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Who or what started the Santa Rosa fired?

I think someone started the fire in the Bay Area!!! Is that possible? It must be more than a campfire I think friends spread out and started the fire? How come no one noticed it before it got so big?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Santa Rosa was just the county seat and biggest town in Sonoma but other cities were evacuated and burnt out. The authorities say that there was not enough landscaping maintenance at the end of the 5 year drought to clear dried brush. Also, trees that were weak and dying from the drought were not cut down. Then these trees fell on the power lines operated by PG&E and sparks from live wires ignited trees and spread to brush. Also, the power poles were weighed down by too much equipment because it is cheaper than installing new ones. The whole state needs infrastructure repair and no agencies want to spend the money.

    The winds were in a direction that was causing the fire to spread, the humidity was 10%, and 10,000 firemen did what they could to break the fire from spreading. Nobody started any of the fires. There were 22 fires in northern California and a random one in other spots. Some of the fires combined and got bigger. Right now, they are 80% contained mostly.

    Some of the fires were noticed by emergency agencies and residents were told to evacuate in many towns. The important thing is to save peoples lives, more than saving their homes. There was not ONE fire that "got big". There were 20 fires in different parts of the north counties.

  • .
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Witnesses saw lots of "blue sparks" (no natural lightning) and felt a strange energy turn on and off multiple times.

    The blue sparks came out of nowhere and started 60 fires simultaneously.

    The fire burned from inside the house (like a furnace) and didn't jump from house to house.

    Houses and fire stations that were thought to be fire-proof were turned into a few inches of ash.

    Metal, glass, porcelain, and kitchen countertops were all consumed or liquified.

    There were white ashes and white smoke.

    There was an orange glow in the horizon with a halo in the atmosphere.

    I think technology was involved.

    They couldn't have been manually set since the houses were "erased" simultaneously.

    A lot of things were unusual and not like regular fires and this caught Californians off guard.

    Noone noticed because it happened in the cool of the morning, 1:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m., with no warning to residents.

    Most people smelled smoke and left their houses in the nick of time, with a bug-out bag, if they had one.

    While undocumented reports about the windspeed varied, the windspeed was measured at 4 MPH at the Ukiah Airport at the time the fires started, from historical records at Weather Underground. What looked or felt like wind may have been EMF current moving things around. Also odd (to regular fires) was that the thousands of structures that were hit were basically all completely devastated, with nothing left standing, from the pictures I saw. That's why so many captions say it looks like they were "nuked". Santa Rosa is an urban area and areas that were hard hit, such as Fountain Grove and Coffey Park are near Highway 101, not in a forest, and their green trees are still there, if you want to see them.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    I'm sure that Donald Drunk will find some way to blame President Obama or President Millard Fillmore or somebody.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Those tricky muslims, no one even caught on di they, especially in CA, where they could walk down the street with gas cans, and no one would say a thing.

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