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Extreme wildfires along the US West Coast generating their own weather In the wake of the hottest days on record with temperatures reaching far into the triple digits this month, California and the western United States are in the throes of a worsening fire season. Firefighters battle the Tamarack Fire in the Markleeville community of Alpine County, Calif., on Saturday, July 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Extreme heat throughout the region as well as in western Canada, has sparked a growing wave of wildfires and tens of thousands of evacuations. The National Interagency Fire Center reports ...

Credit: Getty Images DAVE WINNACKER stood on a hill in Northern California as flames devoured the houses below him. The Ala­meda County Fire Department division chief had fought wildfires before, but the 2017 North Bay Fires felt different. A sense of helplessness overcame him as he watched them burn. "I had engines assigned to them," he says. "But you couldn't stop it." A former Marine (and now a fire chief in the Bay Area's Moraga-Orinda Fire District), Winnacker was one of more than 10,000 firefighters who battled the infernos, which raged for three weeks. The blaze tore through a quarter...

California Fire Victim Trust Has Received 250K Claims So Far April 14, 2021 The Fire Victim Trust, established to pay California wildfire victims on July 1, 2020, has received 40,000 claims questionnaires representing more than 70,000 claimants and roughly 250,000 individual claims, according to the trustee. Judge John K. Trotter (Ret)., the trustee, filed a letter with the bankruptcy court this week containing information for victims of the 2015-2018 wildfires that Pacific Gas & Electric has been blamed for starting, including an update on the number of pa...

Lobo Fire (Nevada County) Pocket Fire (Sonoma County) Sulphur Fire (Lake County) Tubbs Fire (Sonoma and Napa Counties) Many of the questions Action News Now asked the FVT concerned finances and transparency. Action News Now was told on Tuesday that a detailed accounting of all the Trust expenses through December 31, 2020, will be filed with the Court later in the month of April, along with an update on claims payments. As of Monday, the FVT reports that 7,364 Preliminary Payments have been issued for a total of $95,523,500. Pro-Rata Payments of 30% of approved and signed-off claims have also ...