California fires containment: Santa Ana winds RAGE - how contained are California fires?
CALIFORNIA is in the grips of the deadliest wildfires in the state’s history, and Santa Ana winds risk spreading them even further. So how contained are the infernos?
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The Sunshine State is not unfamiliar with wildfires. But these three - Camp/Paradise, Woolsey and Hill - have shaken communities to the core. So far, 31 people are dead, more than 200 missing, and hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes.
Thousands of fire personnel are battling to contain the flames which are being fanned by strong Santa Ana winds.
The winds, coupled with very low humidity and a parched, drought-stricken landscape, have turned the Camp Fire into the deadliest in California since 1933.
And with more than 200 still unaccounted for, the Cape Fire will likely take over 1933’s Griffith Park Fire death toll.
Less deadly but equally vicious, the Woolsey Fire has claimed two lives.
The Woolsey Fire is burning nearby to the Hill Fire, which is the smallest and least threatening at this stage.
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Statistics of all three fires:
CAMP FIRE:
Acres burned: 113,000
Containment: 25 percent
Structures destroyed: 6,453
Structures threatened: 15,500
Fatalities: 29
Cause: Under investigation
Total fire personnel: 4,555
WOOLSEY FIRE:
Acres burned: 91,572
Containment: 20 percent
Structures destroyed: 370
Structures threatened: 57,000
Fatalities: 2
Cause: Under investigation
Total fire personnel: 3,227
HILL FIRE:
Acres burned: 4,531
Containment: 80 percent
Structures destroyed: Unknown
Structures threatened: Unknown
Fatalities: None
Cause: Under investigation
Total fire personnel: 40
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Across the state, more than 300,000 people have had too flee their homes.
The evacuees included celebrities who lost their houses in the wildfires.
The homes of Miley Cyrus, Neil Young, Robin Thicke and Gerard Butler were among those scorched in the Woolsey blaze.
US President Ronald Trump ignited controversy with a tweet on the fires.
He wrote: "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!"
The president of the California Professional Firefighters issued a stern response: "The president's message attacking California and threatening to withhold aid to the victims of the cataclysmic fires is ill-informed, ill-timed and demeaning to those who are suffering as well as the men and women on the front lines."
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