County Fire burned 70,000 acres, now 5 percent content

The largest of several wildfires in northern California burned 70,000 acres in Napa and Yolo counties, and on Monday night, authorities warned of the risk of further evacuations due to flooding. County fire. The Napa County Sheriff's Office has issued a press release warning residents of Berryessa Highlands, Markley Cove and Pleasure Cove stations that they should be ready to evacuate "if the fire conditions get worse."

Now burned about 70,000 acres in the counties of Napa and Yolo. Firefighters will focus their efforts Tuesday on the north and south perimeter "as this has been the main spread of the fire," said captain Cal Fire, in a statement.

Motta added that Tuesday's temperatures and relative humidity "will be favorable" to the fire-fighting efforts.

Several other road closure and evacuation orders remain in place on Tuesday morning as 2,162 firefighters work to build containment lines. Although the county 's smoke and ash affected the air quality in the Bay Area on Sunday, a thick layer of fresh, moist sea air protected residents of Yolo Bay on Monday. harmful effects of smoke. Lake and Napa Counties

The winds that blew huge smoke clouds south of Fire County and Pawnee Fire in the Bay Area over the weekend continued on Monday. But the marine layer has maintained most of the sooty air pollution at higher altitudes. As a result, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District on Monday raised a smoke advisory for the Bay Area that he had released Sunday.

The rapid county fire started just after 14 hours. Saturday, southwest of the Guinda community, about 50 miles west of Sacramento. It quickly moved south through Yolo County.

#CountyFire [update] near County Road 63 and Highway 16, Rumsey Canyon (Yolo and Napa Counties) is now 70,000 acres and 5% contained. The evacuations are effective https://t.co/z2FpwZ89SK pic.twitter.com/cHkXxuQUXl

– CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) July 3, 2018

From 6 On Tuesday, he burned about 70,000 acres and reached some of the western limits of Napa County near Lake Berryessa.

Cal Fire said the teams were working Monday to build new containment lines and defend the structures threatened by the fire. Cal Fire said in a daily update on forest fires: [traduction]

Mandatory evacuations are in place in Yolo and Napa counties for all areas north of Highway 128, south of county. Highway 23, east of Berryessa Knoxville Road, and west of County Road 89, according to Cal Fire. Evacuation notices have been issued for areas located south of County Road 81 and west of County Road 85.

State Firefighters still struggle with the law. Pawnee Fire in Lake County. Pawnee fire burned 14,900 acres and destroyed 22 structures