A total of 1,450 adult inmates were transferred to the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, officials said. Prison officials evacuated three facilities in the state capital of Salem. “In some areas the situation is so difficult and dangerous that even firefighters are being evacuated,” Brown told reporters. Oregon’s “unprecedented” wildfires have burned more than 230,000 acres, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate from their homes, while many more are at risk, Gov. Oregon and Washington fighting flames tooĬalifornia’s neighbors on the West Coast are suffering with fast-moving fires, too. He said they could be “really extreme” for the next two months. Swain doesn’t expect conditions to improve soon for California and other Western states. “That couple of degrees of (average) warming over decades … you don’t notice it as much, but it’s still there lurking in the background, sucking extra moisture out of the vegetation and the soil.” The bigger effect is the more subtle, long-term warming,” he said.
“But climate change has not just made the extreme heat waves that coincided with the fires worse. Swain explained that due to human-caused climate change, temperature extremes are climbing higher and the vegetation is drier, which affects fire behavior. Marcio Jose Sanchez/APĬalifornia's new normal: How the climate crisis is fueling wildfires and changing life in the Golden State He said backpackers, campers and hikers needed to be taken out by helicopter because the fire had or could overrun paths to safety.Ī burned out vehicle is left in front of a fire- ravaged residence as smoke fills the sky on Saturday, August 22, in Boulder Creek, California.
The biggest thing is this fire ended up escalating very rapidly,” Hall said. “There are definitely a lot of challenges floating out there. Tuesday’s rescues, which also took 16 dogs to safety, came after hundreds of other people were airlifted from the forest over the weekend. Helicopter crews Tuesday airlifted at least 148 people who had been trapped by the Creek Fire, one of many wildfires that rage in the Golden State when scorching weather conditions threaten even more. David Hall told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that about 385 people and 27 animals have been rescued over the past few days. The California Army National Guard colonel in charge of rescuing Sierra National Forest visitors from the fast-moving Creek Fire told CNN on Tuesday airlifts are going extremely well.Ĭol. They suffered burns and smoke inhalation and were taken to a Fresno hospital, said Chris Barth of the Bureau of Land Management.
Three firefighters were hurt, one critically, while battling the Dolan Fire in California’s central coast.
“We have 150 million trees that died in the southern Sierra several years ago, and those are fueling the Creek Fire, which is the biggest and most concerning fire to us right now,” he said. The Creek Fire racing through the mountains of Central California is being fueled by dead trees and has grown to more than 143,000 acres and destroyed an estimated 60 homes. “We have fires burning in the north part of the state all the way down to the Mexican border, about 800 miles between the furthest distant fires, so we’re stretched across the landscape,” Porter said of his crews. According to Porter, many of the fires will continue to grow and remain “uncontrollable until we have a weather change.” We’ve had an additional, at least, two that have occurred just in the day today,” Porter told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.Ĭal Fire said earlier that more than 2.2 million acres have been scorched across the Golden State so far this year, a state record. We have now, as of this morning, 25 major fires. More than two dozen large wildfires raging across California after an extreme heat wave have created a “dire situation,” Thom Porter, chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said Tuesday.
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