Fire chiefs have revealed the cause of a 'raging fire' which broke out at an industrial building in Long Eaton. Michael Macor/The Chronicle 6 of 7 Investigators placed numbered markers, as they searched for the cause of the Nuns fire, along Nuns Canyon Rd., in Glen Ellen, Ca. We are representing victims of the Nuns Fire (and other related Wine Country Fires) on a contingency fee (no fee unless we win your case). We knew there were hazard trees in there and had received a good briefing. The crew was frustrated by lack of assignment continuity. The charges would range from murder to a misdemeanor negligence charge, according to the brief. But a lot is going on behind the scenes to directly or indirectly mitigate the effects and provide logistical support for the emergency responders.Three fires burned in Sonoma County — the Pocket, Tubbs, and Nuns Fires. She joined The Chronicle in 2015 as a crime and breaking news reporter. The county is very large — 1,768 square miles with a population of half a million.The County-owned vehicles are maintained by fleet manager David Worthington and his 22 colleagues. They started on October 8 and 9 pushed by very strong winds and eventually destroyed about 8,900 structures (including homes and outbuildings), burned at least 245,000 acres, and caused the deaths of 44 people.The fires instantly made thousands of residents homeless, and while rebuilding has begun, some are still struggling.Many received no warning or alert on their telephones and were awakened during the night by neighbors pounding on their doors or the sirens of first responders.One year ago today, I was immersed in the most destructive fire in California history. And, although there is a lot of theoretical and laboratory work on stably stratified flow over objects, this three-dimensional terrain is too complicated to apply much of that.“We’ve seen a sequence of devastatingly destructive fire events each driven by strong wind events – 2007 fires in southern California driven by Santa Anas, surprising destruction from a mountain downslope wind-driven fire in Gatlinburg, TN, and now this – yet fine-scale investigations of the mechanisms producing the peak winds and how they are distributed, particularly in relation to potential ignition sources, don’t really exist. While all crewmembers were stunned, everyone was physically OK.Afterwards, one of the crewmembers said: “We were making the area safe for someone, we were doing our job.”The engine crew was on their eighth day on this fire and had been assigned to four different Divisions. At least 44 people were killed and more than 5,000 structures were destroyed after the siege began October 8.Facts like the above are what you normally hear when the impacts of wildfires and other natural disasters are discussed. The cause of the fire was never officially determined. While scores of firefighting units fanned out to the edges of more than 170 separate blazes, a small contingent went straight to where they thought the destruction ignited.Newly released investigative reports from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection detail the painstaking inquiry conducted by a group of fire captains, arson investigators and tree experts who used everything from laser beam technology and cell phone pictures to old-fashioned pattern analysis and tape measures.They were charged with answering a few basic questions: What happened?
SONOMA and NAPA COUNTIES, CA — The deadly, destructive Santa Rosa Tubbs Fire — one of the catastrophic October 2017 wildfires in Northern California's wine country — was caused by a private electrical system adjacent to a residential structure, officials with Cal Fire announced Thursday in a news release.The cause was determined following "an extensive and thorough investigation," said Cal Fire Deputy Director Mike Mohler.Cal Fire investigators did not identify any violations of state law related to the cause of the fire, Mohler added.The Tubbs Fire started the evening of Oct. 8, 2017 and burned a total of 36,807 acres in Napa and Sonoma counties — destroying 5,636 structures and resulting in the deaths of 22 civilians and one firefighter injury.Much of the fire's destruction was in Santa Rosa, particularly in the Coffey Park and Fountaingrove neighborhoods.The Tubbs Fire was first reported at 9:41 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017 by a resident who saw flames in the area of state Highway 128 and Tubbs Road in Calistoga, near the border of the Napa and Sonoma counties, according to Cal Fire officials.Approximately 11,000 firefighters from 17 states and Australia helped battle the devastating blazes that broke out amid a red-flag warning as strong winds were hitting wine country.More than 40 people died in the firestorm, the Tubbs Fire being the deadliest.A spokesperson for the City of Santa Rosa, where thousands of homes were destroyed in the Tubbs Fire, emailed a statement Thursday afternoon. On June 2nd, 1986,a fire broke out at the rear of the Loreto Convent on St Stephen’s Green. In 1962, a boy who was a student at Our Lady of the Angels at the time of the fire, confessed to setting the blaze. Twenty-one became major fires that burned at least 245,000 acres (99,148 ha). Investors are worried that the utility could be on the hook for billions of dollars in civil damages in addition to criminal penalties.The legal brief submitted by [Attorney General Xavier] Becerra’s office said prosecutors would have to gauge PG&E’s “mental state” before determining which charges, if any, to bring.



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