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17.11.2018 - More than 1000 reported Missing, 71 Dead in Northern California Wildfire
More Than 1000 Reported Missing, 71 Dead in Northern California Wildfire
Remains of eight more victims have been found in Northern California wildfire, bringing the death toll in this disaster to 71, local authorities reported.
The number of people reported missing in Northern California wildfire has soared to more than 1,000, Butte county Sheriff Kory Honea said. The sheriff noted, however, that this was "raw data" saying that names might appear twice or three times in the list of unaccounted for individuals, while confirming every name in the list will require additional time.
Sheriff Kory Honea also said that the US authorities have recovered the remains of eight more people killed in the deadly wildfires. Previous figures put the death toll at 63.
An additional eight human remain were recovered… today. That brings the total number of human remains located and collected at this point to 71," Honea said at a press conference broadcast on the Butte county Fire Department's Facebook page.
More Than 1000 Reported Missing, 71 Dead in Northern California Wildfire
Remains of eight more victims have been found in Northern California wildfire, bringing the death toll in this disaster to 71, local authorities reported.
The number of people reported missing in Northern California wildfire has soared to more than 1,000, Butte county Sheriff Kory Honea said. The sheriff noted, however, that this was "raw data" saying that names might appear twice or three times in the list of unaccounted for individuals, while confirming every name in the list will require additional time.
Sheriff Kory Honea also said that the US authorities have recovered the remains of eight more people killed in the deadly wildfires. Previous figures put the death toll at 63.
An additional eight human remain were recovered… today. That brings the total number of human remains located and collected at this point to 71," Honea said at a press conference broadcast on the Butte county Fire Department's Facebook page.
Tents, homeless residents fill potentially unsustainable fire victim encampment in Butte Co.
Updated: Nov 16 2018 06:18PM PST Video / 05:31
CHICO, Calif. (KTVU) -
Drone footage provides a look at the Camp Fire's aftermath in Butte County. Video credit: Anne Onate/KTVU
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Breaking: Fire breaks out in Raycom Info Tech Park, which houses Google’s office, in the Zhongguancun technology hub in Beijing, China.
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Opinion:
BREAKING: Apple files appeal to overturn iPhone sales ban in China
Bomb threat triggers evacuation at Facebook Menlo Park campus
Edited time: 12 Dec, 2018 03:21
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Opinion:
https://www.puppetstringnews.com/blog/building-in-china-that-houses-google-on-fire-after-google-hearing-in-dcObviously everyone should know two things by today, Google obviously has major connections to China and has sold out America to China, and Google has even gone as far as covering up Benghazi for Hillary and Obama with a private server.
The second thing is that Google CEO Sundar Pinchai testified on Capitol Hill today, and oddly enough a building that houses Google in China is now on fire. Google may be burning it's evidence today, but likeQ says we have it all.
The Deep State is now in freak out mode, and this happens after Sara Carter announced on Hannity tonight that there are lots of indictments. The storm may have now arrived.
BREAKING: Apple files appeal to overturn iPhone sales ban in China
Bomb threat triggers evacuation at Facebook Menlo Park campus
Edited time: 12 Dec, 2018 03:21
The Camp Fire – the tale of a hospital evacuation
by Judy Peck December 2018
(Mini Snip)
I’m an ED physician who worked a few days a month at Feather River Hospital. It was a long commute to the town of Paradise but worth the drive just to get a glimpse of the buttes. The hospital itself was nestled in a forest of pine trees. It wasn’t hard to understand how the town got its name. It genuinely looked like paradise.
The long hot summer left everything dry but it was still beautiful. I showed up for my 7 am shift on the morning that the Camp Fire started. The scent of wildfire was in the air. But, it was the wind that really got my attention. Fire season was here.
Fire season was here.
The nearby wildfire was a topic of conversation as people drank their morning coffee. It had been reported at 6:33 am. But, I could smell the smoke 50 miles away as I drove through Marysville. It had been burning long before someone had called it in.
