Aerial Photos Reveal the True Horror of the Carr Fire 😱
Brian Kahn
August 10, 2018 Friday 12:00pm Filed to:
CARR FIRE 🔥
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The pictures from the ground of the Carr Fire showed devastation on a human scale. But new aerial imagery released by the city of Redding puts the massive wildfire in a landscape context, revealing the both the power and capriciousness of one the most destructive fires in California history.
Firefighters and sheriffs used drones to better assess the damage wrought by the fire and to piece together the history of what happened two weeks ago when it stormed Redding, a city of 90,000, overnight. The blaze has killed at least eight, burned 178,752 acres, and razed 1,599 structures. As of Friday, it was 49 percent contained.
The fire swept in from the west of the city where it burned largely in tracts of forest around Whiskeytown Lake. The images from there show charred trees and denuded hillsides.
Whiskeytown Lake. Photo: City of Redding
Full article with several pictures:👀 https://earther.gizmodo.com/aerial-photos-reveal-the-true-horror-of-the-carr-fire-1828251981