Bulldozers managed to ring the city with firebreaks, while crews carving out fire lines in steep and rugged terrain were also making progress, fire officials said. On Monday evening, the blaze was holding about four miles from Yreka, a scenic city of 7,500 people.
The McKinney fire started small but exploded over the weekend as thunderstorm cells brought winds gusting to 50mph (80km/h) at times. The Carter Canyon fire began on Saturday as two separate fires that merged. It was 23% contained on Tuesday, according to the National Interagency Coordination Center.Īnd a wildfire raging in north-western Nebraska led to evacuations and destroyed or damaged several homes near the small city of Gering. The Moose fire in Idaho has burned more than 85 sq miles in the Salmon-Challis national forest while threatening homes, mining operations and fisheries near the town of Salmon. Some people were forced to flee their homes as gusting afternoon winds drove the fire east. In north-western Montana, a fire that started on Friday afternoon near the town of Elmo on the Flathead Indian Reservation measured 25 sq miles (66 sq km) and is 10% contained, fire officials said. Still more fires are raging in the western US, threatening thousands of homes. Sixty hikers in that area were helped to evacuate on Saturday, according to the Jackson county sheriff’s office in Oregon, which aided in the effort. The US Forest Service shut down a 110-mile (177-km) section of the famed Pacific Crest Trail in northern California and southern Oregon. And that’s what happened in the Klamath River area,” Mike Lindbery, a spokesperson with the fire’s incident management team, said on Tuesday.Ī separate fire north-east of Happy Camp forced evacuations and road closures as it burned out of control on Tuesday. “It’s really tragic when a fire gets up and moves this fast and basically takes out a community. The fire near the California-Oregon border has burned nearly nearly 88 sq miles (228 sq km) and has destroyed more than 100 homes, sheds and other buildings. Gary Rainey, a rancher, and the volunteer fire department chief, Janet Jones, talk to a reporter at the ruins of the century-old Klamath River Community Hall, which was destroyed by the McKinney fire.
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