Cache Fireplace Injury In Lake County Prompts Gov. Newsom To Declare State of Emergency – CBS San Francisco
CLEARLAKE, Lake County (CBS SF / BCN) -Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for Lake County Tuesday in support of the response to the Cache Fire, which has caused major damage to homes and other buildings since it began three weeks ago.
According to a press release from the Newsom office on Tuesday, the “proclamation will help expedite the removal of the resulting dangerous debris and ash and streamline other public services for fire victims.”
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Newsom had previously declared a state of emergency in several counties affected by the Caldor Fire, McFarland and Monument fires, antelope and river fires, Dixie, Fly and Tamarack fires, as well as the Lava Fire and Beckwourth Complex Fire.
The Cache Fire began on August 18 and burned 83 acres in the 6th Avenue and Cache St. area. Dozens of houses and outbuildings were destroyed and hundreds were evacuated. Many of the homes destroyed were in Creekside Mobile Home Park and Cache Creek Mobile Home Estates.
A Lake County police officer assesses damage to a burned property after the cache fire ripped through the area on August 19, 2021 in Clearlake, California. (JOSH EDELSON / AFP via Getty Images)
No deaths were reported, but at least one person was burned.
Clearlake officials said they did not expect the governor’s declaration of emergency and welcomed the state and federal aid that is being raised to help the community with the millions of dollars needed for restoration costs.
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“I can not believe it! Our indications since the night of the fire have been that there would be no state or federal statement for failing to meet the thresholds, ”city manager Alan Flora told Lake County News.
“We recently learned that we were going to get government assistance with the cleanup, but it was unlikely that anything else would,” Flora told Lake County News. “We are very pleased that additional resources are now available for those whose lives were destroyed by the cache fire. It took a lot of lobbying to represent our case. “
Lake County has been hit by several devastating forest fires in recent years. Middletown was the site of the 2015 Valley Fire, which killed five people. Lower Lake, that was the scene of the Clayton Fire. There was also the Jerusalem, Rocky, and Pawnee fires, off the River & Ranch Fires that made up the Mendocino Complex, the largest fire in the state’s history at the time.
According to one estimate, 60 percent of the district has burned down since 2012.
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