Camp fire in Northern California comes close to containment
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's most catastrophic wildfire may finally be reaching its dying embers.
Aided by two days of drenching rains, fire officials in Butte County report that the Camp fire is 95 percent contained, and that crews on Friday were putting out hot spots in the mountains east of Paradise as well as laying fire lines to cover the last edge of the once-raging fire.
The Camp fire has scorched 153,000 acres, destroyed more than 18,000 buildings, most of them residences, and left a death toll of 84.
Cal Fire officials cautioned Friday that the fire fight is not yet finished. The state has set the week of Nov. 30, one week from now, as the expected period it will have achieved full containment.
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If you had no insurance FEMA will help you.
If you are a renter it is for 1 month.
If you owned property 3 months.
However, if you HAVE insurance you must wait for your claim to be processed.
What a nightmare of a situation to 20,000 displaced persons.
84 DEAD +++
Those cadaver dogs don't pick-up much of a scent from incinerated bodies.
Lost a whole town of 27,000
Perhaps thousands dead.
FEMA is there oh yeah.
Can we really rely on the national news to be honest about it? That's a lot of people. If 84 chose to stay for sure, seems like more will be coming. There's lots of mountainous type crags and crannies people lived in up in those woods. i read somewhere that in windswept canyons etc. fire can travel several football fields...per second. If you stayed, there's no getting away from that. How awful to die that way. Hopefully the smoke put them down first. My gods.