire Maps, updates and information can be found on Inciweb at: https://t.co/B9WHUnGsm3 pic.twitter.com/3e6A582iEH
— EldoradoNF (@EldoradoNF) August 31, 2021
A rock fortress
A granite ridge that overlooks the Tahoe basin was always seen as protection against a fire sweeping into the region. Officials say it could have some mitigating effects on the fire, officials said.
Unlike lower elevations populated by hot-burning manzanita brush, ponderosa pine and cedar trees, the ridge is characterized by fir trees and more spare, open areas that can help slow the fire’s spread.
But with powerful winds Monday, embers were flowing and that set brush on fire closer to the basin.
“They have long looked to that granite wall as what’s going to keep fire out,” said Crystal Kolden, a fire scientist at UC Merced. “But this is a new world, and that basically is no longer a viable last line of defense.”
Latest heat map of #CaldorFire shows rapid growth toward South Lake Tahoe: https://t.co/1JH8Xggciz pic.twitter.com/24KBQgGXsJ
— Zoom Earth (@zoom_earth) August 31, 2021
Worst-case scenario
So far, the Caldor fire has primarily fed on vegetation, Kolden said; but if the fire makes it into nearby communities, that will rapidly change. Homes and other structures would not only provide additional fuel for the fire, but also release dangerous chemicals into the air, along with “tremendous embers.”
“It’s an Alpine community with log cabins, and a lot of those structures were built in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s,” she said. “So you’ve got this potential for it to really start jumping from building to building to building, and it’s just a completely different beast and they can’t fight it.”
Wildland fires can typically burn up to about 1,500 degrees, Kolden said, while structure fires can burn closer to 3,600 degrees.
“It’s so dangerous, it’s so toxic, and there’s so much heat,” she said. [LA Times]
Huge chunks of ash are falling from the sky onto cars, homes and gardens in the area of Lake Tahoe… Almost like during a volcanic eruption…
Now, I’m sure that one of the major cause of these fires is the extreme drought currently drying up the West coast of the US.
You should really watch the documentary film: Megadrought – Vanishing Water and prepare accordingly!
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Geoengineering, ain’t it grand!
Exactly, the evil level has been cranked way up in the past five years. Seems they were really p O that Trump won and have been hell fire bent on catching up to what he was blocking as best he could in a den of rabid demon wolves. Now that he’s out of the way, we’re all in for thr demon ride. VX gas jab and all.
Man made water crisis and drought propaganda. One facet of the multipronged attack on people. The depopulation agenda is in full war mode now.
Supply chain will breakdown soon. It’s also part of the Cloward-Piven strategy. We will see mass chaos in order to overwhelm the system. Then the government will be in the position to be the saviour. Enslavement of humanity, death, and misery will follow is the future, if people don’t fight back, and say NO to all the bullshjt, right now!
Pray to Christ and his angels to help people overcome this demonic force of darkness.
Iran – Khuzestan: People Left Without Water Demonstrate In Different Cities
On Thursday evening, people living in different cities and regions of Khuzestan Province (southwest Iran), including Ahvaz, Khorramshahr, Bostan, Hamidiyeh, Shadegan, Susangerd, and Mahshahr, took to the streets to protest the lack of water.
In some cities, such as Khorramshahr and Susangerd, the State Security Force (SSF) opened fire to prevent protests from spreading.
People in the Bostan town of Dasht-e Azadegan, west of Ahvaz, chanted, “We will not accept humiliation,” protesting the lack of water due to transferring it to other cities.
In Hamidiyeh, people rallied in the streets, despite the heavy presence of repressive SSF force. They chanted slogans against the regime officials and protested the continuous water cut. The SSF failed to disperse the angry youth and demonstrators and retreated as the rally expanded.
Meanwhile, protesters in Qalekana’n district (Ahvaz), Mahshahr road to Bandar Imam, and Shadegan closed the roads by burning tires.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
July 16, 2021
Iran: In Hamidiyeh, people rallied in the streets, despite the heavy presence of repressive SSF force. They chanted slogans against the regime officials and protested the continuous water cut.#Iran #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/6BWzLs3Vuf
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) July 16, 2021
Iran: People in the Bostan town of Dasht-e Azadegan, west of Ahvaz, chanted, “We will not accept humiliation,” protesting the lack of water due to transferring it to other cities. #Iran #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/KG1FSCUZr9
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) July 16, 2021
Iran: Angry people protest in Susangerd, for the lack of water.#Iran #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/Dt3jZMMeU9
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) July 16, 2021
Global New World Order that is belong to rich and Elite has no way for mankind. Vaccines will kill all 90 percent of populations and recently as yesterday Indian Army put vaccines to army and 100 of them died right a way.