No one was worried. There were a lot of fires this time of year. Someone would let us know if there was cause for concern. So, we carried on with the business of the day.
During the quiet part of the morning when it seemed like the town was still asleep, my charge nurse came up to me and said that embers were falling outside the ambulance bay doors. Embers. The fire had to be close but there was no word of an evacuation yet.
Time can be difficult to judge in the ED. Hours can seem like minutes and minutes can seem like hours. So, all I can say is that another ED minute later, we got word to evacuate. Fortunately, there were only a handful of patients in the ED and most of them were well enough to walk out under their own power. There’s a fire. Gather your belongings. Leave as fast as you can. Go to Enloe Hospital.
We notified Enloe that we were evacuating the hospital. There was no doctor-to-doctor discussion. There was no time to print charts. We just had to get people out of there as fast as we could.
I sent a text to our group of ED physicians. “We’re evacuating the hospital.” People needed to know.
The ambulance bay was the egress point for the hospital. Within another ED minute, there was a long line of inpatients waiting to evacuate. Some were in wheelchairs but most were in gurneys. All the while, the sky was growing dark and the smoke was getting thick.
The line of gurneys wasn’t moving so I went to investigate. The patients were all lined up, right by the door, ready to go. What was wrong?
by Judy Peck December 2018
(Mini Snip)
I’m an ED physician who worked a few days a month at Feather River Hospital. It was a long commute to the town of Paradise but worth the drive just to get a glimpse of the buttes. The hospital itself was nestled in a forest of pine trees. It wasn’t hard to understand how the town got its name. It genuinely looked like paradise.
The long hot summer left everything dry but it was still beautiful. I showed up for my 7 am shift on the morning that the Camp Fire started. The scent of wildfire was in the air. But, it was the wind that really got my attention. Fire season was here.
Fire season was here.
The nearby wildfire was a topic of conversation as people drank their morning coffee. It had been reported at 6:33 am. But, I could smell the smoke 50 miles away as I drove through Marysville. It had been burning long before someone had called it in.
No one was worried. There were a lot of fires this time of year. Someone would let us know if there was cause for concern. So, we carried on with the business of the day.
During the quiet part of the morning when it seemed like the town was still asleep, my charge nurse came up to me and said that embers were falling outside the ambulance bay doors. Embers. The fire had to be close but there was no word of an evacuation yet.
Time can be difficult to judge in the ED. Hours can seem like minutes and minutes can seem like hours. So, all I can say is that another ED minute later, we got word to evacuate. Fortunately, there were only a handful of patients in the ED and most of them were well enough to walk out under their own power. There’s a fire. Gather your belongings. Leave as fast as you can. Go to Enloe Hospital.
We notified Enloe that we were evacuating the hospital. There was no doctor-to-doctor discussion. There was no time to print charts. We just had to get people out of there as fast as we could.
I sent a text to our group of ED physicians. “We’re evacuating the hospital.” People needed to know.
The ambulance bay was the egress point for the hospital. Within another ED minute, there was a long line of inpatients waiting to evacuate. Some were in wheelchairs but most were in gurneys. All the while, the sky was growing dark and the smoke was getting thick.
The line of gurneys wasn’t moving so I went to investigate. The patients were all lined up, right by the door, ready to go. What was wrong?
angelburst29
The Living Force
December 18, 2018 - Fire engulfs 600 stilt homes in Brazil city Manaus; thousands flee
Fire engulfs 600 stilt homes in Brazil city Manaus; thousands flee | Reuters
Residents are seen after a fire at Educandos neighbourhood, on a branch of the Rio Negro, a tributary to the Amazon river, in the city of Manaus, Brazil December 18, 2018. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
SAO PAULO - A fire raced through a neighborhood in the Brazilian jungle city of Manaus early on Tuesday, engulfing at least 600 wooden houses built on stilts due to seasonal floods and sending thousands fleeing from their homes.
