San Diego County Wildfire Stats: "
- Witch Fire – 197,990 acres – 95% contained - $13 million - 39 firefighters injured and two civilian fatalities
- Harris Fire – 90,440 acres – 75% contained - $11.9 million - 21 civilian and 34 firefighter injuries, and five deaths
- Poomacha Fire – 49,540 acres – 65% contained - $7.2 million - 20 firefighter injured
- Rice Fire – 9,472 acres – 100% contained - $4.9 million - Five firefighters injured
- Horno/Ammo Fire – 21,084 acres – 100% contained - six firefighters injured
- Wilcox Fire – 100 acres – 100% contained - Cajon Fire – 250 acres – 100% contained
- McCoy Fire – 300 acres – 100% contained
- Coronado Hills Fire – 250 acres – 100% contained
Most people are being allowed to return to their homes. Those who lost homes, in many cases, are beginning the recovery process. Some areas do remain evacuated, such as in Rancho Bernardo, where residents of La Terraza apartments still cannot return to survey the damage. Sadly, there's not a comprehensive list of current evacuated sites, not even from CalFire. News sites haven't updated evacuation info for days. Go figure. Apparently it's only news fit for broadcast.
After the glut of non-stop news the first couple of days, we've been reduced to dribs and drabs of information during the day. We used to have one or two local 24-hour news stations (essentially, re-broadcasts of earlier news programs) here, but they've gone the way of the dinosaur. It's at times like these that we need at least one station to provide current news at any given time. With up-to-date information, of course. Hell, even if it's not 'at times like these', it would be nice. Guess there's no money in it for the stations.
Okay, enough from me. There you have it. Current stats. I'll go return to What Not To Wear and my iced tea.
"(Via Da Goddess.)
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