'Historic lightning siege:' Thousands flee as hundreds of wildfires blaze across California

Thousands of people were told to evacuate in regions around the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday as wildfires blazed across the state amid a blistering heat wave now in its second week. Smoke blanketed San Francisco.

Newsom declared a statewide emergency Tuesday, saying the blazes were “exacerbated by the effects of the historic West Coast heat wave and sustained high winds.” Much of California is enduring a sweltering late summer heat wave that has broken several record highs in recent days, including a 130-degree reading Sunday in Death Valley, Weather.com said. The hot, dry conditions are expected to continue at least into the weekend.The extreme heat was being generated by a strong ridge of high pressure over the western U.S., which also produced an onslaught of thunderstorms and lightning that ignited many of the wildfires burning in California.

One of the major consequences of the heat wave over the past several days has been the threat of temporary power outages, also known as rolling blackouts, to conserve electricity usage along the state's power grid. In Northern California, police and firefighters went door-to-door before dawn Wednesday in a frantic scramble to warn residents to evacuate as fire encroached on Vacaville, a city of about 100,000 that lies between San Francisco and Sacramento. Fire officials said at least 50 structures were destroyed and 50 were damaged and that four people were injured.

The blaze burning near Vacaville was dubbed the Hennessey Fire, but there so many fires burning in the area that firefighters have put them all under one incident – the LNU Lightning Complex – for reporting purposes, Weather.com said. In all, those fires have burned more than 71 square miles of land in Napa and Sonoma counties.

GavinNewsom is also taking 10% of there take home pay for a year to help fund his handouts and High speed rail to nowhere..

Sorry uncle Jeff

Holy ow. That’s almost unbelievable!

Bless you working in the fires in California. We will pray for humid nights and zero wind. I know you have this over and over. We will pray, and pray, and pray. Gods Speed....CNN MSNBC HuffPost nytimes AP washingtonpost

And last time dt wantd California's funding to end b/b Calif is mostly D.

Don’t expect help from Trump. He is a psycho mad man

So many forest communities around SF. Spent 3 months there once. The heart and soul of America. A lovely place overall! KamalaHarris would bring prisoners in to turn them out, for free? newsom too?

I read a story where California struggling to maintain the fires cuz they're usually using prisoners but because of covid-19 and the infection in the prison system there's none of them available

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