Big Sur, California: Firefighters on Saturday struggled against fire broken in the rude mountains along the Big Sur, forced hundreds of residents in this precarious stretch of California coast to evacuate and authorized to close the main road.
The fire started Friday night with a steep canyon and quickly spread to the sea, combining strong winds of up to 50 mph (80 kph).
Blaze caught fire at least 2.3 square miles (6 square kilometers) from brushes and redwood trees, said Cecile Juliette, spokesman for the Ministry of Forestry and California fire protection.
`The fire line up with wind and terrain and it gives a lot of energy to run big, ” he said Saturday.
The authorities made contact with around 500 residents, urging them to evacuate areas that rarely populated between Carmel and Big Sur.
More than 250 firefighters from several volunteer institutions and groups were assisted by aircraft dropping water, containing around 20% of the flames on Saturday night.
“The wind is dead and it has worked our favor,” he said.
The authorities closed the expanse of the highway 1 without estimating time to be reopened.
The two-lane highway along the Big Sur is vulnerable to the closure and landslides of heavy rain made part of the road hurdle Then and in 2017.
Evacuees was distributed on the social media dramatic fire on fire behind the Bixby Bridge icon.
High concrete range has become a background of many car advertisements, films and TV shows, recently the HBO ‘drama is a big little lie.’ ‘Strong winds were recorded across the Bay area of ​​San Francisco last night, knocking down trees and lined up and caused their blackouts to be at least 18,000 Pacific gas & electricity customers in the region, the utility said.
There are no direct reports of injury.
In Sonoma Regency, firefighters extinguishes fire 5 -Hektar at the peak of geyser, where gusts above 90 mph (145 kph) are recorded.
In Sierra Nevada, the wind reached 141 MPH (226 kph) near the Summit.
Kirkwood Mountain Resort, turned off several ski lifts.
In Southern California, the peak of 90 mph (144 KPJ) was recorded in the east mountains of Santa Clarita.
Strong winds develop throughout the region, shift trees and powerline.
National weather services said similar windy events occurred at the Bay area almost a year ago.
The warning of the red flag of the hazard of extreme fires is removed then because of strong winds and dry conditions.
This time, the region received a suspension of a sentence from a December storm that threw heavy snow in the mountains and some dry reservoirs.
However, Juliette said the wind quickly dried up vegetation weakened by a prolonged drought and lowered the moisture level.
“It’s unusual to turn on this size here on the beach at the end of January,” he said.
“The fact that we have this size of fire is very alarming.” The cause of the fire was being investigated.