Firefight continues; $3B in commercial, residential losses; some evacuation orders lifted

Oct 15, 2017

(PD) - Here’s a quick look at the latest fire news from Sonoma County and the surrounding North Bay, including Mendocino, Lake and Napa counties and elsewhere.

6:34 p.m.

Sonoma County officials say 102,000 residents were displaced this weekend by fires still burning in Sonoma County, some with no homes to return to and others merely evacuated for safety reasons. Several evacuations were lifted late Sunday.

Just more than 1,850 people stayed in official evacuation centers overnight Saturday, and many other fire victims and evacuees appear to have found lodging with friends or family, or in hotels.

The six-figure overall dislocation remained stunning, Sonoma County spokeswoman Hannah Euser said.

“That’s one-fifth of our population,” she said.

Even more stunning: Preliminary county damage assessment has revealed 3,819 unincorporated parcels with assumed 100 assumed structure loss.

This represents a $2,016,962,239 loss in unincorporated Sonoma County.

When added to city losses during the past week — at least 3,470 structures, including 2,907 homes in the city of Santa Rosa and 86 commercial units lost — and the estimated $1.18 billion in damage, the total exceeds $3 billion in total countywide losses.


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