No deaths were reported from the blaze, which authorities said may have been triggered by a pressure cooker. Four people were injured, and more than 2,000 people were forced to flee, Amadeu Soares, head of the Amazonas state security ministry, told reporters at the scene.
Soares said preliminary information from residents pointed to a kitchen incident involving an exploding pressure cooker as the possible cause, though a full investigation was under way.
Television images showed desperate scenes of residents trying to flee through tight, labyrinthine alleyways. Firefighters spent several hours trying to control the blaze, but struggled to prevent houses from going up in flames.
Such fires are common in poorer neighborhoods and slums in Brazil, where scant government planning during decades of rapid urbanization resulted in informal settlements sprouting up, housing millions who sought jobs in urban centers.
Fire engulfs 600 stilt homes in Brazil city Manaus; thousands flee | Reuters
SAO PAULO - A fire raced through a neighborhood in the Brazilian jungle city of Manaus early on Tuesday, engulfing at least 600 wooden houses built on stilts due to seasonal floods and sending thousands fleeing from their homes.
No deaths were reported from the blaze, which authorities said may have been triggered by a pressure cooker. Four people were injured, and more than 2,000 people were forced to flee, Amadeu Soares, head of the Amazonas state security ministry, told reporters at the scene.
Soares said preliminary information from residents pointed to a kitchen incident involving an exploding pressure cooker as the possible cause, though a full investigation was under way.
Television images showed desperate scenes of residents trying to flee through tight, labyrinthine alleyways. Firefighters spent several hours trying to control the blaze, but struggled to prevent houses from going up in flames.
Such fires are common in poorer neighborhoods and slums in Brazil, where scant government planning during decades of rapid urbanization resulted in informal settlements sprouting up, housing millions who sought jobs in urban centers.
Translated from Spanish by Microsoft
Great#incendio 
affects building in Times Square new York #video #fire 21/12
Fire breaks out at Hampstead Heath tower block
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affects building in Times Square new York Fire breaks out at Hampstead Heath tower block
Translated from French by Microsoft
The fire was on the third and last floor of the building, where seasonal workers were staying. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. 70 firefighters were mobilized#AFP
Translated from Russian by Microsoft
In the ski resort of Courchevel, located in the French Alps, there was a large fire, the fire spread in a three-storey building, where the workers of the resort lived. As a result of the fire, two people were killed and 14 others were injured, four of them in serious condition.
Dead and wounded by a big fire in French ski resort Courchevel | tellerreport.com
The fire was on the third and last floor of the building, where seasonal workers were staying. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. 70 firefighters were mobilized
Translated from Russian by Microsoft
In the ski resort of Courchevel, located in the French Alps, there was a large fire, the fire spread in a three-storey building, where the workers of the resort lived. As a result of the fire, two people were killed and 14 others were injured, four of them in serious condition.
Dead and wounded by a big fire in French ski resort Courchevel | tellerreport.com
angelburst29
The Living Force
It's a measure of how severe the tree die-off in California has been in recent years that when the state announced Monday it lost another 18 million trees in 2018, a top forestry official pronounced the result "encouraging."
12/02/2019 - California lost 18 million trees in 2018, adding fuel to future wildfires
California lost 18 million trees in 2018, adding fuel to future wildfires
That's because California lost far more trees in the three prior years, including a jaw-dropping 62 million dead trees in 2016, due to a combination of drought and bark beetle infestation.
With rain and snow in the state increasing over the last two winters, experts proclaimed an end to the seven-year drought. But the state still faces a heightened fire danger after more than 147 million trees were lost over the last nine years.
12/02/2019 - California lost 18 million trees in 2018, adding fuel to future wildfires
California lost 18 million trees in 2018, adding fuel to future wildfires
That's because California lost far more trees in the three prior years, including a jaw-dropping 62 million dead trees in 2016, due to a combination of drought and bark beetle infestation.
