Monday, November 25, 2013

USA, California:

Firefighters Batting Down Remote Sonoma Blaze (San Francisco Chronicle)

The Calpine McCabe geothermal plant
A fire in remote Sonoma County was 75 percent contained Monday morning and firefighters were making significant progress throughout the day, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said.

The McCabe Fire, in the steep, dry terrain east of Cloverdale, had burned 3,300 acres since it started early Friday, destroying a geothermal power cooling structure [at the McCabe plant] but not threatening any homes. The fire has burned almost entirely on private property owned by the power company Calpine.

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