Mother natures wrath on Northern CaliforniaThis picture was taken by Alan Sheckter a local resident of the Paradise/ Magalia area hidden in the woods on northern California's Sierra mountains. This was a scene that people living in this area had to get used to as fires sparked by lightning ripped through the mountains and forced thousands of people to evacuate from their homes not knowing if their home would be there when they got back. The whole valley was filled with smoke from Chico to Sacramento and beyond from the fires that have caused 70,000 plus acres for the whole state that has burned. The fire that is directly effecting the people of Paradise, Magalia, Concow area is called the Camp Fire which has burned 23,000 plus acres. This has brought fire fighters from other states and countries like Canada, Mexico, Australia just to name a few. The fires are suspected to continue for weeks maybe months, but the fire fighters have done some serious damage in controlling the blazes. Though many homes are destroyed in all the blazes, there has been many more that are safe for the time being because of the brave fire fighters from all over the country and the globe. This has effected me personally being that I live in Northern California and seeing all the smoke, ash, fires around makes me really appreciate what those guys do. Not that I didn't before, but seeing them in action doing what they do best puts them on the top of the list of Real Heroes in my opinion. There could have been more losses so far, but luckily it hasn't done as much damage as these fires are supposed to.
