Diesel truck soot likely sparked major California wildfire

FILE PHOTO: A Los Angeles County Firehawk helicopter makes a water drop on flames during the Cave fire in Los Padres National Forest near East Camino Cielo, Santa Barbara, California, U.S. November 25, 2019, in this picture obtained from social media. /Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department/via REUTERS/FILE PHOTO

The fire posed an immediate threat to some 2,400 homes, prompting mandatory weekend evacuations of some 7,800 residents, said Fernando Herrera, a Riverside County Fire Department captain and spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection .By Monday the flames had spread primarily to the east and north into rugged wilderness of the San Bernardino National Forest, and away from densely populated areas, U.S. Forest Service spokesman David Cruz told Reuters.

Herrera said particles of soot from the unidentified vehicle ignited dry grass along a roadside that grew into the larger fire. The Apple was the most serious of at least 18 active blazes across California on Monday. Year to date, California wildfires have charred some 204,000 acres, compared with 46,000 acres blackened during the same period in 2019, state records show.

1. If it’s shooting out burning pieces of carbon it’s because of the diesel particulate filter, a feature added to diesel vehicles to be more environmentally friendly.

I wish all Muslims in the world to perform the rain prayer near the places where there is a fire (especially the big fires) so that the rain falls and the fire extinguishes, this solution must be adopted globally

The article makes it sound likes the soot was from a newer vehicle with a diesel particulate filter.

One bad thing after the next. Get rid of diesel..

im high & thought this was on fire

GloboNews Até que poderiam fazer um Pantanal ali Pra vir um avião lá dos Arábia e tacar água sobre Califórnia, neh?

What he did again?

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