Indian Waterfall, California: An erratic wind and dry lightning potential was added to the challenge faced by firefighters against California’s biggest fire, one of the many Blazes that burned Monday in the West.
During the weekend, a large Dixie fire joined a smaller flying fire and ripped out with a remote northern California community from Indian waterfalls.
Blaze has flattened at least 16 houses and other structures, but the estimated new damage was not immediately available because the fire was still raging in the mountains.
“Fire behavior is very unpredictable, not safe for inspectors to go to work,” Mitch Matlow said, a fire spokesman.
“Until everything is calm, we will not know the extent of being burned.” The fire spread in remote areas with a steep terrain crew not easy to reach, said Matlow.
The Gusty wind also hampered the detention efforts and the problem could be worse with the compressed coming later on Monday the pyrocumulus cloud – literally means “fire clouds” – which can bring lightning and the risk of new ignition.
Fire officials said The Blaze had bacted nearly 309 square miles (800 square kilometers) wood and brushes in Plumas and Butte regencies, about two hours northeast of Sacramento.
It was 22% contained and more than 10,000 houses were still under threat.
Authorities hope that increasing the weather will help them continue to make progress against the nation’s biggest fire, bootleg fire in South Oregon.
It was 53% contained after a scorchable 640 square miles (1,657 square kilometers) from remote land.
On Monday, an additional crew of Oregon National Guardsmen was sent to help more than 2,200 people fighting against the fire.
The fire caused by lightning has burned at least 70 houses, especially the cabin, and around 2,000 residences are under the evacuation order.
In Montana, four firefighters were released from the hospital and a fifth of being treated at the burning center on Monday after the Wildfire invaded them last week, the authorities said.
The fifth was building a defensive line at the Devil’s Creek fire at Garfield County when the wind shifted suddenly and blew the fire there.
Firefighters are still being treated – an employee of a fish and wildlife A.
“-” Making good progress and in a good spirit, “said Curry spokesman Cobb.
The crew tried to keep the 10-mil square fire (26-kilometer) began to reach the Fort Reservoir Peck along the Missouri River in Montana Tengah.
This is one of the three main fires in the state.
Firefighters often deal with dangerous fire behaviors, with fire eating a large vegetation area every day.
Such conditions often from the weather pattern combination Random, short and natural terms that increase with long-term climate change, are caused by humans.
Global warming has made the Westerners warmer and more dried in the last 30 years.
Across West this summer, firefighters have faced a large number of fires early in the season Unexpectedly, the Head of the Randy Moore Forest Service.
He remembers a small fire recently in the lava ca bed area Lifornia that firefighters thought they had flushed, just to light the fire again after being burned through the tree root system and traveling below the detention line.
“This is from the graph in terms of how some of these fires behave,” Moore said.
Elsewhere in California, Tamarack Tamarack 105-kilometer (272-kilometer) South Lake Tahoe continued to burn wood and chaparral and threaten the community on both sides of the California-Nevada state line.
The fire, triggered by Lightning July 4 at Alpine County, California, has destroyed at least 23 buildings, including more than a dozen in Nevada.
It’s 45% contained.
In North-Central Washington, firefighters fought against two Blaz in Okanogan Regency who threatened hundreds of homes and once again caused harmful air quality conditions for the weekend.
And in the North Idaho, East Spokane, Washington, a small fire near Silverwood Theme Park encouraged evacuation Friday night in the park and around it.
The amusement park was open again with a half fire contained.
More than 85 large forest fires are burning throughout the country, most of them in Western countries.
They have burned more than 2,343 square miles (6,068 square kilometers) land.