Saturday, May 9, 2009

Wildfires in California Send Thoughsands Fleeing

In Santa Barbara, California, wildfires have destroyed dozens of homes. The fire that was about 2 square miles forced 13,500 from more than 5,400 homes. The fire remained uncontrollable, and on Thursday afternoon weather could again force the fire to destroy many more homes. Firefighters from all over the state were out battling the fire and 10 were injured, at least 3 of those were very serious and the number of people that are evacuating could drastically increase during Thursday. Captain David Sadecki, of Santa Barbara said "We really can't do any containment lines. It's too dangerous." He also said that they "are doing some structure protection, but firefighters can be in a safe location one minute and a dangerous situation the next."



Source:

<http://www.wfsb.com/weather/19389247/detail.html>

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