The death toll from Northern California's wildfires now stands at 15, officials say, with a total of nine confirmed fatalities in Sonoma County. The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said on its Twitter page that the number of dead had increased from seven to nine. Three others are dead in Mendocino County, two more in Napa and one in Yuba, officials say. In Sonoma County, more than 200 people have been reported missing, and 45 of those have since been located, officials said.
The fires have burned 115,000 acres statewide and destroyed at least 2,000 homes and businesses, Cal Fire Ken Pimlott said Tuesday. More than 4,000 emergency workers have been deployed to help battle the fires, including a massive effort at McClellan Air Park, where a record 45 missions were flown Monday that dumped 266,000 acres of retardant on the blazes.
Vice President Mike Pence visited the state's emergency operations center at Mather Air Park Tuesday and announced that President Trump had approved the state's request for federal assistance in the counties of Butte, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Sonoma, and Yuba.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday October 10 2017, @09:03PM (4 children)
Don't you know that the imperial system reduces unemployment? It takes three people to double-check any math, and anyone trying to reduce that budget gets told about lost space probes.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Tuesday October 10 2017, @11:13PM (1 child)
That argument only works when the rest of the world uses a different measurement system. Otherwise, there would be no need to double check conversions and even then, if there were another region of the world that did use the same measurement system, the double-checking math jobs will be outsourced to the cheapest labor market.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 10 2017, @11:17PM
> the rest of the world uses a different measurement system. Otherwise, there would be no need to double check conversions
The imperial system is so internally messy that you need three people to check the math even if you don't try to convert to metric.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday October 11 2017, @05:47AM
Yeah...well we we can actually count on more than our 10 fingers.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @07:07AM
Imperial? The USA uses US customary units. Imperial is what is used by the Brits. They are not the same, for instance the number of fluid ounces per cup differs and also the size of the fluid ounce. All of the volume units differ because of this.