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A 124-acre fire near Willits has been fully contained. The Walker fire started on September 1st off Highway 101 and Walker Road, south of Willits. More than 175 ....
shepard: a fire captain in california accusing verizon of slowing down mobile data and hurting efforts to put out a deadly wildfire. that from a court filing. the captain said it happened in the mendocino fire and killed a fire in northern california. he said the communication center was using lots of data to coordinate their effort. when they reached a certain amount, verizon slowed them down. we reached out to verizon, a company spokes american told the l.a. times, the firefighters had a government services plan with limited high speed data. but in this situation, we should have lefted the speed restriction. we re reviewing the situation and will fix any issues going ....
30 years or so. it s dry. it s thick. because of that, that s why you re seeing these fires spread. with these winds, it just makes it ripe for wildfires to not only continue to grow, but also for new ones to sprout up here in california. and stephanie, what does the forecast look like for the weekend, will these firefighters be able to make any progress? they need help from mother nature, right? they do. they re not expected to get any help coming into this weekend. this fire here the holy fire, is only 5% contained. that is because these conditions are just so difficult. same thing we were seeing up north at the mendocino fire which is now the largest fire in california history. you re seeing it very hard to fight these dry conditions. also the fact there s no rain in sight and these winds have picked up in the afternoon and just make their job so much harder. just very quickly, do you think the officials out there need more help from washington for example? i think, you know ....
Problem will be if the blaze reaches the valleys. they are trying to contain this fire and limit the damage. the suspect is due in court later today, he has been named as a local man. he is 51 years old, and according to one of the local newsletters, he was sending threatening e-mails saying this place will burn. we might get more of an idea of how and why he did this. and this is just one of many burning across california and the west right now. you have the mendocino fire, it bu burned more than 300,000 acres, and the carr fire up in the north as well. nick, we re lucky to have you ....
Are fueling the worst wildfires in the state of california history the mendocino complex fire has now killed eleven people and scorched an area the size of los angeles some ten thousand firefighters are battling the blazes in the northern part of california the flames have destroyed hundreds of homes since igniting over two weeks ago the mendocino fire is one of over eighteen blazers raging across california. so are we entering the era of hot house or earth to talk about that now i m joined by clarifies and she s a researcher from climate analytics an organization that supports what they call science based on a policy to prevent dangerous climate change welcome to the show it has been a savage summer here in europe elsewhere as well australia the united states what s behind this extreme heat wave well if you need to persuading that climate change is going to enter into so that it is already in for thing and joining us all ....