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2005 California Wildfires
The 2005 California wildfires were a series of wildfires that were active in the state of California during the year 2005. In total, there were 7,162 fires that burned of land. Fires Below is a list of all fires that exceeded during the 2005 fire season. The list is taken from CAL FIRE's list of large fires. Labor Day brush fire On Labor Day Monday, September 5, 2005, a small brush fire erupted and burned parts of Rancho Peñasquitos and Black Mountain Open Space Park. The wildfire quickly grew to , and triggered the evacuation of 200 homes in Rancho Peñasquitos, before further growth was stopped by firefighters. The fire was fully extinguished by September 7. Despite its small size, the brush fire was the worst wildfire to affect San Diego City in two years, since the Cedar Fire The Cedar Fire was a massive, highly-destructive wildfire, which burned of land in San Diego County, California, San Diego County, California, during October and November 2003. The fire's ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topanga Fire
The Topanga Fire was a wildfire that ignited on September 28, 2005, in the Santa Susana Mountains, to the northwest of Chatsworth and the San Fernando Valley in Southern California. History The Topanga Fire burned a total of , injured 31 people, and cost $15.8 million to fight. The wildfire grew to more than 16,000 acres (65 km2) in 2 days, threatening homes, natural resources, power lines, and communications equipment in the Simi Hills, in eastern Ventura County, as well as the Conejo Valley region north of the Santa Monica Mountains. Experts foresaw the problem as Southern California entered the hottest part of the fire season, with the land covered in brush that grew after the heaviest rains in over 100 years. Although the wind, dry conditions, and steep terrain made the work of firefighter A firefighter is a first responder and rescuer extensively trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten life, property, and the environment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hackberry Fire
Hackberry may refer to: Botany * '' Celtis'', genus of deciduous trees known as hackberries * ''Prunus padus'', a species of cherry tree Entomology * a number of brush-footed butterflies in the genus '' Asterocampa'': ** Hackberry butterfly, ''Asterocampa celtis'' ** Desert hackberry butterfly, '' Asterocampa leilia'' Places in the United States * Hackberry, Arizona * Hackberry, Louisiana * Hackberry, Kansas ** Hackberry High School, located in Hackberry, Louisiana * Hackberry, Texas, in Denton County * Hackberry (Lavaca County), Texas * Hackberry Group, a geological formation in Iowa, * Hackberry Group, a cluster of ruins in Hovenweep National Monument * Hackberry Hill, Colorado * Hackberry Mountain, California * Hackberry School District Hackberry School District 3 is a public school district based in Mohave County, Arizona. Its sole school, a K-8 school K8 or K-8 may refer to: * K-8 (Kansas highway), two highways in Kansas, one in northern Kansas, one in southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowpie Fire
Cow dung, also known as cow pats, cow pies or cow manure, is the waste product ( faeces) of bovine animal species. These species include domestic cattle ("cows"), bison ("buffalo"), yak, and water buffalo. Cow dung is the undigested residue of plant matter which has passed through the animal's gut. The resultant faecal matter is rich in minerals. Color ranges from greenish to blackish, often darkening soon after exposure to air. Uses Cow dung, which is usually a dark brown color, is often used as manure (agricultural fertilizer). If not recycled into the soil by species such as earthworms and dung beetles, cow dung can dry out and remain on the pasture, creating an area of grazing land which is unpalatable to livestock. In many parts of the developing world, and in the past in mountain regions of Europe, caked and dried cow dung is used as fuel. Dung may also be collected and used to produce biogas to generate electricity and heat. The gas is rich in methane and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston Fire
Kingston may refer to: Places * List of places called Kingston, including the five most populated: ** Kingston, Jamaica ** Kingston upon Hull, England ** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia ** Kingston, Ontario, Canada ** Kingston upon Thames, England Animals * Kingston (horse) (1884–1912), an American Thoroughbred racehorse * Kingston parakeets, feral parakeets in the UK Music * Kingston (band), a New Zealand pop/rock band * Kingston (country music band), an American duo * Kingston Maguire, known as Kingston, of hip hop duo Blue Sky Black Death * The Kingston Trio, an American folk and pop music group People * Kingston (surname), a surname, including a list of people with the name * Earl of Kingston and Baron Kingston and Viscount Kingston, a title in the Peerage of Ireland * Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain, and Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, a title in the Peerage of England Rivers * Kingston Brook, a small river in central England * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kern County, California
Kern County is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield. Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, Metropolitan statistical area. The county spans the southern end of the Central Valley (California), Central Valley. Covering , it ranges west to the southern slope of the California Coast Ranges, Coast Ranges, and east beyond the southern slope of the eastern Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada into the Mojave Desert, at the city of Ridgecrest, California, Ridgecrest. Its northernmost city is Delano, California, Delano, and its southern reach extends to just beyond Frazier Park, California, Frazier Park, and the northern extremity of the parallel Antelope Valley. The county's economy is heavily linked to agriculture and to petroleum extraction. There is also a strong aviation, space, and military presence, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Lake Fire
