However, fire trucks face difficulties accessing the
fire zone because of the mountainous landscape.
The entire town is in a high-risk
fire zone. Residents have had to evacuate regularly in recent years.
18, more than 2,000 PG&E employees and contractors are doing gas and electric restoration work and removing hazardous trees in the
fire zone. "PG&E has been preparing for storms such as this for many months.
The exact number of people missing remains unclear but many friends and relatives of those living in the
fire zone said they had not heard from loved ones.
Armed with a Colt AR-15 carbine with collapsible stock and my issue .38,1 tested my carbine and fired one round after arriving to a free
fire zone. It did not cycle, and I tried everything to clear the stuck case.
The Inquirer tried but failed to secure approval from company officials about entering the
fire zone, which was at the back of DLPC's commercial and management offices.
Fire managers believe the calmer conditions could enable teams to establish a wider containment area even as the
fire zone grew by several thousand acres (hectares) in the overnight hours.
11 -- Callum Macrae the man behind the controversial Emmy-nominated feature documentary "No
Fire Zone: - credited with playing a key role in convincing the international community to take action over the Sri Lankan massacres of 2009, in which tens of thousands of Tamil civilians died - have now launched a new short film," Sri Lanka: The Search For Justice."
Its cruellest lie was the "no
fire zone" set up in late 2008 ostensibly to shield civilians as regime forces closed in on the Tigers' last strongholds in the North.
Here's UN worker Peter Mackay on C4's horrific but heroic No
Fire Zone expose of Sir Lanka's killing fields who defied an evacuation order to help civilians shelled by their own government.
He tried to retreat from the
fire zone in a car, but the enemy fired at
