Fire!!!

On Oct. 20 in Santa Ana fires broke out and it quickly spread into parts of southern California's hot and dry land. As the week went on there were more than 20 separate blazes formed. In most of the areas that where inpacted with heat and smoke were so intense that 7,000 firefighters were recruited. The flames took over more than 400,000 acres, destroyed more than 2,000 houses, and it also forced a temporary evacuation of nearly 1 million people. This is biggest migration in the U.S. since Hurricane Katrina. In some areas the people who were about to be evacuated or looking for refuge with relatives or friends or even in Qualcomm Stadium they gathered some of there belongings. Qualcomm Stadium home of the San Diego Chargers became a temporary shelter for more than 20,000 refugees. Some people like Dr. Sanjana Chaturvedi, a San Diego resident who who had to leave her home with her husband and two children said, "No one knows what to do. There is no place to go. I have no place to go."





Great Fire of 1889 was a wildfire in California that burned down parts of San Diego County and Orange County. This happened during the last week of September in 1889. It has been called the largest fire in California history. During this fire no attempts were made to extinguish the fires that were burning the land. The fire burned areas of chaparral, a number of farm fields in the Santa Ana Valley, where farmers attempted to control the fire by plowing ahead of the fire. The fire burned an area 100 miles long or about 800,000 acres. The fire caused $100,000 in damages.