MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Rocky Fire has burnt 69,600 acres as of Friday morning, having destroyed 43 residences and 53 outbuildings in Northern California, according to Cal Fire.
“Firefighters continue to work aggressively to build control lines and sustain perimeter control,” Cal Fire said in a Friday update.
Over 10,000 people were asked to leave their homes earlier this week after California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for nearly ten state counties threatened by Rocky Fire. Some of the people were allowed to return to their homes on Thursday, when the blaze was 40 percent contained.
The number of active uncontained wildfires stood at 18 at the end of last week.
Frog Fire — another major blaze that started in California at the end of July, was fully contained on Thursday. The wildfire had burnt over 4,000 acres.
Northern California wildfire update for federal public lands http://t.co/sblmrQSVyV #ForkComplex photo pic.twitter.com/eUdphrMdxb
— USFS Fire-California (@R5_Fire_News) August 8, 2015
California has had over 2,400 wildfires since the beginning of the year — about 800 more than the average in the last five years, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
California's fires should have all climate change deniers cringing in shame: http://t.co/FTmGH0B5Ei #RockyFire pic.twitter.com/V015QvW27O
— inhabitat (@inhabitat) August 7, 2015
According to the office of Governor Brown, wildfires in at least 15 California counties have burnt thousands of acres of land since June 17.
California’s largest fire is moving at an ‘unprecedented’ rate http://t.co/q2KMzwgaFN pic.twitter.com/q4lZ2uyrNq
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) August 4, 2015
