A forest fire in California has destroyed more than a thousand homes

Despite efforts to extinguish fires in the state of California, the elements are not retreating. At the moment, about a thousand houses have already burned down.

In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada alone, 250 buildings were destroyed by fire, about 6.5 thousand buildings still remain under threat of destruction. “Some of the houses are hidden in the middle of nowhere and it took us a while to get there. In many cases there was nothing left to extinguish,” said State Fire Department spokesman Daniel Berlant.

As a result of a forest fire in California, 2 people died. Most of all suffered the area of ​​the town of Middleton in the north of the state - the entire population was evacuated.

Now, rescuers are taking people out of the Lake County area. The total fire area exceeds 200 square kilometers.

Ранее because of the approaching forest fire, they began to evacuate the inhabitants of the town of San Andreas.

In addition, the governor of Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in the city of 2,7 thousand.