Wildfires Rage In California As Emergency Crews ‘Stretched Thin’, Grid Faces Further Rolling Outages
Residents should have bags packed, “nose pointed out driveway,” Cal Fire says Hundreds of wind-driven, lightning-stoked wildfires tore through Northern California on Wednesday, touching every Bay Area county except San Francisco, rousting residents from bed, destroying dozens of homes from the outskirts of Vacaville and threatening thousands more from the Wine Country to the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Carmel Valley. By late Wednesday afternoon, firefighters rushed to protect the historic Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton above Silicon Valley,…
