The Murrieta fire has burned 300 acres and destroyed one home and one building and is only 10% contained. The Ventura County fire is threatening the town of Fillmore and outlying areas have been evacuated.
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The Murrieta fire has burned 300 acres and destroyed one home and one building and is only 10% contained. The Ventura County fire is threatening the town of Fillmore and outlying areas have been evacuated.
Channel 9 said that most of the people who had to evacuate from the Creek Fire are being allowed to return home tonight. The smoke is still pretty bad here but not as bad as the last two days. The fire is moving northeast, the opposite direction from where I live.
11 AM update.
Thomas Fire: 132,000 acres burned, 439 homes and buildings destroyed, 10% contained. Creek Fire: 15,300 acres, 63 homes destroyed, 40% contained. Rye Fire: 7,000 acres, 25% contained. Lilac Fire: 4,100 acres, several mobile homes and a shopping center destroyed. Bel Air fire: 475 acres, 30% contained. Murrieta fire: 300 acres, 60% contained.
12 PM update: 20-to-30-mile-an-hour winds are pushing the Thomas Fire toward Santa Barbara. Fifteen thousand homes are threatened and parts of Carpinteria are under mandatory evacuation.
My family in Oceanside is okay. The fire moved west of them and they didn't have to evacuate. But they're really upset because it was windy and the power company shut off the electricity in their whole neighborhood because they were afraid the lines would snap and start more fires.
6 PM update.
The Thomas Fire has now burned 143,000 acres and is only 10% contained. The Lilac Fire has burned 85 homes and buildings and is moving toward Oceanside, Fallbrook and Camp Pendleton.
High winds overnight have pushed the Ventura County fire to 173,000 acres -- 242 square miles. It is only 15% contained and is moving toward Carpenteria and Montecito. The Lilac Fire is holding steady at 4,100 acres and is 50% contained. Another brush fire broke out north of Monrovia and has burned five acres.
The Thomas Fire has now burned 230,000 acres and is only 10% contained. Thousands of homes in Santa Barbara, Montecito and Carpinteria are under mandatory evacuation.
The Creek Fire has burned 15,000 acres and destroyed 60 homes but it is now 95% contained.
The Thomas fire is now the fifth largest fire in known California history. It has burned 232,000 acres and is only 20% contained. It has destroyed 796 homes and buildings and damaged 191 and is threatening 18,000 more.
The Ventura County fire has now burned 242,500 acres and is only 30% contained. The news just keeps getting worserer and worserer.
The Thomas fire is now the fourth largest in California wildfire history
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