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The Blow Up From Space

by Judith Lewis

October 22, 2007 8:34 PM

NASA has a page showing how quickly the fire's that started yesterday morning turned into the constellation of 11 14 19 fires raging around Southern California tonight.

Got this off City News Service: "California's major wildfires have cost billions of dollars in insurance losses. The most costly was the Oakland Hills fire in October 1991, when 2,900 structures were lost. That fire resulted in $1.7 billion in insured losses.
The 2003 Cedar Fire in the San Diego area resulted in 2,200 lost structures and $1.06 billion in insured losses. That same year the Old Fire in San Bernardino County burned down 1,100 buildings and cost $975 million in losses, according to the Insurance Information Network of California."

With the Witch Fire near San Diego at 145,000 acres and having destroyed 600 homes, and the Ranch, Magic and Buckweed Fires in Northern Los Angeles County projected to merge into one 80,000 acre blaze by morning [link is to Inciweb -- excellent fire-following resource], it's hard to believe something in the next few days won't top them all.

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