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Wildfire Numbers Here Way Up From A Year Ago

Posted: Sep. 18, 2020 12:01 AM PDT

We haven’t even reached the driest part of the wildfire season and the numbers are startling. The Division Chief for CalFire’s Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit, Jim Mathias, says they’ve already had to extinguish three-thousand-838 acres, compared to just one-thousand-898 a year ago. 705 acres was from the Jones Fire in August…

click to listen to Chief Mathias

Mathias says although the Jones Fire could have been a lot worse, threatening Grass Valley at one time, it also could have scorched less acreage. But the timing was bad…

click to listen to Chief Mathias

All those fires were sparked, in less than a day, by unusual low-elevation lightning. The numbers are much more disturbing for CalFire’s entire coverage area around the state, at over 993-thousand acres, compared to just over 23-thousand in 2019. The total number of fires the Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit has responded to is also up significantly, at 382. It was only 244 a year ago at this time.

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