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Apocalyptic mood over San Francisco

2020-09-10T06:47:41.278Z


The sun could not break through the layers of fog and smoke: In California, the area around San Francisco was shrouded in an orange light. The numerous forest fires in the US state are to blame.


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A photo of the unreal: a man captures the sky over San Francisco

Photo: Stephen Lam / REUTERS

No, it's neither dawn nor dusk: San Francisco in the US state of California has been wrapped in an orange light during the day.

It was created by the smoke from numerous forest fires that mixed with fog and blocked the sunlight.

It stayed dark all day, the sun unable to break through the layers of fog and smoke.

Local residents described the phenomenon as "apocalyptic" and as "Marshimmel" on social media.

"Some of our animals were irritated because the sun didn't come out," Zoo spokeswoman Nancy Chan told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Some enclosures with birds and koalas have been artificially lit.

The so-called North Complex Fire in the rural region spread rapidly on Wednesday and displaced thousands of people.

According to the fire department, 2000 buildings there were damaged or burned down completely.

The fires have already claimed several lives.

Sheriff Kory Honea said at a press conference that three bodies were found in a fire zone in Butte County just under 300 kilometers north of San Francisco.

The victims have not yet been identified.

The fires in Butte County raged near the village of Paradise, which was almost completely destroyed by the so-called Camp Fire in November 2018.

85 people died at that time, tens of thousands were made homeless.

Further south in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Creek Fire, which had been raging since Friday, continued to spread.

The forest fire has already destroyed more than 60 houses on an area of ​​more than 675 square kilometers and was zero percent under control on Wednesday, as the fire department said.

Barack Obama, the former US president, also tweeted about the apocalyptic mood.

14,000 firefighters fought 28 major forest fires in the west coast state on Wednesday.

A record area of ​​more than 10,000 square kilometers of land has already been destroyed this year.

According to the fire brigade, eight people have been killed in the past few weeks, including two emergency services.

With the deaths that became known on Wednesday, this number has now increased further.

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Source: spiegel

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