On Monday according to Cal Fire Public Information Officer and firefighter out of Riverside California, Diley Greiser, the fire took hold in the South Shore housing development and destroyed an estimated four structures.
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The fire has burned about 42 square miles since it was ignited by lightning on August 8.
Authorities have ordered evacuations in eastern Idaho where a fast-moving wildfire burning rangeland and sage grouse habitat in a rural area has ballooned to 40 square miles.
“Fire personnel are working in extreme conditions around the clock to contain and control this situation”, Cal Fire said.
Meanwhile, in the southern Sierra Nevada, 13 small communities were evacuated as a fire raged through dead timber killed by bark beetles in the Sequoia National Forest in Kern and Tulare counties.
“The fire is only 35 percent contained” says Calfire spokesperson Diley Greiser, “it is growing, due to the wind, the topography and the fact that we have a drought for five years”.
A huge wildfire that has been raging for days has created a crisis for the famed California landmark Hearst Castle, located above San Simeon on the state’s Central Coast.
Hearst Castle, the palatial ocean-view estate built by the late newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst and a major stop on summer road trips, remained closed because of proximity to the fire.
Just north of Big Sur, California’s largest fire grew held steady at 135 square miles in rugged wilderness coast along Highway 1.
Nearly 1,000 miles to the south, another family returned to the charred remains of their homes near Wrightwood, California, incinerated by the Blue Cut Fire that forced 82,000 to flee. That fire has burned for more than a month and remains less than 50 percent contained.
In the aftermath of the fire started by a downed power line that spread about 6 miles northeast of Spangle, Wash., firefighters sent a back up burn to get rid of fuels on the ground, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
Operating from a mobile command center just south of the 58-square-mile blaze, Horton leads a team of 15 investigators, technicians, hazardous materials experts and others responsible for determining the extent and nature of the damages.
Stricter rules on palm tree maintenance and other property rules home Padre Island homeowners upset.
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A cool morning inversion layer calmed much of the fire to a smolder, but afternoon temperatures were set to rise and with them the chance of increased fire activity. The fire had blackened less than one square mile and the cause was unknown. It was ignited Saturday when a car’s broken catalytic converter sent hot debris into grassy rangeland. That fire had scorched 250 acres, and officials said some homes were likely destroyed.