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alameda County, California
Alameda County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,682,353, making it the 7th-most populous county in the state and 21st most populous nationally. The county seat is Oakland. Alameda County is in the San Francisco Bay Area, occupying much of the East Bay region. The Spanish word ''alameda'' means either "a grove of poplars...or a tree lined street." The name was originally used to describe the Arroyo de la Alameda. The willow and sycamore trees along the banks of the river reminded the early Spanish explorers of a road lined with trees. Although a strict translation to English might be "Poplar Grove Creek," the name of the principal stream that flows through the county is now simply " Alameda Creek." Alameda County is part of the San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area. History The county was formed on Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tesla Fire
The 2015 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the state of California. By the end of 2015 a total of 8,745 fires were recorded, burning across the state. Approximately 3,159 structures were damaged or destroyed by wildfires, and at least 7 fatalities were recorded. On September 11, after the Butte Fire exploded from a size of to , in the Amador and Calaveras counties, Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency. Nationwide fire season The National Interagency Fire Center reported in mid-August that the 2015 fire season had been the most destructive since 2011. Nationwide, a total of had burned, which is roughly triple the total land area burned from the same time span in 2014. By the end of August, in terms of the land area burned, the 2015 nationwide wildfire season had surpassed any other wildfire season in the last 10 years, with burned. Fatalities The season also proved to be a deadly one for firefighters battling the many bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Fire
9 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 9 or nine may also refer to: Dates * AD 9, the ninth year of the AD era * 9 BC, the ninth year before the AD era * 9, numerical symbol for the month of September Places * Nine, Portugal, a parish in the town of Vila Nova de Famalicão * Planet Nine, a planet proposed to exist in the outer Solar System * Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, a closed town * The 9, a residential portion of Ameritrust Tower in Cleveland People * Louis Niñé (1922–1983), a New York politician whose surname is usually rendered "Nine" * Nine (rapper) (born 1969), a hip hop musician * Tech N9ne (born 1971), an American rapper Fictional characters * The Nine, epithet for the Nazgûl in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium * ⑨, a derogatory name for Cirno, an ice fairy from the dōjin game ''Touhou Project'' Literature * ''The Nine (book)'', a 2007 book by Jeffrey Toobin * ''NiNe. magazine'', a magazine for teenage girls * ''Nine'' (manga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulare County, California
Tulare County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 473,117. The county seat is Visalia, California, Visalia. The county is named for Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes. Drained for agricultural development, the site is now in Kings County, California, Kings County, which was created in 1893 from the western portion of the formerly larger Tulare County. Tulare County comprises the Visalia-Porterville, California, Porterville, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is located south of Fresno, California, Fresno, spanning from the San Joaquin Valley east to the Sierra Nevada. Sequoia National Park is located in the county, as is part of Kings Canyon National Park, in its northeast corner (shared with Fresno County, California, Fresno County), and part of Mount Whitney, on its eastern border (shared with Inyo County, California, Iny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millwood Fire
Millwood may refer to: Places ;Australia *Millwood, New South Wales *Millwood, Queensland, a locality in the Toowoomba Region ;Canada * Millwood High School, Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia * Millwood Junior School, Etobicoke, Ontario * Mill Woods, Edmonton ;South Africa * Millwood, South Africa ;United Kingdom * Millwood, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland ;United States * Millwood (Greensboro, Alabama), a historic property near Greensboro, Alabama * Millwood Lake, in Arkansas * Millwood, Georgia * Millwood, Kansas * Millwood, Kentucky * Millwood, Massachusetts * Millwood Township, Stearns County, Minnesota * Millwood, New York * Millwood, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Knox County * Millwood Township, Guernsey County, Ohio * Millwood Public Schools (Oklahoma), a school district in Oklahoma City * Millwood, Oregon * Millwood, Pennsylvania * Millwood, South Carolina * Millwood (Richland County, South Carolina) NRHP ruins of plantation ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the List of the most populous counties in the United States, most populous county in the United States and in the U.S. state of California, with 9,861,224 residents estimated as of 2022. It is the most populous non–State (United States), state-level government entity in the United States. Its population is greater than that of 40 individual List of U.S. states and territories by population, U.S. states. At and with List of cities in Los Angeles County, California, 88 incorporated cities and List of unincorporated communities in Los Angeles County, California, many unincorporated areas, it is home to more than one-quarter of California residents and is one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States. Its county seat, Los Angeles, is also California's most populous city and the second-most populous city in the United States, with about 3.9 million residents. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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