“There’s a few smoking logs”, said one Cal Fire crew member from King City.
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“The “do-nothing” approach has boxed us into a corner that is making it very hard to control situations like we have over on the Rocky Fire and to minimize its impact to local communities”, Guisti says. The Deer Fire has burned 100 acres southeast of Lake Pillsbury and is 40 percent contained.
Mad River Complex: Multiple fires totalling 17,041 acres in Trinity County south of Highway 36 near Ruth Lake, 20 percent contained. And while the Rocky fire appears to finally be on the way to being extinguished, more than a dozen other wildfires are burning in California, particularly in lumber-rich Humboldt County, the AP said.
About 3,000 firefighters continued to fight the blaze Saturday, down from 3,600 during the peak of the fire that erupted July 29.
“I have shadow boxes with all the original medals and things that I treasured from the war, pictures of the ships, models of the ships”, Nigrelli said.
Dominic Polito, a fire spokesman, said he does not know when evacuees will be allowed to return home.
But while containment grows, so does the sadness for some who lost everything.
Woodbridge firefighters were assigned to the Wragg and Rocky fires and were on the list to be head home as of Thursday afternoon. “They have everything. There’s a medical tent, a portable laundrymat, chow, and showers”, Harper said, remembering back to times he has went out on a strike team. She found just one of them walking through the rubble.
It is the largest of 23 fires statewide and takes up almost a third of the 10,000 firefighters dispatched in California.
In areas where fires had been put out, charred cars were all that was left behind on some roads, and trees were left smoldering on the blackened earth.
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Brown wants to be briefed in person on the Rocky Fire, which has now been burning for eight days. Dry, hot conditions are fueling wildfires, many of which – especially in the north – have been sparked by lightning.
