The number of victims continues to rise. More than 80 people have died in or as a result of the severe fires in California, hundreds of people are missing. Never since the beginning of the recordings, the damage caused by fires in the state were so great as this fall. (For an explanation of the reasons you can read here).
worst of all is the Situation in the Region around the town of Paradise. Almost all of the 80 victims died here. The so-called Camp Fire since the 8. November approximately 152 000 hectares of Land and more than 12,000 houses burned to the ground. The city is almost completely destroyed.
in the Meantime, the fire is largely under control, but the fire have left their mark. The private satellite operators Digital Globe shows footage of the area around Paradise from the time before and after the fires.
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In the view above, the whole of the small town of Paradise. Using the slider in the middle between the Before – and-After-picture. Green vegetated substrate appears suddenly as black as coal, most of the houses are burned.
It is noticeable that in the right half of the image seems to be a building to the flames. To recognize it is to its mirror-reversed L-shape. In the complex, among other things, a supermarket, a Department store, and a Pizzeria. The house is but rather the exception.
nursing home burned down
In the close-up View of the damage in the city are particularly evident. The image below shows the Northern Paradise. The Region is also seen in the first view. Only on closer Inspection, however, to identify which buildings were destroyed by the fire.
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With the distinctive bluish houses complex in the center of the image is, for example, a nursing home. The After view shows that the building was destroyed by the fire completely.
came To harm no one, such as the establishment on your Website. All patients had been evacuated. Most of the employees would have lost their home, all are healthy Trbet and in safety.
Destroyed residential area
A still more detailed view shows the Kilcrease Circuit in Paradise, a distinctively arranged living area, which can be seen in the top views, above the supermarket building. Here are all the homes burned almost.
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Southeast of the residential area is located in the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park (view below). Also on the stand surface of the portable housing, the fire moved and left behind footprints. Whether or not it is some people have managed to bring your mobile home is safety, on the basis of the image but not with absolute certainty say.
Above the residential Park is situated in the truest sense of the word scorched earth.
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A different view forms a cutting to the South of the supermarket complex. At the corner of Bille Road / Clark Road, the post office of Paradise – the square building is located above the road crossing in the left corner of the image. Right next to a school and a Church.
Although the visibility is difficult, nevertheless, it is clear that many of the houses are destroyed after the fire.
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in the unincorporated places of Magalia and Paradise Pines to the North of Paradise, the fire raged. In the Region to the East of Magalia reservoir to the verb of the forest burned over a large area. To the West of the water area destroyed by the flames of Paradise Pines, to the South, a number of houses in Magalia.
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fire scar in the landscape
the fire dead, there was also in the South of California. There are three people died in the so-called Woolsey Fire. The Region was also in the headlines because the fire has destroyed the houses of some Celebrity in Malibu. The American space Agency Nasa shows a satellite image of the area. Malibu is located on the bottom of the screen to the East of the peak.
Region to the “Woolsey Fire” in southern California
The fire had left a scar in the landscape that was easy to see even from space, writes the Nasa. Nearly 40,000 acres of Land were burned.
The recording shows, in contrast to the Before-and-After pictures, however, a false-color view. The unburned regions are in a particularly lush Green and the burnt-recognize in vibrant brown. So the contrast is clear.
