Numerous roads were closed, including State Route 140 between Carstens Road and Allred Road - one of the main routes into Yosemite.Ĭalifornia has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the western United States much warmer and drier over the past 30 years. Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for Mariposa County due to the fire’s effects.įlames destroyed 10 residential and commercial structures and damaged five others, Cal Fire said. Fire official in Northern California says 'everything is destroyed' 02:40 As the fast-moving fire ravaged Northern California, highways were jammed with cars as people desperately tried to escape. These hotspots could be the beginnings of wildfires, or they. This map displays thermal hotspots, which are shown as bright red dots. At least 11 people have died in the wildfires in northern California that have destroyed more than 115,000 acres in its wake. Do not rely on this tracker for precise coverage. While the map is updated regularly, wildfires can spread rapidly. “In my career, I haven’t seen fire behavior like that.” What has the state of California said?Įvacuation orders were in place for more than 6,000 people living across a several-mile span of the sparsely populated area in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Fire perimeters are displayed on the map with a light red overlay and bold red outline. We couldn’t even attack it with the resources that we had on hand,” Mr Macomb said. He said: “The fire quickly outflanked us. Some 60,000 people fled their homes near Los Angeles. The fire was moving east up into the sierra, towards the town of Mariposa Pines and in the direction of Yosemite, Justin Macomb, a Cal Fire operations section chief, told a public meeting. TOPSHOT Firefighters look out over a burning hillside as they fight the Blue Ridge Fire in Yorba Linda, California, October 26, 2020.