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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

'Raining hell down': death toll rises to 25 in California fires, as more victims found

2018-11-11

[Guardian] The charred remains of fourteen more victims have been found in and around the northern California town of Paradise, and two bodies were also discovered in Malibu, officials said on Saturday, raising the death toll to 25.

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Scott Maclean said there were no details immediately available about the circumstances of the deaths at Paradise, a mountain community some 90 miles (145 km) north of Sacramento left devastated by the Camp Fire. He said the bodies were badly burned, which would make identification difficult.

Authorities are bringing in a mobile DNA lab to help with identification and are encouraging relatives to donate.

The Camp Fire burned down more than 6,700 homes and businesses in Paradise, more structures than any other California wildfire on record. It grew to 105,000 acres on Saturday with 20% containment.

Posted by:Besoeker

#7 That would be donate tissue to make DNA matches.

Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 2018-11-11 18:12

#6 Encouraging relatives of the dead to donate to the investigating authorities? Is the state that morbidly broke now?

Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-11-11 16:51

#5 A lot of Hollywood sets have been destroyed. The only good thing about this ïnferno.

Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-11-11 16:47

#4 I've seen beetle-death trees not get logged out - Tahoe/Inyo/Cleveland forests and adjacent areas - seems to be better lately

Posted by: Frank G 2018-11-11 15:48

#3 Fire is part of the deal in California. Y'all got your hurricanes, we got our fires...and earthquakes.

I think Trump is right to some extent when he blames poor forest management. Many of these fires are not in the kind of forests with tall trees but in scrub brush. Either way, fire is a part of the natural process. The seeds from some of these plants only germinate after a fire has swept over them. Fires clear areas where dead brush is too thick to allow for new growth. To control the fires, the dead brush must be cleared either manually (a lot of hard work involved) or by controlled burns that may be difficult to control.

Too many houses have been built in some of these fire prone areas with too little thought given to what happens when the fire starts burning. If you build a housing tract on the edge of a canyon where there is dense and dead or dry brush, don't act all surprised if some of those houses get burned. And don't be surprised if the insurance companies raise their rates. If the roads are inadequate, as they frequently are in California, escape becomes impossible because of the traffic jams.

It isn't God's judgment. It's just that shit happens and it happens a lot more often when you have morons like Jerry Brown running things.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-11-11 15:40

#2 I woke this morning thinking that maybe this perpetual disaster mode California is in might be God’s judgment after all.

Not to sound like a zealot but notice that at least one of the fires is right in the heart of the leftist fever swamp

We should pray for the souls of those who died.

Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-11-11 10:18

#1 Notice when Texas gets hit by disaster, its some Californista saying its a message from God? Then again the Left is so deep in Freudian Projection, they'd never get the message themselves.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-11-11 07:09

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