Bay Area Donates To Relief Effort

Wildfires that ravaged much of Northern California’s wine country and resulted in at least 29 deaths and the destruction of more than 5,700 homes and businesses continued to burn largely out of control not far from where the Raiders hold training camp in Napa.

 

The deadly blazes, which begin late in the evening on Oct. 8, forced an estimated 90,000 people to evacuate their homes and left Bay Area skies a blanket of smoke and soot.

Cornerback TJ Carrie, who lives 70 miles south of where the fires burned, awoke to a thick burning smell along with ash on his cars and grass two days after Oakland’s Week 4 loss to the Baltimore Ravens,

“It’s scary for all the victims that one, we’ve lost, and then the victims who’ve lost their livelihood,” Carrie said. “We’re talking about homes, cars, memories, pictures. They’ve lost so much in this process and it’s very devastating. As everyone within the community, we need to pull together for them.”

Seventeen fires burned throughout Northern California for five days before firefighters began to make progress.

Conditions in the Bay Area at various times reached past 200 on the air quality index, with the ratings in the heart of the blazes reaching all time highs.