Shifting flame have burned across more than 1,550 square kilometres, killing at least 12 people, destroying more than 2,000 homes and prompting the biggest evacuation from north of Los Angeles, through San Diego to the Mexican border. More than 60 people have been injured, many of them firefighters. 500,000 people forced to flee in California Largest Evacuation In History were expected to be back in their homes by the weekend.
San Diego County
Witch Fire – 197,990 acres
Harris Fire – 81,100 acres
Poomacha Fire – 35,000 acres
Rice Fire – 9,000 acres
Horno/Ammo Fire – 10,000 acres
Wilcox Fire – 100 acres
Cajon Fire – 250 acres
McCoy Fire – 300 acres
Coronado Hills Fire – 300 acres
San Bernardino County
Slide Fire – 11,366 acres
Grass Valley Fire – 1,100 acres
Martin Fire – 123 acres
Walker Fire – 160 acres
Orange County
Santiago Fire – 23,00 acres
Los Angeles County
Ranch Fire – 55,756 acres
Canyon Fire – 4,500 acres
Magic Fire – 2,824 acres
Buckweed Fire – 38,356 acres
Meadowridge Fire – 40 acres
Santa Barbara County
Sedgewick Fire – 710 acres
Riverside County
Rosa Fire – 411 acres
Roca Fire – 270 acres
Ventura County
Nightsky Fire – 35 acres
“The End” is a song by The Doors. It evolved through months of performances at Los Angeles’ Whisky a Go Go into a nearly 12-minute opus on their self-titled album. The band would perform the song to close their last set. Released in January 1967, “The End” was ranked 328 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004). The spoken-word section of the song includes the lines “Father/ Yes son?/ I want to kill you/ Mother, I want to…fuck you,” (with the last two words screamed (almost) unintelligibly). This is often considered a reference to Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, the tragedy of a single man who tries to outwit the Delphic Oracle inexorable slides toward ruin: “This is the end, Beautiful friend; This is the end, My only friend; The end of our elaborate plans; the end of everything that stands; The end; No safety or surprise; The end; I’ll never look into your eyes…again.”
