Explosive and destructive 'Camp Fire' in Northern California is burning 80 acres per minute
Source: Washington Post
A “very dangerous” wildfire has erupted in Northern California because of a combination of howling winds and extremely dry conditions. The “Camp Fire” in Butte County, Calif., has already consumed 5,000 acres west and north of Chico and Oroville, about 90 miles north of Sacramento.
Immediately at risk is the town of Paradise, home to 26,000 people.
Mandatory evacuations were ordered in Paradise and the neighboring communities of Pulga and Concow.
“Multiple structures were damaged or destroyed near a hospital on Pentz Road as of about 9:45 a.m., one dispatcher said, but the hospital remained undamaged at that time,” the Sacramento Bee reported. “Scanner traffic also indicated reports of at least one burn victim being transported by EMS, and a ‘heavy impact on civilians’ in Paradise.”
Dave Toussaint, a retired Cal Fire firefighter, reported there were more burn victims on his Twitter feed.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/11/08/explosive-destructive-camp-fire-northern-california-is-burning-acres-per-minute/?utm_term=.490977beddf2
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Honey Run Covered Bridge was a wooden covered bridge crossing Butte Creek, in Butte County, northern California.
It was located on Honey Run Road at Centerville Road, about halfway in between Chico and Paradise.
History
Built in 1886 and accepted as completed by the Butte County Board of Supervisors on January 3, 1887, the Honey Run Bridge (originally Carr Hill Bridge) was constructed by the American Bridge and Building Company of San Francisco. George Miller was appointed Superintendent of Construction by Butte County to oversee the project.
The three-span wooden bridge was originally built uncovered, as evidenced by the timber trusses of the two original, remaining spans covered with sheet metal on three sides. The cover was added in 1901.
Crossing Butte Creek, the Honey Run Bridge was the only surviving example of a three-span timber Pratt-type covered bridge in the United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
The bridge was open to vehicular traffic until a truck crashed into the eastern span and damaged it in 1965, thus making the bridge virtually impassable. A new steel bridge was built upstream for vehicular traffic.
The covered bridge was then used as a pedestrian footbridge, protected within Honey Run Covered Bridge County Park. Local residents raised funds and rebuilt the eastern span and from the ruins, and the bridge re-opened in 1972.[2]
It was destroyed in the Camp Fire wildfire on Nov 8, 2018.
