When Death Came Camping

Furnace Creek Campground check-out time is 12 pm noon. Coyotes and ravens are scavengers - keep your campsite clean!

Camp Fire (2018)

Do NOT feed or disturb wildlife. Interested in dispersed or backcountry camping? It is permitted in some places within the park - find out more about the Backcountry Camping Rules. Death Valley is a large, remote place without cell phone service in most areas.

Backcountry camping is a great option for those who prepare properly and follow Leave no Trace principles. Box Death Valley , CA Info Alerts Maps Calendar. Alerts In Effect Dismiss.

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National Park Service Campgrounds View the park map for location information for the following campgrounds: Reservations for Furnace Creek Campground Reservations for the Furnace Creek Campground are available for the camping season of October 15 to April 15 by calling or visiting recreation. Reservations must be made at least 4 days in advance, but can be made up to 6 months in advance. These opportunities are available in person at the kiosk only. These are 50 amp hookups and water. There are multiple dump stations located within the Furnace Creek area. It is very rare to have the opportunity to stay in on of these sites without reservations.

In the case where a hookup site is not reserved, it is open for a very brief period before the next incoming reservation arrives. Will there still be a spot open when I arrive? I couldn't make a reservation It is very rare for all campgrounds to fill in Death Valley. Campsites are limited to no more than eight people and two vehicles or one recreational vehicle per site.

Heavy rain fell starting on Wednesday, November 21 which helped contain the fire.

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As of November 22 at 7 a. PST, the fire was 90 percent contained. Cal Fire released a fire suppression operations update video which described fire activity as minimal. On November 25, , Cal Fire announced that the fire had reached percent containment. The community of Concow and the town of Paradise were destroyed within the first six hours of the fire, [61] [62] losing an estimated 95 percent of their buildings. The town of Magalia also suffered substantial damage and the community of Pulga suffered some. At least 19, buildings were destroyed, most of them homes, but also included five public schools in Paradise, a rest home, churches, a hospital, a Christmas tree farm, a large shopping center anchored by a Safeway , several fast food chains, such as Black Bear Diner and McDonald's , and numerous small businesses.

As of December 13, Butte County Sheriff's Department reported a partial death count for each community: In two separate incidents a pair of fire captains, a firefighter, and a pair of prison inmate firefighters were burned.

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The smoke from the fire resulted in widespread air pollution throughout the San Francisco Bay Area [71] and Central Valley , [72] prompting the closure of public schools in five Bay Area counties and dozens of districts in the Sacramento metropolitan area on November Recovery efforts were slowed as crews tested burned debris for environmental contaminants such as asbestos , volatile organic compounds , heavy metals, and other hazardous materials that may have burned or spread in the fire.

The Butte County Health Officer declared the burned region uninhabitable. A strong warning was issued against rehabitation, noting, "[you] will be exposed to hazardous materials. Traffic jams on the few evacuation routes led to cars being abandoned while people evacuated on foot, causing at least four deaths when the fire overtook people who were trapped in their vehicles, as well as one person outside a vehicle.

In response to a notice given by the company, the California Department of Insurance reviewed and then placed it into liquidation. This allows the California Insurance Guarantee Association, a state guaranty association , to cover claims. The Department of Insurance will continue with a review of all insurers with a domicile in California so to determine the exposure of each to Camp Fire losses. This is the only known instance of an insurance company becoming insolvent from a single event. Prior to the fire, Chico had a housing vacancy rate of less than 3 percent. The loss of several thousand residences placed additional strain on Butte County's housing market.

Average list prices for homes were reported to have increased by more than 10 percent. On November 16, the Chico city council passed an emergency ordinance to prohibit price gouging in Chico, by preventing the cost of rent, goods or services from being increased by more than 10 percent for 6 months.

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According to NBC Bay Area, investigators believe that the failure of a badly maintained steel hook holding up a high voltage line was a key cause of the fire. A distribution line in Concow malfunctioned a half hour later, which is being eyed as a possible second ignition source. First responders were limited by an insufficient number of cellular towers, which resulted in communication difficulties and reduced WiFi speed: There was initial widespread confusion about reports of missing people; this limited the search for victims.

The Butte County Sheriff's Office opened a call center, staffed daily from 8: The North Valley Animal Disaster Group worked with law enforcement and other shelters, rescue groups and independent operations to rescue and reunite pets and families, and established an animal shelter at the Chico Airport. Fire resources were stretched as the fire began on the same day as the Woolsey Fire and the Hill Fire in Southern California ; requiring on just the Camp Fire alone the equivalent of the entire 6, Cal Fire full-time fire professionals and both fires pulled resources from 17 states to respond.

By the second day of the fire, only half the fire resources had assembled.

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At the height of deployment, there were applied resources of 5, firefighters of these were prisoners [] , engines, 75 water tenders, fire crews, bulldozers, 24 helicopters, and 12 fixed wing aircraft on the fireline. Initially an offer of air support with a pair of Air Tractor AT fixed wing aircraft was declined. The California National Guard activated soldiers to assist, [] including military police officers from the 49th Brigade to provide security and search for remains with the assistance of 22 cadaver dogs. The th Sustainment Brigade constructed Alaska tents for temporary facilities.

From November 8 to December 1, an encampment formed in a vacant lot next to the Walmart store in nearby Chico.

Recovery efforts included supporting the mental health of Camp Fire victims, particularly among the youth. The Los Angeles Times reported that the Camp Fire burned across an area that had been burned to bare dirt by a hot burning wildfire ten years earlier and then salvage-logged ; fire ecologist Chad Hanson suggested that brush piles and young trees left over after the salvage logging may have provided fast-burning fuels that aided the fire's rapid spread. CalFire stated, "Those kinds of geographic features are present in many foothill towns. On November 10, President Donald Trump falsely [] [] [] [] blamed poor forest management as the cause of recent wildfires in the state, including the Camp Fire and the concurrent Woolsey Fire in Southern California.

In a tweet , he threatened to end federal assistance unless "gross mismanagement of the forests" is remedied. Trump elaborated on his claims in an interview with Chris Wallace and during his trip to Paradise, stating that "you've got to take care of the floors. Fire experts rejected Trump's claims, noting that California is experiencing unusually dry conditions and abnormally high fire danger.

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