Bulldozers and hand crews appear to be slowly getting the upper hand on the Wragg wildfire southeast of Lake Berryessa, which has been kept at 6,900 acres since Saturday evening, Cal Fire officials said Sunday. The injured firefighters have since been transported by helicopter to the University of California Davis Burn Center in Sacramento for treatment.
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Air quality is in the moderate to good range for Washoe County. An evacuation advisory is in place for the northeastern portion of Cascade Shores and in the Gold Run/Alta area.
“It was quite a bit worse yesterday”, he said, referring to the big black plumes of smoke that dominated the skyline. The other three were expected to be released late Sunday after treatment.
Today, researchers in Nevada and Florida are supporting federal area supervisors acquire technologies to expand a circle of highdefinition cams to complete the work, including one in upper Nv that lately grabbed a fire in real-time more than 100 miles away in Or. The smoke is expected to push across Nevada County during Sunday.
The four were injured at around 5 p.m.as they fought the hot, active northern end of the 2-square-mile blaze. “At that time, there clearly was only 1 flames, to ensure that was straightforward”.
State fire spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff says the fire is moving quickly through heavy timber, torching drought-stricken trees and sending sparks a half-mile ahead of the fire front. One-third of residents of the 2,000 homes there are under mandatory evacuation orders.
An evacuation center has been opened at the Nevada Union High School, located at 11671 Ridge Road in Grass Valley. By Monday, the Kyburz fire was listed at 75 acres and was 98 percent contained with a line dug out around the blaze.
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“The next couple days in this fire should tell”, she said. “It gives us some new fuel to push into”.
