Wildfires rage on in North and South Carolina as more firefighters arrive | US wildfires
Forest fires continued in the north and South Carolina On Thursday, which leads to emergency and evacuation situations as firefighters spread from other parts of the United States to help control fire.
in North Carolina stateProgress has been made in the containment of two of the largest burned forest fires in the mountains, but officials have warned that the danger of fire remained from dry and stormy conditions.
The news was worse in South Carolina, as almost two fires doubled on Wednesday.
Hundreds of people were asked to leave their homes in the two countries where large fires burn half a scale in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where they spread smoke in places like Greenville, a city of about 70,000 people in South Carolina.
On Wednesday, the dry weather led to several new fires in the western state of North Carolina and the governor of the state, Josh Stein, declared a state of emergency in 34 Western provinces. The officials said at least nine fires were active in this part of the state.
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Burning acre
American forest fires are measured in terms of acres. While the size of the wildfire is not necessarily linked DestroyerThe spaces provide a way to understand the fire fingerprint and the extent of its growth.
There are 2.47 acres in a hectare, and 640 acres in a square mile, but it may be difficult to imagine this. Here are some easy comparisons: one acre almost equivalent to the size of the American Football Stadium. Heathrow Airport in London is about 3000 acres. Manhattan covers approximately 14,600 acres, while Chicago is about 150,000 acres, and Los Angeles is about 320,000 acres.
Megavier
Megafire is defined by the National Fire Center between agencies as a fire fire that burned more than 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares).
The level of containment
The level of wildfire contains the amount of progress made by firefighters in controlling the fire. The containment is achieved by creating an ocean that cannot move. This is done through ways such as placing fire inhibitors on the floor, drilling trenches, or removing the brush and other flammable fuel.
The containment is measured in terms of the percentage of fire that was surrounded by these control stripes. Low -contained wildfire fires, such as 0 % or 5 %, are mainly burned from control. The fire that contains a high level of containment, such as 90 %, does not necessarily extinguish, but rather has a large protective environment and a growth rate under control.
Evidence and warning orders
Evacuation warnings and orders are issued by officials when the wildfires cause an imminent danger to people’s lives and property. according to California Emergency Services OfficeThe evacuation warning means that it is good to leave an area or prepare to leave soon. The evacuation matter means that you should leave the area immediately.
Warning red flag
Red flag warning is a type of prediction issued by national weather service that indicates how long will it provoke weather conditions or spread forest fires. These conditions usually include dehydration, low humidity, strong winds and heat.
The prescribed burning
The described burning, or controlled burning is a fire that was deliberately placed under carefully managed management conditions in order to improve landscape health. Burns prescribed by trained experts such as American forest service and indigenous firefighters are performed. The prescribed burns help remove the flammable vegetation and reduce the risk of more burning and more disastrous, among other benefits.
The burning was described Once common A tool between the original American tribes that used “good fire” to improve the Earth, but it was limited in most of the last century by the American government’s approach based on firefighting. In recent years, American landfills have returned to embrace Benefits of the prescribed burnsAnd now thousands of parts of the country every year.
Black Cove Compleen According to the update From the Ministry of Agriculture in North Carolina, with hundreds of firefighters working to fight fire. Countries like Oregon have already sent dozens of firefighters to help with efforts, and additional publication 11 people on Wednesday.
The fires burn in an area that was strongly hit Helen Hurricane In September. Millions of fallen trees from this storm provide fuel for forest fires and impedes the use of firefighters for methods of registration and paths.
The Black Cove and Deep Woods Fire Fire was more than 10 % on Wednesday night, days after reporting that zero contained the two. The fires burned approximately 6400 acres (2590 hectares) combined, but the size of the burning area remained largely as it is since the day before.
Firefighters managed to save most structures near fires. Officials said only one injury was reported: Officials said a firefighter was arrested in North Carolina under a tree.
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Ashley Reynberg, the national meteorologist at South Carolina, said there is rain in expectations for the weekend, but it is not a kind of heavy rains that can expel fire on its own.
“We hope this will calm down, at least for a short time,” Renberg said.
It is not expected that the luminous spot will be in expectations for the next week to be a particularly dangerous day when wind and dry weather reaches possible catastrophic levels as it did in Los Angeles in January or Gatlinberg, Tennessee, in 2016.
Forest agencies in North Carolina and South Carolina are already discovering how to rotate teams of firefighters inside and outside the mountains of what could be a long battle.
The fires were in South Carolina as a result of humans. The authorities urge the local fire heads to South Carolina governor of Carolina to pay attention to the ban on the burning in both states and stop firing fires in the burnt camps or garbage.
“We have people who go out in the woods and in their back arenas and start fires when the wind blows and everything is dry,” said Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governor, Henry McMaster. “We just have to use a healthy sense. People go out in nature and forget how dangerous it is.”
The Associated Press contributed to reporting
