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Canyon Fire 2. The Canyon Fire 2, also known as the Canyon 2 Fire, was a wildfire that burned in the Anaheim Hills area of the city of Anaheim in Orange County, California. The fast-moving brush fire broke out on October 9, 2017, around 9:45 A.M. PDT near the 91 Freeway and Gypsum Canyon Road. It leaped over the Route 241 toll road, raced up a ...
The Creek Fire was a large wildfire that burned in Kagel Canyon and the Angeles National Forest north of Sylmar, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States, and one of multiple wildfires that broke out across Southern California in December 2017. The Creek Fire burned 15,619 acres (63 km 2) and destroyed 123 structures, including ...
The La Tuna Fire was a wildfire in the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles County, Southern California, in September 2017. The fire began from undetermined causes on the afternoon of September 1 in La Tuna Canyon, and burned 7,194 acres (2,911 ha) before its containment on September 9. The fire caused at least ten injuries, the destruction of five ...
2017 California wildfires. Smoke from the Alamo and Whittier fires during the 2017 California fire season, on July 8, 2017. In terms of property damage, 2017 was the most destructive wildfire season on record in California at the time, [5] surpassed by only the 2018 season and the 2020 season, [6][7][8][9] with a total of 9,560 fires [1 ...
The October 2017 Northern California wildfires, also known as the Northern California firestorm, North Bay Fires, and the Wine Country Fires[ 7 ] were a series of 250 wildfires that started burning across the state of California, United States, beginning in early October. Twenty-one became major fires that burned at least 245,000 acres (99,148 ha).
Baker Canyon Fire: Unknown Brush Cochise: 7,980 ac 0 0 0 2016 Topock Fire: Human Brush Mohave: 2,200 ac 0 0 0 2017 Sawmill Fire [34] [35] On April 23, 2017, a father hosting a gender reveal party shot a target containing tannerite (an explosive substance) and blue powder, to announce that the baby was a boy. The explosion started a fire in the ...
December 2017 Southern California wildfires. Satellite image of the smoke from the Thomas Fire and 2 smaller wildfires, on December 5, 2017. A series of 29 wildfires ignited across Southern California in December 2017. Six of the fires became significant wildfires, and led to widespread evacuations and property losses.
The Thomas Fire originated as two separate fires, with the first fire igniting on December 4 at 6:26 p.m. PST, on a cattle ranch on Anlauf Canyon Road near Thomas Aquinas College, 140 while the second fire started about 30 minutes later, nearly 4 miles (6.4 km) north in Upper Ojai, at the top of Koenigstein Road.