The others who died in the Lake County fire are 69-year-old ex-newspaper reporter Leonard Neft and 65-year-old Bruce Beven Burns. Mike Smith, a Cal Fire battalion chief, said about 3,300 firefighters were still fighting the fire Tuesday but that the fire’s spread had been halted.
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This latest discovery raises the death toll of the Valley Fire to four people.
That wildfire, the so-called Tassajara Fire, has blackened more than 1,000 acres (400 hectares) and destroyed or damaged about two dozen homes and outbuildings. Thousands of people fled their homes at the peak of the fire, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday. In the last decade, major wildfires in California – and losses in the billions of dollars – have led some big insurance companies to stop writing homeowners policies for numerous almost 2 million households that are considered at high risk of fire.
Destroyed homes and vehicles scorched by the Valley fire line Jefferson St.in Middletown, Calif, on Monday, September 21, 2015.
“Our families are just as important as those living in the Valley [Fire] or any other fire”.
In a separate wildfire which took place in the Sierra Nevada foothills, two more bodies were discovered inside of homes destroyed by the blaze.
The state has implemented mandatory evacuations in Lake, Napa, and Sonoma counties as a state of emergency was declared by Gov. Jerry Brown.
So, the catastrophe which broke out in Lake Country which is 90 miles north from San Francisco and to recover the tragedy government declares and releases federal money and also to cleanup the surface as well as for the home repairs.
Both are approximately 70 percent now contained.
The current fire season has been especially intense, as California struggles through its fourth year of a devastating drought.
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The Monterey County Sheriff’s Department said firefighters found the body near the fire’s ignition point.
