GRIZZLY FLATS , Aug 19 ― An incendiary mix of strong, shifting winds and drought-parched vegetation stoked two of California's largest wildfires yesterday, with thousands of people chased from their foothill and forest homes in the Sierra Nevada range.
Bratten fled his house in the Sierra hamlet of Grizzly Flats, about 65 miles east of Sacramento, the state capital, on Tuesday night. He returned the next day to find the dwelling, which he shared with his son and grandson, reduced to ashes by the so-called Caldor fire.“The cars have been literally melted with pools of metal underneath them,” he said. “It's overwhelming.”
By midday yesterday, the company said its meteorologists had issued an “all-clear” for some affected areas and that it had begun to restore service where possible.But California's drought-desiccated timber, brush and grasslands continued to create a potent fuel bed for fires raging across the state. Still, the blaze had destroyed at least 1,200 homes and other structures, with 16,000 buildings listed as threatened and an estimated 12,000 people displaced by evacuations, including 125 from the tiny rural town of Mineral.
Two evacuees were seriously injured as the blaze blew up Monday night into Tuesday, incinerating an elementary school, a post office and dozens of homes.
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