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UPPER LAKE, Calif .– Firefighters struggling to contain the destructive forest fires of Northern California found themselves faced with a new outbreak that erupted on Tuesday and crossed a rural area near a forest. National
and an agricultural area near Covelo, which is about 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of San Francisco, have been ordered to evacuate because the fire broke out late in the afternoon. Gustavo Matthew Kendall, the sub-sheriff of Mendocino County, said: "We learned that fire was threatening structures," he said.
However, no fire was reported immediately
Firefighters were called but it was not known when they could arrive because many of them were already engaged in others fires, said Kendall. (64 kilometers) to the south, the twin fires straddling Mendocino and the lake counties destroyed at least seven houses and threatened about 12,000 others, fire officials said
Jessyca Lytle fled a forest fire in California from North in 2015 saved her but less than three years later, Lytle found herself listening to the scanner traffic on Tuesday and protecting her mother from the fires. "Honestly, what I'm thinking right now is that I just want it to end," said Lytle, adding that she was "exhausted in every way possible – physically, emotionally, all of
Derek Hawthorne, a firefighter and spokesman for the fire department, said the warm weather was not ideal, but that the wind was blowing from the side he was in the Upper Lake City [19659007]. "In the east in Sutter County, a fire that erupted on Tuesday night had burned about 1.5 square miles (4 square kilometers) of meadows, but no homes were burned. evacuated, said spokesman Scott McLean.
Elsewhere, Carr Fire burned more than 880 houses and killed six people in and around Redding, and 348 other outbuildings were destroyed. Fire is the seventh most destructive fire in the history of California, according to responsa The National Park officials said Tuesday that the scenic Yosemite Valley and other areas will be closed to the heavy smoke of the so-called Ferguson Fire. Park spokesman Scott Gediman said the continued poor air quality and ongoing firefighting operations warranted the expansion of the dike
closing the longer in Yosemite since 1997. closed the park for more than two months.
In Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, a arson that destroyed seven homes last week was contained Monday at 82%.
The people of Lake County, an impoverished community of 65,000 familiar with evacuations.
The 2015 Valley Fire, which followed two other fires, killed four people and destroyed 1,300 homes when it exploded during a heat wave in September. He wiped out whole neighborhoods prized for his intimacy and sense of community and turned picturesque areas into charred forests.
Since then, parts of the county have been evacuated regularly due to a fire, most recently in June.
indeed Tuesday for the town of Lakeport, the county seat, although orders for some small communities were lifted.
Lakeport is a popular destination for anglers and boaters on the shores of Clear Lake. Monday night, it was a ghost town.
Paul Lew and his two boys, aged 13 and 16, were evacuated Saturday from their home in Lakeport
"I told them to throw away everything that is close to their hearts." Computers, mobile phones, papers, I started putting away all my papers, my clothes, my guitars. "
Lew, who divorced Lytle, camps home the nearby community of Cobb that she fled in 2015. He watches over his hens, sheep and other animals.He laughs that repeated fire alerts have made him an expert in emergency preparedness.
"C & # It's like three per year, "he said." It's a little crazy. "
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Har reported from San Francisco The Associated Press Writer Olga R. Rodriguez in San Francisco also contributed to this report.
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