Wildfire Resources and Statistics

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com Helpful resources: •  The "Live Big Bear Scanner" has a live feed of radio transmissions by rescue workers. •  This site has a list of incidents based on scanner traffic. •  The state has a list that includes detailed information about each fire. •  USA TODAY published an interactive graphic that explains how the fires are moving across the state. •  KPBS News has a live audio feed of its reports and a Twitter feed with the latest news about the fires. (You can find a list of other Twitter feeds here.) •  This Google Map has a visual representation of the fires and efforts to contain them. •  This state map includes annotations next to each of the fires. Here are the latests statistics, according to the L.A. Times: • 420,424 acres or 656 square miles burned • 1,155 homes destroyed • 881,500 people evacuated • 1 person killed (five other deaths linked to the fires)