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Urban Firestorm Devastation Santa Rosa California
On October 8, 2017 between the hours of 10pm and midnight the Diablo Winds blew into Santa Rosa California. The result was 5 wind driven fires. Some folks have died and many homes and other structures have been burned to the ground. On October 10, I visited a few areas that had been devastated by the urban firestorm. Pics and video from the areas effected.
It seems preliminarily the fires were started when electrical lines arced or were fallen due to the heavy winds. Residents effected by the fires reported hearing the winds between the hours of 10pm and into the next morning. The Diablo winds "is a name that has been occasionally used for the hot, dry offshore wind from the northeast that typically occurs in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, during the spring and fall." It has been attributed to the cause of the Oakland Hills Fire in 1991. The winds themselves don't cause the fires, but power lines unable to handle the extreme weather blow around and arc, or the poles sometimes fall igniting the first flame. During my walk around of the effected areas I notice that aluminum melted liquefied and then hardened again. Plastic had melted and burned. Cement burned. Plus many other materials that could cause the air to become toxic to breathe.
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