Here’s what is burning in the State of California  We will also add ones as we glean them from our various sources.  Thanks for your heads-up and riding on our crazy journey as we Share these amazing fires and what’s happening out there.  Be safe friends!

ACTIVE FIRES

NEW! – ADVANCE FIRE | 5 miles N of the community of Three Rivers near Advance | Tulare County | Started 7/30/15 | 1240 PDT | 86 acres | 50% contained | 150 Personnel, 12 Fire Engines, 4 Fire Crews, 2 Dozers, 2 Water Tenders.

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NEW! – BARKER FIRE | Barker Valley North of Highway 3, 5 miles NE of Hayfork | Trinity County | Started 7/31/15 1234 PDT | Unknown Cause, Under investigation | 500 acres | CAL FIRE Shasta-Trinity Unit is Administrative Unit  | Mandatory Evacuations –> Mandatory evacuations for Barker Creek Rd. An Evacuation | Evacuation Shelter –> Shelter has been set up at the Solid Rock Christian Church, 66 Tule Creek Rd. Hayfork | 5 Fire Engines, 1 Airtanker, 1 Copter, 3 Dozers.

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BIG CREEK FIRE | Near Groveland, outside of Yosemite National Park can be seen from Highway 120 | 

UPDATE! –> Start 7/29/15 1630 | 204 ACRES | 45% contained | 521 Personnel, 42 Fire Engines, 17 Fire Crews, 5 Dozers and 7 Water Tenders .

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CABIN FIRE  |8 miles NE of Camp Nelson |Golden Trout Wilderness | Sequoia National Forest | Started 7/19/15 | 0800 PDT | Lightning.

UPDATE

  • 2000 Acres
  • 295 Personnel
  • Type 1 IMT Assume Command 8/1/15

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CHINA FIRE | China Gulch, Happy Vally, located SW of Redding | CALFire – Shasta/Trinity / Administrative unit | Started 7/29/195  | 1755 PDT | 2 fires with total of 212 acres |   Evacuations –> Treat Ave, Fuzzy Lane, Flower Lane,  along roads between Treat Ave & Flower Lane, roads West of Happy Valley Road | Red Cross Shelter —> Anderson High School | Rd Closures –> Happy Valley Rd @ Camp Road, Olinda Road @Happy Valley Rd | 2 minor injuries | Cause is under investigation  Fires are aggressively fighting active fire.

UPDATE

  • 3 Structures destroyed
  • 2 Structures, 1 outbuilding damaged
  • Evacuations, Road Closures lifted
  • Cause still under investigation
  • 120 Personnel, 20 Fire Engines, 3 Fire Crews, 2 Helicopters, 1 Dozer, 5 Water tenders.

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CUTCA FIRE | Palomar Mountain | Start 7/24/15 | 1600 PDT | Cause is unknown | 260 personnel | 167 acres | 75% containment. NO CHANGE.

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NEW! – FORK COMPLEX | Yolla Bolly Wilderness north through the Trinity Alps in Shasta-Trinity NF in Trinity County | Start 7/3015, 1600 | Lightning caused | 150 acres.

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NEW! – HUMBOLDT LIGHTNING FIRES | Start 7/30/15 | 1402 PDT | Lightning [71 fires] | 205 acres | 20% contained.

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LOWELL FIRE | Start 7/25/15 | 1720 Hours | Steep Hollow drainage, W of Alta in the Nevada/Placer Counties | 6 injuries with firefighters stating their going to be okay/recovering well

UPDATE

  • 2303 acres
  • 75% contained
  • 54 Structures in Placer / Nevada Counties
  • 1 Structured destroyed
  • Evacuation Advisiories:  Steep Hollow Creek Community, from Chalk Bluff Road to Banner Quaker Road and the Buckeye Ridge Community.
  • Closed: Tahoe National Forest is maintaining a forest closure with specified exemptions for the fire area
  • Closed: Evacuation center at First Baptist Church.
  • Closed: Animal Evacuation Center located at Base Camp was closed tonight at 2000 PDT.
  • Road Closures for Nevada County Only: Red Dog Road at Chalk Bluff Road, Red Dog Road at Buckeye Ridge, Banner Quaker at Lower Greenhorn Road, Banner Quaker at Chalk Bluff, & Lowell Hill Road at Mule Spring Road.
  • Road Closures for Placer County Only: Secret Town at Chicago Park Power House Road & Diggin Road at Main Street in Dutch Flat.
  • Injuries:  6. 1 is still recovering for moderate burns, remains in the Hospital.
  • 1257 Personnel, 133 Fire Engines, 40 Fire Crews, 3 Helicopters, 6 Dozers, 21 Water Tenders.

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MENDOCINO LIGHTNING FIRES   | In  Willitts and Brocktails communities in Mendocino County | Started on 7/30/15 | 1336 Hours PDT |  CALFire – Mendocino Unit is the Administrative Unit.

