California's Mendocino Wildfire Is Now The 2nd-Largest In State History
Huffington Post / August 6, 2018
A combination of wildfires raging north of San Francisco, which already has consumed an area almost as big as Los Angeles, is on pace to become the largest in California history, fire officials said.
The Mendocino Complex fire, which includes two blazes along the Mendocino National Forest, had chewed through more than 273,600 acres as of Monday morning, and is now the second-largest ever recorded in the state. Just 30 percent of the blaze is contained, Cal Fire’s Mendocino unit said.
Last year’s Thomas fire, which consumed 281,000 acres in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, remains the state’s largest on record. The Cedar fire in 2003, now the third-largest, devoured 273,246 acres in San Diego County, according to Cal Fire records. The city of Los Angeles, by comparison, is about 300,000 acres.
Firefighters predict they’ll fully contain the Mendocino Complex fire by Aug. 15.
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Also ... F Donald Trump
And mandatory evacuations of my section of Blue Lakes was lifted after 10 days of refuge for me and my pup at my colleague's home and later, motel 666 room once available. The river fire continues to rage this way, but apparently hopeful control measures are in place for that.
I am humbled by what I came home to find. The back fence separating private from public land had been cut, trails blazed, a tonnage of dry wooden dead trees, fuel for the fire removed and a barrier was dug between what is now charred mountainside and my home.
About 15 feet away. 
I owe everything, as do my neighbors to the firefighters who performed this work.
We are humble, hardworking and mostly low income (democrats all), living in a rural RV park. Every one of us would be homeless (again) had it not been for the firefighters.
Only a few properties lost their homes, one I know of from work has lost everything. I hope he was insured. The cause of the fire is still listed as "under investigation". ---
and I wish to differ with that.
I stand with giants of the scientific world against idiot Trump and his bobbleheaded deplorables to wake the F up. People are losing their lives, their homes, and these disasters will only get worse.
Until every one of us gives up staring at "brougham" on a dashboard hauling one or two people to the all you can eat buffet and makes personal strides to turn the tides of climate change.
There's no reason whatsoever that the country that claims to be so advanced could not have fast monorail trains going everywhere by now. I've seen "public transit" options turned into the "lower echelon" mode long enough now to say I'm disgusted with every one of the uber-macho pickemup truck crowd, the "luxury vehicle" pretentious idiots blowing 10 times the CO2 necessary to get one or two persons and two bags of groceries from place to place.
I live where public transit options are completely useless to my commute. The buses don't even run most of the hours I work. There's no reason why, except "American Exceptionalism".
So I drive a SMART car. Just enough to get me to work and back, and reduce my carbon footprint. I get some jacked up trucks acting up, dangerously around my vehicle... there is something about driving my SMART car in a largely rural area brings out the STUPID in some.
I pray for the minimal loss of life, safety to good homes and animals throughout this disaster.
Yet frankly, if some of these overblown, overstated and overused vehicles suffer traumatic total combustion in this disaster...
Buh, bye. Hope your insurance doesn't cover acts of nature.
