Crews hope to have it fully contained next week.
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The Canyon Creek Complex fire burns towards a rural subdivision of…
Winds pushed the fire south out of Big Canyon up onto the prairie and crossed highway 62.
The blaze was threatening 50 structures, but no homes have been destroyed.
The fire was started on Monday by lightning and has since burned approximately 11,619 acres.
The northwestern region is expected to remain at the top Saturday, she said, as windy conditions did 6,500 firefighters no favors heading into the weekend. Firefighting resources are depleted at a national level in the west. Multiplehave been issued by the Grant County Sheriff’s Department across the area.
For the Canyon Creek Complex, Gov. Kate Brown has announced a conflagration declaration, which authorizes the state fire marshal to mobilize other firefighters and equipment to assist local resources.
“This is a reward for many of these individuals,” Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for Cal Fire, told Mother Jones.
Lightning early Friday sparked at least four wildfires around Chelan in the north-central part of Washington state, the U.S. Forest Service said.
Flames rise from a fire near Lower Lake, Calif., Thursday, August 13, 2015. A handful of other states have similar programs, but California’s program is by far the largest, with roughly 4,000 participants.
Friday’s forecast thunderstorm didn’t hit Missoula as hard as advertised, but it did stir up several small fires across western Montana. Even though the core mission of fire departments everywhere hasn’t changed, added threats to life and our environment, coupled with state and federal mandates, continue to add depth and complexity to our mission.
A giant blaze on the Idaho-Oregon border grew to 414 square miles Friday, scorching grassland ranchers need to feed cattle and primary habitat for sage grouse, a bird being considered for federal protection.
Meantime, red flag warnings have been posted for much of northern Montana, including Great Falls and Helena. The state requested help from the national guard to fight that fire.
South Complex: Five fires totalling 17,234 acres in Trinity County near Hyampom, south of Highway 299, 20 percent contained. Six were treated for heat exhaustion, dehydration and injuries.
A thousand miles to the south, in California’s Angeles National Forest, the Cabin Fire started Saturday.
In Northern California, firefighters made more gains on Friday against a wildfire 100 miles north of San Francisco that forced mountain-town dwellers to evacuate for the second time in days.
The smoke was carried into east from winds following Friday night’s storms.
“There are none. They’re all committed to other fires”, Beverlin said.
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Two massive wildfires burning in remote, drought-stricken wild and pasture lands southeast of Clearlake have merged, covering almost 150 square miles in eastern Lake County and the outskirts of Napa and Yolo counties, Cal Fire officials said. It’s now 96 percent contained.