With rain and snow in the state increasing over the last two winters, experts proclaimed an end to the seven-year drought. But the state still faces a heightened fire danger after more than 147 million trees were lost over the last nine years.
It's all a complex cycle for sure; growth, drought, disease, fire and regrowth - and there seems to be a narrowness in how people see cycles, like nothing should change quickly - their Darwinist view from a thousand feet. In saying this, it is a scary thing for people to be in drought conditions with fire on the horizon as the last couple of years has shown, yet it is a cycle people are in and there is not a great deal one can do if living there.
Related to fire, here up North of California the CBC was out to help convince people about the sequestering of Carbon of our mighty forests (they way it was presented) was stated as a false position - blaming it on facebook for whatever reason.
"Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb — despite what you've heard on Facebook"
My first though was, okay, so you say. Perhaps the author has spent time in forests and has figured it out, yet his words are telling as his talking points seemed from others:
"Our managed forest land hasn't been a net carbon sink since 2001"
Lol, according to what real bases I've no idea, yet he tells us:
I could never figure out what abacus they used to do the additions and subtractions from, must be magical that they can figure all that out. However, he promises to reveal the math:
Not surprisingly, then, Canada has historically excluded its forests when accounting for its total greenhouse emissions to the rest of the world. We had that option, under international agreements, and it was in our interest to leave the trees out of the total tabulation, since they would have boosted our overall emissions.
But, just in the past couple of years, we have taken a different approach. We are now making the case to the United Nations that things like forest fires and pine beetle infestations shouldn't count against us, and that only human-related changes to our forests should be included when doing the calculations that matter to our emission-reduction targets.
By that accounting method, Canada's forestry activities would indeed count as a net carbon sink each year. But even then, they wouldn't cancel out our emissions from other sources. Not even close.
To understand why, we have to do a wee bit of math. {{drum roll}}
'More of a source than a sink'
First, the baseline. Our annual emissions.
Canada emits roughly 700 megatonnes of CO2 each year.
This does not include any impacts from forests or other parts of our landscape, such as wetlands and farmland. Canada has historically excluded land-use-related emissions and absorptions in its official accounting, and with good reason, if the goal is to reduce emissions on paper.
That's because our trees, in particular, have actually hurt our bottom line.
For the past 15 years, they've been "more of a source than a sink," said Dominique Blain, a director in the science and technology branch of Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Canada's managed forests were a net contributor of roughly 78 megatonnes of emissions in 2016, the most recent year on record.
Canada's 'managed forest' includes all forests under direct human influence, covering about 226 million hectares in total, or 65% of Canada’s total forest area. (Natural Resources Canada)
This includes all areas that are managed for harvesting, subject to fire or insect management, or protected as part of a park or other designation. It covers some 226 million hectares and accounts for 65 per cent of Canada's total forest area.
In 2015, largely due to raging wildfires, these forests kicked a whopping 237 more megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they absorbed.
But when you exclude natural disturbances like fires and insect infestations and look only at the areas directly impacted by human forestry activity, the picture changes.
It's these areas where forests act as a net carbon sink, year after year.
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The bottom line is that our trees — along with our other, plentiful sources of biomass — could be part of the solution in meeting our international agreements on climate change, but that's more a question of accounting than of actual emissions.
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I'll leave the rest of his argument with the caveat that he would do well to leave all this megatonnes of C02 alone and focus on building a pipeline or something. The issue here, OSIT, is that although he writes for a relatively semi-conservative paper in a relatively conservative town, he is lost defending a carbon bar that was set - one side wants it set higher, and the other side defends a different accounting system to set it lower (or divide its definitions) when the whole thing is an illusory bar to begin with.