UPDATE

  • 6 Fires for 80 acres
  • All Fires contained except for 1
  • 4-2 Cahto Fire is 30 acres – 20% contained 

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QUEEN FIRE |  Off Hwy 169 & McKinnon Hill Rd, 5 miles SE of Pecwan | Humboldt County | Start 7/25/15 | 1404 PDT

UPDATE

  • 158 Acres
  • 85% Contained
  • 2 Injuries
  • 364 Personnel, 25 Fire Engines, 12 Fire Crews, 1 Dozer, 5 Water Tenders.
  • Decreased Threats:  Commercial Timberlands, Watershed habitat

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NEW ! – RAIL FIRE | Rail Canyon & Hwy 3, south of Hayfork | Trinity County | CAL FIRE Shasta-Trinity Unit is Administrative Unit in Shasta-Trinity National Forest Start 7/30/15 | 1000 Hours |800 acres | 0% containment.

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ROCKY FIRE | near Morgan Valley Road and Rocky Creek Road, east of Lower Lake  in Lake County | Started 7/29/15 at 1529 PDT | CAL FIRE Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit is the Administrative Unit | Still 5% contained | Evacuation Shelter –> Middletown HS, 20932 Big Canyon Rd, Middletown | Animal evacuation center –> Lower Lake Social Services parking lot, 15975 Anderson Ranch Parkway, Lower Lake | Road Closures –>  All mandatory evacuated (listed above) roads and Morgan Valley Road at Hwy 53.

UPDATE

  • 18,000 ACRES
  • 3 structures destroyed with multiple outbuildings destroyed or damaged
  • Fire has active Rate of Spread
  • Moving SW towards Lower Lake
  • E side end of Clear Lake
  • Advisory evacuation [Not Mandatory] of all areas E of Hwy 29 starting at Riata Road to the Hwy 53 Junction & areas E of Hwy 53 N to Hwy 20&
  • Mandatory Evacuations:  Jerusalem Valley area E of Soda Creek, W of Soda Creek, Bonham Road, Quarter Horse Lane, Mustang Court, Bronco Court, Sunset Court and Morgan Valley Road E of Bonham Road. Ogulin Canyon Road.
  • Road Closures:  Morgan Valley Road at Bonham, Rocky Creek Road, Mustang Court, Quarterhorse Road and Sleepy Hollow, Jerusalem Valley Road is closed to all traffic at Spruce Grove Road. 
  • 988 Personnel
  • 151 Fire Engines
  • 32 Fire Crews
  • 8 Airtankers
  • 8 Copters
  • 30 Dozers
  • 31 Water Tenders

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SWEDES FIRE  | Swedes Flat Road,  3 miles N of Bangor | Butte County | CALFire Butte Unit as IC |  Started 7/29/15 | 1125 PDT | 2 Homes and 14 outbuildings destroyed.

UPDATE

  • 400 Acres
  • 80% Contained
  • All Evacuation orders lifted
  • 408 Personnel, 42 Fire Engines, 12 Fire Crews, 1 Helicopter, 5 Dozers, 7 Water Tenders.

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 WILLOW FIRE   | NE of North Fork, CA | Started  July 25, 2015, around 1430 Hours | Human caused.

UPDATE

  • 1920 Personnel
  • 127 Fire Engines
  • 44 Handcrews
  • 18 Dozers
  • 33 Water Tenders
  • 9 Copters
  • 4394 acres
  • Still 40% Contained

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WRAGG FIRE |Off of Hwy 128 near Greaves Rd, Lake Berryessa in Napa and Solano Counties | Started 7/22/15 | 1424 PDT |  2 outbuildings destroyed, 3 outbuildings & 1 home damaged

UPDATE

  • 136 Structures Threatened
  • 2 Outbuildings destroyed
  • 3 Outbuildings, 1 residence damaged
  • All evacuation orders lifted
  • Closed: Ulatis Community Center located at 1000 Ulatis Drive in Vacaville
  • 1279 Personnel, 75 Fire Engines, 34 Fire Crews, 4 Helicopters, 12 Dozers, 13 Water Tenders and 6 IMT Team Members
  • Closures:  Lake Solano campground is currently closed due to fire equipment access.   

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CONTAINED FIRES

BUCK FIRE | Off Alderpoint Road & Wallan Road near Garberville | Humboldt County | Start 7/28/15 | 0930 PDT | CAL FIRE Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | 16 acres | 100% Contained.

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MALLARD FIRE |  Off of Mallard Way in Milville | Shasta-Trinity NF | Started 7/29/15 | 1744 PDT  | 75 acres | 1 structure destroyed via structure fire into wildland |2 injuries | 40 personnel, 4 Fire engines, 1 Fire crew and 4 Water tenders | 100% Contained.

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SPRING FIRE | Sprig Way and Millville Plains Rd, Millville; 10 miles SE of Redding | Shasta County | Start 7/30 | 1349 PDT | 90 acres | 100% Contained.

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VASCO FIRE |  Vasco Rd, 3 miles SW of Byron | Contra Costa County  | Start 7/30/15 |1118 PDT  | Contained 7/30/15 | 1600 PDT | 195 acres | 100% Contained.

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There may be several that we are missing but we will get them added on to this page as we get a chance to glean more information from Social Media or others sites that we use for point-of-reference.

Thank you for what you do out there to make a difference every day.  Be Safe Friends…..and always, thank you for following our Public Safety related blog.  We appreciate every single one of y’all.

[c] 2015 The NW Fire Blog – Updated 8/1/15 00:18 PDT