Fires have scorched swaths of the Angeles National Forest in southern California, and displaced tens of thousands of Golden State residents, including the entire populations last week of Wrightwood and Lytle Creek-towns of a few thousand people – and most of those in nearby Phelan.
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A firefighting helicopter gets water out of Isabella Lake near Wofford Heights, Calif., before making another water drop on the several day old Cedar Fire in the mountains, north west of here, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
IN ADDITION, Fontana Police Department Animal Services will be holding a yard sale for victims of the Blue Cut Fire.
Almost a week after the Blue Cut Fire began burning in San Bernardino County, firefighters Monday were extinguishing hotspots and doing erosion control while utility crews replaced infrastructure lost to the blaze.
The Community Foundation, which serves San Bernardino and Riverside counties, has committed the first $100,000 to the fund and encourages others to join in their concern for those whose lives have been affected by this disaster.
“We ask that residents returning to the evacuation zone exercise caution”.
On Sunday, Cal Fire reported that the blaze had destroyed 48 buildings, damaged seven more and was 35 percent contained. A preliminary damage assessment found 105 homes and 216 outbuildings destroyed across the rural, mountainous terrain where large areas have been turned black.
Fire crews continue to gain control on an arson fire that destroyed 189 homes in a Northern California town.
Fire officials say the fire, which grew to more than 26 square miles since it ignited a week ago, is about 3 miles from the hilltop estate overlooking the Central Coast.
More than 1,200 firefighters are battling the fire that started August 13 and spread to the community’s downtown area and many residential neighborhoods.
A month-long blaze burning near California’s scenic Big Sur is not expected to be fully contained until the end of September. The fire has destroyed 57 homes and charred 133 square miles, Cal Fire said. It is 60 percent contained. Although the evacuation orders were lifted, San Bernardino County remained under a smoke advisory.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced Sunday residents in the Lytle Creek area will be allowed back to their properties. Residents must show identification at a road closure along Glen Helen Parkway. He said the fire is within a mile of the community of Alta Sierra in Kern County.
“This fire did not go through a dense community, like some fires do”, said Costa Dillon, a spokesman for crews fighting the California wildfire. By Sunday, the fast-moving blaze had topped 24,000 acres and destroyed 48 structures.
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Fire officials called the blaze “moderately active” and said it wasn’t significantly growing.
