“A lot of them don’t know if they have a home or not.”įire is ‘burning in all directions,’ officials say “We’ve been running 24/7 … and we have right now we have about 55 clients,” he said, adding that the county animal control has been taking in people’s pets for free.
Details about how many people were affected by orders weren’t immediately available.Ī Red Cross shelter in Hemet opened Monday for evacuees, said shelter supervisor Ken Rieger. The blaze, which killed two people in a vehicle earlier this week, forced a string of new evacuation orders and warnings in the area that Cal Fire announced early Thursday. The cause of the fire, believed to have started Monday afternoon, is under investigation, Cal Fire said. This comes as the region battles a scorching heat wave, authorities said. Nielson and Delmark are just two of the presumably thousands in the Riverside County community who were under new evacuation orders this week as the Fairview Fire nearly quadrupled its reach from a day earlier.Īs of Thursday afternoon, the fire has burned 18,657 acres and is only 5% contained, said Cal Fire, formally known as the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. And no matter where we are, that’s home,” she said. “I’m very blessed that we’re all together. “I just grabbed my whole suitcase of paperwork for like, the kids… because I got four kids with me here, and I got my mom here,” she said, adding that her husband stayed behind to wet the house so it does not get consumed by the flames.
The firefighters came knocking on Kristina Delmark’s door in Hemet, too, she said. A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Fairview Fire burns on September 7, 2022, near Hemet, California.
0 kommentar(er)