From the map he cited (let us take BC to the far left), yes, technically in 'some' of the green it is managed land if it is accessible - even if by extension of ministry ownership and licensees who buy license permits, yet it is not so simple. A great deal of that green (especially to the North and in mountainous regions, is not even roaded for access, or, even accessible to manage in the first place even though it is still under forest license tenure - it is inoperable. Often, this managed land is only managed in the after effects born out of natural environmental damage whereby harvesting happens in some places to salvage bug and fire damaged trees in their life cycle on land if not difficult to reach. In the North north of the map, it is unmanaged because 1. there are little to no roads nor communities and 2. there are no facility to even process logs if it was logged and it could get there. So, it burns, gets eaten up by insect-critters, falls down, decomposes and new life cycle springs forth - it's pretty cool in all of its symbiotic details.
Now the author is not arguing against managed land per se, it is actually useful to his math, it is just that he appears to be trying to justify neutrality issues with hocus pocus C02 sequestering for those caught up in the game. It's a game played by powerfully environmental and corporate lobbies with government insiders of a pure STS nature (some with a rabid ideological natures that seem to just hate people), that is all it is. It is also a game to distract and milk peoples pockets while dividing them from more important issues, and it is of course lucrative for those playing it - even the environmentalists seeking funding from Soros et al. to help them do battle. For them the Paris Accord is their holy grail, and that is settled they say.
Another thing perhaps worth mentioning here is the many older senior biologists who were drummed out of their positions earlier than should be (sometimes with a vengeance) in favor of new biologists who had an AGW indoctrinated leaning who became those who would help set policies in many disciples. I guess this is akin to a secondary ponorogenic effect.
Born out from these new policy makers - and I'm sure it is happening in many part of the world, is that in the name of AGW (not climate change which is ongoing) they have created new modeling tools for forests. Having been walked through these models, they are projecting their stewardship by eliminating species or modifying which types and where species are planted. What does this future forest of their's look like? Take that map of BC and consider that their model predicts drought (which is a steady factor) and saying for hundreds of years, possibly thousands, this species grew here and we are now saying we need to grow something different or, not grow anything there. The modeling pushes the numbers down which effects the inventory of the future and all that that means (driving consumer prices up with a more multinational corporate approach which can and does weed out small communities). With the model, they can even steer sequestering of carbon policy (which ups the tonne price) to whatever ends they are looking for.
All this is a big subject yet the direction of it is a crooked mile from reality.
Lastly, as this relates to fire directly, this past season in the heat of summer with fires smoking up the valleys, there was a gentleman in town who wrote a letter to the editor bemoaning (this is in BC) the Forest Service for not doing enough to fight fires - and he went through this whole mathematical gymnastics of sequestering carbon on a balance scale against fire - statistics flowed like an avalanche. In the end, fires bad - must put them out. He went further, denouncing forest fire fighters for not doing enough in BC, to forest managers for not controlling the bugs (MPB et al.); he wanted everything to be taken care of, darn it. By the end of his letter he had done a good job at raising his blood pressure while rallying the AGW environmental troops with a new mission. If there were (and there are in droves) believers to what he was saying, there is no-doubt he could convince them of buying low tide water front property on the Bay of Fundy.
Scratching my head, I thought about the size of BC - 944,735 km2 (364,764 sq mi); it's really big, and it is mostly un-roaded and very difficult even for a water bomber aircraft to reach (not that that always can do much good), let alone the North West Territories which he also threw under the bus with the rest of Canada. Thinking to myself, has this fellow ever worked on the end of a fire hose in a fire, let alone one that would reach the far elevations of a mountain or to the tundra in the North? What logistics could he possibly be missing with his understanding of the nature of this vast geographical wildfire attacking of his? It was truly amazing. Does he understand that mother nature does her thing and there is no telling her to back down, let alone forcing the issue with her, although there are attempts to steer her? Does he not get that some places are so remote that there is nothing you can do even if one wanted to? Does he understand the thermodynamics and speed of a wildfire in full rage? I don't think any of that matters at all, what matters is his 'understanding' of carbon and the ability to be forceful with his faithful followers to reduce it and blame man. Confirmation bias does the rest.
angelburst29
The Living Force
Firefighters battled a series of wildfires in Britain on Wednesday, including a large moorland blaze outside the northern English city of Manchester, as the country experienced its warmest winter weather on record.
