The wind-blown blaze that destroyed much of an Eastern Sierra town and killed an elderly woman Tuesday jumped from home to home so fast that people were unable to save possessions before frantically evacuating, residents and authorities said Friday. Mono County Sheriff Ingrid Braun said the fire started with a spark of unknown origin behind Mountain View BBQ in Walker, a town of about 1,000 people on the California-Nevada border. What has been dubbed the Mountain View fire “just whipped through” the community, she said, burning about 90 homes, many ranch-style properties spread apart. “It would burn a house, skip a house, burn a house, skip a house,” she said. An aerial view of homes destroyed by the Mountain View fire in the town of Walker in Mono County.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 20, 2020 21:46 UTC