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Hopefully the insurance can pay for most of it, if not, then we're going to have to stay with friends or someone,
he said
The county turned off our water supply so we're out there with shovels throwing dirt on fires,
he told AFPIt's probably climate change affecting everything,
said shop owner Debbie CollinsMy son left the house before us on foot, he doesn't have a cell phone or anything like that, so I'm searching for him now,
he saidNormally everything would be wet by now, which means there would be much less of a chance of an ignition leading to a big fire that gets out of control like what we’re seeing now,
Moritz said
We haven’t had any substantial rain for hundreds of days,
said Max Moritz, a wildfire specialist at the University of California, Santa BarbaraThat’s the climate signal in all of this — that we’ve opened this window where we can get these big, devastating extreme events now,
he saidClimate change is leading to more erratic and extreme precipitation patterns,
he saidWe see these fires spread when it is hot and dry and windy, and right now all of those conditions are in place in southern California,
Kristina Dahl, vice president for science at Climate Central, told AFP
The ongoing wildfires in California are unprecedented, in the sense that they are dramatic for this time of the year,
said Apostolos Voulgarakis, an atmospheric scientist at Imperial College London,The clearest climate signal for those three conditions is with the temperature,
she addedIt’s mind-blowing. I don’t even have words for it. I’m just hoping they can put that out,
said Snowden, whose grandfather and other family members have lived in the foothills before he was bornWithout this funding, pilot compliance and readiness are jeopardized, and aerial firefighting capabilities are diminished,
it saidEvery street you go, houses on both sides are leveled,
he said
Should a large number of additional structures be burned in the coming days, it may become the worst wildfire in modern California history based on the number of structures burned and economic loss,
AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter said
We expect a majority of the losses to be related to homeowners' coverage and a significantly lesser amount to commercial,
they addedWe will put out the fire. And then it will be time to rebuild,
Márquez said at a news conference this afternoonWe expect, with favorable conditions over the next couple days, to start making good progress on this fire,
Augustine saidAll of PCH is on fire right now,
Datig says in the video, describing the apocalyptic scene
It is like driving through hell itself down here,
Datig emphasized