February 27, 2019 - Wildfires rage across Britain after hottest Winter day on record
Wildfires rage across Britain after hottest winter day on record
A fire started on Tuesday evening on Saddleworth Moor, an expanse of hills that is popular with hikers. It has since spread to an area about one-and-a-half square kilometers.
The fire comes after Britain recorded its warmest winter day with a temperature of 21.2 Celsius in Kew Gardens in London.
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Wildfires rage across Britain after hottest winter day on record
February 27, 2019 - Wildfires rage across Britain after hottest Winter day on record
Wildfires rage across Britain after hottest winter day on record
A fire started on Tuesday evening on Saddleworth Moor, an expanse of hills that is popular with hikers. It has since spread to an area about one-and-a-half square kilometers.
The fire comes after Britain recorded its warmest winter day with a temperature of 21.2 Celsius in Kew Gardens in London.
Slideshow (6 Images)
Wildfires rage across Britain after hottest winter day on record
angelburst29
The Living Force
Thousands flee wildfire in South Korea's eastern coast, one dead: Yonhap
Flames are seen during a wildfire in Donghae, South Korea, April 5, 2019. Yonhap via REUTERS
A wildfire in South Korea killed one person and forced more than 4,000 people to flee their homes, Yonhap news agency reported on Friday.
The fire broke out in eastern Gangwon Province on Thursday evening and spread to the seaside holiday city of Sokcho, burning about 385 hectares (950 acres) of land and 310 homes, warehouses and other buildings,
Yonhap reported citing the government.
About 4,230 citizens had been evacuated to gymnasiums and schools, and 52 schools would be closed on Friday.
President Moon Jae-in has ordered the use of all available resources to extinguish the forest fire, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said in a statement.
The government has deployed about 45 helicopters, 77 firefighting vehicles and 13,000 personnel from around the country to contain the fire, Yonhap said.
Flames are seen during a wildfire in Donghae, South Korea, April 5, 2019. Yonhap via REUTERS
A wildfire in South Korea killed one person and forced more than 4,000 people to flee their homes, Yonhap news agency reported on Friday.
The fire broke out in eastern Gangwon Province on Thursday evening and spread to the seaside holiday city of Sokcho, burning about 385 hectares (950 acres) of land and 310 homes, warehouses and other buildings,
Yonhap reported citing the government.
About 4,230 citizens had been evacuated to gymnasiums and schools, and 52 schools would be closed on Friday.
President Moon Jae-in has ordered the use of all available resources to extinguish the forest fire, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said in a statement.
The government has deployed about 45 helicopters, 77 firefighting vehicles and 13,000 personnel from around the country to contain the fire, Yonhap said.
Yozilla
The Living Force
France warehouse fire destroys 2 million bottles of wine in Bordeaux 
France warehouse fire destroys 2 million bottles of wine worth $13 million
France warehouse fire destroys 2 million bottles of wine worth $13 million
A massive fire broke out at the Rue du Parc in the French city of Versailles, the city Commissariat announced.
According to videos emerging on social media, a huge column of smoke can be seen rising from the area. Police have cordoned off the perimeter and urged passersby to avoid the area.
Translated from French by Microsoft
Rue Albert Joly Versailles fire in a car warehouse
While there is no immediate information as to how the fire started or which building caught on fire, some social media users have claimed that the blaze started in a car warehouse.
No information on casualties or damages has been made available so far.
According to videos emerging on social media, a huge column of smoke can be seen rising from the area. Police have cordoned off the perimeter and urged passersby to avoid the area.
Translated from French by Microsoft
Rue Albert Joly Versailles fire in a car warehouse
While there is no immediate information as to how the fire started or which building caught on fire, some social media users have claimed that the blaze started in a car warehouse.
No information on casualties or damages has been made available so far.
