By Thursday, some interstate freeways and rail lines through the Cajon Pass-key to shipping and commuting between Southern California and the interior USA -had reopened after the Blue Cut Fire burning on the eastern edge of the Angeles National Forest had rendered the area impassable Tuesday and Wednesday. The California Highway Patrol reopened I-15 late Wednesday night, while.
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The Blue Cut wildfire, seen in this Landsat 8 satellite image on August 17, 2016, has forced tens of thousands of evaculations in San Bernardino County, California. Beverly White reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016.
Some signs of progress were evident Thursday afternoon. Scenes of destruction were everywhere Thursday after a huge wildfire sped through mountains and hi.
The Chimney Fire burning in San Luis Obisbo county is 12,939 acres and 35 percent contained.
Another wave of evacuees from the city of Phelan has been allowed to go home. The ferocious fire began Tuesday morning around 10:30 a.m.in the Cajon Pass in hot, gusty conditions near Interstate 15, officials said.
Firefighters were faced with the hard task of tallying that damage while still battling the huge, unruly blaze.
The equipment manager of the US Olympic fencing team was among those who lost their homes to a Northern California wildfire.
A helicopter makes a water drop during the Soberanes fire off of Rancho San Carlos Road near Carmel Valley, California, July 29, 2016.
At Blue Mountain Farms, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles in the town of Phelan, ranchers had to face the reality that a wildfire was burning in their area for the second time in two years.
The southern California wildfires that started up on Tuesday appear to be growing.
The family ended up in a shelter where they learned from animal rescue volunteers that their house was destroyed and their pets were missing. The fire was 4 percent contained on Wednesday. An unknown number of homes were destroyed.
Residents in Lower Lake and surrounding communities are still recovering from California’s third-most-destructive wildfire previous year, which burned 120 square miles and cost more than $1.5 billion in damages.
UPDATED: LOWER LAKE, Calif. (WKOW) – Damin Anthony Pashilk of Clearlake, California was arrested Monday on 17 counts of arson and is in jail. The actual cause of the fires remains under investigation by local authorities. Fire crews said the blaze tore through like a tornado, and they could do little to stop its destructive path. Officials have been telling residents to prepare for the worst.
Transportation officials said a northbound stretch of Interstate 15 that was closed earlier in the week would reopen by the end of the Thursday.
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An estimated 82,640 people have been forced to leave their homes. As with a lot of major fires, some residents are apparently defying orders and staying behind, trying to save their homes.
