Residents of Hidden Valley Lake, Jerusalem Grade, Grange Road and Butts Canyon Road were allowed to return Sunday. Gov. Jerry Brown requested a presidential disaster declaration on Monday, noting that more than 1,000 homes had been confirmed destroyed, with the number likely to go higher as assessment continues in Lake County, 90 miles north of San Francisco.
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The Monterey County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is handling large animal evacuations, Cal Fire officials said.
Some evacuees loaded boxes of their only belongings – mostly new donated clothes, blankets and other necessities – into cars and pickups.
Flames burn in the remains of a home destroyed by the Butte Fire, Saturday, September 12, 2015, in Mountain Ranch, Calif. Firefighters gained some ground Saturday against the explosive wildfire that incinerated buildings and chased hundreds of people from mountain communities in drought-stricken Northern California.
“It’s pretty thinned out”, said Kristi Jourdan, a Napa County spokeswoman, after walking the fairgrounds Tuesday morning. Dora Rainey lost her home and says they will move to The Red Cross Shelter at the Twin Pine Casino Event Center in Middletown. “And my neighbors up on top, their place is burned down”. It was the third wildfire to hit Lake County in three months. There are about 100 people there, with room for more by this weekend.
Eaton said he’s never seen a fire like this one in the area of his home.
Supervisor Brown said 48 rooms at the shuttered Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa will soon be available for temporary housing, and a hotel in Cobb will offer 30 rooms as soon as that area is reopened to residents. It destroyed 1,910 structures that include 1,238 single-family homes, 23 multi-family homes, 64 commercial structures and 585 other structures such as sheds and smaller outbuildings, according to Cal Fire.
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A Righetti High School student remains hospitalized after being hit buy a auto earlier this month.
