How to resolve AdBlock issue? LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – On Thursday local officials completed the work on an initial damage assessment for the Sulphur fire.
The fire, which began early Monday, has displaced thousands of residents of Clearlake and Clearlake Oaks, and burned 2,500 acres.
A trip through the Sulphur fire area, filmed and posted below, shows devastation along a swath of lakefront and hillside residential areas.
However, until Thursday it wasn’t clear just how many structures had burned.
Clearlake City Manager Greg Folsom on Thursday released to Lake County News the damage assessment the city completed this week with the assistance of Cal Fire and Lake County Community Development staff.
The work has been ongoing even as the firefighting effort continues. The fire was reported to be 55-percent contained on Thursday evening.
The completed assessment puts the total number of destroyed structures at 168, with those structures located on 116 different properties.
In one case, 30 structures were lost on one site – 12145 Lakeshore Drive in Clearlake Park, listed as Holiday Island Mobile Home Park.
Of the 168 structures lost, 136 were residences, 27 were outbuildings, two were commercial and three were listed as “other.”
Lake County News mapped the data, as shown above. When clicking on any of the dots, the map will show information including the address and structure type.
The breakdown of residential structure types is as follows:
- Single-family residences, single-story: 49;
- Single-family residences, multistory: 34;
- Mobile home, singlewide: 28;
- Mobile home, doublewide: 20;
- Mobile home, triplewide: 1;
- Mobile home, motorhome: 1;
- Multifamily residence, single story: 3.
Other structure types listed among the destroyed structures include:
- Detached garage: 22;
- Miscellaneous: 3;
- Outbuilding: 3;
- Commercial building, single-story: 2;
- Barn: 1;
- Shop: 1.
The destroyed structures were located in the following communities:
- Clearlake: 89 structures at 77 addresses.
- Clearlake Park: 76 structures at 36 addresses.
- Clearlake Oaks: Two structures at two addresses.
There also was one structure on Lakeshore Drive with an undetermined address.
Folsom said the city of Clearlake will post the full list of destroyed properties on its Web site on Friday.
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