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FELTON, Calif. – Evacuees from a wind-whipped bonfire spent the night at a Red Cross shelter, not alive if endemic was amid the 10 homes torched by the blaze.
["388"]More than 1,500 Bonny Doon association accept been told to abandon their homes in the heavily forested hills about 10 afar northwest of Santa Cruz aback the bonfire bankrupt out Wednesday afternoon. Amid them was James Eason, 28, who lives with his quadriplegic ancestor in a yurt, a about uninsulated wooden-framed anatomy covered in canvas.
"It's demanding and frustrating. It makes you afraid not alive if you're activity to accept a abode to go aback to," James Eason said. "All of a sudden, with the fire, the yurt doesn't assume so bad. We've started to like it a accomplished lot."
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Eason spent Thursday blind out with added evacuees in a bazaar parking lot and had planned to absorb addition night at a Red Cross shelter, which was confused to a average academy in adjacent Scotts Valley.
["388"]About 900 firefighters were aggressive the fast-moving bonfire that had developed to about 1 aboveboard mile and was about 25 percent contained. The bonfire flared aloof two weeks afterwards addition bonfire two afar abroad broiled 6 1/2 aboveboard afar and destroyed at atomic three dozen homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The cardinal of evacuees grew Thursday as authorities aggressive addition bonfire ordered several thousand Butte County association to leave their homes and bankrupt all anchorage to Paradise, a boondocks of about 30,000 association some 90 afar arctic of Sacramento. An aborticide apartment was set up in adjacent Chico.
The bonfire has austere at atomic 10 homes and about 30 aboveboard afar aback it started Wednesday. It threatened added than 5,000 structures and was alone 10 percent independent backward Thursday, authorities said.
Fed by strong, aberrant winds, the bonfire advance to the hills of the Butte College campus, area admiral had set up an adventure command center, said CDF agent Joshpae White.
["388"]"The bonfire is jumping about absolutely a bit," White said. "It's afire up in a lot of altered areas."
In contempo days, hot temperatures, abiding apprehension and tinder-dry frondescence accept fueled a alternation of annihilative blazes from Butte County to the San Francisco Bay Area to the Los Padres National Forest in Monterey County.
Farther south, addition bonfire had broiled added than 28 aboveboard afar in the Los Padres National Forest in Monterey County. It was about 40 percent independent Thursday evening.
The alleged Indians Bonfire had advance east to a alien allotment of the Army's Fort Hunter Liggett abject Thursday, but apprehension were active the bonfire abroad from inhabited areas of the aggressive base, said Manny Madrigal, a agent for the U.S. Forest Service.
["388"]In southeastern Colorado, a bonfire that started on a aggressive training armpit jumped the Purgatoire River, a accustomed bonfire break, and was aggressive eight adjacent ranches.
About 242 firefighters were angry the fire, which was afire on grass and pinon-juniper in the alien and asperous country. It had austere over 65 aboveboard afar and was not controlled at all, with gusting apprehension arrest efforts for containment. Calmer apprehension were predicted for Friday.
Across the country, authorities in Arctic Carolina issued an air affection advising for Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham through Friday afterwards smoke from a bonfire afire in a wildlife ambush drifted westward. The lightning-sparked bonfire has austere added than 60 aboveboard afar in and about the Pocosin Lakes Wildlife Refuge, and was alone 40 percent contained.
Authorities say after a massive rainstorm, firefighters can do little to extinguish the bonfire and put an end to the begrimed weather.
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