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Creek Fire: Water Deliveries from Dams Might be Affected Due to Evacuations

/in , /by /ABC 30 Fresno Newsby Dale Yurong

Among the people forced to flee the Creek Fire were workers who keep the vast network of hydroelectric dams running. Eric Quinley is general manager of the Delano-Earlimart Irrigation District. He said reservoir releases were reduced to minimum levels. Friant Dam, located at the end of the water delivery network, was at just 30% capacity right now.

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‘Ground Zero’ For Dead Trees. How California Mega-Drought Turned Creek Fire Into Inferno

/in , , /by /The Sacramento Beeby Dale Kasler and Phillip Reese

California’s mega-drought officially ended three years ago but may have turned the Creek Fire into a monster. By killing millions of trees in the Sierra National Forest, the historic drought that ended in 2017 left an incendiary supply of dry fuel that appears to have intensified the fire that’s ravaged more than 140,000 acres in the southern Sierra Nevada, wildfire scientists and forestry experts said Tuesday.

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