California: Due to the highest number of lightning cases in this decade, 367 individual fires have occurred in the United States, with approximately 11,000 celestial lightning during 72 hours in California, according to officials Due to these fire incidents, the helicopter engaged in extinguishing the fire from the helicopter crashed in which the pilot has died. Thousands of people have been evacuated to safer places due to the fire. Heavy damage from the incident has been estimated by the authorities and due to Lightning, two dozen fire incidents have been extremely severe.
According to reports, California Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Will Powers said that in one case, about four people suffered injuries after being engulfed in flames. Thousands of residents from the surrounding four county areas were evacuated collectively to safer places on Monday due to wind-blown fire. While in Central California, a helicopter that went on a fire-extinguishing mission in Fresno County crashed, killing the pilot and a private contractor.
According to reports, a fire spread over about 46,000 acres in the vicinity and mountains of Fairfield has destroyed at least 50 homes and other structures. Following which a statewide fire emergency was declared in California on Tuesday. In addition to the local fire brigade, California Governor Gavin Newsom requested 375 fire brigades from outside the state. Officials have said that at present, the case of missing someone has not come up yet. A similar incident occurred in California in 2008 when lightning caused a large fire in the state.
