{"id":36464,"date":"2018-08-05T10:05:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36464"},"modified":"2018-08-05T10:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:05:58","slug":"massive-fire-tornado-blaze-started-by-a-flat-tire-white-house-declares-major-disaster-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36464","title":{"rendered":"Massive “Fire Tornado” Blaze Started By A Flat Tire; White House Declares “Major Disaster” In California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Massive “Fire Tornado” Blaze Started By A Flat Tire; White House Declares “Major Disaster” In California<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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One the most destructive wildfires in California history, the Carr fire, is still raging with only about 40% of it contained while elsewhere in the state, especially in the north,\u00a0fires continue to expand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Overnight a seventh person was reported killed <\/strong>by the Carr fire as another\u00a0in the north of the state\u00a0expanded by 25% overnight, leading the White House to declare\u00a0a “major disaster” in California in a statement on Sunday morning<\/strong>. President Donald Trump\u00a0has\u00a0ordered the release of federal funding for recovery efforts.<\/p>\n

The deadly Carr fire has scorched more than 145,000 acres as of Sunday morning; and as CNN reports, the wildfire which began on July 23rd was actually caused by a flat tire<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Photo taken Saturday morning. Via Antionio Paris\/Twitter<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The CNN report details the Carr fire’s origins in late July\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>but one of the 17 currently burning across the state<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It happens countless times on roads across America: a vehicle gets a flat tire, usually just a temporary inconvenience.<\/p>\n

But on one road near Redding, California, when a tire failed last month on a trailer and its rim scraped the asphalt, the result was\u00a0catastrophic for an entire region<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The sparks that shot out July 23 from that minor incident, California fire officials said, ignited what is now\u00a0the sixth-most destructive\u00a0<\/a>wildfire in state history<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Carr Fire blazed\u00a0a fiery path along Highway 299<\/a>, lighting up mile after mile of dry brush as it crept up on residential areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One man, Ed Bledsoe, lost his wife and two great-grandchildren, ages 4 and 5, within only a 15 minute time frame.<\/p>\n

The man’s family were victims of the previously reported “fire tornado,”<\/a> or what some are calling a\u00a0“firenado” that ripped through Redding, <\/strong>which produced whirling winds of fire in excess of 143 mph.<\/p>\n

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Massive “Fire Tornado” Blaze Started By A Flat Tire; White House Declares “Major Disaster” In California One the most destructive wildfires in California history, the Carr fire, is still raging with only about 40% of it contained while elsewhere in the state, especially in the north,\u00a0fires continue to expand. Overnight a seventh person was reported […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,21128,145,21129,21127,21130,8607,4318],"class_list":["post-36464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-carr-fire","tag-cnn","tag-fire-tornado","tag-major-disaster","tag-redding","tag-wildfire","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36465,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36464\/revisions\/36465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}