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Massive 'Fire Tornado' Blaze Started by a Flat Tire; White House Declares "Major Disaster" in California

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Photo taken Saturday morning. Via Antionio Paris/Twitter

By Tyler Durden  /  ZeroHedge

One the most destructive wildfires in California history, the Carr fire, is still raging with only about 40% of it contained while elsewhere in the state, especially in the north, fires continue to expand.

Overnight a seventh person was reported killed by the Carr fire as another in the north of the state expanded by 25% overnight, leading the White House to declare a “major disaster” in California in a statement on Sunday morning. President Donald Trump has ordered the release of federal funding for recovery efforts.

The deadly Carr fire has scorched more than 145,000 acres as of Sunday morning; and as CNN reports, the wildfire which began on July 23rd was actually caused by a flat tire

The CNN report details the Carr fire’s origins in late July — but one of the 17 currently burning across the state:

One man, Ed Bledsoe, lost his wife and two great-grandchildren, ages 4 and 5, within only a 15 minute time frame. 

The man’s family were victims of the previously reported “fire tornado,” or what some are calling a ”firenado” that ripped through Redding, which produced whirling winds of fire in excess of 143 mph.

“The tornado was hovering over the house,” Bledsoe’s granddaughter Amanda Woodley recounted to CNN. “It was just a tornado fire over the house.”

Ed Bledsoe and other family members gave an account of the unbelievable and tragic moments the fire tornado struck :

“This is historic in the U.S.,” Craig Clements, director of San Jose State University’s Fire Weather Research Laboratory, told BuzzFeed News. “This might be the strongest fire-induced tornado-like circulation ever recorded.”

The blaze has even created its own weather system, according to multiple climatologist reports. 

Known as a pyrocumulus cloud, the ominous red weather formations usually occur over volcanic eruptions or forest fires when intensely heated air triggers an upward motion that pushes smoke and water vapor to rapidly rise. They can develop their own weather patters, including thunderstorms with severe winds which then further fan the flames. 

On Saturday morning an astrophysics professor and Chief Scientist at the Center for Planetary Science at St. Petersburg College, Antonio Paris, posted a surreal photograph he identified as “firenado” that occurred Friday:

Meanwhile, a number of areas of the state, including parts of Shasta County where the Carr fire is still burning, are still under evacuation orders while firefighting teams endure exhaustion and casualties.

Among the six dead from the Carr Fire include two firefighters: one has been identified as Jeremy Stoke who was in the middle of a rescue attempt and another unidentified bulldozer operator killed while battling the flames. Some 1,500 structures have been burned to the ground in the Carr Fire alone, and state fire officials estimate the wildfires will cost California billions of dollars over the next decade. 

“What we’re seeing in California right now is more destructive, larger fires burning at rates that we have historically never seen,” Cal Fire spokesman Jonathan Cox told CNN.

In Northern California, the Mendocino Complex Fire surpassed the size of Carr fire by the weekend, and is now the state’s largest at more than two-thirds the size of sprawling Los Angeles, which has forced the evacuation of nearly 16,000 residents and destroyed more than 100 structures.

New reports indicate the Mendocino Complex Fire is threatening 9,000 structures.

Image via Reuters

Eyewitnesses have described entire swathes of charred land and streets that look “like a bomb hit” with cars and homes turned to ash. 

In total there are 17 wildfires which have ravaged pars of the state, some of them now nearly 100% contained, as over 14,000 firefighters from California and more than a dozen other states continue to work on the front lines.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-05/massive-california-fire-tornado-blaze-was-started-flat-tire

More great articles here: https://www.zerohedge.com

 

 



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    • Anonymous

      Geez…in BIN where everybody is a conspiricy theorist I have been hearing that a satellite way up dere in space started the Carr fire. Dirty bastards.

      And now we find that the fire had an even more nefarious cause. A tire going flat on a small trailer sending sparks into the brush. So, I was wrong on this too. I thought it was started either by lightening or a BIC lighter (tiny energy directed weapon). But a flat tire? But we in BIN know that this is just a LIE by the government to cover up the fact that the lizard aliens are starting these fires with their twin tower sooper dooper fire starter lazer which is what tore that house in half. :shock: :shock: :eek:

      • Andy

        lol, nicely said

      • Anonymous

        Anonymous: you obviously haven’t done ANY hard research! Please DO explain (in your most SARCASTIC voice) why houses burn and brush/trees next to them do not, why trees are burning from the inside, why all metals turn too liquid, why multiple fires happen all at the same time, why violent winds start up when there was no wind present before, why there are videos of blue laser beams seconds before fires start, why firefighters say they have never seen fires like this EVER!!!! I guess all of these questions would destroy your complacent comfort zone: “Nothing to see here, move right along”. Or, you are a paid shill.

    • raburgeson

      I’ll go with a previous article that said the fires are being set to bring billions in aid to California.

    • Sue Rosenorn

      Not buying the lame flat tire story.

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