![]() The Santa Barbara Zoo, which is near the mandatory evacuation zone, announced it was putting some animals in crates to prepare for possible evacuation. The evacuation zone near Santa Barbara on Saturday was 27 kilometres long and up to 8 kilometres wide. Since the fire began on 4 December, about 95,000 people have been placed under mandatory evacuation. Cory Iverson, 32, died Thursday from burns and smoke inhalation, according to autopsy results announced Saturday by the Ventura County medical examiner's office. It has burned more than 700 homes and killed a state firefighter. The fire is now the third-largest in California history. "And we are not going to stand in front of it and put firefighters in untenable situations."For the 13th straight day, the National Weather Service issued a red flag warning of extreme fire danger because of hot, dry, windy conditions. "When the sundowners surface in that area and the fire starts running down slopes, you are not going to stop it," Mark Brown, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told a news conference. As the northerly "sundowner" wind was driving the fire south and west, firefighters were left to hope for them to calm back down. Evacuation orders for the city of Ventura were lifted. Emergency officials announced that the same fire that was burning about 25 miles (40 kilometres) southeast of Montecito was 40 percent contained. Just firefighters." There was a spot of good news down the coast. ![]() It was very, very frightening." The city, according to Henry, became an eerie scene devoid of people except for firefighters and as many as 50 firefighter trucks. All the ashes and the dust on the street were in the air. "You couldn't breathe at all and it became worse when the wind started. He estimated the fire was about a mile away. Pierre Henry, owner of the Bree'osh Bakery in Montecito, said he got a text to evacuate Saturday morning as the fire approached homes. ![]() It was not clear if the former talk show host was in Montecito. Winds picked up this morning creating a perfect storm of bad for firefighters," Winfrey tweeted. Known for its star power, the enclave boasts the mansions of Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and many other celebrities. kilometre Thomas Fire was moving rapidly westward and crested Montecito Peak, just north of Montecito. Highway 101, coming up the coast from Los Angeles, were closed for a few hours south of Santa Barbara, with cars stopped on the freeway. The city's zoo was under voluntary evacuation, and workers there began putting some animals into crates and kennels as a precaution. A portion of Santa Barbara also was under mandatory evacuation. Firefighters stood by yellow fire trucks with hoses unspooled, ready to protect the historic San Ysidro Ranch as heavy smoke rose from the coastal hills, blotting out the blue skies. The mandatory evacuations around Montecito and neighbouring Summerland on the outskirts of Santa Barbara came as winds that had eased a day earlier roared back at around 48 kph, with gusts to about 97 kph. Rain is expected to fall in Northern California later this week, according to forecasts, and while it should help smother some of the flames, the loss of vegetation will now raise the risk of mudslides in certain high-risk parts of the state.Residents piled into cars and fled on Saturday as surging winds drove one of the biggest fires in California's history toward the wealthy coastal enclave of Montecito, northwest of Los Angeles. In Southern California, the Woolsey Fire has burned through about 96,000 acres, though it's now about 94 percent contained, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. More than 151,000 acres have burned in the Camp Fire since it began 11 days ago. The death toll in the California fires had reached 77 on Monday, with nearly 1,000 people still missing. Officials at the National Weather Service said it's unlikely that the haze would pose any danger or serious air quality risk on the East Coast. RIGK3tDZRB- Wesleigh Ogle KATU November 15, 2018 This could last through the middle of next week. Our AQI is “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” - people with asthma, lung disease, older adults & kids. Hidden in that fog is smoke and haze from the California wildfires. A heavy blanket of fog still hovers over the city of Portland.
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