Those affected by the fire can apply for assistance, and the committee will determine how to distribute the funds once the fire has been fully contained and all impacts can be assessed.
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The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Firefighters are battling a monster fire in Lake County that sparked Sunday afternoon.
The official size of the state’s largest active fire rose from 69,600 acres to 69,636 acres, officials said.
The fire is not growing – only creeping and smoldering – but gusty southwest winds through many parts of Northern California are forecast for next week and that could elevate fire risks, Berlant said.
A charred hillside in Lake County south of Clearlake on August. 5, 2015. “It only takes one burning ember in the wrong place to turn into a tragic situation for you and your National Forest”.
At the fire camp Wednesday, freshly returned firefighters sat at long tables, telling jokes and digging into bowls of fruit, corned beef hash and fried eggs. “Mine I’m pretty sure is safe”. “We’re going to staging first”. Six fewer aircraft patrolled the skies over Rocky, more than 20 bulldozers headed elsewhere and the number of men and women committed to containment was cut to 2,966 – down from some 3,500 on Thursday. “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. But an 11,400-acre fire in Lassen County near the Nevada border was still burning. Drought conditions have stoked extraordinary wildfire activity in the U.S. West this summer.
One firefighter died from smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning while battling the Frog Fire in northeastern California.
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Ruhl, of Rapid City, South Dakota, had been on temporary assignment since June in California, where he was an assistant fire management officer for the Big Valley Ranger District of the Modoc National.
