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The New York Times
SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/ca-fires.html
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AdvertisementSupported byThousands of people have fled their homes amid a grueling heat wave, the coronavirus pandemic and air thick with smoke.Right NowVisitors and tourists staying in overnight accommodations like hotels or vacation rentals are being asked to leave Santa Cruz County to make room for fire evacuees.Wildfires continued to rip across Northern California on Thursday, as the state struggled to contain the blazes and to help thousands of people who are fleeing their homes amid a grueling heat wave, the coronavirus pandemic and unsafe air thick with smoke.A large group of fires burning in wine country west of Sacramento had grown to cover 131,000 acres by Thursday, according to Cal Fire, the state’s fire authority. The agency said that, in all, nearly 350,000 acres have burned in Northern and Central California, with many fires sparked by lightning strikes in the high heat and then fanned by winds.Those conditions helped new fires sprout across the state on Wednesday and Thursday, and caused other fires to merge, complicating efforts to contain the combined blazes. “It looks like it’s going to be here to stay for a little while.”Visitors and tourists staying in overnight accommodations like hotels or vacation rentals are being asked to leave Santa Cruz County to make room for fire evacuees.“It’s not an order, we are just having issues with more than 20,000 people evacuated and this is likely going to get significantly larger today,” a spokesman for the Santa Cruz County Emergency Operations Center, Jason Hoppin, said. The manager of the electric grid and state regulators were relying on power from plants that had either permanently shut down or could not have realistically achieved the targets that had been set.In Sonoma County, the authorities issued an evacuation warning late Wednesday to the city of Healdsburg, which is home to 12,000 people.“Please remain calm,” the city government said in a statement. Travis Air Force Base in Solano County mandated the evacuation of all “non-mission essential personnel” as the L.N.U. Lightning Complex fires approached on Wednesday night.Shaun McCaffery, an engineer and vice mayor of Healdsburg, said he packed his family’s 22-foot trailer with frozen pizzas, chicken nuggets, water, clothes and books in case he, his wife and his two stepchildren have to get out.

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